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All Exotic Catalysts and Masterwork Upgrades in Destiny 2

Where to find all Exotic Catalysts and how to complete the Masterwork in Destiny 2.

Unlocking Exotic Catalysts in Destiny 2 is what gets most players out of bed every day. Each Catalyst, when completed, upgrades an Exotic to a Masterwork version, increasing its power through some stat boost or by introducing a new perk, and causing it to generate Orbs of Light on multi-kills. Players who want to increase the potency of their favorite Exotic weapons will want to begin tracking down and completing the many Exotic Catalysts in Destiny 2.

Last updated on September 16, 2021.

All Exotic Catalysts Masterwork Upgrades

Exotic Catalysts can drop from numerous locations in Destiny 2, though each Catalyst has its own specific drop location. Catalysts can drop from general content like Patrols, Strikes, Nightfalls, and Heroic Adventures, from multiplayer content like Quickplay Crucible and Competitive Crucible, as well as from end-game activities like the many raids. The best option is to find one you want, and then farm the activity until the Catalyst drops.

Note: With the release of Beyond Light, several Exotic Catalyst sources will be removed. If you do not unlock them before Beyond Light, you will not be able to unlock them until Bungie changes their drop source.

all exotic catalysts — Exotic Catalysts in Destiny 2 boost an attribute of an Exotic weapon and sometimes add a special effect.

Use the table below to learn what Exotic weapons have Catalysts, what the Catalyst does to the weapon, where to find the Catalyst, and how to upgrade it to Masterwork.

