An obscure new game-breaking Destiny bug lets you one-hit bosses, and I don't think Bungie's gonna let this one slide

Images from Destiny 2's Renegades expansion — (Image credit: Bungie)

Destiny 2's live service ambitions have come to an end with its final update last week. And with it, Bungie added everything and the kitchen sink, from new catalysts for every Exotic weapon to broken perk combinations. With no new endgame to grind or necessarily protect the sanctity of balance, Bungie's set us free with some of the most broken—and fun—tools we've ever had.

Despite that, I don't think Bungie ever expected returning to the infamous 'Craftening' levels of bonkers builds. For those who weren't around then, this was a bug with the crafting system where you could pinch the perks of one gun onto another, including Exotics.

More specifically, players have found a new bug where you can have multiple of the same seasonal artifact mods active at the same time. It's really easy to do but, as always, so obscure that I'm baffled it was ever discovered:

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Queue for a competitive or Trials of Osiris match, which disables your artifact.
Once it disables your artifact, inspect it and equip whatever mods you like.
Leave the queue, and it'll stay broken.

You'll notice you can now equip max-level perks in any slot, including multiple of the same one. This has led to some game-breaking combinations that let you absolutely rinse bosses in a matter of seconds.

Stacking 7 artifacts mods is completely broken. The start of the chaos reach clip shows the damage of a normal chaos reach compared to having stacked 7 thunderous retort. The pack tactics speaks for itself pic.twitter.com/4Rglp7491FJune 16, 2026

For example, Kindling Flame can stack, giving you an ignition on any hits against unscorched enemies. You can use seven Pack Tactics mods and Warlock's Mataiodoxia Exotic to have a ravenous Threadling army. Or how about seven Thunderous Retort mods and max Super stat to turn Titan's Thundercrash into a nuclear bomb.

There is a bug that lets you equip multiple of the same artifact perk from r/destiny2

Despite living in the 'do what you want' era of Destiny, I've no doubt this bug will still be squashed very quickly simply due to how broken it is. Still, it feels so right that a bug like this would crop up at the end of the game's lifecycle. Poetic, really. Some things never change.

If you've got some raids or dungeons you're yet to clear, now would be a good time to blitz through them. In fact, you can even solo some encounters using some of the builds mentioned above.

Rory has made the fatal error of playing way too many live service games at once, and somehow still finding time for everything in between. Sure, he’s an expert at Destiny 2, Call of Duty, and more, but at what cost? He’s even sunk 1,000 hours into The Elder Scrolls Online over the years. At least he put all those hours spent grinding challenges to good use over the years as a freelancer and guides editor. In his spare time, he’s also an avid video creator, often breaking down the environmental design of his favourite games. If you can’t track him down, he’s probably lost in a cave with a bunch of dwarves shouting “rock and stone” to no end.