The Revenant Episode has finally arrived in Destiny 2, and with it comes a brand new seasonal artifact and tonics that will enhance your abilities in battle. Tonics serve as this season's upgrade branch so you can unlock new gear, upgrade your artifact, and brew some boosts that will help in higher-tier activities like Grandmaster Nightfalls and Raids.
Destiny 2 will tell you exactly how to brew these tonics, and you can choose which ones you'd like to use depending on your playstyle and build. At this point, you'll also unlock fieldwork with Eido to create even more powerful tonics. The only problem is that you need to unlock a certain number of tonic recipes in order to get more fieldwork quests, and the game doesn't tell you exactly how to do this.
How to Unlock Tonic Recipes in Destiny 2
Thankfully, unlocking tonic recipes in Destiny 2 is a fairly simple process. Once you've completed a bit of the Prologue and have access to the tonic lab, you can unlock new recipes by combining different tonics or creating the same tonic multiple times. As you experiment with different combinations, you'll unlock new recipes, thus unlocking more fieldwork quests to complete for Eido.
In other words, if you craft a few Tonics of Protecting Frost, you'll get a new recipe. There are a total of 45 recipes to unlock, so this will take some time, but the more fieldwork you do, the easier this process will become.
How to Craft Tonics
You can craft tonics by using the tonic table, which is right next to Eido in the Last City. You'll unlock this landing zone once you complete the first quest of the new season. To craft a tonic, you need to follow these steps:
- Interact with the Tonic Table.
- Select the tonics you want to craft.
- Walk to the nearby shelf with materials and grab some.
- Interact with the tonic tester behind Eido. You'll need to do this twice.
- Activate the broken down tank to spawn your tonics.
Each tonic needs a certain amount of resources that you can get from Revenant activities in order to craft them. You can check exactly what materials you need by hovering over the tonic you want to craft. If you want to know where to get specific resources, you can also do this by looking at the Tonic Capsule and inspecting the reagents bar at the very bottom.
There isn't a set drop rate for reagents from enemies, but the easiest way to farm reagents is to run the new seasonal activity a few times. This will guarantee the ability to at least craft a few of the starter tonics. As the season continues and more activities unlock, you'll be able to farm rarer reagents for stronger tonics.
There are two kinds of tonics: Volatile and Enriching. Volatile Tonics are combat focused and will enhance your Destiny 2 artifact perks, while Enriching Tonics will change the way loot drops and modify activity rewards overall to your specifications. You can only have one of each active at a time, and you can drink them through the Tonic Capsule.
Destiny 2
- Released
- August 28, 2017
WHERE TO PLAY
- ESRB
- T For TEEN for Blood, Language, and Violence
- Developer(s)
- Bungie
- Publisher(s)
- Bungie
- Engine
- Tiger Engine
- Multiplayer
- Online Multiplayer, Online Co-Op
- Cross-Platform Play
- PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One & Xbox Series X|S
- Cross Save
- yes
- Expansions
- Destiny 2: Forsaken, Destiny 2: Shadowkeep, Destiny 2: Beyond Light, Destiny 2: The Witch Queen, Destiny 2: Lightfall
- Franchise
- Destiny
- Number of Players
- 1-6 (Co-Op)
- Steam Deck Compatibility
- no
- Genre(s)
- FPS
- How Long To Beat
- 100+
- Platform(s)
- PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S, Xbox One, PC, Stadia
- X|S Optimized
- YES
- PS Plus Availability
- Essential, Extra, & Premium (The Witch Queen)
- OpenCritic Rating
- Mighty
