In the entire history of Destiny, there have been a total of 141 exotic weapons that Guardians could add to their collection. However, there are only five Exotic weapons that you were able to forge yourself. We will show you which gun was the first to take a step and what it could do.
Where does the weapon come from? To know the weapon, you must have traveled in the old times of Destiny 1 in the DLC “The Dark Below”. In this DLC, the Guardians had to fight against a new Hive threat on the Moon.
Crota, the son of Oryx and infamous Hive Prince, has killed countless Guardians on the Moon, and your task was to defeat him once and for all. Fortunately, this DLC also dropped an unassuming weapon, initially thought to be useless, from Hive Knights, the “Blades of Crota”: the “Necrochasm“.
This weapon turned out to be a true lucky find and encouraged Guardians to gradually refine the gun to eventually upgrade it to exotic status.
This post is about Exotics that you receive as a common weapon and have transformed into Exotics through your actions. This only includes weapons that you had to own in your inventory from start to finish – the weapon had to accompany you at all times to evolve through your experiences.
Common weapons become Exotics
What makes it so special? Exotic weapons come from Bungie with fixed perks and an intrinsic, unique feature that gives Exotics their distinctive character.
Guardians cannot manipulate or change an Exotic; they are exotic from the start and do not change their rarity. However, two exceptions allowed players to hold a common weapon in their hands and create an Exotic through the Light or the power of Darkness.
How could the Necrochasm be upgraded? First, Guardians had to fill the dried artifact “Necrochasm” with suffering and death. For this purpose, a large number of Hive enemies had to be defeated.
Once you filled the Cannibalism perk with many dead Hive enemies, you had to acquire a Balsamining Sphere from Eris.
This could only be purchased after reaching Level 3 in her faction “Crota’s Curse.” Afterwards, the Necrochasm was transformed into Eidolon Ally, a legendary auto rifle.
Now Guardians had to upgrade their legendary weapon again. Once all perk fields were unlocked by XP or Light particles, only the Crux of Crota had to be obtained. However, this item could only be obtained in the hard mode of the Crota raid.
To obtain the Crux, Crota, the final boss, had to be defeated. Here too, Guardians relied on their luck, as the item was not a guaranteed drop. If you were unlucky, you had to run the raid multiple times, and weekly.
However, players encouraged the unlucky Guardians with a trick to get the Crux with a higher probability. The glowing shader “Glüü-Hüü” was to be equipped to bless the Guardians. It was rumored that this could help tilt the RNG more in their favor.
If you were lucky enough to get the Crux, you could socket the item in the Eidolon Ally to finally build the Necrochasm. A rapidly firing Arc auto rifle that taught many players to fear.
What made the Necrochasm so special? The Necrochasm was an auto rifle and one of the first Exotic weapons that could be obtained with an element in the primary slot. Additionally, the rate of fire was overwhelming.
In 2.9 seconds, you could unleash an entire magazine on your enemies and quickly reload afterwards. If you killed your opponent with a headshot, they would explode with a scream like that of the cursed thralls.
Especially in PvP, this weapon was feared as it could send enemies to the grave in the blink of an eye. However, the weapon was not granted to everyone, as during this time players had to possess the Gjallarhorn to be taken on a raid.
What other weapon could be crafted? The remaining weapons that could be crafted were the Lumina, the non-corrupted form of the Thorn, as well as the three exotic swords from the “King’s Fall” expansion from Destiny 1.
What do you think of the Necrochasm? Would you like to have it in your collection in Destiny 2 or did you find the quest boring and think the current Exotic missions are better? Let us know what you think of the mechanic!
