Destiny 2's Season of the Haunted features a new Grandmaster Nightfall rotation, and players can choose from a handful of great weapons to use.
Destiny 2's Season of the Haunted is soon going to enter its seventh week, meaning that it's going to be another month and a half until Season 18 comes along with its Arc 3.0 rework. Much like what Bungie did with Season of the Risen during The Witch Queen expansion, Season of the Haunted too will provide players with a chance at completing their Conqueror title for the first time, or gilding it, starting next week. The approach prior to Season of the Risen was that Destiny 2 players had to go through the usual Nightfall cycle before they could tackle a specific Grandmaster Nightfall, which meant that they had to play every week to complete them or rush every completion in the final weeks of a Season.
That's when usually Grandmaster Nightfalls became available for all players all the time, in the sense that they could select any of the GMs that Season and launch it regardless of the rotation. This system became available as soon as GMs did in Season of the Risen, and it seems that Bungie will retain it moving forward because Season of the Haunted will do the same. As such, Destiny 2 players should be prepared arsenal-wise to tackle all the various Grandmaster Nightfalls starting next Tuesday and for the remainder of the Season. Not all weapons will do, and some will be especially valuable in the current meta.
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Destiny 2 has three different weapon slots: one for Kinetic guns, one for elemental ones (called Energy weapons), and one for those that use Heavy ammo, called Power weapons. There are several great Kinetic weapons to use in Grandmaster Nightfalls, and while some of them are Exotic guns that are either very good at handling Champions or at clearing adds and damaging bosses, the choice is not an easy one. Some of the best guns to use in GMs are simply among the best in their slot, and there are a few alternatives per weapon archetype here, bearing in mind that the current GM rotation has very few Overload Champions, several Barrier Champions, and a plethora of Unstoppables.
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As far as Energy weapons go, Destiny 2 players have lots of options to choose from for Grandmaster Nightfalls this Season, including several guns introduced with Season of the Haunted. Because the best anti-Champion artifact mods this Season are Unstoppable Scout Rifles, Anti-Barrier Pulse Rifles, and Overload SMGs, players can mix and match their Energy weapons with their Kinetic and Power ones to tackle those.
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Destiny 2's Power weapons are usually the best to use against bosses because they tend to pack a punch in terms of damage, and the meta is largely unchanged from Season of the Risen outside of a few notable exceptions. Linear fusion rifles are currently bugged and deal less damage than intended to Champions, as they somehow inherited the damage nerf to Arbalest. Still, the best options remain linear fusion rifles for sustained damage and rocket launchers for burst damage, with a couple of exceptions for when it's useful to stun Champions with Power weapons.
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Andrea became a gamer for life at 7, thanks to a Pokemon Red cartridge and her Game Boy. She knew she wanted to be a writer early on, back when she got a floppy disk and she wrote "My Book" on it. Her Italian lineage means she thrives on pizza and cosmic horror because that's a typical Italian Sunday. She loves games featuring deep lore, sci-fi elements, and strategic thinking. She is often found playing Destiny 2, for which she also makes guides.