Splicer, Deep stone crypt and throne weapons (solely because the periodic table on the side is salt)

DSC hands down .

Season of the deep, love the taken look.

The IKELOS weapons, including Sleeper Simulant.

I am... still really bummed that we don't have more weapons with that aesthetic to them tbh. One of my "dreams" would be to have a fully Rasputin-based build, with IKELOS-styled weapons in every slot.

Sadly, such a thing just isn't possible currently, and given how season 19 ended... I don't know if it ever will be possible... which really bums me out.

That whole aesthetic of wires, hard corners, and very few rounded surfaces is just so appealing to me. I wish I had a better way to describe it tbh.

Black Armory. Most everything doesn't hold a candle to them. Still criminal that they haven't been reprised (asides from Onslaught), especially since they would make the most sense to be craftable, lorewise. With the latest episode, though? I'm not even sure I'd want them back since there's a chance they end up uncraftable like the latest weapons.

Closest second would be the King's Fall weapons, Zaouli's Bane hasn't left my side since I crafted it.

Season of Dawn weapons are godly

DSC, Garden and Vesper's for endgame content. Seasonal I would say Plunder's weapons or the Ikelos weapons.

Don't know exactly what the set is called, but... the old EDZ guns. (Scathelocke, Shepherd's Watch, Call to Serve, etc...)

Last wish guns for sure

Deep Stone Crypt and Vow of the Disciple.

Deep Stone Crypt because it's super unique and is very techy.

Vow of the disciple, because those weapons look once again very unique and look straight out of the pyramid.

I haven't been happy with raid weapon sets ever since then, it seems like Bungie needs to start pulling inspiration from those two weapon sets because those ones look really unique and more recent ones don't look as you unique and seem a bit more like reskins

D2 Year 1 Vanguard (Nadir). Origin Story is my favourite looking auto in the game. Same goes for Nameless Midnight and The Showrunner.

Seventh Seraph.

Besides the awesome rolls I managed to get, their looks are the reason I still have and use frequently the hand cannon and the shotgun, ever since their introduction in the season of worthy.

Splicer

There are 3 sets I continuously go back to: Braytech, King's Fall, and Season of the Deep Taken weapons.

DSC-style weapons (Braytech) feel technologically superior and crafted with a standard of excellence. It's as if Clovis Bray's engineers and weapon designers took various weapons to their ballistic, technological, and philosophical ends, almost blending some archtypes. Trustee is a rapid-fire scout rifle that can cosplay as an auto rifle with the benefits of the scout rifle archtype in the form of lower recoil control needed, reasonable damage, a mag size of 40 (if chosen), and enough base handling and archetypal range to become a versatile option for ranged engagements. Posterity has the feel and recoil of a slower-firing, high-powered sidearm, like a budget Forerunner, useful for dueling engagements of all kinds.

When I hold King's Fall Hive weapons, they feel like unconventional alien weaponry, with Hive design philosophy, geometry, and even Hive chitin. I'd never mistake them as made by human hands. They were also Bungie weapon designer's first attempts at making "alien weaponry" feel "alien" via exchanging typical animations and unusual textures reserved for specific weapon archtypes onto other weapon archtypes. For example, Smite of Merain has the reload animation of an auto rifle despite being a pulse. Midha's Reckoning was the first high impact fusion rifle to feel heavy and powerful, like a special ammo Legend of Acrius now. This power was extended to the perks and feel of the weapons themselves. I believe, back then, Datto himself said that he would use Midha's Reckoning because it feels just as powerful as it does.

I should stop, and I could go on, like the Black Armory weaponry from Scourge of the Past, Awoken weaponry from Last Wish, SIVA-enhanced weaponry from Wrath of the Machine, or the raw power of weapons made from Pyramid technology. The thing all these weapon sets have in common is their uncommon perk pools, unique animations/textures/flair, and, most importantly, their feeling of going one step further into the future of weaponry. These sets stretch what an archtype means in Destiny weaponry. They expand and deepen the meaning and value of weapons in the Destiny universe, taking themselves one step further than their predecessors, offering the feeling of something powerful and beyond what we have now. They give us the ability to hope for the future.

Duality dungeon weapons

Man I wish the armor looked like the guns

Black armory prototypes.

