Every Artifact Perk In Destiny 2: Heresy

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How The Artifact Works In Episode: Heresy

Episode: Heresy brings a new Artifact to the Destiny 2
sandbox, bringing with it a suite of powerful new perks that will shape the meta for the next few months. Some fan-favorite perks have returned this time around, including Horde Shuttle, a reworked version of Volatile Light, and even Particle Deconstruction from Season of the Splicer.

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If you’re looking to push your builds to their limit or get into buildcrafting in general, you won’t want to miss this season’s Artifact. Complete the opening Heresy story mission, get your hands on the Tablet of Ruin, and start earning XP to get your hands on these powerful perks.

We haven’t done extensive testing on all 25 Artifact perks yet, so this article will give a brief overview of what each perk does based on in-game descriptions. Once we’ve done our own testing, we’ll update this guide with exact perk values and notable synergies.

How The Artifact Works In Episode: Heresy

Column One	Column Two	Column Three	Column Four	Column Five
Unstoppable Fusion	Overclocked And Load	Hold The Line	Dreadful Finisher	Particle Reconstruction
Overload Machine Guns	Deep Alchemy	Dielectric	Maligned Harvest	Elemental Supercharger
Piercing Sidearms	Volatile Marksman	King’s Vestige	Flashover	Heavy Ordnance Regeneration
Anti-Barrier Sniper Rifle	Legend Incarnate	Disruptor Spike	Horde Shuttle	Defibrillating Blast
Unstoppable Glaive	Unraveling Orbs	Photonic Flare	No Bell	Void Flux

The Tablet of Ruin is comprised of 25 perks you can allocate. You earn perk points for the Artifact through XP. All XP you earn will contribute towards your next Artifact perk unlock. The XP can come from any activity, not just Heresy-themed content. The Artifact itself is obtained during Heresy’s onboarding quest; you can’t miss it.

Perks are broken up into columns that must be unlocked by allocating points into the Artifact. For example, you can’t select any perks in column two until you grab three perks from column one. The order looks like this:

Column One: Unlocked by default.
Column Two: Requires three perks allocated.
Column Three: Requires five perks allocated.
Column Four: Requires seven perks allocated.
Column Five: Requires ten perks allocated.

You may only have 12 perks allocated at a time.

Should you choose to change your Artifact, you can simply select any perks on the right-most column to unspec them. Doing so is completely free and can be done as many times as you desire. You can also hold the “Respec” button on the bottom-right of the Artifact UI to reset all perk options.

Artifact choices are tied to each character, although they are not saved in your loadout configurations. If you want to use different perks, you’ll need to adjust the Tablet of Ruin manually.

Column One Perks

Unstoppable Fusion	Aiming down sights with a Fusion Rifle will load an explosive shot, stunning Unstoppable Champions. Additionally, Fusion Rifles are always Overcharged when that modifier is active.
Overload Machine Guns	Landing consecutive hits with an LMG will stun Overload Champions. Additionally, LMGs are always Overcharged when that modifier is active.
Piercing Sidearms	Sidearms fire shield-piercing rounds, strong against Barrier Champions. Additionally, Sidearms are always Overcharged when that modifier is active.
Anti-Barrier Sniper Rifle	Sniper Rifles fire shield-piercing rounds, strong against Barrier Champions. Additionally, Sniper Rifles are always Overcharged when that modifier is active.
Unstoppable Glaive	Glaives you wield fire an explosive payload that stuns Unstoppable Champions. Additionally, Glaives are always Overcharged when that modifier is active.

Unstoppable Fusion

Aiming down sights with a Fusion Rifle will load an explosive shot, stunning Unstoppable Champions.

Additionally, Fusion Rifles are always Overcharged when that modifier is active.

Overload Machine Guns

Landing consecutive hits with an LMG will stun Overload Champions.

Additionally, LMGs are always Overcharged when that modifier is active.

Piercing Sidearms

Sidearms fire shield-piercing rounds, strong against Barrier Champions.

Additionally, Sidearms are always Overcharged when that modifier is active.

Anti-Barrier Sniper Rifle

Sniper Rifles fire shield-piercing rounds, strong against Barrier Champions.

Additionally, Sniper Rifles are always Overcharged when that modifier is active.

Unstoppable Glaive

Glaives you wield fire an explosive payload that stuns Unstoppable Champions.

Additionally, Glaives are always Overcharged when that modifier is active.

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Column Two Perks

Overclock And Load	While you are Amplified or have Bolt Charge, Arc weapons gain increased handling and reload speed.
Deep Alchemy	Weapons with the Subjugation origin trait gain stability and reload speed for a short duration when hitting any target. These weapons are always Overcharged.
Volatile Marksman	Rapid Void weapon precision hits and rapid Void weapon final blows grant Volatile Rounds. Upgrade: Volatile detonations grant class ability energy.
Legend Incarnate	Weapons with the Timelost Magazine origin trait gain bonus damage. These weapons are always Overcharged.
Unraveling Orbs	Picking up an Orb of Power or a Tangle grants Strand weapons Unraveling Rounds.

Column Three Perks

Hold The Line	While surrounded, Machine Guns and Glaives gain increased reload speed and stability; final blows heal you.
Dielectric	Defeating Arc-debuffed targets grants Bolt Charge. Upgrade: Rapidly defeating Arc-debuffed targets spawns an Orb of Power and heals a small portion of HP.
King’s Vestige	Defeating a powerful Taken loads your weapon with 3 Taken seekers. These seekers inflict Disruption and Exhaust. Exhausted targets deal reduced outgoing damage.
Disruptor Spike	Exhaust and Sever are stronger.
Photonic Flare	Defeating an Exhausted or Severed target with Arc damage releases a blinding burst.

Column Four Perks

Dreadful Finisher	Finishers against powerful combatants spawn Special ammo. Champions, Tormentors, and Subjugators spawn more ammo.
Maligned Harvest	Rapidly applying Volatile causes your next instance of Void damage to create a Weakening pulse.
Flashover	When you gain maximum Bolt Charge, you also become Amplified. Lightning bolts deal more damage.
Horde Shuttle	Damaging Unraveled targets with a weapon occasionally spawns a Threadling.
No Bell	Rapid Glaive melee final blows grant Special ammo Glaives additional ammo. Blocking damage with Glaives increases their melee damage to targets.

Column Five Perks

Particle Reconstruction	Sustained damage from Fusion Rifles and Linear Fusion Rifles debuff the target, increasing all damage they receive. The weapon is also partially reloaded from reserves.
Elemental Supercharger	Defeating Exhausted or Severed targets with weapons that match your Super element grants Super energy.
Heavy Ordnance Regeneration	Dealing sustained damage to targets with a Machine Gun or Rocket Launcher grants damage resistance and increases grenade and melee regeneration for a short duration.
Defibrillating Blast	Stunning a Champion grants maximum stacks of Bolt Charge. Triggers an Arc bolt that heals you and Jolts combatants that it damages.
Void Flux	Defeating Weakened targets with a Void weapon applies Volatile to nearby targets. Powerful targets increase the radius of the explosion.

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