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Bungie has shaken up the progression systems inDestiny 2’slatest season: Revenant. Instead of a traditional upgrade grid, Guardians will be using reagents from slain Scorn to brew potent tonics that enhance their abilities in battle.
Tonics act as your main reward sweetener in this Episode, giving you a means of target-farming certain drops by drinking the right tonic. They also serve as a way to enhance Artifact perks on your build, perfect for pushing difficult GM Nightfalls or Master raids. Even if you aren’t a diehard Destiny player, you’ll want to craft a few of these tonics to get some of the new seasonal gear. Let’s show you how.
What Are Tonics?
Tonics act as a surrogate forthe seasonal upgrade gridmost Destiny players are used to.You may consume tonics to modify activity rewards, enemy drop tables, and even Artifact perks.They’re your primary source of seasonal gear in Revenant, so it’s important to routinely engage with this system.
Tonics come in two forms:
A Tonic’s duration is 20 minutes by default, but rarer variants tend to last longer.As you craft tonics throughout this season, you’ll stumble across rarer, stronger recipes that will further enhance your rewards.
Tonics come in three rarities: Uncommon (green), Rare (blue), and Legendary (purple).
How To Craft Tonics
The seasonal quest doesn’t do a great job explaining how to make tonics, but the process is surprisingly simple. Let’s break this down into steps:
Your tonics are crafted in one massive batch, so you won’t need to repeat Steps 4-6 for every single potion you queued up. In other words,you’re using the Tonic Table to make the potions, then you’re walking around the tonic room to actually forge them.It’s busywork, but you only have to do this once per batch.
Using A Tonic
All of your tonics are located in theinventory tab, located to the right of your character tab.Once there, you’ll want toinspect the Tonic Capsulenear the top of your screen. Doing so will bring up all of your Volatile and Enriching Tonics you’ve crafted thus far.
The Tonic Capsule is solely for drinking tonics and checking reagents. You cannot craft tonics from this menu.
Select whichever tonics you want active, and their timers will begin.You may only have one Volatile Tonic and one Enriching Tonic active at a time.Activating a new one will override your previous tonic.
How To Get Reagents
Reagents are generally found in Revenant content and slain enemies.Nearly every resource can be found in Onslaught: Salvation and from slain Scorn.Enemies don’t have a guaranteed drop rate, but they’re a decent source of reagents ifyour build has solid add clear.
If you need a resupply of reagents, complete Eido’s Fieldwork quests. All minor quests give a small bundle of materials upon completion.
Slain combatants, destination materials
All content
More likely to drop from Revenant activities
Tomb of Elders (currently unavailable)
“Kell’s Fall” Exotic mission (currently unavailable)
How To Unlock New Tonic Recipes
New tonic recipes are discovered bycrafting the same tonic multiple times.It appears that every tonic you unlock by default (the Uncommon ones) have Rare and Legendary variants that unlock when you craft enough duplicates of that particular tonic.
For example, the Tonic of Onslaught Gear is unlocked by default and grants seasonal gear. If you craft 5-10 copies of this tonic, you’ll discover the Vintage Tonic of Onslaught Weaponry, which now gives you a means of target-farming Onslaught weapons. Craft duplicates of that Rare tonic, and you’ll unlock a Legendary variant.
There are15 Volatile Tonicsand30 Enriching Tonicsyou can craft in Episode: Revenant. Volatile Tonics grow in strength and duration as their rarity increases, granting you multiple Artifact perk upgrades in one tonic. Enriching Tonics allow you to target-farm certain drops more effectively and for a longer duration, hence why there are more Enriching Tonic recipes.
