I Tested Every Exotic Trace Rifle and Struck Gold! | Spire of the Watcher DPS Test (Destiny 2)
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- Опубліковано 6 лют 2025
- Genuinely was not expecting to find a trace rifle that puts every other special to shame.
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I honestly think Ager's is one of the best exotics Bungie has ever created.
It has a catalyst that ACTUALLY does something. Catalysts that just add a slight stat bump like Cold Heart or Prometheus Lens is just depressing
@@jonahbrown5669 Can't wait for prometheus lense to get incandescent!
@@ThePringle124 Yeah, incandescent will be good on Prometheus, but honestly I'll still use Retraced Path over it since it's craftable with enhanced subsistence and enhanced incandescent (which is a decent bit better than regular incandescent).
If they made it so that just shooting an enemy applies scorch stacks, while killing them also procs incandescent, I'd probably try out prometheus lens. I just wish they'd buff prometheus to be one of the best ad clear weapons worthy of taking up an exotic slot
Edit: Apparently Prometheus Lens already applies scorch just by hitting enemies. Heard that from someone. Still performs pretty badly unfortunately, hopefully incandescent somehow makes it godly lol
@@jonahbrown5669 the heat field will still proc incandescent
Agers is legit fun and exotic man, love the damn thing
Exotic traces are underrated. Legendary ones are at a good spot
Basically strong primaries with great perks. I've been using double special builds with them all season, so good
@@brandonlakin2138 Perfect for Arc with blinding fragment 👍
Ammo economy do need to be adjusted a bit
@@brandonlakin2138 how do you get over the ammo issue, cause even with ammo finders I can't get enough ammo I higher level content
@@antoniobennett3588 my best advice is to use scavenger mods and lucent hive mod combined with using your heavy when you need special ammo and using your specials when you need heavy ammo it really works wonders i swear by it. If you are playing higher difficulty be careful going to pick up the ammo though a good shoot to loot is nice in those situations.
I actually voted for the shorter vids, but i'm glad I was out-voted, this was pretty interesting - nice to have an option for behemoth Titan for this boss, as I feel it would do nothing but get in the way up here.
Also that meme with the Sonic loop in was incredible, I've never seen that one before
the thing about ager's... when you are the only one using it and your 2 buddies are using different guns, the shatter damage can count towards their damage numbers as well... But the gun is sort of amazing
i love ager’s so much
"I didn't really expect much and I still managed to be disappointed"
I often play with a husband and wife duo when I play destiny and no offense to the wife but she is scared of jumping puzzles and isn't very good at the game so she struggles to find people to play with her that don't treat her like a second class citizen when she dies. That being said I run stasis with agers anytime we go to do duality or spire to freeze as many mobs as i can with my stasis warlock and it has helped me so much that I can't manage to take it out of my inventory and put it into my vault. It really does so much work with the catalyst and the stasis fragment that gives super energy on frozen enemy kills is just the cherry on top *chefs kiss*
Actually, you can use the ruinous catalyst here, if you use the dunk on the boss when damage phase starts, you’ll have around 15 seconds of bonus damage 😌
Just a heads up about Prometheus. I’m pretty sure the only buff it is getting is the addition of Incandescent somewhere on the gun. So it won’t be applying scorch all that frequently to a single target unless there are a bunch of adds around.
This is awesome. I've struggled to get akelous to a solo 3 phase because I'm unwilling to do font to speed up eyes - it's just too much for me to keep track of. Now I can use a one for all lmg to speed it up, and get easy font+HEF off shards. Thank you!
According to the Destiny Data Compendium:
Catalyst grants 30% increased damage toward enemies hit by Transmutation spheres for 15 seconds.
I think you need to wait for the boss to be vulnerable before slamming the ball. But I've also seen this boss in particular be weird with certain things, like throwing knives bouncing off.
That's what I was thinking
I could've been doing things wrong with the orbs but with testing it only lasted for around 5 seconds. So I have no clue.
