Butterbark is the best on hive weapons, like the ones from the Moon or KF. Makes it look like your Guardian couldn't afford the fancy guns with chitin on them so you made your own with wood.
That’s one of those that really depends on the armor for me. For some it’s a nice balance of red and gold, for others they get the balance wrong and the red is too much. I’ve started using pomegranate gloss instead
I’ll start. Veist Poison, despite being a rare, is one of the best olive green shaders and I use it on all my Titan gear. My Honorable Mention is Breezy Clear. Even though it’s a terrible combination of colors, the Hawaiian pattern in the orange looks good on fabric like Titan marks and Hunter cloaks.
Amethyst Veil is what I use for all my weapons, ships, and speeders. It just looks so good! And it's decently neutral so I don't have to change all my guns every time I change up my vibes :P
Lately, I’ve been on a big Celestia kick. I also like Desert of Gold. Also, Bungie, can you bring back Crucible Solemnity and all other limited-time shaders, please?
Night's Chill for my Stasis Warlock. Rustberry for my Hunter so he's got a white pelt to go with his white tiger head. And Rivalry Blacksand for my pronged Titan.
Envious Touch. Very unique texture and color for a metallic armor set, and gives things a sort of Darkness Resonance vibe long before we even knew that was a thing.
I absolutely love Divinity's Caress on weapons. It's pretty simple since it's just silver and black with purple lights but I have yet to find a gun that looks bad with it.
Calus's Selected is so clean (I'm a sucker for white and gold) on the vast majority of armor and weapons, it's my go-to shader. Honorable mentions: New Age Black Armory, Midnight Talons, New Monarchy Regalia, and New Monarchy Diamonds.
Nights Chill when Witch Queen released was my favorite. It was bugged and gave you like a neon pink leopard pattern. Still a good shader but I wish they’d put that pink pattern in as a new one or something.
Azura. Released during SRL in D1, closest thing in D2 is Metro Shift, but it's no replacement for me since I don't like the fabric Titan armour, and the shader shades fabric as blue.
Seven sisters animated emblem with small moving stars
I love the star parts of this one but the colors are meh otherwise. ☹️
I put this shader on everything
The wildwood cloak or the dead orbit clock both become a cloak of stars and i wear it to excess!! matches nicely with metro shift.
Butterbark - it's hilarious having a guardian fully made of wood (dependant on armour) or flying a wooden spaceship. Just absolutely goofy, I love it.
This is the correct answer. It makes me feel like Bender when he gets downgraded.
Butterbark is the best on hive weapons, like the ones from the Moon or KF. Makes it look like your Guardian couldn't afford the fancy guns with chitin on them so you made your own with wood.
I do this for all of my Titan's weaponry and for his Sparrow. He reminds of the Toblekai from Malazan, so I go for the ironwood style for his stuff.
Put it on the minivan ship and thank me later
I have it on the halloween broom. Nimbus 1000
Neopop Wave.
Neo pop wave on titan with the glowing arc solstice ornaments looks AMAZING
Looks clean as hell on the cold denial and falling guillotine ornaments from arrivals
JACARINA
ah yes the "where the hell that blue came from" shader
Warbrick and Bloody Tooth for me
Bloody Tooth looks great on a lot of Veist weapons
Bergusian night
Photo Finish. Followed by Lawful Neutral.
SGA: Photo Finish does the cycling RGB thing with the Painted Kitsune ornament set.
Calus Selected
Why is this so far down?
House of Meyrin
That’s one of those that really depends on the armor for me. For some it’s a nice balance of red and gold, for others they get the balance wrong and the red is too much. I’ve started using pomegranate gloss instead
Yeah thats the stuff. Look really good on most Iron Banana sets. IMHO
Carminica with a mix of New age black armory always works for me
Refurbished black armory ftw
Aposematism, Metro Shift and Melchizedek Bramble are three I frequently use.
Metro shift. Looks great on literally everything
Metro shift is great! There are a few armour pieces where Metro Shift comes out fully black, which is fantastic. And the blue is so rich
I’m all about Metro Shift.
Refurbished Black Armory and it's not even a legendary shader
Dreaming Spectrum
Descendent vex chrome
I love that shader IN THEORY but it always blows it in practise for me. Also frustrating you can't seem to get the 'patina' part on guns.
