Destiny 2: Revenant's Tonic System: A Guide to Crafting, Farming, and the Best High-Tier Potions!
Destiny 2: Revenant – Brewing Up Success with Tonics!
Destiny 2's Revenant season is bringing some serious spice to the loot game. We're talking about a brand-new potion crafting mechanic, folks! It lets you chase after seasonal gear (weapons, armor—the works!), but that’s not the only thing; you can also seriously boost your abilities using these crazy tonics. It sounds simple; but the system becomes remarkably complex quite quickly.
To unlock all this awesomeness, play that intro mission; you'll see it immediately after choosing your Guardian. The basics are easy – but unlocking those higher-level Tonics, finding enough materials—those things need some planning and effort! That's where this guide comes in. Get ready to learn all you need about crafting, farming for those key ingredients, and of course; those crazy best high-tier Potions which could decide whether your entire game becomes either extremely simple or difficult and require careful selection; making the system itself far more involved than expected and it really highlights just how detailed it became overall.
Crafting Your Own Potions: Easy Steps to Powerful Boosts
Eido teaches you the basics, in her lab; you’ll get a thorough tutorial to show how crafting happens. If you forget—no worries! There are in-game instructions that will display at every step if needed. Crafting’s actually the easiest part, folks. Unlocking new recipes? That's more challenging.
To learn new recipes; you must craft those existing ones multiple times! The number? Unclear! I got the Potent Tonic of Stasis Crystallization after making four Diluted versions. The numbers will grow as you create more and are attempting to craft those rarer tonics.
Farming for Potion Materials: Easy and Effective Methods
Unlike the annoying cookie farming in the Dawning, getting ingredients is super easy: defeat enemies. Any activity will provide these ingredients: this makes this entire activity far simpler than expected. Story missions, patrols, playlists – it doesn’t matter! The activity and where those activities occur also is irrelevant – because almost anywhere works!
Need more ingredients fast? Try Onslaught: Salvation! This revamped version of Onslaught rewards you with extra ingredients for every 10 waves. Plus, it’s a great place to grind for gear that can be targeted with certain types of enriching tonics! This can completely affect how players target which specific items they get from doing those Onslaught adventures.
Want to really, really maximize and go crazy? Try Eido's Major Fieldwork; this is done after unlocking some related tonics and those activities which give those key ingredients as you earn those Reclaimed Vitality points. Then there’s that amazing infinite loop! In that highlighted weekly mission “Into The Deep”, use the Cryptogryph; use it as an instant wipe mechanic which causes the mission to reset completely. Esoterickk's YouTube video explains just how effective and insane that method is – over 50 Reclaimed Vitality per minute! This shows the ease with which those key ingredients can be found; completely impacting how players target various loot. It should only be noted however that "Into the Deep" won't always remain a highlighted mission – in which case using a Suro Chi checkpoint in the Last Wish raid provides a similar (though not quite as infinite) loop to obtain items!
The Best High-Tier Potions: Powering Up Your Build!
There are 26 Legendary Tonics this season; all with specific effects; divided between Enriching and Volatile types! Volatile Tonics max out the original effects and even add another boost from those artifact mods! They make a significant impact on overall gameplay which varies according to various circumstances and which build you create; showing why understanding this mechanic is exceptionally valuable for getting the best results and creating a good loot-based progression.
Enriching Tonics are extremely specific; focusing on particular items – kind of like that Lord Shaxx focus in previous seasons! And these items only get better; the longer those tonics last; the more you’re able to improve.
Match those Volatile Tonics to your builds – want more Stasis Crystals? Grab that Refined Tonic of Stasis Crystallization for added class ability energy! It enhances even more, offering those bonus perks, exceeding what lesser tonics deliver. The level of improvement generated here alone, is completely unmatched!
Randomly dropped are Exotic Tonics; no recipes— giving you Ascendant Alloys, Ascendant Shards, or Exotic Ciphers! These ingredients are needed for exotic upgrades. It might also possibly improve those abilities and various stat gains!
Unlocking Rarest Ingredients Through Fieldwork Tasks
You’ll start only with common and rare ingredients; you need those higher-tier Major Fieldwork tasks to increase variety. Unlock them after completing enough Minor tasks—these things only unlock after obtaining enough tonic recipes!
The best start is Blood Drive (mentioned previously)— providing extra ingredients through Reclaimed Vitality. The other amazing Major task? Bounty Harvester. That provides rare reagents, especially when doing daily bounties; making rare-ingredient hunting completely strategic and rewarding players in such surprising ways; which demonstrates why understanding all the various methods available is crucial to successfully obtaining all possible items needed. Doing those daily bounties is also extremely efficient, although this might prove boring for many people, thus using those aforementioned effective farming techniques provides a great alternate that players will undoubtedly benefit from!
Conclusion: Master the Tonic System to Dominate Destiny 2!
Destiny 2's Revenant season’s new tonic system is huge—an additional layer added onto the existing loot grind and build options! It’s a system however that has become far more difficult and layered than one would assume initially. That new layer of difficulty can also be completely bypassed for those using clever mechanics and recognizing those more effective farming and upgrading approaches! Understanding these methods alone is critically valuable, folks. Learning those simple techniques described; and using that knowledge efficiently changes that existing, familiar experience completely, transforming how various grinding techniques now operate for this particular season. It is a new approach! Players should remember these details.
