Weapon crafting takes a fair bit of grinding and patience, but once you level up a weapon enough, you can essentially make your own god roll. The process requires you find Deepsight weapons and complete their Attunement requirements, and while the prospect of obtaining materials might seem daunting, with time and effort, there will be a way to get what you need. On this page: Once you’re back at the Enclave on Mars, you’re directed to the large building behind where you spawn. Head in there for a brief cutscene introducing the Relic and its functions. This is where you’ll go to craft weapons for most of the Witch Queen campaign, and you’ll craft your first Glaive as a tutorial. Once you’ve crafted the Glaive, you have the potential to find weapons with Deepsight Resonance from then on. Shape lets you build a weapon from the ground up, choosing its frame and perks. Reshape uses materials to add new perks. It’s something you’ll use more often as you level up more weapons and unlock perks and other modifications, since your available options are limited initially. Here’s what they all do:
Intrinsic Trait: Special perks that govern how the weapon functions Magazine: Influences rate of fire, reload speed, and related aspects Barrel: Influences stability, range, and related aspects Trait 1: A bonus perk of your choosing Trait 2: A bonus perk of your choosing Memento: A special cosmetic
At higher weapon levels, you can also unlock Enhanced Traits, which essentially lets you add traits of your choosing to the weapon during Reshaping. More perk slots unlock as you level up your weapons. Weapon levels are a new stat separate from their power levels and have no effect other than unlocking perks. Weapons with Deepsight Resonance have a red border around their icon in the character menu, so they’re hard to miss. For now, only weapons from The Witch Queen expansion are craftable, including the new Exotics. Bungie will be adding more patterns over time. It’s December, which means the return of The Dawning and Moments of Triumph 2022! Elsewhere, the Season of the Seraph is here alongside More than a Weapon, Seraph Key Codes and Resonate Stems and the addition of Rose in Crucible. We’ve also seen a new dungeon, Spire of the Watcher, with has a chance of Hierarchy of Needs dropping upon completion. Earliear this year we had the arrival of King’s Fall and King’s Fall challenges, plus weapons including Doom of Chelchis and Touch of Malice. For The Witch Queen, learn how to get Dead Messenger and Parasite. Once that happens, you’ll need to extract the Resonance Materials, which can be a bit confusing at first. The prompt tells you to “claim” them, but you actually need to hover over the bottom row of icons to display the available materials. You can claim whichever material you choose, but only one of the set that’s available. Over time, as you unlock more weapon patterns, you’ll want to pay closer attention to which materials you grab. Crafting weapons and Reshaping them takes a certain number of specific Resonant Materials depending on the weapon or upgrade you’re working with, so make sure to check what you need before extracting. You obtain all Resonant materials except the two Alloy types from attuning weapons and extracting their materials. Some crafting quests reward you with Resonant materials as well, though these run out quickly.