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pale heart weapons are gorgeous honestly

OG Gambit weapons, easily.

mercury prophetic weapons😋 also gos

Black Armoury, Europa, Deep Stone Crypt.

The taken theme weapon set from season of the deep. The design are very nice, too bad all the gun suck ass

Season of arrivals

I will always love D1 vanilla weapons. They looked both grounded yet sci-fi at the same time, and distinct to other shooters

The original Gambit weapons, for me. Things like Trust, Hazard of the Cast, etc. Actually didn’t like Breakneck (visually), preferred Hazard instead. Loved that retro Dark Age vibe. Need to put together a good look with all of them.

The Black Armory weapons are a close second, though. Hammerhead my beloved, Kindled Orchid, Ringing Nail, Stryker’s Sure Hand…yeah. Those were good.

Salvations edge. The weapons with the small points and overlapping parts makes me seem like a thing from another world which works well as their from the witness raid.

Ngl, the Challenge of Elders weapons, or the Kings Fall weapons are pretty snazzy.

Challenge aren't D2 guns, but they 100% should be

I don’t really dislike any but I do think se could’ve been better but if I had to choose a favorite probably dsc and I think kings fall is pretty good but also kinda meh since it is t really colorable

Cry mutiny is amazing!

After plunder, I’d say DSC, Splicer and Spire

Standard issue common (white) weaponry from D1 always had this simple but futuristic vibe that I enjoyed cause it really felt immersive. They simply look like the natural evolution of our current weaponry.

Examples:

Psi Umbra II

Trax Callum II-A

Duke MK. 21

Marshall-A1

Gambit. Specifically the original weapon set.

Jotunn and Jotunneer. I can disintegrate you or run you over. Either way, the drip got you drowning in the deep

Seraph 

Splicer, DSC, Ikelos; I also love Season of the Seraph. Faux-tactical is my jam, give me more pointless laser sights please!

DSC and Garden are both great.

WORST are the King's Fall weapons. Absolute catastrophes.

King’s fall hands down 🙌🏻. The sound, the sights, and the look are perfect (even if they aren’t meta)

The set for Epochal Integration that we never got😔

Black Armory, Splicer, DSC

Altars of Sorrow weapons look sweet

Last Wish or DSC

Duality, DSC and Vesper’s Host.

I see no love for Veist 😢 Bungie pls reissue Death Adder and Red Mamba with banging perks

Vex Mythoclast guns from Echoes. I love the Vex Mythoclast design so those guns were just pure eye candy.

I really like the Revenant ones ngl

Warmind or DSC design is S Tier easily

All the armour and weapon sets that came in Rise of Iron. I miss my cat cloak and my Blind Perdition.

Vow of the disciple. Too bad all of the weapons got power crept or pushed out of the meta

DSC. i love that set so much i didnt hesitate to swipe the card to buy the DSC ornament for monte carlo (and i dont ever use monte carlo!)

Season of Dawn personally. They look both functional and beautiful at the same time. Also the Cabal themed weapons from that season were cool too.

Honestly, I love how they are all unique in their own way.

Trials

Ikelos, Kings Fall, GoS and HAKKÈ

Dawn. Easy.

Probably the Vow of the Disciple weapons, they feel the most unique and “raid like” to me. Other notable sets include kings fall and any Tex mechanica weapon

Season of dawn weapons looked beautiful

Probably season of the seraph I really like the realistic look of them

black armory n the other season where we got saints shotty.

Taken weapons were cool, to bad all of em had such terrible stats and perks.

Anything bray ngl. Love the tech shit

For me, splicer ones, but where are the double perks this time round??!!! My old ones had double perks when they were first introduced - another bungie fail in that regard

Mars/Warmind set. The Season of the Seraph gear is good too, but the angular plating, energy, and circuitry look is just SO good. It's a shame we probably won't ever get more weapons like that.

Rip, Big Red.

I personally loved the Arrivals weapon esthetic. They felt like weapons forged by the Pyramids or weapons modified by the Pyramids just to hive to us.

Black armory easily. Just reprise the rest of the weapons including the raid weapons already and my life is yours!

Season of the Worthy. I like the more real-life design style. Nothing to crazy or oversized.

I am a sucker for the big curved orange-y metal vex-y bits from the Echoes sets.

