Adept Weapons

Adept Weapons are improved versions of certain Legendary weapons. They are obtained from difficult, end-game activities.

Overview

Adept Weapons

Category page: Adept Weapons

The Adept version of a weapon is indicated by "(Adept)" being appended to its name (e.g. The Hothead and The Hothead (Adept)).

Adept weapons usually share the same base stats and perk pool with their base version. In Infusion, weapons and their Adept versions are considered duplicates, allowing them to be infused into each other for 1,000.

Adept weapons differ from their base versions in several ways:

• In addition to the usual +10 increase to the weapon's primary stat, fully Masterworking an Adept weapon grants +3 to all alternate stats;
• Adept weapons can use weapon mods with "Adept" in their names, as well as standard weapon mods;
• An Adept weapon usually has a different default appearance from its base version.

An Adept weapon's availability depends on the availability of its base version. As a result, some Nightfall and Trials of Osiris Adept weapons are no longer obtainable, with their base versions having been removed from their respective game mode's loot pool rotation.

Adept Weapon Mods

Main page: Weapon Mods

Adept weapon mods can only be equipped on Adept weapons. There are Adept mods that improve specific weapon stats, as well as improved versions of normal weapon mods. Adept weapon mods can be obtained as drops from any sources of Adept weapons, as well as Master-difficulty dungeons. The exception to this is Adept Icarus Grip, which is exclusive to Trials of Osiris Flawless chests.

Adept Weapon Enhancement

Certain Adept weapons can be enhanced, giving them similar properties to crafted weapons and limited access to perk reshaping and Enhanced Traits. Enhanced Adept weapons retain the ability to equip Adept weapon mods.

Currently, as of the Season of the Deep, only Adept weapons obtained from the Root of Nightmares raid on Master difficulty can be enhanced.

Enhancement Tiers

The following table includes the enhancement upgrade tiers. The enhancement option can be found on the weapon's Details screen, in the Enhancement socket that takes the place of the Deepsight Resonance socket that normally appears on non-Adept craftable weapons.

Name	Description	Weapon Level Required	Upgrade Cost	Notes
Enhance Weapon	Once enhanced, this weapon will be granted a weapon level, memento socket, and obtain limited reshape options at the Relic in the Mars Enclave. Enhancing will immediately replace this weapon's Masterwork with an enhanced intrinsic that is aligned with the current Masterwork stat.	N/A	For a weapon at Masterwork tier 1: 12 Spoils of Conquest 10,000 Glimmer 27 Legendary Shards 20 Enhancement Cores For a fully Masterworked (tier 10) weapon: 12 Spoils of Conquest 3 Enhancement Cores	Enhancing the weapon includes the cost to fully Masterwork it to tier 10. If the weapon is already partially or fully Masterworked, then the cost will be reduced accordingly. If the weapon is fully Masterworked before being enhanced, the Masterwork visual effects will be disabled until both the weapon's traits have been enhanced. The weapon's original Masterwork stat bonus will be replaced with an Enhanced Intrinsic, providing a +10 boost to that stat. Reaching level 20 will give an additional minor stat boost to the weapon's other Masterwork stats. Unlike crafted weapons, it is not possible to change the Masterwork stat to something else. Reshaping the weapon will limit its perks to one per column, removing the ability to toggle between multiple perks (e.g. Barrel or Magazine perks). The perks that are toggled on when entering the reshaping menu will be equipped by default. The first and second perk columns can be reshaped. They will have the same level unlock requirements as the weapon's non-Adept, craftable equivalent. The traits in the third and fourth columns cannot be reshaped, and can only be enhanced by upgrading to Tier 2 and Tier 3, respectively. A Memento can be inserted into the weapon's socket when reshaping it. Memento shaders can also be previewed on the weapon after enhancement. Like crafted weapons, the enhanced weapon can be leveled up through use to unlock additional upgrades.
Tier 2 Enhancement	Upgrading this weapon to Tier 2 will allow you to enhance the third column's trait perk at the Relic in the Enclave on Mars.	11	15,000 Glimmer 3 Enhancement Prisms 1 Ascendant Alloy	The third column trait can be enhanced at no cost after the Tier 2 upgrade.
Tier 3 Enhancement	Upgrading this weapon to Tier 3 will allow you to enhance the fourth column's trait perk at the Relic in the Enclave on Mars.	17	15,000 Glimmer 3 Enhancement Prisms 1 Ascendant Alloy	The fourth column trait can be enhanced at no cost after the Tier 3 upgrade. After both traits in the third and fourth columns have been enhanced, the weapon will receive the same gold border and appearance as if it was fully Masterworked.

