In Destiny, the strength of your guardians is influenced not only by weapons but also by armor. In this article, we want to take a look at the helmet “The Taikonaut.” Is it useful in PvE and PvP?
The Taikonaut is an exotic helmet for Titans, available since the Taken King expansion. We want to take a look at what makes this helmet special.
Where can you obtain the helmet “The Taikonaut”?
There are three ways to obtain the Titan helmet:
- King’s Fall Raid: In the raid where you can take down Oryx, this exotic item can be found.
- Nightfall Strike: At the end of the Nightfall, there is a chance that you may rejoice over the Taikonaut.
- Xûr: Finally, it may also happen that our friendly Agent of the Nine has the helmet in stock.
Furthermore, you need the Taken King expansion for the Taikonaut to drop for you.
What makes “The Taikonaut” special in Destiny?
If you are having trouble hitting fast enemies with your rocket launcher, The Taikonaut can help you. Because it comes with these perks:
- Aerial Traffic Control: This gives all your rocket launchers tracking. Additionally, thanks to this perk, heavy ammo drops are increased and the radar remains visible while aiming with heavy weapons. This perk greatly enhances your heavy weapons, especially the rocket launchers.
- Heavy Lifting: When you kill minions of the darkness with heavy weapons, bonus Super energy is guaranteed.
- A random perk from: Whisper of the Worm (increased Super energy when minions of the darkness are defeated), From the Ashes (bonus Super energy after grenade hits) and Practically Gifted (eliminating minions of the darkness with melee kills grants bonus Super energy).
- Another random perk. Here the choices are: Innervation (bonus grenade energy when picking up orbs), Empowerment (orbs grant bonus melee energy), Better Already (shields regenerate instantly upon picking up an orb) and Infusion (light orbs restore health).
- Furthermore, there are selectable perks that increase your intellect, strength, or discipline.
Basically, the idea behind this helmet is that your heavy weapons are upgraded, especially the rocket launchers. Strong tracking rocket launchers have been a rarity since the Taken King expansion. For example, the Truth can be cited, which we discussed in this article.The Taikonaut thus enhances rocket launchers that do not have tracking functionality. Utilize these synergy effects! The exotic Dragon’s Breath can, for example, benefit from this helmet. So if you like to use tracking rockets, this helmet greatly expands your options. If you already possess a strong tracking rocket launcher, this helmet might not be your first choice.
What can The Taikonaut do in PvE and PvP?
In PvE, the Titan helmet brings numerous advantages: Besides all the benefits that the perk Aerial Traffic Control provides, the Heavy Lifting perk is also interesting here. Because the minions of the darkness that you need to kill for bonus Super energy are only present in PvE.
In PvP, Heavy Lifting does not come into play. However, it is particularly valuable in the Crucible that the radar remains active when using heavy weapons. This applies not only to rocket launchers but also to machine guns. Even if you don’t want to run around with this helmet permanently, you can quickly switch to the Taikonaut when heavy ammo is delivered. This may give you crucial advantages.
By the way: The term “Taikonaut” stands for a Chinese astronaut and is equivalent in meaning to astronaut (term for NASA astronauts) or cosmonaut (term for astronauts of the Russian space agency). Therefore, the description of the helmet is quite fitting:
The helmets worn by the first Chinese lunar colonists of the Golden Age.
What do you think of this helmet for Titans? Do you use it?
Maybe you can manage to get the Scarab Heart with the help of this helmet. Here you can find out everything about this coveted emblem.
