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Destiny 2: The Witch Queen – Weapons and Gear Trailer

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Bungie just showed Guardians exactly how they’ll be building their own guns against Savathûn.

On February 1, 2022, Bungie dropped the official “Weapons and Gear Trailer” for Destiny 2: The Witch Queen, three weeks ahead of the expansion’s February 22 launch. The footage moves past lore teasers and into hard mechanics, giving players their first real look at weapon crafting and an entirely new weapon archetype called the Glaive. For a game built on chasing perfect rolls, this trailer is the clearest signal yet of how Bungie plans to change that chase.

• Weapon crafting debuts at a forge called “The Relic,” letting players build custom weapons from chosen combinations of perks, stats, mods, and shaders.
• The Glaive is confirmed as a new hybrid weapon archetype that uses special ammo, blends melee combos with ranged energy shots, and can throw up a frontal energy shield.
• Bungie revealed three class-specific Exotic Glaives, including a Titan variant that can drop a protective bubble shield for teammates, alongside separate Exotic Glaive options for Warlocks and Hunters.

The Relic Ends the RNG Grind

The trailer’s centerpiece is The Relic, the new crafting forge where Guardians assemble weapons piece by piece rather than praying to a loot table. Players select from bespoke combinations of perks, stat pools, mods, and shaders to build a gun tailored to their exact playstyle. Bungie game director Joe Blackburn has previously framed the system as a direct answer to years of community frustration with pure random drops, saying the goal is to let players earn their ideal “god roll” over time instead of grinding the same activity for weeks hoping for one to fall out of the sky.

The crafting pursuit was designed to end the pure RNG chase, letting players unlock their ideal “god roll” weapon configurations over time.

The Glaive Changes How Guardians Fight

The trailer’s biggest reveal is the Glaive, a first-person weapon archetype that hasn’t existed in Destiny 2 before. It runs on special ammo and gives players three distinct tools in one weapon: chained close-quarters melee combos, ranged energy projectile fire, and an upfront energy shield that can absorb incoming damage. That third piece is the real departure — it’s the first time a Destiny 2 weapon doubles as personal cover in a firefight, turning the Glaive into something closer to a mobile forward operating tool than a standard gun.

Beyond the Legendary versions, Bungie confirmed three class-specific Exotic Glaives, each built around a different combat role. The Titan’s Exotic variant can plant a protective bubble shield to cover teammates, while the Warlock and Hunter each get their own distinct Exotic Glaive suited to their subclass strengths. It’s a clear play by Bungie to give every class a reason to build around the new archetype rather than making it a niche pickup.

New Exotics for the Fight Against Savathûn

The trailer doesn’t stop at the Glaive. It also previews several additional Exotic weapons and gear pieces Guardians will pick up on the way to confronting Savathûn, the Witch Queen, inside her Throne World. Those tools are built specifically with her Light-bearing Hive forces, the Lucent Brood, in mind — enemies that, per the expansion’s premise, wield the Light against Guardians for the first time in the series. Anyone tracking how Bungie has staged big narrative swings before will recognize the pattern from other franchise reveals covered around trailers like Halo’s own live-action trailer rollout — hype the gear and the threat together, then let the story fill in the gaps closer to launch.

What makes this trailer land differently than past weapon reveals is that it’s selling a system, not just a gun. Crafting and the Glaive are pitched as connected: players will use The Relic to shape their Glaive rolls the same way they’ll shape any other weapon, meaning the archetype isn’t a one-off gimmick but part of the expansion’s core loop. It’s the same kind of systemic overhaul that shooter fans have watched other franchises attempt in gameplay trailers, including recent showcases like the one for Apex Legends’ Defiance update, where new mechanics were built to reshape how players approach every match rather than just adding another item to the pool.

The Witch Queen launches February 22, and this trailer is the last major gameplay reveal before Guardians get their hands on The Relic themselves. Bungie hasn’t detailed every Glaive perk or Exotic name yet, but the shield-melee-projectile combo alone is enough to make the archetype the thing most players will be farming for in week one.