Just as its name suggests, the legendary Ice Breaker sniper rifle has returned to Destiny 2 in October 2024 as part of Revenant Act I.
This weapon has always been a fan favorite for its ammo generating ability, which can be thrown back out to spawn yet more ammo, but this updated version is new, with new features and mechanics specific to the current game.
Ice Breaker is no longer an infinite ammo exotic, but it’s still a pretty powerful one. If you’re wondering how to get Ice Breaker in Destiny 2, this is everything you need to know, including strategies for increasing your odds and tales of the new abilities of the infamously powerful weapon.
Ice Breaker in Destiny 2: How to Get it
You will then get Ice Breaker if you complete Vesper’s Host dungeon. After you defeat the final boss — The Corrupted Puppeteer — there’s a chance that the weapon will drop.
You don’t get a guaranteed drop for this weapon, like you do with most other dungeon exclusive exotics either. But you can up your chances by running the dungeon 3 times per week, per character as the drop rate resets every week for each one.
Plus, the weapon isn’t easily available. Don’t sweat it if that first time is not a lucky one because every time you successfully complete the dungeon and do not receive Ice Breaker, you raise your odds to succeed on subsequent attempts. So, continue to force through Vesper’s Host, increasing your drop chances step by step.
Tips to Improve Ice Breaker Drop Rate
While Ice Breaker’s drop isn’t guaranteed, particular in game actions can raise the likelihood that they will drop. Improving your odds, specifically, consist of finishing Triumphs in the Vesper’s Host dungeon. These Triumphs include:
- Alone in the Dark: Team up with Conrad to do all Vesper’s Host encounters solo, without leaving.
- Stationmaster: Complete future Vesper’s Host on Master difficulty.
- Buried Secrets: You will need to find all collectibles in the Vesper’s Host dungeon.
Completing these Triumphs not only makes your drop rate better, but also awards it with experience and rewards to help you progress in Destiny 2 overall.
But with these bonuses still, finding a way to get an Ice Breaker for your main, may involve multiple runs through dungeons, and you’ll have to get creative with your fireteam grind.
What’s New with Ice Breaker?
Given that Ice Breaker already has a variant built for the modern gameplay environment, it has brought a few changes to be a little more up to date. The No Backpack intrinsic trait for one new major update features removes the old infinite ammo feature.
The No Backpack trait instead drop ammo when you secure final blows, or assist with other weapons or abilities, and the chance is higher to create multiple rounds when killing more powerful enemies.
That means, instead, Ice Breaker continues to create ammo from nothing itself, but you have to put in the work to keep the generator running steady.
Its explosive perk, Ice Breaker, kills defeated enemies quickly and rewards you with an explosive death. For pretty much all final blows, precision or otherwise, and also for throwing people into emotionless stasis with a shattering freeze, if they party die, it will trigger an ignition effect burning any enemies next to it.
Despite being insanely overpowered, Ice Breaker is a great tool for crowd control situations, and makes for a fun explosive chain reaction for those who like blowing things up.
Ice Breaker is more than a nostalgic return — it’s a weapon suited to the Destiny 2’s evolved gameplay with these changes. If you prefer high damage exotics, its powerful perks, explosive abilities and is a must have.
Conclusion
Destiny 2’s reintroduction of Ice Breaker both brings back a nostalgic throwback and delivers a freshly designed weapon that, with its power and Arc trait, won’t feel too out of place with the current meta.
It’s no longer the infinite ammo Sledgehammer that it once was, but upon updated traits such as No Backpack and the explosive perk Ice Breaker, it’s a badass sniper rifle that’s quite worth the grind. Running the Vesper’s Host dungeon on all of your characters each week.
Completing Triumphs that improve the drop rate. At times you may need to use some persistence to do this, but the you’ll be handsomely rewarded for pulping this reinvented arsenal of a classic.
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