Destiny 2 All Mods Unlocked: A Step-by-Step Guide
Mods are an integral part of building your ideal Guardian loadout in Destiny 2. With the right mods equipped, you can maximize your damage output, ability regeneration, defense capabilities and much more. Unlocking all the mods available provides the most options for creative and powerful build crafting.
In this comprehensive guide, we’ll cover everything you need to know about unlocking all mods in Destiny 2, updated with the latest methods for 2024.
How Mods Work in Destiny 2
Before jumping into unlocking all mods, let’s quickly go over what mods are and how they work.
What are Mods
Mods are items that can be equipped to weapons, armor and subclasses to provide bonus perks and alter attributes. For example, you can slot a mod that gives bonus grenade regeneration or one that increases the damage output of your Super ability.
There are four main types of mods in Destiny 2:
Mods have energy costs, higher tier mods costing more energy to equip. You need to ensure your gear has enough energy capacity to equip the mods you want.
How to Get Mods
There are a variety of sources for acquiring mods:
The key things that impact getting access to new mods are playing actively each season and increasing your seasonal vendor rank. New mods are introduced each season, so playing new content is key.
Now that we’ve covered mods basics, let’s get into unlocking all the amazing mods available.
Step 1: Complete the Story Campaigns
The first step is making sure you’ve completed the story campaigns as they unlock key vendors and content. This includes:
Completing all these unlocks all the destinations, core activities and vendors necessary to gives mod access. So if you’re jumping back in or starting a new account, get these done first.
New Light Campaign
This short intro campaign is free for all players. It introduces you to the core activities and unlocks the Tower vendors. Completing it gives you a good starting set of mods from Banshee-44 and Ada-1 and acquaints you with mods.
Duration: ~2 hours
Forsaken Campaign
This campaign opens up the Tangled Shore destination and Scorn enemies. Completing it grants powerful gear to boost your level. The main benefit for mods is unlocking Ada-1’s armor mod vendor screen.
Duration: ~4 hours
Shadowkeep Campaign
This campaign brings you to the Moon to face nightmarish Hive enemies. It increased the power cap and unlocks more of Banshee-44’s mods through post campaign bounties.
Duration: ~5 hours
Beyond Light Campaign
The latest expansion opens up the icy destination of Europa and new Stasis elemental powers. Completing it is essential to unlocking all new mods each season. Also grants early access to the core mod vendor, Ada-1.
Duration: ~7 hours
Combined, all the campaigns unlock the major vendors and core activities needed for mod acquisition. If any are incomplete, be sure to finish them first.
Step 2: Level Up Banshee-44 for Mod Components
[H2] Banshee-44 and Ada-1 should now be available at the Tower. Banshee-44 is the primary vendor for mods that enhance weapons and combat styles. Leveling him up earns Mod Components, which are required for purchasing his mods.
Here is the process to quickly level up Banshee-44:
Once you hit level 16, you can start turning in components directly for a random mod instead of a package. Keep ranking up to earn more components and acquire all Banshee’s mods this way.
Optimizing Bounties
Following this process through a couple of seasons will unlock the majority of weapon and combat style mods from Banshee-44’s huge pool.
Step 3: Unlock All Armor Mods from Ada-1
[H2] Ada-1 is a specialist vendor added in Black Armory that focuses specifically on armor mods. She sells select mods daily for Glimmer or Mod Components.
The key to getting all of Ada’s many armor mods is simply visiting her daily over time. Her inventory updates daily, so new mods rotate in on a set schedule.
Here are tips to effectively buy all her armor mods:
Buying the armor mods you need and filling out your collection takes time and patience. But visiting her daily through a few seasons will eventually unlock all of Ada’s many excellent mods for you to use.
Some of her mods like Protective Light are extremely potent for endgame activities like raids and Master content. So be sure to buy all her mods.
Step 4: Complete Challenges for Additional Mods
[H2] Alongside the main vendor sources, there are also a variety of challenges and rewards that grant access to special mods. These include:
Raid Mods
Nightfall Mods
Iron Banner Mods
Season Pass Mods
Completing endgame PvE and PvP challenges earns special mods you can’t get anywhere else. So tackle raids, high difficulty Nightfalls and Iron Banner when available.
Certain mods like Protective Light are essential for harder content. While new seasonal mods often create powerful build synergy.
Step 5: Max All Vendor Ranks for Mod Packages
[H2] Alongside direct mod sales, leveling up vendors also rewards mod packages. These contain random mods at major rank ups.
