Destiny 2 Monument of Triumph — New Exotic Weapons Guide

Monument of Triumph is Destiny 2's final major live-service update, dropped June 9, 2026 as part of Update 9.7.0. Active development stops here. The game stays live indefinitely. Think of it as Bungie handing you a box of everything they forgot to give you and saying "we're done now, take it."

The Destiny 2 Monument of Triumph centers around a new monument in the Tower courtyard, four Tenet vendors, and a new currency called Legendary Marks. You earn Marks by completing Triumphs spanning the game's entire nine-year history — raids, dungeons, PvP, Gambit, destinations, events. You spend them on things that were previously locked, vaulted, or sold out. The patch notes alone ran 71 pages.

Log in at launch. You receive 50 free Legendary Marks, 2 Bright Engrams, and the Toast to the Monument emblem from the Special Deliveries kiosk near Banshee-44. Costs nothing. Takes ten seconds. Skip it and feel nothing.

New Exotic Weapons

Three new exotics were added with this update. All are Void-adjacent, all have self-imposed drawbacks traded against unreasonable upside, and all were apparently sitting in a vault somewhere while Bungie debated whether to release them. They decided to release them on the way out the door. Classic.

Turncoat

The Turncoat exotic hand cannon comes free via the Triumphant Rewards Pass — the final season pass Bungie will ever ship. Fires from the hip like The Last Word. Harms you if you hold it too long. Anti-Barrier intrinsic, no artifact required.

• Latent Power Dealing damage builds stacks; precision hits and kills build faster.
• Unleashed Power At full stacks, hold X to activate: increased rate of fire, hip-fire accuracy, shots weaken targets.
• Overwhelming Power Empowerment degrades into this — deals damage to you over time. Reload or stow to cancel.
• Power Surge Rapid hits charge your next shot into an explosive round with bonus damage and faster stack buildup. While empowered, every shot is explosive.
• Catalyst When empowerment ends, you gain a Void overshield — strength scales with how long you stayed empowered.

Verdict: Fun in content where you control burst windows. In a prolonged boss DPS window, you will shoot yourself. Intentionally, per the perk kit.

Fafnir

Purchasable from the Tenet of Bravery with Legendary Marks — check the cost before blowing your starting 50 Marks on cosmetics. The Fafnir exotic linear fusion rifle is a delayed-detonation Void damage platform with built-in weaken. Deceptively technical.

• Subatomic Distortion Fires compressed quantum particles that decompress inside targets after a short delay, lacerating them.
• Quantum Nova Long-press to consume ammo reserves and over-pressurize the weapon, dramatically weakening targets. Duration scales with ammo spent. Paused while holstered.
• Detonation Over-pressurizing via Quantum Nova releases a proximity detonation around the user. You are not immune to this.
• No Distractions Aiming for a short period reduces flinch. Catalyst reward at 700 kills.

Verdict: The best new exotic weapon in Monument of Triumph for endgame. Weaken is universally valuable. Delayed detonation sounds awful until you understand it isn't. Grab this first.

Cull's Shadow

The third new exotic in the Monument of Triumph update. A Fusion Rifle dealing Poison damage — a damage type that has seen better days but gains new relevance here given the sandbox overhaul. Expect it to overperform in activities with tightly packed minor combatants.

• Exotic Trait Fusion bolts apply Poison stacks on hit; targets near a Poisoned enemy take splash Poison. Multiple targets sharing Poison amplify damage significantly.
• Intrinsic Champion Frame archetype determines Champion stun type — no artifact dependency, per the new universal anti-champion system.

Verdict: Strong in dense ad-clear scenarios. Less compelling in single-target boss DPS. Niche, but the niche is large enough.

Tenet Vendors & Legendary Marks

The four Tenet vendors sit in the Tower Courtyard. You access all of them by making your first purchase at the Tenet of Bravery. After that, the others unlock. The naming scheme — Bravery, Devotion, Sacrifice, Death — is either deeply considered or someone had a very bad week at Bungie's copy desk.

Endlessly purchasable engrams let you chase specific weapon pools — Lawless, Reclamation, Pinnacle Ops, Crucible, Fireteam Ops, and event pools — indefinitely. There is no reason to stop grinding if you enjoy shooting things. There is also no reason to stop if you hate yourself.

How to Earn Legendary Marks Fast

Legendary Marks come from completing Monument of Triumph Triumphs. The Triumph pool covers every major activity in the game's nine-year history. The path of least resistance, ordered by effort-to-yield ratio:

1. Claim your 50 free Marks from the Special Deliveries kiosk on login day — no effort required.
2. Visit all vendors in the Tower to unlock passive Triumphs, worth a handful of Marks immediately.
3. Complete destination patrol Triumphs — low skill floor, available across all open zones.
4. Run Distortions — hourly destination events that grant bonus Triumph progress on top of base completion.
5. Grind Crucible and Gambit Triumphs in parallel — same play, double Triumph sources.
6. Run featured raid and dungeon rotations weekly for high-value Triumph completions and Spoils of Conquest.
7. Farm Pantheon for stacked Triumph credit across the Pantheon Callus Resplendent and Morgoth Surpassing tracks.

The Immortal title requires 12 specific Triumphs from the Monument of Triumph event category. Completing each one drops Legendary Marks as a bonus. Earning the title unlocks the Immortal Legend Armor Ornament Set — the most visible prestige flex in this update, gated behind actual effort rather than just currency. Twelve Triumphs. Not all of them. Enough to feel it.

A second new title, Godslayer, is the Pantheon prestige title. Comes with dedicated emblems and cosmetics. For players who consider Pantheon Callus Resplendent a warm-up lap.

Sandbox Changes That Actually Matter

The 71-page patch notes contain the expected volume of patch-note-padding, but several changes have real impact on exotic viability:

Event Weapons & Legacy Loot

The Monument of Triumph also houses weapon engrams for events that are no longer running — or in Solstice's case, were cancelled outright this year. The Tenet of Bravery engrams include:

• Solstice Sniper Rapid Growth — was intended to drop in 2026 Solstice before the event was shelved. Now it lives here.
• Solstice Hand Cannon New weapon, not a reprise. Would have been a seasonal drop.
• Dawning Far Off New machine gun. Same Dawning aesthetic skin as prior event weapons.
• King's Fall Engram For players who missed the raid's weapon pool in active rotation.
• Iron Banner / Dawning / Guardian Games engrams Endlessly purchasable. Includes armor engrams for all three.

There is also an unreleased hand cannon and possibly a glaive tied to the Season of the Worthless engram pool, visible in the Monument vendor but unconfirmed in details at launch. The Destiny 2 community's reaction to the name "Season of the Worthless" has been characteristically measured.