@@Zexi1 I tested it and yes it's 15 seconds 30% buff it's likely the boss could be deflecting the orb since this boss is immune to none eye hits
@@Zexi1 try slamming it after your teammates have destroyed the eyes
@@chunkyrabbit1032 I did some math, it would only increase his damage from 617,595 to 802,874. and that's more liberal considering that the buff would have to last the entire time to get that result.
4:56 why we pushing him back
Meanwhile the boss: AHHHH MY SINGULAR EYE STOP SHINING LAZERS
Wavesplitter max damage actually last 20sec if you pick up 2 orbs of light…. Couple that with Gyrfalcon’s and I think it would be close to a million. Idk though since volatile has been nerfed.
I'll give it a try. We were testing it for 30 mins and the orbs of power rng got to me lol
@@Zexi1 its not rng i dont think, it just needs multikills
@@oksobasically3278 Bubble
I love WS with Gyrfalcons. Easily one of my favorite exotic combos
I use prometheus for my solar build, double special with the blinding chill clip lingering dread. Its god tier for ad clear and general gameplay
I've been telling my friends this for ages now, i soloed flawless the new exotic mission seraph station with literally just the agers exotic and it's broken af when playing solo
I love going full "kamehameha" with the Ager's catalyst
Just subscribed. Keep up the good work! Thank you for these videos!
Cold heart and mask of backris is kinda nutty
@Zexi1giveaway lol bot
I've been running 2 different stasis builds with agers this season and that trace rifle SLAPS. Solo content and everything. Using osmio and mantle with agers is just way to fun. Will 100% be my day one set up going into lightfall, until i unlock strand at least 😅
Take your meds
Yo what’s the build for stasis pve
I'd advise adding timestamps and tldr/conclusions section at the end of the video
Solid video, I love Trace rifles! 👍
And the HOME outro is pretty kino too.
ironworker has a vid on ager's already . you forgot FoM but ager's actually does comparable damage to most heavies with FoM and super buff .
Prometheus lens has always had scorch. Blade barrage hunters back in the day could spam knives because of it burning enemies. It was fun.
Great video...! Now I gotta go cop Ager's.... new sub! 🍻
Is Ager's the best special dps in the game? Sure it takes your super, but unless you're on well, it's probably worth it
In my opinion, yes.
Lol well now I wonder how divinity + agars would do
I love Agers warlock so much, you can make your trash shadebinder super useful by turning the GUN into your super 😂
Glad I’m not the only one that knows such power.
Agers was so wild still
Just subbed bro thanks for the new dps method
Gotta say, easily one of the most underrated channels i've found so far, tho i'm not too sure about using Summoning Salt's intro music in the outro...
Didn't know who Summoning Salt was and also it's just a good song. Probably why he picked it too lol
Fair enough👍
Omg what build you have for that ager
it got scorch the same season that solar 3.0 came out. its getting incandescent in ligthfall.
3:00 I'm so confused, what do you mean it's getting scorch? it already has scorch. It's gonna get incandescent on top of adding scorch.
There’s a seasonal challenge to use trace rifles in gambit so I got ager’s and its catalyst just for it, holy shit it’s a fantastic trace rifle
Just want to say If you start with Tap fire coldheart you can hit max dmg and have more mag left to use for the full dmg. Would it Change the dmg maybe but its not that useful for dps
I'm curious. If each person ran a different trace rifle in a raid, how far could they get in a single damage phase?
First long video in a long time letsss go
wait thats crazy cause you guys didnt even use font of might with agers.
Was going for easy reloads with Rain of Fire but running Transversives would be good enough
Can someone explain how rain of fire synergizes with agers? I thought rain of fire was meant for fusion rifles
The auto reload allows you to reload the weapons without the catalyst deactivating as it would normally.
I made a zesty build on solar titan with Agers and severance enclosure to freeze then boom hammer mobs.
Your video quality is great for how small you are. It doesn't make sense you really deserve more attention
But so basically without weakened clear and font of might even agers probably wouldn’t be doing that much. Pretty unfortunate.
