Destiny 2: Every BUFF And DeBUFF Explained

Destiny 2's intricate damage system, featuring buffs and debuffs, often confuses players. This guide clarifies these mechanics, explaining how buffs and debuffs interact with weapon perks and other damage multipliers.

Essentially, buffs enhance your damage output, typically from abilities, while debuffs increase enemy damage taken, functioning differently than buffs. This, combined with weapon perks, creates a complex damage model. We'll detail what buffs and debuffs are, their relationship with weapon perks, and list every buff and debuff in Destiny 2.

Updated March 8, 2025, by Charles Burgar: This update includes precise percentage values for the returning Particle Reconstruction mod (formerly Particle Deconstruction) and the revised Sealed Ahamkara Grasps Exotic, which now offers a damage buff while Nightmare Fuel is active.

Understanding Buffs and Debuffs

Buffs and debuffs modify character performance in Destiny 2, primarily affecting damage. Buffs increase your damage dealt, while debuffs increase damage enemies take. Sources include weapon perks, subclass perks, armor mods (like Weapon Surges), and game mechanics for buffs; and artifact mods, subclass abilities, and certain Exotic weapons/armor for debuffs.

Weapon Damage Perks

The simplest buffs are weapon damage perks. Many weapons have these perks, boosting damage by a percentage for a set duration. Examples include Rampage, Kill Clip, Explosive Payload, Adrenaline Junkie, and One-for-All. These typically provide a 20% or 33% damage increase.

Importantly, these perks stack multiplicatively, not additively. A weapon with two active damage perks will see a significantly larger damage boost than the sum of their individual boosts. This multiplicative stacking also applies to damage spec mods and character buffs.

Empowering Buffs

Certain abilities provide a damage bonus to all weapons, known as Empowering Buffs. Radiant (a 20% damage increase) from Solar subclasses, often obtained via Fragments like Ember of Torches, is a common example.

Unlike weapon perks, Empowering buffs generally do not stack with each other; only the strongest active buff applies. However, Empowering buffs do stack multiplicatively with weapon perks and Weapon Surges.

Weapon Surges

Introduced in Destiny 2: Lightfall, Weapon Surges, from leg armor mods and certain Exotics, boost elemental weapon damage. They have tiered damage boosts:

Tier	PvE Damage Boost	PvP Damage Boost
Tier 1	11%	3%
Tier 2	17%	4.5%
Tier 3	22%	5.5%
Tier 4	25%	6%

Tier 4 is exclusively from Exotics. Similar to Empowering buffs, only the strongest Weapon Surge of a given type is active. Weapon Surges stack multiplicatively with other buffs and perks. Perks that change weapon damage type (Permeability, Osmosis) benefit from the converted damage type's Surge.

Debuffs

Debuffs are negative effects applied to enemies, increasing damage taken from all sources. Usually, only one debuff is active per enemy at a time. Debuffs stack multiplicatively with all previously mentioned buffs. Common debuff increases are 15% or 30%, but this can vary.

Complete List of Weapon Damage Perks

The following table lists notable Destiny 2 weapon damage perks and their PvE/PvP damage boosts:

Perk	Buff
Adagio	30%
Adagio (Bows)	20%
Adrenaline Junkie (x5)	33%
Ambush	10%
Bait And Switch	30%
Blunt Execution Rounds	PvE: 500%
	PvP: 100%
Box Breathing	33%
Box Breathing (Scouts)	66%
Chaos Reshaped	x1: 20%
	x2: 35%
Close To Melee	30%
Cluster Bombs	Up to 24%
Collective Action	20%
Controlled Burst	20%
Deconstruct	40% (objects only)
Elemental Honing	Up to 35% (40% for Kinetics)
Explosive Light (GLs)	44%
Explosive Light (Rockets)	25%
Explosive Payload	PvE: 12%
	PvP: 0%
Firing Line	20%
Focused Fury	20%
Frenzy	15%
Full Court	Up to 25%
Golden Tricorn (Default)	15%
Golden Tricorn (Buffed)	50%
Gutshot Straight	10%
Harmony	20%
Headseeker	8%
High-Impact Reserves	PvE: 12-25%
	PvP: 3-6%
High Ground	PvE: up to 25%
	PvP: up to 15%
Kickstart	20%
Kill Clip	33%
Multikill Clip (x3)	50%
One for All	35%
Precision Instrument	25%
Rampage (x3)	33%
Reservoir Burst	20%
Surrounded	Base: 40%
	Enhanced: 47%
Swashbuckler (x5)	33%
Target Lock (x5)	Base: 40%
	Enhanced: 45%
Timed Payload	PvE: 12%
	PvP: 0%
Trench Barrel	50%
Vorpal Weapon	Primary: 20%
	Special: 15%
	Heavy: 10%

This comprehensive breakdown should help Destiny 2 players better understand and utilize the game's damage mechanics for optimal performance.

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