Midnight Talons, I put that shit on everything....
I still love all the calus shaders and the all white trials one from year one
Got the Ancient Defender for flawless Guarden of Salvation last week, so that's what I'm rocking now, love the colours on it.
Ugh I want that shader but I loathe everything about GoS
My trials of the nine shader, Honors of the Nine
Bloody tooth, great palette and goes well with almost anything.
I’ll start. Veist Poison, despite being a rare, is one of the best olive green shaders and I use it on all my Titan gear. My Honorable Mention is Breezy Clear. Even though it’s a terrible combination of colors, the Hawaiian pattern in the orange looks good on fabric like Titan marks and Hunter cloaks.
Amethyst veil for armor and one of the dead orbit ones who’s name escapes me for weapons.
Until there's a pink and black shader, it's Neopop Wave. It looks amazing on so many different things.
Keep your eye out for sunrise warrior.
Honors of the Nine, Echoed Anger, and Argent Teratorn are by far my favorites. I rarely use any other shaders
Everything looks good in Amethyst Veil
Cryptic legacy. Worked my butt off to earn it. So I have to throw it on everything.
This right here is my answer as well. It looks amazing on my go to look, punk dino.
New age black armory
Oiled Gunmetal and Jacarina are my sleeper picks, but Amethyst Veil almost always looks good.
Amethyst Veil is what I use for all my weapons, ships, and speeders. It just looks so good! And it's decently neutral so I don't have to change all my guns every time I change up my vibes :P
Gambit Jadestone and Atmospheric Glow are tied for me. Where one might not work on one piece, the other fills in perfectly.
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Love jade stone. Came for the flash bang glows, stayed for the drip.
Rip
Gambit Chrome, it is a slept on banger!
Austringer + the Ornament that makes it look like Eyasluna + Gambit Chrome. Best looking gun in the game? I think so.
Vintage Timber always looks great - classy and tasteful - on weapons in my opinion. Oiled Algae has a similar restrained aesthetic for armor I find.
Precursor vex chrome
Amethyst Veil: (usually) all black with a cool matte texture and glowing purple lights
Photo finish, clouds at sea, or calus treasured
100% Jacarina
Always really like First Frost on my Weapons
Cryptic Insignia
Night's Chill from Season of Undying. Makes me look cold.
I wish there was a way to favorite shaders.
Cinderchar, the rugged white always looked awesome
Second this. The "worn" shaders have always been my favorite but cinderchar looks the best.
Where's the Cinderchar love?
Calus Elite and abyssian gold.
Goldleaf, love looking shiny af
Lately, I’ve been on a big Celestia kick. I also like Desert of Gold. Also, Bungie, can you bring back Crucible Solemnity and all other limited-time shaders, please?
Tyrian Abyss, Lunar Gloom, Mind’s Eye, First Frost, Circadian Chill, Polycarbon Powder, and Malibeaux Bronze are my favorites for PVE.
Jacarina, monochromatic, carbon blood, argent terratorn, the white VOG shader
Reef Regalia and Ritualism are two of my favorites
New Age Black Armory. My weapons, my armor, my ship, my sparrow, my ghost. Never taking it off.
Night's Chill for my Stasis Warlock. Rustberry for my Hunter so he's got a white pelt to go with his white tiger head. And Rivalry Blacksand for my pronged Titan.
Shattered Sinew or Whispered Sheen. Those reds with the bone or wood texture are incredible.
Bone Marrow from Destiny 1
I use Bumblebee on all 3 chars. Been my favourite for a while now.
Golden Age Wine
Envious Touch. Very unique texture and color for a metallic armor set, and gives things a sort of Darkness Resonance vibe long before we even knew that was a thing.
The ones you can search for…
on anything with particle affects, amythest veil
I honestly don't like it but I put Butterbark on EVERYTHING at least once, just as a laugh
Whatever I use for my bxr
The orange and carbon fiber from escalation protocol genotype something
This. Genotypenull-Zero.
Royal purple
Batou Tribe (I think) on my Titan. Black undersuit and a mix of metallic blue and white with a shifting blue pattern on the armour plate.
Honors of the Nine -- The most white shader you can get.
Gambit Chrome, because I suck too much to do the Avarice Dungeon flawless.