Sources

Trials of Osiris

In Trials of Osiris, players who go Flawless (7 wins with no losses) will receive a pinnacle Adept weapon from the chest in the Lighthouse. This weekly reward can only be claimed once per account, not per character. The Adept weapon that drops from the chest rotates each week.

Once players go Flawless in a given week, they can continue to earn additional drops of the weekly Adept weapon by completing matches on any Trials Passage with at least 7 wins, regardless of losses. This resets weekly.

Players who have claimed their first Flawless chest in the current week can purchase drops of the weekly Adept weapon by focusing Trials Engrams at Saint-14. Decrypting an Adept weapon costs 1 Trials Engram, 50, 50,000, and any 7-win Trials Passage.

Grandmaster Nightfall

The Adept version of the weekly Nightfall weapon can drop from Nightfalls on Grandmaster difficulty. Completing a Grandmaster Nightfall with a Platinum rating, killing all Champions that spawn before finishing the mission, will guarantee an Adept weapon drop. During weeks where the Double Nightfall Drops modifier is active, two Adept weapons will drop instead of one.

If it has been previously obtained, the weekly Adept Nightfall weapon can be focused at Commander Zavala. Decrypting an Adept weapon costs 1 Vanguard Engram, 50, 50,000, and 10 Adept Nightfall Ciphers. Adept Ciphers can be obtained from Grandmaster Nightfalls: 2 will drop after earning a Platinum rating, while only 1 will drop with a Gold rating.

Adept Nightfall weapons will usually have an additional Trait in either the third or fourth column.

Master Difficulty Raids

Adept versions of weapons from certain raids can be obtained when playing on Master difficulty.

Vault of Glass

Adept weapons obtained from the Vault of Glass raid have "(Timelost)" appended to their names instead. They function the same as regular Adept weapons, but offer an additional perk in the third and fourth columns.

Timelost weapons drop when completing Vault of Glass Challenges (e.g. "Wait for It...") on Master difficulty. A specific Timelost weapon will be available to obtain each week, rotating along with the Challenge. Note that weekly reward lockouts are shared between the Normal and Master difficulties of the raid. This means that completing a challenge on Normal difficulty first will prevent the player from getting a Timelost weapon reward from the challenge on Master difficulty for that week.

Once a Timelost weapon has been obtained, additional rolls of that weapon can be purchased from the Cache of Kabr vendor at the end of the raid using Spoils of Conquest. They can only be purchased when playing on Master difficulty.

Vow of the Disciple

In the Vow of the Disciple raid, completing the weekly raid Challenge on Master difficulty will drop a new Adept weapon that the player has not yet unlocked in Collections. If all Adept weapons have been acquired from the raid, then the Adept weapon that drops will be random. Unlike the normal raid weapons, the Adept weapons cannot be crafted. However, completing Deepsight Resonance extractions on an Adept weapon will make progress toward unlocking the Weapon Pattern for its normal version.

Once an Adept weapon has been obtained, additional rolls of that weapon can be purchased from the Lubrae's Ruin vendor at the end of the raid using Spoils of Conquest. They can only be purchased when playing on Master difficulty.

King's Fall

Adept weapons obtained from the King's Fall raid have "(Harrowed)" appended to their names instead. Completing a Challenge on Master difficulty will reward an Adept weapon. Additional rolls of the Adept weapons can be purchased from the Dreadnaught's Riches vendor on Master difficulty for Spoils of Conquest, if the player has those weapons unlocked in Collections. Although they cannot be crafted, performing a Deepsight Resonance extraction on a Harrowed weapon will count toward unlocking the Weapon Pattern for the normal version of that weapon.

