Hunters in Destiny 2 undergo a dramatic power shift through specialized gear, with Exotic armor playing a pivotal role in amplifying their combat effectiveness. Unlike other classes, these pieces uniquely synergize with super abilities, offering transformative gameplay enhancements. Below you’ll find an overview of essential gear to collect, including key traits and unique upgrades.
Revised June 2025.
Exotic Hunter Gear Compendium
Navigate using the quick links to explore specific armor details, including intrinsic perks and strategic applications.
Knucklehead Radar
Comprehensive Analysis
Category: Headgear
Core Ability: Enhanced Detection – Maintains radar visibility during aim-down-sights. Improves radar clarity while crouching.
Evaluation: While functional, numerous superior alternatives exist. The radar enhancement offers situational utility but rarely justifies selecting this over more impactful options in both PvE and competitive modes.
Celestial Nighthawk
Strategic Overview
Category: Headgear
Core Ability: Singular Focus – Modifies Golden Gun to discharge a concentrated high-impact shot. Defeated enemies detonate, replenishing super energy.
Evaluation: A top-tier choice for eliminating priority targets. Effective against challenging enemies in various activities, though less practical for player-versus-player engagements.
Foetracer
Category: Headgear
Core Ability: Persistent Marker – Highlights targets and amplifies damage against weakened marked enemies.
Graviton Forfeit
Category: Headgear
Core Ability: Extended Stealth – Prolongs cloaking effects. Enhances melee regeneration, weapon reload speed, and recovery while invisible.
Wormhusk Crown
Category: Headgear
Core Ability: Tactical Evasion – Dodging grants immediate health and shield restoration.
Assassin’s Cowl
Category: Headgear
Core Ability: Shadow Medicine – Melee eliminations grant invisibility with health/shield restoration. Finishers extend these effects.
Mask of Bakris
Category: Headgear
Core Ability: Phase Shift – Replaces dodge with enhanced teleportation. Post-shift Arc weapon damage boost against slowed/frozen targets.
Blight Ranger
Category: Headgear
Core Ability: Energy Redirection – Arc Staff deflections deal amplified damage and generate orbs.
Cyrtarachne’s Facade
Category: Headgear
Core Ability: Reinforced Mesh – Grants damage resistance during grapple activation.
Mask of Fealty
Category: Headgear
Core Ability: Crystal Generation – Withering Blade attacks spawn Stasis crystals, refunding melee energy upon shattering.
Lucky Raspberry
Category: Arms
Core Ability: Grenade Augmentation – Enhances Tripmine duration/radius. Ability damage charges grenade energy.
Mechaneer’s Tricksleeves
Category: Arms
Core Ability: Sidearm Optimization – Boosts sidearm handling. Critical health triggers damage amplification.
Aeon Swift
Category: Arms
Core Ability: Team Synergy Modules – Offers three configurable support modes enhancing ability regeneration, ammunition generation, or defensive bonuses.
Shinobu’s Vow
Category: Arms
Core Ability: Grenade Duplication – Provides additional Skip Grenade charge with partial energy return on damage.
Sealed Ahamkara Grasps
Category: Arms
Core Ability: Instinctive Reload – Melee strikes automatically reload equipped weapon.
Shards of Galanor
Category: Arms
Core Ability: Super Recycling – Blade Barrage hits/kills return super energy post-activation.
Oathkeeper
Category: Arms
Core Ability: Perpetual Draw – Enables indefinite bow charge retention.
Liar’s Handshake
Category: Arms
Core Ability: Retaliatory Strike – Arc melee counters heal user and deal massive damage.
Khepri’s Sting
Category: Arms
Core Ability: Venomous Touch – Empowered melee triggers smoke bomb with damage amplification.
Athrys’s Embrace
Category: Arms
Core Ability: Enhanced Projectiles – Weighted Knife gains ricochet and anti-champion capabilities.
Renewal Grasps
Category: Arms
Core Ability: Expanded Cryo-field – Enlarges Duskfield grenades with team damage reduction.
Caliban’s Hand
Category: Arms
Core Ability: Incendiary Charges – Proximity Knife applies scorch/ignition effects with melee energy refund.
Triton Vice
Category: Arms
Core Ability: Glaive Empowerment – Enhances glaive performance with elemental detonations.
Mothkeeper’s Wraps
Category: Arms
Core Ability: Support Swarm – Grenades deploy moths offering blinding explosions or ally shields.
Lucky Pants
Category: Legs
Core Ability: Precision Holster – Hand Cannons gain stacking damage and handling bonuses.
Fr0st-EE5
Category: Legs
Core Ability: Sprint Catalyst – Sprinting accelerates ability cooldowns.