Destiny 2: How to unlock the Prismatic subclass plus aspects, fragments, and abilities (2024)

One of the biggest new features in Destiny 2's The Final Shape expansion is the Prismatic subclass. This new class allows you to blend the powers of the light and darkness to create insanely strong builds that outshine almost anything the other subclasses can currently do.

On top of blending the abilities from a variety of other subclasses, the Prismatic subclass has its own unique ability: Transcendence. Filling up both the light and darkness bars underneath your super allows you to use Transcendence, unlocking a new grenade, plus increased damage and ability regen while it's active.

However, to fully deck out your Prismatic class and make the most of it, you will need to unlock all of the grenades, melee attacks, and supers, as well as aspects and fragments. Here's how you can do that, with a deep dive into which missions and quests to complete to unlock everything.

How to unlock the Prismatic subclass

You'll unlock the Prismatic Subclass during the first campaign mission of The Final Shape. When visiting the war table room in the old Tower in The Pale Heart, you can interact with the Prismatic Conflux to obtain the subclass.

This will unlock the subclass permanently, unlike in Lightfall where you were slowly drip-fed Strand over the course of the campaign. However, just because you have the subclass, doesn’t mean you have everything available. There is still a lot left for you to unlock.

How to unlock Prismatic supers

Your Prismatic subclass has access to five different supers from across the light and dark subclasses in the game, including a brand new one introduced in The Final Shape. Each class has access to:

To unlock all your these Prismatic subclass supers, you need to:

• Open the Prismatic chests as rewards during the The Final Shape’s campaign missions.
• Complete the quests ‘Lost in the Light’ and ‘Found in the Dark’ quests from your Ghost in The Pale Heart. Both are obtained during the exotic quest ‘Destined Heroes’ after finishing The Final Shape’s main campaign.

Simply playing through the campaign will mean you pick up a few extra supers to swap to, including the brand new super, which you'll get around halfway through. Be sure to complete the Destined Heroes exotic quest as soon as you can to get the extra supers tied to the connected questlines. These five stage quests have you fighting alongside Mithrax and Caiatl and will let you unlock the Ergo Sum exotic sword also.

Stages 1, 3, and 5 of each quest will unlock one or two items for your Prismatic subclass when you open “Manifestations of the Light” Prismatic chests.

How to unlock all Prismatic grenades and melees

As with the supers, to unlock all of your Prismatic subclass grenades and melee attacks, you need to complete the main story missions in The Final Shape and finish both the ‘Lost in the Light’ and ‘Found in the Dark’ quests.

It's worth noting that your Prismatic class grenade is different and only accessible when you enter that state. At all other times, you can choose from one of the following :

While in Prismatic state, your melee stays the same, though you do get increased melee regen. Here are the options you can unlock for each class:

How to unlock Prismatic fragments and aspects

All of the Prismatic aspects for your subclass can be unlocked from Prismatic chests during The Final Shape’s campaign or during the ‘Lost in the Light’ and ‘Found in the Dark’ quests.

However, fragments are where things get a bit more complicated. You can find Prismatic fragments throughout The Pale Heart in special Prismatic chests. Most of these require a key that you can usually earn in the immediate area by solving a puzzle or completing an encounter. Take the Prismatic chest in The Refraction area, for instance; you need to solve a symbol-based puzzle and then defeat waves of enemies to get the key to unlock it.

Luckily, a fair few of these chests are on the beaten path so you should spot them while re-exploring each area post-campaign completion. If you want a step-by-step walkthrough of how to unlock every fragment, this video from Mactics is a really handy source of info.

The full list of Prismatic Fragments are as follows:

That covers everything you need to know about Prismatic, how to unlock the various parts of the subclass and what is on offer for Titans, Hunters, and Warlocks.

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