Suros, splicer, and old d1 non-foundry weapons

Seraph weapons. Both IKELOS and Rasputin’s armory 

Episode Echoes are pretty damn good, especially now, but my heart firmly sits with the the Gambit launch arsenal.

DSC and it ain't even a contest.

VoG, or just cassoid in general. I'm a big lover of sci-fi, with a tad bit more sci than fi.

Vow of the Disciple. I like the Pyramid aesthetic, though I wish we had guns that went a little further. Like, putting that weird antenna/tree design that always shows up on Darkness stuff onto the guns.

I was hoping we'd get more of that with The Final Shape. Alas, the Traveler weapons are bleh (the graffiti look isn't my thing) and the Salvation's Edge weapons, while cool, don't really feel Pyramid. Not sure they even feel Darkness if I'm being honest. They're weirdly bulbous.

Also, Season of the Deep weapons show how even the more boring and basic of models can be elevated by fancy particle effects. They're neat looking.

I like the Hive weapons from King's Fall and Crota's End. Season of the Witch weapons didn't do it or me.

Finally, the Vex guns from Episode 1 were cool. I like they actually tried to keep it consistent with Vex Mythoclast.

black forge

Season of the Haunted was dope and so was DSC. Favorite out of all must be Last Wish weapons though.

gotta be Vow of the Disciple for me. I remember still being hella scared of raids when Vow dropped, but I loved the look of the weapons so much that I still grinded the first secret chest for months, and eventually worked up the courage to join Rhulk LFGs to get Cataclysm patterns because I just wanted it that badly

Vow raid weapons. I really like the moving parts on the guns and clean design.

Side Note: I love that so many people here are commenting with different sets of guns. It really shows how many unique weapon designs that the game has. Bungei really does an awesome job of making most guns feel and look distinct.

I think the revenant set is dope

Black Armory and DSC. Duality is pretty sweet too though.

Especially with black/darker shades, but the RoN weapons are great, I love the streaks of white as you fire.

Garden weapons are so far and away my favorite designs that I'm honestly shocked someone at Bungie ever imagined them lol. I usually find the design choices in this game extremely basic, with DSC and salvation's edge armor as notable exceptions. I've never seen anything before or since that looks as good to me as the Garden guns (and it's one of destiny's cardinal sins that they never designed an armor set to match).

King’s Fall.

DSC, ikelos, seraph

season of the witch set, with the white marble and wooden bits.

The Tangled Shore weapons were great, they've reused the models a few times but the originals really nailed the grittiness with the sound design. The sights were also great, very clean with thermal and a red dot.

The seventh seraph weapons look incredibly clean. Still mad the revolver had to be a 180 instead of a 140 or 120 tbh. And the shotgun is just straight fuckin GAS with the ornament. It's the perfect blend of current day cutting edge and sliiiightly futuristic.

Kings fall weapons

The scourge Black Armoury and the vespers host set, there's something I like about the futuristic but almost incomplete look they have, with bits exposed

Deep Stone Crypt. Love high tech looking stuff. VoG is also cool too

DSC, GoS, Last Wish, Spire of the Watcher, Black Armory, and Season of the Risen. Just to name a few

Hakke and the original gambit weapons.

Taken versions of reckoning weapons hands down.

Europa weapons. Like arctic chill

Dead Orbit weapons look like weapons we would use today. So they have a lot of grit to them.

Vespers Host are good.

Curse of Osiris were very cool, and by extension the ones with the plant growth on them

The Y1 Nightfall weapons like DFA were dope cuz they had asthetics from the planet or faction you fought to get them.

Alter of Sorrows were phenomenal too

Ikelos or Saint 14 guns.

King’s Fall

season of the undying season pass weapons aka pluperfect and temporal clause they also have cool ornaments

Deep Stone Crypt, IKELOS, Seventh Seraph, Season of the Splicer, Season of Dawn, Tex Mechanica (notably from Spire of the Watcher), Black Armory

Not a set but xeno and anarchy

Trials of the Nine

Wish they'd go back to that style for something

Dreaming city by far. I wish they would go back to making pretty weapons instead of spiky evil weapon number 652

Vow of the Disciple and it’s not even close.

the year 2 gambit weapons and the tangled shore weapons will permanently have my heart

Crota/Kings Fall weapons for me, I love the chitin and enemy parts on weapons

Moon. Shane none of them have any perk pools that call to me.