Root of Nightmares

In the Root of Nightmares raid, completing an encounter challenge on Master difficulty will drop an Adept raid weapon. Encounter challenges rotate weekly. Once an Adept weapon has been obtained, additional rolls of that weapon can be purchased from the Night Terror vendor at the end of the raid on Master difficulty using Spoils of Conquest.

Root of Nightmares Adept weapons can be enhanced (see "Adept Weapon Enhancement" above), giving them limited access to perk reshaping and Enhanced Traits.

Patch History

• 7.1.5
  • Fixed an issue where enhanced weapons could not apply nor preview Memento shaders.
• 7.1.0.3
  • Trials of Osiris: Increased the drop rate of Adept weapons on 7-win cards after going Flawless that week.
• 7.1.0
  • Trials of Osiris
    • After going Flawless for the week, any win on a 7-win card (regardless of whether the card is Flawless or not) will have a chance to drop the weekly Adept weapon.
      • This bonus reward was previously exclusive to the Flawless pool starting on Sunday, but it will now be active all weekend and does not require you to be in a specific pool.
      • The chance of getting an Adept from a win has been slightly reduced to account for the increased duration and availability of the bonus.
  • Updated tier-10 Masterwork stats provided on Adept weapons so Bows, Glaives, and Fusion Rifles properly inherit +3 to all stats they can roll as Masterwork options.
  • Fixed an issue where Adept mods could be inserted into non-Adept weapons.
    • Non-Adept weapons with an Adept mod inserted will have their perk deactivated.
• 7.0.5.0
  • Added the capability to upgrade Root of Nightmares Adept weapons with enhanced traits. If you have unlocked Deepsight on weapons, an enhancement socket will be available to perform this upgrade in the weapon details screen.
• 7.0.0.1
  • UNLISTED: Vanguard Engrams from Commander Zavala can now be focused into Adept Nightfall weapons.
• 6.3.0.4
  • Reduced the cost of focusing Trials of Osiris’ Adept weapons from 250 to 50 Legendary Shards.
• 4.1.0
  • Weapon Crafting: Vow of the Disciple Adept Deepsight weapons will now progress toward recipe progress.
    • This will not retroactively provide progress for already-completed Deepsight mods.
• 4.0.1
  • Trials of Osiris:
    • Fixed an issue where Adept Trials weapons were dropping for wins past 7 on a Passage of Confidence without first requiring a Flawless ticket.
      • Dev note: Funny enough, this is the biproduct of something we’ve been working on over the last season to improve Adept drop rates post-flawless, as well as help the Flawless pool feel more rewarding... which leads us to the next patch note!
    • Once players have gone flawless in a given week, they now have a chance of earning Adept Weapon drops on any Trials Ticket that has earned 7 or more wins while the Flawless Pool is active, regardless of loss counts.
      • This will reset weekly.
• 4.0.0.1
  • UNLISTED: Bottomless Grief and Celerity have been shelved. They no longer appear on Adept weapon drops from Nightfalls and Trials of Osiris, respectively.
• 3.3.1
  • Increased drop chance for an Adept Nightfall weapon from a Platinum Grandmaster Nightfall to 100%.
• 3.3.0.3
  • Adept Weapon Mods for Impact, Charge Time, Blast Radius and Projectile speed can now be acquired from Grandmaster Nightfalls and Raids, in addition to Trials of Osiris.
• 3.2.0
  • UNLISTED: Bottomless Grief is now a fixed alternate perk in the left column on Adept drops of Nightfall weapons (i.e. you can switch between that and the randomly rolled perk in the inspection screen).
  • UNLISTED: Celerity is now a fixed alternate perk in the right column on Adept drops of Trials weapons (i.e. you can switch between that and the randomly rolled perk in the inspection screen).
• 3.0.0.1
  • Trials of Osiris
    • Added Adept weapons and weapon mods to Flawless chest rewards.