Bro you used auger septer on the wrong super and subclass
How did you get your Ager's to look White/Purple?
The Christmas Ornament
Good video, but I would recommend testing on a less mobile enemy for less inconsistencies. The Templar in VoG is usually a staple to test on IMO. earned a sub btw.
I dont understand why you didnt go for stasis font of might? Ami missing something?
Nope. I dunno why I didn't tbh. In my defense it was like 3am lol
@@Zexi1 lol no worries
but wouldnt that change the result significantly?
Very helpful thanks.
another goat video 🔥🔥
What if you mix Div with Ager?
Damage numbers arent always accurate. I saw a video of somebody breaking it down where he did a damage test and saw that some numbers would literally be hundreds of thousands of damage numbers off the actual boss damage.
Could I get the video?
Whoa 😳 does it need Rain of Fire to do that? What about the robot chicken boss with this?
Good stuff, subbed, saw a video of yours the other day I liked too 👍🏼
It does need some type of auto load like rain or transversives
Wave and agres are my fav
If you used a stasis subclass with agers you could have used the shards to proc font of might and high energy fire
HEF and FOM is actually free on Stasis. Basically 100% uptime.
I was just wondering - does the Will Given Form mode of Agers count as Super Damage against Persys, the final boss? It gets an increased damage bonus from Super's does it not?
I don't believe so. It would most likely be considered a weapon buff.
@@Zexi1 cheers, but also: boooo 👎
You could try the path of least resistance with triple tap focus fury
Better get the new strand one to update this vid
Will make that a separate video when I get it!
I've been meaning to test out Agers myself, but glad to see the video. Can't wait to try it now :)
It's catalyst is really good for replacing bad supers
You know this might be pretty good with cascade point NF GL.. and with grenade holdster sounds pretty viable :O
Edit - maybe not for aegis 😅 that trace is the goat
Word of warning, Agers will lose about 10% of its damage when stasis weapons lose their kinetic damage bonus next season.
Kinetics are getting a damage bonus ya dingus.
@@Lean_Dad so you didn't pay attention to them mentioning that they are keeping stasis weapons in slot 1, but they will not be treated as kinetic weapons anymore, therefore lose the damage bonus they already have in addition to not getting the kinetic jump, ya dingus lol
Ruinous Effigy looks so cool, it’s too bad it’s such a stupid gimmicky exotic
What ever you do, don't cross the streams.
man people sleep on ager's scepter too much i've been using it since i got it and it is wicked fun!
Lol forgetting the hive ghost is natural I did it too.
Cool vid
everyone started to understand how good ager is so i think they will nerf it soon
Jesus loves you
Amen 🎉
No 3 divinity test? Lol
Tragic I know ;(
@@Zexi1 everyone knows it's a dps beast 🤣
So jealous of Warlock exotic hotpants right now :\
That was disgusting!! Glad you didn't bother showing Div!! That's one was ridiculous, and not in the good way.
Nice!
Kirito sounding ahh
Dub enjoyer moment
Agers could have been stronger if you were using stasis subclass with fragment that increases shatter damage 😏
But then no rain of fire :(
True but there's still transversive steps or you could use it's other perk and kill an ad to reload
As I expected, Divinity is really only useful in raid scenarios now.
Good job ruining an exotic Bungie.
AGERS GANG GANG
YESSIRRRRR TOLD YOU I HAD IT COMIN
Aaaaand here comes the nerf
Keep it hush hush from Bungie :)
Well ager's IS a kinetic sooo
Agers is disgusting. Especially with stasis and the fragment that just got buffed
Which fragment got buffed? I know they changed Whisper of Rending but that gives damage boost to primary ammo weapons. Did they change something else?
I used Agers for my solo flawless, with Stasis Lock, font, elemental shards and the usual solo mods. It's on my channel for anyone interested, hits like a truck.
It's good I build off my stadia titan
This has been patched.
This was the worst damage test I’ve ever seen .