Destiny 2 Season of the Wish has a new Seasonal Artifact called Queensfoil Censer and its perks are focused on Solar, Strand, and Stasis. Here, you’ll be able to see what all the perks are and I’ll describe which synergies are the best.
All Destiny 2 Season of the Wish Artifact perks, listed
Before we get to ranking all the Destiny 2 Season of the Wish Artifact perks, we first need to list them all. Here are all the Destiny 2 Season 23 Artifact perks to give you an idea of what this season’s meta will look like.
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| Column 1 | Column 2 | Column 3 | Column 4 | Column 5 |
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| Anti-Barrier Sidearm – Your equipped Sidearms fire shield-piercing rounds and stun Barrier Champions. Additionally, Sidearms are always overcharged when that modifier is active. | Flame, Fiber, and Freeze – Combines the Solar/Strand and Solar/Stasis Siphon mods into one. | Flint Striker – Rapid Solar weapons precision hits and rapid Solar weapon final blows grant Radiant. | Unravelling Orbs – Picking up an Orb of Power grants Strand weapons Unraveling Rounds. | Horde Shuttle – Damaging unraveled targets with a weapon occasionally spawns a Threadling. |
| Unstoppable Hand Cannon – Aiming down the sights of a Hand Cannon for a short time loads a powerful explosive payload that stuns unshielded combatants. Strong against Unstoppable Champions. Additionally, Hand Cannons are always overcharged when that modifier is active. | Kindling Trigger – Radiant causes Solar weapons to apply Scorch to unscorched combatants. | Torch – While Radiant, deal increased weapon damage to combatants affected by Strand and Stasis debuffs. | Pillar of Ice – Killing an encased combatant spawns Stasis Crystals. | Hail The Storm – Shattering encased targets and Stasis Crystals deals increased damage. Shattering a Stasis Crystal releases shards of ice that damage and slow targets. |
| Unstoppable Bow – Holding a Bow fully drawn for a short time loads a powerful explosive payload that stuns unshielded combatants. Strong against Unstoppable Champions. Additionally, Bows are always overcharged when that modifier is active. | Blast Radius – Rapid final blows with Rocket Launchers and Grenade Launchers grant Armor Charge. | Heart of the Flame – Casting your Solar Super grants nearby allies Radiant and increases the damage of your Super for each nearby ally. | Revitalizing Blast – Causing damage with a Solar ability weakens Champions and bosses for a short duration. | Rays of Precision – While Radiant, Solar precision final blows cause combatants to Ignite. |
| Overload Auto Rifles – Sustained fire from Auto Rifles disrupts combatants, stunning them, delaying ability energy regeneration, and lowering combatant damage output. Strong against Overload Champions. Additionally, Auto Rifles are always overcharged when that modifier is active. | Origin Perk Specialization I – Improves the benefits provided by the Sundering, Nano-Munitions, and Nanotech Tracer Rocket Origin Traits. Additionally, weapons with these traits are always overcharged. | Origin Perk Specialization II – Improves the benefits provided by the Noble Deeds, Unsated Hunger, Head Rush, and Dragon’s Vengeance Origin Traits. Additionally, weapons with these traits are always overcharged. | Overload Rocket Launchers – Rocket Launchers are especially effective against Overload Champions. | Solo Operative – While you are the only member of your fireteam, you deal increased damage to all combatants. |
| Overload Pulse Rifle – Sustained fire from Pulse Rifles disrupts combatants, stunning them, delaying ability energy regeneration, and lowering combatant damage output. Strong against Overload Champions. Additionally, Pulse Rifles are always overcharged when that modifier is active. | From Whence You Came – Increases ability damage to Taken and Scorn combatants. | Wished Into Being – While your Super is nearly fully charged, ability final blows spawn Orbs of Power. Wearing Season of the Wish armor decreases Super amount threshold. | Dragon’s Bite – Breaking a combatant’s shield with a Strand or Stasis weapon has a chance to suspend or freeze that combatant. Wearing Season of the Wish armor increases this chance. | Argent Ordinance – Firing a Rocket Launcher consumes one stack of Armor Charge, granting increased damage and reload speed until you reload or stow your Rocket Launcher. |
Best Destiny 2 Season 23 Artifact perks, ranked
As you read the Destiny 2 Season of the Wish Artifact perks, you’ll notice there are a few clear synergies. One is Kindling Trigger, Flint Striker, Torch, Heart of Flame, and Rays of Precision for Solar builds, and another is Unravelling Orbs and Horde Shuttle for Strand builds. My favorite so far is the Stasis synergy of Pillar of Ice and Hail The Storm, and there’s also a great Rocket Launcher synergy with Blast Radius, Argent Ordinance, and Overload Rocket Launchers.
The meta for Destiny 2 Season of the Wish is going to be Solar builds. There are a ton of seasonal perks that highlight Solar abilities. If you have them all unlocked, the loop goes like this: become Radiant with rapid precision hits with a Solar weapon, then deal increased damage to Strand- and Stasis-affected enemies and apply more Scorch with your Solar weapons, and finally, Ignite enemies while Radiant after getting Solar weapon precision final blows. I highly recommend going all in on the Solar perks this season.
Strand isn’t too bad with Orbs of Power giving you Unraveling Rounds and Horde Shuttle giving you a Threadling after Unraveling an enemy (this is perfect for my Threadling Warlock). I’m glad we are finally getting Stasis perks; here, we get more Stasis Crystals when Shattering enemies and Shattering emits a burst of ice shards that slow and freeze more enemies.
Finally, to complement the new and improved Dragon’s Breath seasonal Exotic Rocket Launcher, there is a great Rocket Launcher synergy to enjoy via perks. If you have all the Rocket Launcher perks this season, you can get Armor Charge on rapid Rocket Launcher final blows and you get increased reload speed and damage from consuming one Armor Charge. You’ll also deal more damage to Overload Champions.
Like I said, the best Artifact perks in Destiny 2 Season of the Wish are the Solar-focused ones. Solar is insanely powerful this season thanks to the ease of becoming Radiant, spreading Scorch, and Igniting enemies. I’m likely going to be ignoring Strand because we’ve had a lot of it the last few seasons and will instead favor Stasis and maybe Rocket Launchers, especially for the new Dungeon.
