Destiny 2is all about living a power fantasy through guns and space magic, and one small aspect of that fantasy comes from combat style mods. These mods socket into the fourth slot of any piece of a guardian’s armor and have wildly different effects based on one of three styles of combat mod. The Warmind Cell combat style mods are the second oldest and were introduced inDestiny 2’s Season 10: Season of The Worthy. To this day, the Warmind Cell mods remain a powerful and explosive alternative to other combat style mods inDestiny 2’s PvE content.
What makes theWarmind Cells system fun to use inDestiny 2are the effects of shooting or picking them up. However, for Warmind Cells to spawn, players need to use Seventh Seraph or IKELOS guns and kill a certain amount of enemies. As long as players have at least one Warmind Cell mod slotted in their armor, Warmind Cells will spawn upon using said weapon types. Warmind Cells are also generated using certain combat style mods that don’t require the previously mentioned guns.
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Warmind Cells Offer AOE Damage and Give Defensive Benefits
One problem with Season 19 is that the new Warmind-related Seraph guns don’t spawn Warmind Cells when it makes sense for them to thematically. NewerDestiny 2players won’t have access to most of the older Seventh Seraph or IKELOS guns, meaning they would have to rely solely on spawning them usingDestiny 2’s rarest combat style mods. It’s a shame because Warmind Cells are incredibly useful. They explode upon being shot, dealing burning damage in a large radius, or spreading a crippling Void debuff to nearby enemies. Alternatively, picking them up can provide meaningful defensive buffs, like an overshield, to the player who spawned one.
All their neat effects aside,Warmind Cells are the hardest to utilizeif players still need to get the required mods or weapons. This doesn’t feel fair or balanced, considering the other two combat style mod types don’t have the same stingy requirements to use. Charged with Light combat style mods have a whopping half-dozen ways the player can activate them. Being charged with light mainly gives players passive bonuses like more damage or survivability per light charge. Once a light charge is consumed for the buff, a player must acquire another light charge to be turned into a buff once again.
Warmind Cells Could Be On Par with Other Combat Style Mods with One Update
This is in contrast to the Elemental Well combat style mods that strongly focus on decreasing player ability cooldowns with other passive offensive and defensive buffs. Like Warmind Cells, Elemental Wells are spawned and must be picked up by the player or the player’s fireteam. However, other Elemental Well mods canchange how Elemental Wells are created, from spawning multiple wells to the wells physically seeking out the player. Additional synergies between the player’s subclass element and the element of the well are significant, too, because if the elements match, all the player’s cooldowns are reduced instead of just one.
Currently, players don’t have the luxury of easily being able to make multiple builds with Warmind Cell combat style mods, like players already can with Elemental Wells or being Charged with Light.If Bungie could updateDestiny 2to allow the new Season of The Seraph weapons to spawn Warmind Cells, that would be one of the best ways for the straggling combat style mod type to stay relevant inDestiny 2’s ever-shifting combat sandbox. That change makes more sense when consideringDestiny 2’s latest season deals directly with the Warmind himself.
Destiny 2is available now on Epic Games Store, PS4, PS5, Steam, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.
