Destiny 2 Armour 3.0: Stat changes and archetypes in Edge of Fate

2025-07-14 09:30:00
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As its name suggests, Armour 3.0 is yet another sweeping overhaul to the way your armour works in Destiny 2. Third time’s the charm, right? Armour 2.0 was introduced with Shadowkeep back in 2019, and I’d say it’s time for a change anyhow. Armour 3.0 is a total makeover, bringing major changes to all new armour in The Edge of Fate and beyond, which includes brand new stats and armour archetypes.

Armour 3.0 isn’t the only shakeup in Destiny 2 The Edge of Fate, as it also introduces armour set bonuses and new gear tiers for both weapons and armour, encouraging you to progress through world tiers to upgrade your equipment. Of course, there’s also a suite of new gear, including exotics like New Land Beyond, which also add new perks.

Destiny 2 Armour 3.0 explained

Destiny 2 Armour 3.0: Aion Renewal Strides inspected in the inventory screen, showing the stats, perks, and set bonuses on the item. — (Image credit: Bungie)

Armour 3.0 brings the following changes to all new armour earned in The Edge of Fate era—both legendary and exotic quality:

Overhauled stats: The six stats you’re used to have been renamed and generally given new purposes, too, letting you further specialise into specific playstyles and builds.
Archetypes: There are now armour archetypes, which are essentially categories to convey how stat groupings are distributed. Pick an archetype that matches your build and playstyle.
Set bonuses: Like other MMOs, we now have armour set bonuses, which give you additional perks if you wear multiple pieces of the same armour type.
Gear tiers: Technically not specific to the Armour 3.0 changes, but just as important, you now have to progress through gear tiers to earn increasingly more powerful weapons and armour. For armour, the higher the tier, the higher the total stat points.

Any gear earned prior to The Edge of Fate won’t have all the bells and whistles that new drops do, but it will have its stats converted to the new system. You’ll still want to replace it eventually, but your current build will likely see you through the new story campaign.

Destiny 2 Armour 3.0 stats

Arguably the largest change coming to gear in The Edge of Fate is overhauled armour stats. The six stats we’ve come to know and love (or ignore) have been completely changed, with new names and effects. In fact, Mobility has been removed entirely in favour of a weapon-focused stat, which let’s face it, is so much more appealing. Stats can now also be increased all the way up to 200.

The impact of these changes is that, at low stat investment, your abilities and durability will feel weaker than they used to, but at high stat investment, they’ll feel even stronger. You’ll need to better prioritise stats for your build, as there are now more tradeoffs in ignoring stats.

These are the Armour 3.0 stats in The Edge of Fate:

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Stat	1-100 Effects	100-200 Effects
Health	Grants 0-70 healing when picking up an Orb of Power. Grants 0-10% flinch resistance.	Shields start recharging 0-25% more quickly and take 0-50% less time to fully recharge. 0– 20 Additional shield capacity vs combatants.
Weapons	Improves weapon reload and handling speeds. Improves damage against minor and major combatants (0-15% for primary and special weapons, and 0-10% for heavy weapons).	Grants a chance for ammo bricks produced to contain more ammo than normal. Improves damage versus boss combatants and Guardians (0-15% for primary and special weapons, and 0-10% for heavy weapons in PvE, and 0-6% bonus weapon damage vs. players in PvP).
Class	Improves the base cooldown of your class ability. Improves the amount of class energy gained from external sources and any class regeneration speed scalars from other sources.	Grants a 0-40 HP Overshield (0-10 in PvP) on casting your class ability. The duration is determined by the ability used, so the longer the cooldown, the longer the Overshield lasts.
Melee	Improves the base cooldown of your melee ability. Improves the amount of melee energy gained from external sources and any melee regeneration speed scalars from other sources.	0-30% increased melee ability damage. This includes powered, unpowered, and glaive melee attacks.
Grenade	Improves the base cooldown of your grenade ability. Improves the amount of grenade energy gained from external sources and any grenade regeneration speed scalars from other sources.	0-65% increased grenade ability damage.
Super	Improves the Super energy gained from damaging targets. It does not change the base cooldown time of your Super. Improves the amount of Super energy gained from external sources and any Super regeneration speed scalars from other sources.	0-45% increased Super ability damage.

