Highlights
- Mutators in Remnant 2 can provide new effects and buffs to your weapons, giving you an advantage in combat.
- Equipping mutators like Bandit, Deadly Calm, and Twisting Wounds can significantly improve your damage and utility in combat.
- Mutators like Battery, Transference, Slayer, Overdrive, Dervish, Vengeful Strike, and Timewave offer unique enhancements and strategic advantages for different play styles.
Upgrading your arsenal is a key part of success in Remnant 2. Here, weapons are not just about dealing with damage but also about survivability and adaptability. That's where mutators come in - these items can be slotted into your weapons to provide new effects or buffs, giving you a significant advantage in combat.
While mods provide activated abilities, mutators passively enhance your weapons through permanent buffs. With two categories for melee and ranged, mutators are some of the most valuable yet elusive upgrades you can find. Equipping the right ones can significantly improve your damage and utility in combat. If you're having a hard time deciding which one to commit to, give these mutators a try.
10 Bandit
By granting a chance to refund ammo on hits, Bandit helps offset the low magazine capacities of many high-damage weapons. At level ten, this mutator really shines - with a 30 percent refund chance, you'll rarely have to stop firing to reload. And the added ten percent fire rate bonus after refunds allows you to pour on even more damage.
Equipping Bandit with a hard-hitting revolver or rifle can transform it into a relentless instrument of destruction. You'll be firing and refunding ammo so quickly that it will feel like you have an endless supply. With the power of Bandit, you can decimate hordes of enemies without ever needing to pause for reloads.
9 Deadly Calm
The default effect of Deadly Calm is a continuous increase in ranged damage by up to ten percent over three seconds, making them ideal for someone who likes to take their time aiming and taking careful shots. However, that's not all - upgrading Deadly Calm will also increase your ranged critical hit chance by ten percent, giving you even more chance to land those crucial headshots.
With the amount of aiming you'll do while targeting foes, these mutators will surely give you a significant advantage on the battlefield. Deadly Calm takes already formidable weapons and makes them absolutely devastating.
8 Twisting Wounds
Twisting Wounds is an essential mutator for any Handler looking to maximize damage output. By causing enemies to bleed, this mutator takes advantage of the Handler's companion creatures and their tendency to apply bleed with every attack. The one limitation is that ranged weapons don't naturally cause bleeding.
It provides a substantial ten percent damage boost against enemies suffering from the Bleeding status effect. This encourages strategic gameplay - by applying the Bleed status to targets using skills or mods, you can follow up with boosted gun damage.
7 Battery
The Battery is an excellent mutator for ranged weapon users who prioritize precision and weak spot hits. This piece of gear boosts weak spot damage by ten percent per stack, up to a maximum of five stacks, resulting in a 50 percent weak spot damage increase. Landing that critical hit also applies a damage-over-time effect, dealing an extra 15 percent damage over three seconds at max stacks.
By equipping The Battery, anyone specializing in handguns and long guns can take down even the toughest enemies faster. Whether found as a random drop or purchased from the Ward 13 merchant, this mutator is a top choice for those who excel at landing those perfect headshots from a distance.
6 Transference
Transference is a valuable mutator that can help you in tight situations when you run low on ammo. When activated, melee hits generate five percent ammo reserves for both firearms, which can be a lifesaver in tight situations. This can be especially useful when enemies surround you and need to reload your weapon quickly.
The mutator has a cooldown of ten seconds, so you'll need to plan your attacks carefully to make the most of it. With some strategic close-combat strikes, Transference allows you to turn the tide of an intense firefight and take down the hordes swarming your position.
5 Slayer
Slayer allows you to become invisible for five seconds after getting a kill. At first glance, this may seem situational and only useful in certain circumstances. However, it can be extremely powerful with the right build and play style. By stacking cooldown reduction and maximizing your kill rate, you can have near-constant uptime on the invisibility.
Furthermore, by upgrading this cloaking mutator to the maximum level, you can increase damage by 20 percent and get an additional bonus of a 15 percent increase in reload speed. Even high-level enemies will melt before you when built around maintaining permanent cloaking. With creativity and skill, what seems like a minor mutator can take you to unseen levels of lethality.
4 Overdrive
Overdrive is a melee mutator that increases melee critical hit chance and damage by five percent for 7.5 seconds, stacking up to five times. The upgraded effect increases melee critical damage by an additional 20 percent. This mutator is best used on melee weapons with high critical hit chance and damage, as it can significantly increase the damage output of these weapons.
Overdrive can be found in the Yaesha region, specifically in The Lament. It is dropped by the boss enemy Wither, who must be defeated to obtain this mod. To reach Wither, you first need to solve the tricky Consort's Puzzle, which involves interacting with statues in the correct order.
3 Dervish
The Dervish mutator is a must-have for melee builds in the game. This mutator, purchasable from Ace in Ward 13, temporarily boosts melee damage by up to 40 percent at the maximum level. Activating Dervish allows you to deal devastating blows in close-quarters combat.
With the cooldown reduction at level III, you can have Dervish active almost continuously with its five-second cooldown. If you want to crush foes up close, Dervish is your arsenal's ideal mutator.
2 Vengeful Strike
Vengeful Strike rewards high-risk, high-damage play styles that rely on staying at low health to deal extra damage. This mutator boosts melee damage by 20 percent when you're below 50 percent max HP. When upgraded, it increases melee crit chance by 15 percent under 50 percent HP.
By defeating the Bastion boss in the Shifting Portal area, it can be found in the Labyrinth. You can also check the Labyrinth Staff in the same area.
1 Timewave
Timewave is a powerful mutator that allows you to manipulate time on the battlefield for tactical advantage. When activated, it creates a seven-meter slowing field around you for 3.5 seconds. Enemies caught in the field move and attack at drastically reduced speeds, giving you precious moments to analyze enemy attack patterns and movements.
By upgrading Timewave to its maximum level, you can increase the duration of the slow effect to seven seconds and increase the damage of weapons with this mutator on slowed enemies by 15 percent. Timewave brings a unique strategic element of time manipulation to Remnant 2's frenetic gun-and-run combat.