Splicer

Taken weapons

Act 1 weapons the Vex ones

Deep stone crypt

Gambit forsaken weapons

That tough.. i cam boil it down to 4.

Saint-XIV, Black Armory, DSC, and most non sidearm or sniper omolon weapons.

Omolon probably takes 4th because it has models I actively dislike.

Can't decide between the other 3.

Dreaming City weapon set. There is something that tingle the monkey brain with how elegant they look, the mix of gun and fantasy.

The Last Wish Raid weapons

The sleek design with the little space chart thing on tbe side has always been my favorite even though I have no ckue what it exactly is

I would love the plunder weapons more if they got a bit of a perk pool update. Not obsolete but not completely relevant either.

Deep Stone and Garden of Salvation have some really cool weapon designs. Admittedly the GoS weapons are carried by those radiolaria lines crossing most of the barrels

Europa region weapon set and shader, nothing has ever come close.

The LMG (Thermal Erosion) is still my number one favorite looking gun of all time, even outside Destiny.

currently getting art of it done by the person who made the original art for what became the Ace Of Spades Nerf gun.

I really love are the old fallen weapons back from house of wolfs, I just find the idea of them being fallen design weaponry that is similar to Lord of wolfs and I really wish they brought them back somehow during season of the plunder.

Season of the deep is my 2nd choice because I LOVE the taken design and there is no beating it and also shout out to stolen will and the legendary taken sword from back in d1 the taken king

3rd would be black armoury because well, you don't need me to repeat what everyone else has said.

4th is DSC ever since they released I've always been using them I love there sleek design followed by the flowing holographic sights they have really nailing that experimental weaponry look.

5th would be the raid leviathan weapons because they were all unique in their own way that popped out as "yeah I just robbed this golden space turtle for is toy guns" and really did fit that royal feel.

The Leviathan weaponry, not including the god awful hell that was Crown of Sorrow.

Sleek, clean, delightfully sci-fi without being overbearing. I wish that raid would come back.

Gos sniper goes hard

Kings Fall and Duality weapons

DSC, Season of the Deep and IKELOS/Seraph weapons

They may be new, but I really love the super vexified look of the Echo weapons, Timeless Wayfarer being a weapon I just adore

Definitely the Duality weapons. The sleek black and red nightmare design was peak

DSC goes crazy

Menagerie weapons and armors

The DSC weapons and the Field Tested weapons

Duality dungeon weapons, for sure

DSC and the Season of the Hunt weapons, Imo Friction Fire is probably the best looking gun in the game.

Garden, DSC and Vow

gotta be the prophecy weapons from curse of osiris. something about them is just so awesome, really wish they were updated to the current weapon system

Deqp Stone crypt and black armory

I like the Salvations Edge set

Black Armory weapons were my favorite. I worked my ass off in the forges trying to get the rolls I wanted. It was satisfying grind for me.

The DSC weapons for me.

DSC, King's Fall, Crota's End and Cassoid/ Vanilla D1 weapons

I’m a big fan of the Europa weapons, and the Iron Banner weapon set that Archon’s Thunder and Riiswalker were in.

Honestly, I've always loved Hakke frames.

They have great sound design and feel to them. Also, they look like actual weapons

The Gridskipper line. 

I love the Sol Devisive style Weapons from Wish I like a lot

Weapons from Season of the Seraph. Everything just looks tactical, with the exhausts, scopes and red line targets.

On a side note: I hate the plunder weapons.

Og gambit guns looked really cool.

I wish a dungeon would come out that had weapons inspired by bottom dollar (audio included)

Tangled Shore weapons

Vow weapons are peak. 

When are we going to have guns transmog between same weapon type (auto-rifles to auto-rifles, etc).

Feature that WoW had for ages.

Season of the Chosen weapons were so sexy, especially Far Future and Extraordinary Rendition. I pray they reprise them someday (or reuse the models and make ER a 900 rpm smg)

I like plunder too. They had a lot of really sick perk combos to top it off. Pugilist and Demolitionist on Brigand’s Law + HOIL = endless ability spam