Destiny 2 Exotics: all Warlock armour

By Brenna Hillier

Destiny 2 is all about loot. Come get yours, cunning Warlocks.

Warlocks are the trickiest class in Destiny 2, taking advantage of intricate builds and rewarding skilled play. Your Exotic armour choice makes a huge difference to how your Warlock will play; luckily, we have all the details right here on what each piece does.

This page is part of our Destiny 2 guide, and is subject to change and updates as we explore the release build alongside all of you eager Guardians. Looking for other Exotics? Check out our Destiny 2 Exotics guides, including our list of every Exotic weapon in the game.

Exotic Warlock helmets

Canonically, Warlocks are the most cerebral of the three classes, being scholars and mages with a deep mystical connection to the Traveller. Perhaps that’s why they benefit from four Exotic helmets, only one of which is an old favourite (sorry, no stags or rams this time).

Crown of Tempests

• Conduction Tines: Arc ability kills increase the recharge rate of your Arc abilities.
• Bungie tried to keep the Stormcaller secret, but there’ll be no hiding the lightning storms once you have this Exotic on your bean. A lovely circular build starting point, just like Mama Warlock taught you.

Eye of Another World

• Cerebral Uplink: Highlights priority targets and improves the regeneration speed of your grenade, melee, and rift abilities.
• I love how this one’s like “I vaguely indicate some things you might shoot … and also turn everything else up to 11, lol no biggie.” What the actual.

Nezarec’s Sin

• Abyssal Extractors: Void Damage kills grant ability energy.
• Recharge your abilities when you use your abilities. Standard Warlock fare, the smug gits. Nezarec’s Sin was probably sending a PSN message with “ggez”. What a shithead.

Skull of Dire Ahamkara

• Actual Grandeur: Provides additional damage resistance during Nova Bomb. Nova Bomb kills grant Super Energy
• Oh, so Voidwalkers are harder to kill using their Super, and their Super charges their Super? No that’s fine I’ll just be over here in the Hunter corner, crying.

Exotic Warlock chest armour

Warlocks aren’t allowed to wear much armour because it ruins their silhouette when they’re posing dramatically and thinking about their ineffable sadness, or whatever. The point is, you don’t pick a class with mandatory flowing trench coats and then ruin it with steel plate. There are only two chest armour Exotics for Warlocks and only one is new, but that one is so beautiful it more than compensates.

Wings of Sacred Dawn

• Dawnstar Tome: When Dawnblade is equipped, aiming weapons while in the air suspends you in midair for a short time. Precision hits extend this effect’s duration.
• Who even cares what this one does, it is too gorgeous ever to take off. The good news is, all it does is make you hover while aiming, which means Hunters can shoot you down with ease. By all means, continue.

Starfire Protocol

• Fusion Harness: Provides an additional Fusion Grenade charge. Fusion grenade kills grant Rift energy.
• More grenades means more fun. More frequent Rift use is also a good time. Hard to argue with this returning D1 favourite.

Exotic Warlock gauntlets

Every Warlock thinks they’re Dr Strange but that open palm slap is not exactly finger gymnastics. Space magic! Get a gun like the rest of us. All three Warlock Exotic gauntlet sets are new, although one has a very familiar name.

Karnstein Armlets

• Vampire’s Caress: Melee attacks grant health recovery and ability energy
• One of the D1 Warlock’s favourite tricks was to slap you and then gain power from it. I see nothing has changed there.

Sunbracers

• Helium Spirals: Increases the duration of Solar Grenades and grants grenade energy on melee hits
• Dawnblades already have giant flaming swords, but now they have additional chances to throw great flaming grenades. H-hooray.

Winter’s Guile

• Warlord’s Sigil: Eliminating enemies with melee attacks increases your melee damage
• Get slap happy. I have nothing to add. I am in despair. Why are Warlocks like this.

Exotic Warlock leg armour

Do Warlocks actually wear trousers under there? They must do or every time they went flying around in that embarrassingly floaty way they do we’d all be mortified. There are only two Exotic leg armour sets for Warlocks though, because they’re hard to see, and one makes its return from D1.

Lunafaction Boots

• Alchemical Etchings: Your Rifts gain the additional ability to automatically reload allies’ weapons.
• Hey, you know that rad new class ability you’ve got that’s better than everyone else’s? Boom! It just got better. This works for your weapon as well, even if the wording doesn’t make that clear.

Transversive Steps

• Strange Protractor: While Sprinting, movement speed is increased and energy weapons are automatically reloaded.
• Hunters and Titans would be happy with just a speed boost but oh no, Warlocks also have their guns reloaded. Spoiled! You’re all spoiled.