Destiny 2 Edge of Fate: Arms Week guide
Dive into the Destiny 2 Arms Week event: earn Volatile Mods, complete challenges, and train at Ada-1’s Shooting Range for exclusive gear.
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Key takeaways
- Arms Week runs July 29–August 5, 2025, with Hand Cannons as the featured focus.
- Visit Ada-1 at the Shooting Range to start the event and get Phoneutria Fera Hand Cannon.
- Earn combat telemetry currency by using Hand Cannons in activities.
- Volatile Weapon Mods offer powerful, time-limited upgrades for Hand Cannons during the event.
- Complete challenges and trade telemetry for exclusive weapons and rewards.
Destiny 2: Edge of Fate has already launched, and we’ve got a lot of info about the Arms Week. Arms Week is a limited-time event focused on weapon customization, challenges, and rewards, featuring Phoneutria Fera Hand Cannon and more.
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We’ll continue updating this guide with more details as the event returns in the future.
When Arms Week starts and ends
Arms Week will start on July 29, 2025.
Arms Week will end on August 5, 2025.
The event will return in the future, featuring a different weapon type.
What is Arms Week in Destiny 2
Arms Week is a limited-time event in Destiny 2: Edge of Fate, focusing on a single weapon archetype (Hand Cannons).
Upon starting the event with Ada-1 at the Shooting Range, she offers a pursuit that kicks off Arms Week and grants access to the new Hand Cannon, Phoneutria Fera. By completing activities with Hand Cannons, players collect combat telemetry, which Ada-1 uses to craft additional weapons and rewards. These include powerful, time-limited Volatile Mods that can be slotted into the event’s featured weapon archetype.
How to start Arms Week
In order to start Arms Week, visit Ada-1 at the Shooting Range while the event is active. She will provide you with the starting quest, event track, daily quests, rewards, shop offers and more.
Arms Week gameplay
Use the featured weapons (Hand Cannons) in various game activities to get combat telemetry, which Ada-1 uses to craft additional weapons and rewards for you.
Daily and weekly Challenges also included in Event Home.
Arms Week quests
Here are the Arms Week quests:
- Initial Calibration – Complete 3 rounds of Hand Cannon tuning with Ada-1.
- Prototype tuning: Barrel – Defeat targets with precision final blows. Defeating opposing Guardians and using Hand Cannons grant more progress.
- Prototype tuning: Traits – Rapidly defeat combatants. Using Hand Cannons grants more progress.
- Prototype tuning: Magazine – Defeat targets in Portal activities. Using Hand Cannons grants more progress.
Arms Week challenges
Daily and weekly challenges are available during the Arms Week, rewarding Event Tokens, Event XP+, and Bright Dust.
Arms Week event track
Here’s the full Arms Week event track, showcasing all 15 ranks and their corresponding rewards.
- Enhancement Core
- Arms Week Event Weapon Engram
- Reroll Chip (Reroll a Daily Challenge)
- Enhancement Prism
- Armsmaster Emblem
- Strange Coin x9
- Enhancement Prism x2
- Reroll Chip
- Enhancement Core x5
- Ribbontail Trace Rifle (Tier 3)
- Strange Coin x9
- Reroll Chip
- Enhancement Core x5
- Ascendant Shard
- Phoneutria Fera Hand Cannon (Tier 3)
Arms Week Volatile Weapon Mods
Volatile Weapon Mods are time-limited upgrades for the featured weapon type (Hand Cannons) that significantly boost weapon’s performance.
Here is the list of known Volatile Weapon Mods available during Arms Week:
- Chaotic Munitions — Precision final blows produced randomized effects.
- Cowboy Grip — Supremely improved hip-fire weapon performance.
- Fragmentation Rounds — Precision final blows create multiple explosive submunitions.
Arms Week rewards
Here’s a list of rewards available during Arms Week:
- Phoneutria Fera, Solar Hand Cannon
- Ribbontail, Strand Adaptive Trace Rifle
- Legacy Hand Cannons (check the list below)
- Volatile Weapon Mods
- Holofoil weapons
- Event tokens
- Reroll Chips
Arms Week Legacy weapon rewards
Here are the list of Arms Week Legacy weapon rewards:
- Exalted Truth Void Hand Cannon
- Warden’s Law Kinetic Hand Cannon
- Exuviae Stasis Hand Cannon
- Kept Confidence Strand Hand Cannon
- Luna’s Howl Solar Hand Cannon
- Sightline Survey Arc Hand Cannon
- The Palindrome Arc Hand Cannon
- Austringer Kinetic Hand Cannon
You can focus these weapons at Ada’s Workbench.
Note
None of these Hand Cannons use the new Tier system, which means they don’t count as “New Gear” and won’t benefit from seasonal modifiers or bonus damage. We don’t recommend buying or focusing any of them.
Arms Week Reward Shop
Here are all the items available for purchase in the Reward Shop during Arms Week.
| Item | Amount | Type | Cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 Reroll Chips | x3 | Package | 200 Silver |
| Reroll Chip | x1 | Event Currency | 100 Silver |
| Ascendant Shard | x1 | Material | 300 SIlver |
| Exotic Cipher | x1 | Currency | 300 Silver |
| Phoneutria Fera | x1 | Hand Cannon | 100 Event Tokens |
| Ribbontail | x1 | Trace Rifle | 100 Event Tokens |
| Arms Week Event Weapons Engram | x1 | Gear Tier 2 | 75 Event Tokens |
| Enhancement Prism | x1 | Material | 75 Event Tokens |
| Ascendant Alloy | x1 | Material | 60 Event Tokens |
| Enhancement Core | x1 | Material | 7 Event Tokens |
| Enhancement Core | x5 | Material | 35 Event Tokens |
| Large Pile of Glimmer | x1000 | Currency | 1 Event Token |
| Large Pile of Glimmer | x5,000 | Currency | 5 Event Tokens |
| Large Pile of Glimmer | x25000 | Currency | 25 Event Tokens |
How to get Phoneutria Fera Hand Cannon
In order to get Phoneutria Fera, visit Ada-1 at the Shooting Range during Arms Week event (July 29 – August 5) and complete the Arms Week Pursuit.
Later, you’ll obtain more copies of Phoneutria Fera in various tiers, each featuring different perk rolls.
How to get Ribbontail Trace Rifle
To get Ribbontail Trace Rifle, reach Rank 10 on the Arms Week event track or buy it in the event’s Reward Shop.
Arms Week Triumphs
Complete the following Triumphs to earn the Arms Week title, Sharpshooter, in its standard and Gilded versions.
- Ephemeral Arsenal – Collect all Arms Week Volatile Weapon mods.
- Within Scope – Deal final blows with weapons equipped with a Volatile Weapon mod.
- Ada’s Anarchy – Complete matches in Arms Week: Hardware. Wins grant extra progress.
- Rushed Recoil – Complete the Arms Week event rewards track.
- Terribly Modish – Defeat combatants using weapons with Arms Week Volatile Weapon mods. Portal activities grant more progress.
- Aimed to Please – Win in Arms Week: Hardware.
- Right on Target – Achieve an A grade in Fireteam Ops or Pinnacle Ops with a Volatile Weapon mod equipped.
- Gun-beliveable – Complete a dungeon, a raid, or Portal activities at Master or higher difficulty with a Volatile Weapon mod equipped.
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