Black Armory God Rolls: Every Weapon Worth Farming Now

Monument of Triumph dragged all 11 legendary Black Armory weapons out of storage, dusted them off, and slapped a new origin trait on top. If you're chasing a Black Armory god roll, congratulations, you've picked a farm with actual depth for once. Below is the full breakdown, weapon by weapon, with no padding and no pretending every roll matters equally, because most of them don't.

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Where to Farm and Why the Grind Is Slightly Less Insulting

Ten of the eleven Destiny 2 Black Armory weapons drop from the Arena Ops playlist, accessible through Vanguard Ops, and you can focus for a specific one instead of praying to the loot gods. Threat Level is the exception, dropping only from the Insurrection Prime encounter in Pantheon, after which you may buy it repeatedly with Spoils, because Bungie occasionally shows mercy. Holofoil variants, the shiny red cosmetic reskins, drop from the same pool, so if you want your farming to look expensive as well as be pointless, that's available too.

Forger's Kin: The Origin Trait Doing All the Heavy Lifting

Every weapon in the set shares the Forger's Kin origin trait: final blows briefly grant ammo generation, reload speed, and damage against combatants when the weapon is redrawn, and the buff gets stronger the more Black Armory weapons you're running. Translation: score a kill with any weapon and your equipped Black Armory guns get seven seconds of buffed damage in the tray. Here's the math, because someone has to do it.

Izanagi's Burden, Jötunn, and Le Monarque all count toward that third-weapon threshold without receiving the buff themselves, which is a very on-brand piece of exotic weapon design. Run three legendaries if you want the reward instead. As a bonus, the affected weapon regains its old Radiance cosmetic glow while the buff is active, a nostalgia trinket nobody asked for but nobody's mad about either.

The Ringing Nail: Solar 450 RPM Precision Auto Rifle

450 autos remain mediocre even with the 30% legendary primary buff propping them up. This one at least rolls Incandescent in the left column, a genuinely rare pairing, best combined with Onslaught for the DPS bump.

Verdict: fine if you love this archetype emotionally. Not a reason to farm on its own.

The best legendary void rocket currently in the game, full stop. Lasting Impression now adds a 35% explosive damage boost, up from 25%, and stacking it with Aggregate Charge or Reaper's Tide pushes total damage to 68% or 77% respectively.

Verdict: mandatory. Farm this before anything else on the list.

Four-burst pulses have always felt satisfying, and this one is no exception. Kinetic Tremors paired with Firefly or Chaos Reshaped is the consistent pick, but Bewildering Burst becomes genuinely strong if you're running the Vesper's Host two-piece set for a 15% primary damage bonus to disoriented targets.

Verdict: strong on its own, absurd with the right armor set. Worth building around.

The infamous double-damage classic is back, and yes, Kill Clip plus Rampage still works if nostalgia is your build. But Kill Clip paired with Magnificent Howl, a 55% damage buff from precision-kill stacking, is the actual ceiling here.

Verdict: pick your poison, all four right-column options are legitimate.

Not from Arena Ops, this one only drops from Insurrection Prime in Pantheon. Cascade Point plus All Star, combined with the Kinetic Synthesis artifact mod, creates a self-sustaining infinite-ammo damage loop that borders on unfair. Precision hits from another weapon spike the fire rate, and picking up the ammo brick your own kills generate grants a 35% damage buff. It is not subtle and it is not meant to be balanced.

Verdict: the single most obscene legendary DPS tool currently available. Farm Pantheon.

Volt Shot in the left column is a rare gift, and Explosive Payload in the right takes advantage of the scout's extended range better than any alternative.

Verdict: solidly good, nothing more, nothing less.

No Eager Edge, so forget using it for movement. What it does have is a ludicrous damage-stacking ceiling: Rampage and Surrounded together add up to an 89% damage increase per swing at max potency.

Verdict: a fun novelty build, not a meta pick. Farm it if boredom sets in.

Aggressive frame snipers lose to rapid-fires on damage-per-second every time, and this weapon does nothing to change that math. Treat it as a PvP pick instead.

Verdict: skip for PvE. PvP players may find something here. 

Rewind Rounds plus Gearshift stacks up to five times for a 35% damage increase, and the multi-pellet fusion mechanic lets you burn through the entire reserve without reloading. The catch: aggressive frame spread makes it useless past close range.

Verdict: strong situationally, useless against anything not standing right in front of you.

Demolitionist for grenade energy and a reload effect, paired with either Killing Tally for consistency or Mega Kill Clip for a 40% damage buff lasting up to 20 seconds if you can keep the streak alive.

Verdict: a top farming priority. No real weaknesses.

Unless bows are a personal obsession, better primaries exist. Headstone plus Firefly or Crystalline Corpsebloom at least doubles your stasis crystal output for whatever build calls for it.

Verdict: still a bow. Farm only if you're a completionist or a masochist.

Quick Priority List

• Farm immediately: Beaming Giant, Threat Level, Hammerhead
• Farm if building around them: Blast Furnace, Kindled Orchid
• Farm for fun, not for power: Striker's Surehand, Spiteful Fang
• Farm last, or never: Tatara's Gaze, The Ringing Nail

The Monument of Triumph Black Armory refresh is the rare vault return that actually earned its comeback, mostly thanks to Forger's Kin rewarding you for running the full set instead of one lucky roll. If you're the type chasing cosmetics too, the holofoil versions exist purely to drain more of your time with zero mechanical benefit, which somehow makes them more addictive, not less.