Weapon	Catalyst Effect	Where to find Catalyst	How to upgrade Masterwork
Ace of Spades	Firefly does more damage while Memento Mori is active.	Heroic Strikes & Nightfall bosses	500 kills
Ager's Scepter	Will Given Form (Drain Super energy, overflowing the magazine and empowering the beam with bonus damage and the ability to slow and freeze targets until the magazine or Super energy runs out, or the weapon is stowed. Can only be activated when Super energy is full)	Dropped from Astral Alignment or Nightfalls after Season of the Lost (Dropping September 21, 2021)	1000 kills Precision kills and destroying walls in the Shattered Realm grant additional progress.
Anarchy	N/A	N/A	N/A
Arbalest	N/A	N/A	N/A
Bad Juju	Unending Curse (Extends the duration of String of Curses)	45 Tributes in the Tribute Hall or complete Playlist activities.	700 kills
Bastion	N/A	N/A	N/A
Black Talon	Blocking attacks increases damage of Crow's Wings	Heroic Strikes, Gambit, and Crucible matches	500 kills
Borealis	+20 Reload Speed	Kill PVE enemies	150 Arc, Solar, and Void kills
Cerberus+1	Hold reload to swap to a tighter, close-ranged spread.	Kill PVE enemies	500 kills
The Chaperone	N/A	N/A	N/A
Cloudstrike	N/A	N/A	N/A
Coldheart	+20 Stability +20 Reload Speed	Heroic Strike & Nightfall bosses	300 kills
The Colony	+10 Magazine Deeper Pockets (Increased ammo reserves)	Complete Crucible matches	500 kills
Crimson	+20 Range	Kill PVE enemies	300 precision kills
Cryosthesia 77K	Cold Efficiency (Shattering a frozen target refills this weapon's magazine from reserves)	Complete the Stasis Trigger quest	700 kills
D.A.R.C.I.	+20 Stability	Kill PVE enemies	300 precision kills
Dead Man's Tale	Dark-Forged Trigger (Increased hipfire rate of fire and removes hipfire accuracy penalties)	Complete Presage mission then At Your Fingertips quest	Kills with Dead Man's Tale and/or collecting Hidden Caches' in Presage.
Deathbringer	Dead Weight (Increases how quickly Dark Descent reaches its full potential)	Heroic Strikes, Gambit, and Crucible matches	400 kills
Devil's Ruin	N/A	N/A	N/A
Divinity	N/A	N/A	N/A
Duality	+2 Magazine +20 Range	Complete Walk the Line quest	400 kills
Eriana's Vow	+9 Magazine Auto-Loading Holster	Collected from Banshee-44 after completing a bounty or recieving a rank-up package.	Complete Gambit matches, Crucible, Vex Offensive, and Strikes while using Eriana's Vow 700 kills
Eyes of Tomorrow	N/A	N/A	N/A
Fighting Lion	+30 Reload Speed Chimera (After this weapon fires, equipped Kinetic and Power weapons gain a brief period of increased handling and accuracy)	Rewarded during the Festival of the Lost OR killing PVE enemies	1000 kills and bounties
The Fourth Horseman	Adds an additional round to the magazine and increases reload speed	Legendary Lost Sectors and Seraph Tower Public Events	400 kills
Graviton Lance	+20 Range +15 Aim Assist Hidden Hand (Better target acquisition)	Heroic Strikes & Crucible matches	500 kills and 1,000 kills with the Cosmology perk
Hard Light	+25 Stability	Heroic Strikes & Nightfall bosses	1,000 kills
Hawkmoon	Hunter's Trance (Increased magazine size. Grants increased handling, reload speed, and weapon range based on number of stacks of Paracausal Charge)	Complete the Harbinger mission then Bird of Prey quest	700 kills
Heir Apparent	Legion's Bulwark (Increases the Arc Shield's durability and partially reloads the magazine if it is destroyed)	Complete the Competitive Catalyst quest during Guardian Games	700 kills
The Huckleberry	Kills with this weapon now reload the entire magazine.	Complete Playlist activities	500 kills
Izanagi's Burden	Damage bonus with 4x Honed Edge	Complete Playlist activities	500 kills
The Jade Rabbit	+30 Stability	Crucible wins	250 kills in Crucible
Jötunn	N/A	N/A	N/A
The Lament	N/A	N/A	N/A
The Last Word	N/A	N/A	N/A
Legend of Acrius	+40 Reload Speed Deeper Pockets (Increased ammo reserves)	Prestige Leviathan raid	500 kills
Leviathan's Breath	+5 Reserve ammo	Kills with Leviathan's Breath	1500 kills Defeating high-tier Wrathborn increases completion rate
Lord of Wolves	Increases reload speed while Release the Wolves is active, and increases stability when it is not.	Complete Crucible matches	500 kills
Lorentz Driver	Jump Driver (Lorentz Driver gains an enhanced radar. Additionally, while this weapon has 3 telemetry patterns, EM Anomaly detonations no longer require a precision final blow)	Complete the quest, Revision 7.2.2	400 kills
Lumina	Resonant Virtue (2 Nobel rounds per kill)	Heroic Strikes & Nightfall bosses	Heal 250 allies with Noble rounds
Malfeasance	N/A	N/A	N/A
Merciless	+40 Range +40 Stability	Heroic Strike & Nightfall bosses	500 kills
MIDA Multi-Tool	Outlaw (Precision kills greatly increase reload speed)	Competitive Crucible wins at Fabled Glory Rank. Guaranteed after Legend Glory Rank.	Defeat Crucible enemies with precision damage (with MIDA Multi-Tool)
Monte Carlo	N/A	N/A	N/A
Le Monarque	N/A	N/A	N/A
No Time to Explain	Projectiles from Time-Slip shoot more frequently.	Complete Soon quest	700 kills
One Thousand Voices	N/A	N/A	N/A