Here are the key vendors to maximize for mod packages:
Gunsmith
Crucible
Gambit
Vanguard
领英推荐
BrayTech/Variks
H.E.L.M War Table
Resetting vendor ranks each season will earn you packages full of mods. This is an excellent supplementary source beyond direct mod sales.
With ritual playlist activities and seasonal content, you can max out vendor ranks passively over time through regular play. Making sure to reset and max all vendors will help round out your mod collection.
Step 6: Abuse Season Launch Mod Acquisition
[H2] A little known trick in Destiny 2 is that ALL mods are available at the start of a new season launch. This means you can fill in any gaps in your mod collection immediately when a new season goes live.
Here is the process to abuse this short period when all mods are in the loot pool:
1. Save gunsmith materials and tokens
Stockpile these in your inventory ahead of the new season.
2. Turn in ALL tokens and materials right at launch
This floods your mod inventory before the loot pool changes.
3. Fill any missing mods
Check collections of Ada/Banshee to fill mods missing.
The vendor loot pools get tuned within a few hours to only include newer mods. But on launch you have a short window to spam turn ins and get unowned mods.
Utilizing this trick every few seasons will help round out collections. If you are missing a rare mod, new season launch is the best time to target it.
The same concept works when a new DLC like Lightfall releases. The vendor loot pools contain all the new expansion mods temporarily at launch.
Step 7: Use Third Party Trackers
[H2] With new mods releasing every season, keeping track of what you have and need can be tricky. Some excellent third party resources are invaluable here.
Braytech
DIM
TodayInDestiny
These trackers give you great visibility into missing mods, notifications when rare ones are for sale and loadout management. Plus handy checklists for each vendor.
Highly recommend pairing these with the vendor grind to optimize mod collection.
Step 8: Use Vault and Postmaster to Store Mods
As you acquire more mods, storage space gets tight quick even with 10 energy gear. Make use of alternative spaces to hoard mods:
Vault
Postmaster
Take advantage of these extra spaces to store rare or duplicate mods that don’t fit on a Guardian. Saves you needing to delete great mods or keeps duplicates for flexibility.
Just be cautious of leaving exotics in postmaster too long unattended or they get pushed out.
Unlocking All Mods Step-by-Step Recap
Let’s quickly recap the key steps to unlock all mods:
Following this roadmap through regular play and utilizing some tricks will help you unlock every single mod in Destiny 2 over time.
The mod grind can feel overwhelming. But the investment is more than worth it for the build crafting possibilities it enables.
Now let’s look at how to put those mods to work.
Crafting Powerful Builds with All Mods
The true endgame and joy of Destiny is experimenting with powerful ability and weapon synergies through builds. Unlocking all mods opens up thousands of possibilities here.
Let’s cover some examples of top tier builds you can create once all mods are available.
Invisible Assassin Build
This build leverages mods to maximize invisibility up time on Hunter to dismantle enemies. Core mods:
Chaining kills and finishers with your melee/grenades feeds constant invisibility facilitated by key fragments and mods. You become an invisible death machine slaughtering enemies and slipping away unseen.
Immortal Titan Build
This build achieves near immortality in endgame PvE activities via insane ability regen. Core mods:
Chaining grenades and barricades through support mods allows endless crowds control and protection. Wells provide all healing needs. Result is a juggernaut dealing heavy damage unaffected by enemies.
Ionic Traces Warlock Build
This build produces a feedbac loop of Ionic Traces charging all your abilities constantly. Core mods:
With high intellect, traces from supers and abilities feed new traces endlessly in a cycle through mods. Near 100% uptime on all abilities decimates activity enemies.
The right combo of mods chains powerful effects for dominance. Experiment and discover lethal combinations with all mods unlocked!
Closing Thoughts on Destiny 2 Mods
And that covers everything you need to know about unlocking all mods in Destiny 2!
As you can see, while acquiring all mods takes time through various sources, doing so enables thousands of build possibilities. Exploring the many synergies you can create is an endless pursuit.
Some key closing thoughts:
Mods are the true endgame and where you can let your creativity run wild. So enjoy the journey of discovering all their incredible potential!
Whether you want to melt bosses, dominate the Crucible or just have fun demolishing aliens, unlocking every mod empowers those goals. See you starside, Guardian!
The Bottom Line
Here is a condensed summary of the key points:
Mods are essential for creating powerful builds in Destiny 2. Unlocking all mods provides the most options for experimentation and synergies.
The main steps are:
Following this roadmap long term will unlock all mods for creative build crafting. Mixing and matching synergies between ability regeneration, damage bonuses, weapon effects and more enables countless dominant and fun playstyles - the true endgame!