Broadly, this is how Bungie classifies the new stats, which is important when it comes to your old armour being converted to the new Armour 3.0 stat system:

Mobility is now Weapons
Resilience is now Health
Recovery is now Class
Strength is now Melee
Discipline is now Grenade
Intellect is now Super

The stats that have been removed in the new system have been set to a fixed value for all players:

Mobility is fixed to what 30 once was for Titans and Warlocks, and 40 for Hunters, but there are new leg armour mods to increase this now-unofficial stat.
Resilience is fixed to what 100 was in the previous system.
Recovery is fixed to around what 60 once was in the old system.

Destiny 2 armour archetypes

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Armour 3.0 introduces six armour archetypes that dictate how the stats above are distributed, with the goal of making it easier to figure out at a glance how an armour piece can fit into your build. Each drop has a randomly selected armour archetype, which has a fixed primary stat and a secondary stat, as well as a tertiary stat randomly selected from the remaining four options.

Here are all the armour archetypes, and what they focus on:

Paragon: Super primary, Melee secondary
Grenadier: Grenade primary, Super secondary
Specialist: Class primary, Weapons secondary
Brawler: Melee primary, Health secondary
Bulwark: Health primary, Class secondary
Gunner: Weapons primary, Grenade secondary

I imagine Gunner and Bulwark will be the most popular archetypes. The former focuses on pure weapon and grenade power, which are generally the most useful damage stats in endgame activities. Meanwhile, the latter is perfect for survivability. Of course, you can also get tertiary stat rolls to further min-max.

Destiny 2 Armour 3.0 exotics and the biggest changes

Destiny 2 Armour 3.0: Thee exotic class items' overview cards compiled into one image, showing the stats and effects of Relavitism, Solipsism, and Stoicism.

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While new gear automatically drops with all the bells and whistles of Armour 3.0, you’re likely wondering what’s going to happen to your current builds. Here’s what you need to know:

Masterworking now adds points to the stats not affected by your armour archetype, to help raise uninvested stats.
Pre-The Edge of Fate armour is being converted to use the new armour stats, though you’ll still be incentivised to earn new armour to take advantage of set bonuses and gear tiers.
Ada-1 offers 20 free focused exotic armours available through the Year of Prophecy that allow you to focus any non–class item exotic to an archetype of your choice.
Exotic class items are the only armour from before The Edge of Fate that are fully converted to the new system, with maximum stat rolls and archetypes.
15 existing exotic armour pieces (and 28 exotic weapons) have been updated to the new gear tier system, with more coming in future updates, but all your exotic armour will still have their stats converted to the equivalent of Tier 2 rolls.

If you’re curious, these are the exotic armours being fully converted to Armour 3.0 with The Edge of Fate:

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Warlock	Hunter	Titan
Felwinter’s Helm	The Dragon’s Shadow	Precious Scars
Fallen Sunstar	Mask of Bakris	Wormgod Caress
Nothing Manacles	Blight Ranger	Ursa Furiosa
Ballidorse Wrathweavers	Cyrtarachne’s Façade	Icefall Mantle
Starfire Protocol	Mask of Fealty	Point-Contact Cannon Brace
Wings of Sacred Dawn	Khepri’s Sting	Pyrogale Gauntlets
Mantle of Battle Harmony	Oathkeeper	Wishful Ignorance
Mataiodoxia	Athrys’s Embrace	Crest of Alpha Lupi
Rime-coat Raiment	Renewal Grasps	Actium War Rig
Geomag Stabilizers	Caliban’s Hand	Mk. 44 Stand Asides
Promethium Spur	Gifted Conviction	Peregrine Greaves
Boots of the Assembler	Lucky Pants	Phoenix Cradle
Secant Filaments	Star-Eater Scales	The Path of Burning Steps
Swarmers	Speedloader Slacks	Abeyant Leap
Eunoia	Moirai	Melas Panoplia

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