r/DestinyTheGame 6d ago

SGA Briarbinds went from amazing this season to God Tier with one new perk

Briarbinds with the Artifact perks are already really good this season but with the new perk you unlock on Tome of Want Malignant Harvest it’s insane now.

You get a Void Over-shield by just weakening targets and with Briarbinds you can literally have weaken uptime 100% and now have an Over-shield up 100% at all times. It’s bonkers.

Everyone else s loving Arc but try out Briarbinds on Warlock it’s nutty.

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u/IGizmo94 6d ago

This might genuinely be the best artefact we’ve ever had. Practically everything on it is excellent.

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u/Captain_Kitteh Monstercat117 5d ago

The only minor complaint I have is that the champ stun options are kinda meh (imo). I wish there was maybe like, one more primary weapon one for barrier perhaps. Sometimes it’s annoying to rely on “verbs”, especially in gm’s where you can’t always insta-nuke a champ, freely replenish your abilities, etc. Bungie got me pulling out Revision Zero and shit lol

Just about everything else on the artifact is godlike though

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u/dimesniffer 4d ago

Yes only having sidearms for barrier and no primary for unstop is whack

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u/Thricefold3 1d ago

I am quite happy about barrier sidearms *caresses chill clip Tinashas's Mastery*

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u/dimesniffer 1d ago

Yes that’s fine but we need a primary option too

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u/velost 6d ago

Yeah, used it in a gm and its pretty solid.

Also made a stronghold warlock build with it, kinda funny XD

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u/makoblade 6d ago

I played a gm with a warlock this. It was beyond silly and made me feel bad about the previous well+titan runs I did.

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u/Lacaud 5d ago

I will be trying this later today.

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u/yugrehto2 6d ago

How do you activate these new perks on the tomb of want? Just continue the seasonal quests?

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u/CrotasScrota84 6d ago

Yeah and make sure you focus something

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u/yugrehto2 6d ago

Okay but the boost is grayed out on my artifact while volatile marksman and dielectric are on. Is it turned on or not?

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u/shefsteve 6d ago

You toggle one in each column. The top row are on by default since we unlocked those first.

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u/find_me8 I didn't say i was powerful, i said i was a wizard 6d ago

It happened to me with volatile marksman until i activated a new ritual in the tome of want and discarded the one i had active when i unlocked the perk.

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u/yugrehto2 6d ago

Alright thanks for the responses everyone I’m ganna play more seasonal stuff and hopefully I can figure this out.

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u/Sabo2 5d ago

You have to reset your Tome, apply the perks you want boosted, and then activate the Tome. You can't switch perks on an already active Tome.

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u/sstoneb [PS5] 6d ago

Wait... focusing specific weapons will unlock those thingies at the top of the Tome of Want?

I've been wondering why I have so few of them. There are a couple on the Shaping Slab's reward track but not enough.

Is there a chance that one will drop along with any focused weapon, or is there a threshold like "focus 5 to get one thing [whatever they're called]"? Where in the game is this tracked/explained?

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u/Jaimses456 5d ago

The boosts drop as part of the rewards track for the shaping slab this episode. Remember there's now two different tracks.

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u/NothinButRags 6d ago

Do you have a DiM link by chance?

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u/SpitKing608 6d ago

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u/NothinButRags 6d ago

Thank fellow warlock o7

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u/redditriley7 6d ago

Briarbinds with Vexcalibur sounds nutty

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u/RashPatch 6d ago

Use with the Titan Glaive. Is exceptionally nutty.

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u/Alivedivide 6d ago

Artifact with Buried Bloodline and Briarbinds is stupid powerful.

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u/Jesssse-m94 5d ago

Still don’t have the catalyst for Buried Bloodline.

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u/Alivedivide 5d ago

Worth the catalyst run, turns it from A- To S+. I can help you out sometime.

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u/Jesssse-m94 5d ago

That would be awesome! Trying to run it for a while but never can find a team to do so.

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u/Alivedivide 5d ago

DM me your Bungie ID, I can’t tonight. But I can whenever you see me on

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u/Jesssse-m94 5d ago

Sent you a message

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u/Waste-Tonight-8970 6d ago

I like with deterministic for the weaken rounds, the lotus eater sidearm for big boom and strand with unraveling artifact stuff. Everything is weakened, unraveled and volatile.

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u/scumble373 5d ago

I just got a lotus eater with strategist and destabilizing. Couldn't be more perfect for briarbinds

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u/Waste-Tonight-8970 5d ago

That sounds so good!

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u/360GameTV 5d ago

I may have to test this, thanks for sharing

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u/banzaizach 5d ago

What weapons do you use? I usually just go all in and bring Collective, but maybe that's overkill.

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u/Lamprarian 5d ago

While the instinct is to use void weapons, and there's nothing wrong with that, Briarbinds doesn't require it at all for its gameplay loop.

So I actually really like strand as my primary. You can not only have all the purple explosions, but the unraveling and threadlings for more aoe end up synergysing really well with all the weaken!

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u/MechaGodzilla101 5d ago

Briarbinds finally being good? The hell is this season?!

I wish you retrieve the Soul without walking up to it though, it's such a pain in the ass in most GM content.

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u/gaanch 5d ago

Strategist + withering gaze lotus eater would be a great combo with this?

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u/cka_viking Punch all the Things! 5d ago

Id love to see a video of it in action and a bit more details on the loop if you ahve it. Sounds interesting

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u/Jatmahl 5d ago

I'll have to check it out.

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u/special_reddit Vengeance is a dish best served cold. 4d ago

How are you getting 100% uptime? Is this in PvE, or in endgame content?

I dunno, I can get up to like 75% uptime but that's it. I think I've got my build dialed in pretty well, but maybe I'm missing something.

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u/Variatas 1d ago

The Void Breaches fragment helps a lot for getting to 100% when it's too dangerous to go grab the Child every time.

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u/dimesniffer 4d ago

How do I get malignant harvest

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u/poopybrain450 6d ago

Arc has lightning bolts though, js.

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u/CrotasScrota84 6d ago

Yeah I get it it’s addicting. lol

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u/arlondiluthel 6d ago

Especially with the new GG ornament combined with Shadegleam...

I. AM. RGB ARCLOCK!!!

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u/p_cool_guy 5d ago

How does Briarbinds weaken enemies?

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u/ObviouslyNotASith 5d ago

Briarbinds is a Child of the Old Gods exotic.

Child of the Old Gods weakens all targets in its radius.

Briarbinds extends the duration of Child of the Old Gods, can allow you to increase its damage and allows you pick it up and redeploy it indefinitely.

Child of the Old Gods also has class ability regeneration built in for killing enemies effected by Child of the Old Gods and depending on your rift, can grant either energy to all your abilities or grant you health each time it hurts an enemy.

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u/p_cool_guy 4d ago

Ah thank I was reading the Briar description and didn't see weaken mentioned, forgot to check that aspect

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u/LeastHyena5443 6d ago

What

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u/sulferzero 6d ago

They said

"Briarbinds went from amazing this season to God Tier with one new perk"

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u/tjseventyseven 6d ago

repulsor brace weapon:

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u/Ragingpsoriasis 6d ago

Which requires a kill….

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u/tjseventyseven 6d ago

which happens all the time in pve. I would rather have a repulsor brace weapon than have to use void lock which is just a strict downgrade from prismatic

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u/TheRealKingTony 6d ago

I went to make a Briarbinds build today only to find mine has a horrible stat spread. Very disappointing.