Outbreak Perfected	Increases nanite damage. Enemies that die with nanites attached to them generate additional nanites.	Complete Zero Hour Heroic	Complete Zero Hour Heroic mission to get SIVA particulates. Use Void, Arc, and Solar configuration for bonus points. 500 Precision kills
Polaris Lance	Dragonfly (Precision kills create an elemental damage explosion)	Complete Nascent Dawn quest line or complete Playlist activities.	500 kills and 50 kills with the Perfect Fifth perk
Prometheus Lens	+20 Stability +20 Handling	Heroic Strikes & Nightfall bosses	300 kills
The Prospector	+40 Blast Radius Deeper Pockets (Increased ammo reserves)	Heroic Strikes & Nightfall bosses	500 kills
The Queenbreaker	N/A	N/A	N/A
Rat King	+20 Aim Assist +20 Recoil Direction Infestation (Improved aim assist and recoil direction. Refreshes health on Vermin invisibility trigger)	Heroic Strikes & Nightfall bosses	500 PVE kills with Fireteam using Rat King
Riskrunner	+30 Range	Heroic Strikes & Nightfall bosses and the Pain and Gain Exotic quest	300 kills and 300 lightning chain kills
Ruinous Effigy	Ruinous Effigy deals more damage against enemies damaged by Transmutation spheres	Unlocked after completing Ruinous Effigy's Growth questline or PVE kills	Kills with Transmutation spheres or destroy all Savathun's Eyes
Salvation's Grip	N/A	N/A	N/A
Skyburner's Oath	+30 Range	Heroic Strikes, Gambit, and Crucible matches	1,000 Cabal kills
Sleeper Simulant	+75 Charge Time Accelerated Coils (Speeds up weapon charge time) & Deeper Pockets (Increased ammo reserves)	Prestige Spire of Stars raid or complete Nightfall: The Ordeals	Kills with each Escalation Protocol weapon: 1,000 Sniper Rifle kills, 1,000 Shotgun kills, 2,000 Submachine Gun kills Open the Oracle chest in The Whisper 500 kills with Sleeper Simulant
Sturm	+20 Range +40 Handling	Defeat enemies on Nessus	500 kills with Sturm and 500 kills with Drang (Both guns equipped)
Sunshot	+20 Range +20 Stability	Heroic Strikes & Crucible matches	500 kills and 1,000 kills with Sun Blast perk
SUROS Regime	+50 Recoil Direction SUROS Ascendance (Increased chance for kills to regen health)	Crucible wins	300 Crucible kills
Sweet Business	Serious Busness (When this weapon is fully spun up, the flinch from incoming damage is greatly reduced)	Heroic Strikes & Nightfall bosses	250 multi-kills
Symmetry	Increases the maximum number of Dynamic Charge stacks.	Picked up from Banshee-44 as part of the quest, Symmetry Remastered	Complete the Symmetry Remastered quest 700 kills
Tarrabah	N/A	N/A	N/A
Telesto	+60 Magazine Deeper Pockets (Increased ammo reserves)	Prestige Eater of Worlds raid or complete Legend & Master Lost Sectors	Complete all Lost Prophecy Verses for Brother Vance in the Lighthouse on Mercury or 300 kills
Thorn	N/A	N/A	N/A
Thunderlord	N/A	N/A	N/A
Ticuu's Divination	Causality Quiver (Perfectly drawn arrows that detonate Sacred Flames increase arrow damage. Striking targets unaffected by Sacred Flame instead refreshes Causality Arrows)	Complete the Points Piercing Forever quest	200 Calibration data generated 50 Guardians defeated 100 combatants defeated
Tommy's Matchbook	While Ignition Trigger is active, your health recovers much faster.	Complete A Good Match quest	700 kills
Tractor Cannon	+70 Magazine Deeper Pockets (Increased ammo reserves)	Kill PVE enemies	300 kills
Traveler's Chosen	+20 Magazine Osmosis (Using your grenade ability changes this weapon's damage type to match your subclass until you stow it) Full Auto Trigger System (Holding down the trigger will fire this weapon at full auto)	Heroic Strikes, Gambit, and Crucible matches	700 kills
Trinity Ghoul	Lightning Rod perk activates on all Arc kills	Heroic Strikes & Nightfall bosses	400 kills
Truth	N/A	N/A	N/A
Two-Tailed Fox	N/A	N/A	N/A
Vex Mythoclast	Calculated Balance (Higher stacks of Overcharge increase stability)	Interact with Vex plates and destroy Oracles in Vault of Glass.	700 kills
Vigilance Wing	Full Auto Trigger System (Holding down the trigger will fire this weapon in full auto)	Crucible wins	250 PVP kills and 5 Blood for Blood medals (avenge teammates)
The Wardcliff Coil	Pinpoint Guidance Module (Improved tracking on projectiles)	Heroic Strike & Nightfall bosses	500 kills
Wavesplitter	N/A	N/A	N/A
Whisper of the Worm	+30 Reload Speed Whispered Breathing (Aiming this weapon without firing for a brief moment grants bonus range and precision damage while it remains zoomed)	Awarded after clearing The Whisper for the first time	Complete The Whisper and open chests in The Whisper to collect Blighted Essence
Wish-Ender	N/A	N/A	N/A
Witherhoard	Increased handling and Auto-Loading Holster	Complete the quest, The Bank Job.	400 kills
Worldline Zero	Another Dimension (Reduces the activision time of Tesseract)	Kills in PVE with a sword	Hit each Level 7 Escalation Protocol boss with Worldline Zero or 300 kills
Xenophage	N/A	N/A	N/A

Some information courtesy of light.gg Destiny database.

There are still a few Exotic weapons that have yet to receive their Exotic Catalyst, so check back with us periodically as we update this list once new Catalysts are added to Destiny 2. Be sure to check out the Shacknews Destiny 2 Complete Strategy Guide for more comprehensive guides, information, and walkthroughs.

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