All weapons have received a new perk column in Destiny 2: The Witch Queen. Named Origin Traits, these perks provide useful benefits that mimic intrinsic perks from the original Destiny. A Veist weapon you find might auto-reload itself when damaging targets, while a Trials weapon gives you stat bumps while you're the last living member of your fireteam.
Origin Traits serve to give weapon foundries and activity-specific weapons more of an identity over their contemporaries. In this guide, we'll be going over what Origin Traits are, how they work, every Origin Trait source, and what every Origin Trait does as of The Witch Queen expansion.
What Are Origin Traits?
Origin Traits are intrinsic perks available to all weapons from The Witch Queen expansion. When you receive a Year 5 weapon, it will come with an additional perk column with at least one Origin Trait. These traits are determined by the weapon's drop source or manufacturer, effectively giving weapons an intrinsic quirk or feature.
For example, all Veist weapons now drop with the Veist Stinger Origin Trait, giving your weapon a chance to automatically reload itself when it hits a target. While the chance of it activating is quite low, it's a useful effect when it procs and gives all Veist weapons a unique identity. All Legendary weapons come with at least one Origin Trait, and they are not randomly rolled.
Origin Trait Sources
There are two factors that determine a weapon's Origin Trait:
- The activity the weapon comes from.
- The weapon manufacturer.
Crafted weapons come with the weapon's manufacturer trait. If the weapon lacks a manufacturer, it'll always come with Psychohack.
For example, all Vanguard weapons will drop with the Vanguard's Vindication trait, recovering a small amount of health whenever that weapon slays a target. Let's say that you get the Fortissimo-11 to drop, a Suros Shotgun that comes from Strikes. This weapon would have both the Vanguard's Vindication trait and the SUROS Synergy trait.
Just like barrels and magazine perks, only one of those traits can be active at a time. Pinnacle activity weapons (GM Nightfalls and Trials) have both their endgame activity and core activity traits to chose from. In the case of Trials, those weapons roll with both Alacrity and One Quiet Moment in the Origin Trait column.
Each weapon manufacturer and activity with Origin Traits can be found in the table below:
| Activity Traits | Manufacturer Traits | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Source | Perk | Source | Perk |
| Strikes | Vanguard's Vindication | Hakke | Hakke Breach Armaments |
| Nightfalls | Stunning Recovery | Omolon | Omolon Field Dynamics |
| Crucible | One Quiet Moment | Suros | Suros Synergy |
| Iron Banner | Skulking Wolf | Veist | Veist Stinger |
| Trials of Osiris | Alacrity | PsiOps/Cabal | Land Tank |
| Gambit | Invader Tracker | ||
| Throne World | Psychohack | ||
All Origin Traits
As of The Witch Queen expansion, there are 12 Origin Traits that weapons can come with. Every Origin Trait effect can be found below.
| Origin Trait | Effect |
|---|---|
| Alacrity | Gain increased reload, stability, aim assist, and range when you are the last living member of your fireteam or running solo. |
| Hakke Breach Armaments | This weapon deals increased damage against vehicles, turrets, barricades, and Stasis crystals. |
| Land Tank | Final blows with this weapon grant increased Resilience and additional damage resistance from combatants. |
| Invader Tracker | Damaging the Invader with this weapon marks them for allies. |
| Omolon Field Dynamics | This weapon has increased reload speed and stability for the top half of the magazine. |
| One Quiet Moment | Grants increased reload speed when out of combat. |
| Psychohack | Sustained damage from this weapon lowers the target's damage output for a short duration. |
| Skulking Wolf | During the Hunt, final blows with this weapon grant enhanced radar and remove you from opposing radar. |
| Stunning Recovery | Stunning a Champion partially refills the magazine, triggers health regeneration, and improves Recovery for a short duration. |
| Suros Synergy | Reloading grants this weapon bonus handling and reduces incoming flinch for a short duration. |
| Vanguard's Vindication | Final blows from this weapon grant a small amount of health. |
| Veist Stinger | Damaging an enemy with this weapon has a small chance to reload the magazine and increase movement speed while aiming down sights. Bows receive faster draw speed and swords receive faster charge rate while this perk is active. |
