How to unlock all Tonics in Destiny 2

Tonics are the special episodic mechanic for Destiny 2’s episode Revenant, the second in Bungie’s post-Final Shape epilogue releases. These Tonics help you target certain gear pieces to farm (granting you bonus loot of your chosen type) and can also enhance your artifact perks for the season, making your build even more powerful. Unfortunately, it takes a lot of work and resources to unlock all of the Revenant Tonics.

In this Destiny 2 guide, we’ll walk you through how to unlock Tonics and give you a full list of all Tonics you can craft.

How to unlock Tonics in Destiny 2

Tonics branch off of each other, starting with uncommon, moving to rare, and then to Legendary. There are two Exotic Tonics you can craft, but you unlock the ability to do so by collecting the Intrinsic upgrades for the Slayer’s Fang shotgun in the “Kell’s Fall” Exotic mission.

To unlock all of the “Undiscovered Formula” Tonics, you simply need to buy Tonics of a lower tier. Crafting five uncommon Tonics will unlock a rare Tonic in the same branch, and crafting four rare Tonics will unlock a legendary in the branch. The only catch here is that, for Tonics that have multiple branches you can unlock, you’ll gain access to a random Tonic every four or five that you purchase.

For example, if you wanted to get bonus drops of the Gridskipper pulse rifle from Season of the Splicer, you might want to unlock the Tonic of Gridskipper in the Tomb Gear Tonic track. To do that, you’d want to buy five uncommon Tonic of Tomb Gear potions. Doing this will randomly unlock either the Tonic of Tomb Weaponry or Tonic of Vintage Tomb Weaponry.

For the sake of the example, let’s say you unlocked the Tonic of Tomb Weaponry, which isn’t the Tonic that Tonic of Gridskipper branches off. You need Tonic of Vintage Tomb Weaponry. To get what you actually want, you’d need to craft five more Tonic of Tomb Gear potions to unlock the Tonic of Vintage Tomb Weaponry, and then craft four of those to unlock one of the three legendary Tonics that branch off it — one of which is Gridskipper.

If you’re looking for a specific Tonic, it’s a bit of a luck of the draw system, where you’ll be gambling various resources (which you can learn about where to find via the Tonic Capsule in-game) until you get the Tonics you want. But if you’re just looking to unlock all the Tonics to complete Eido’s Fieldworks, just craft each uncommon Tonic until you’ve unlocked all the rares in that category, then craft each rare until you’ve unlocked all the legendary Tonics that stem off of them.

Just a fair warning here that the rare resources will be your bottle neck in this process, as you need one for every rare Tonic you need to craft. Be prepared to play a lot of the Revenant activities if you want to unlock all of the Tonics.

All Tonics list in Destiny 2

There are two major categories for Tonics in Destiny 2: Volatile and Enriching. Volatile Tonics power up your artifact perks, while Enriching Tonics give you bonus chances for specific loot drops.

We’ve broken down the complete Tonics list and branches below.

There is only one category of Volatile Tonics, with each Tonic branch focused on two perks.

Drinking an Enriching Tonic will guarantee you a specific piece of gear or a piece of gear from a selected loot pool.

There are six categories of Enriching Tonics: Onslaught Tonics, Tomb of Elders Tonics, Kell’s Fall Tonics, World Gear Tonics, Shadestalker Tonics, and Resource Tonics.

Onslaught Tonics let you specify which piece of loot you want from Onslaught, even when doing other activities.

Tomb of Elders Tonics let you specify which piece of loot you want from Tomb of Elders, even when doing other activities.

“Kell’s Fall” Tonics let you specify which piece of loot you want from “Kell’s Fall,” even when doing other activities.

World Gear Tonics let you specify a piece of loot you want from the world pool.

Shadestalker Tonics let you farm for specific pieces of armor in the Shadestalker set.

Resource Tonics help you refill important resources like Enhancement Cores or Glimmer.