Gambit Blackguard
Crimson blood looks clean as hell on everything and has the best matte black. Yes I'm a hunter main.
Hanging to get my hands on that one
Rust berry
Divinity’s Caress. Very clean and it means something.
Bergusian Night, New Age Black Armory and S18 Crucible Shader
Grand Luster. I know it's the poor man's Calus's Selected, but I have both and like this one better. Plus it makes glowy bits purple.
Easily Clouds at Sea, followed by Cayde’s Duds. Blue and gold and some dopeass patterning. What more could you want?
Malachite Gold for my Sunbreaker
Welded Brass is my go-to.
In year 1, Noble Constant Red; I liked the look of the armor, so I used the shader a lot.
Horizon Beyond
Jacarina on most weapons, makes many solid dark black or cool blue details. (VotD guns for example, rotating squares are blue the rest all black.)
Watermelon all the way
Vanguard Discipline. Blue is my favorite color and Orange is a well known complimentary color so it works great.
Photo Finish
I always find myself going back to Dawning Warmth. It just looks so good on everything, the gold maroon and white just pop the right way.
I haven't equipped my Always on Time since I tried Photo Finish on the 2022 Solstice sparrow
Gambit Jadestone. Turns anything glowing into a blinding nuclear green sun.
Calus Selected. Love me some purple and white
Don't mean to hyjack this ...
Jacarina for weapons. And either bitterpearl or the flawless vow shader( which I still haven’t got )
Cryptic legacy and the garden one for doing all challenges is starting to grow on me :)
Coppertone Patina. I just love the pink/cyan color pairing. Neopop Wave if I'm feeling spicier.
Chatterwhite of course.
Jacarina, Photo Finish, Tortured Ivy, Aposematism, Carminica
Bloody tooth
I absolutely love Divinity's Caress on weapons. It's pretty simple since it's just silver and black with purple lights but I have yet to find a gun that looks bad with it.
Calus's Selected or the gold and carbon fiber one, idr it's name
Damn no love for Ensilvered Snare? S Tier Shader.
Jungle Viper
jacarina or dreaming spectrum
Bitterpearl for me, white and silver looks great!
New Age Black Armory
Calus's Selected is so clean (I'm a sucker for white and gold) on the vast majority of armor and weapons, it's my go-to shader. Honorable mentions: New Age Black Armory, Midnight Talons, New Monarchy Regalia, and New Monarchy Diamonds.
Dreaming Cast and Abyssian Gold are my go to picks
Oiled Gun Metal on guns. On balance the Last wish Bone one on armour, it always looks great.
Flower Child baby! Especially on my warlock with the pirate gear. I look like a space pimp
War Cult Scheme
Bloody Tooth
Tyrian Abyss, Valkyrie Zero, and Carminica are the ones I use the most
The only one constantly in my mind is Echoes of Io and I used it for oh so long on my Hunter.
Carbon Blood and Carminica
Superblack….if Bungie would let me have it. Same with Candle Light, too.
amethyst veil
Refurbished black armory.
First Frost
Superblack :(
Why is there no love for SUNRISE WARRIOR in here? SUNRISE WARRIOR is the best shader in the game. Glory to the SUNRISE WARRIOR!
That white and blood stained shader from season of the reaper
Dreaming spectrum. Love the bone look it gives armor.
I love Iron Lapis, looks great on on Iron Will Titan armour set.
I absolutely love precursor vex chrome
Crimson Days, Crucible Vermilion, Conflagrate are my personal favorites
I think it was called cinderchar? It's an opulence shader that's like worn, scorched orange and white polymer.
The Mad Monk (only for armor)
Nights Chill when Witch Queen released was my favorite. It was bugged and gave you like a neon pink leopard pattern. Still a good shader but I wish they’d put that pink pattern in as a new one or something.
Amaranth Atrocity for that sweet, sweet black light glow on fabric armor.
Ensilvered Snare is beautiful on warlocks. You get a lot of deep leathery patina on cloth, punctuated with burnished silver
Ancient believer
Mad Monk...
Skele ghaul from one the past seasons of the haunted. And also rustberry is awesome
Arctic dreamscape, and calus’s chosen
the flawless GoA one
Argent Teratorn slaps really hard! I also really like Cinderchar, but it's hard finding things it works with.
Descendant Vex Chrome….on weapons. It looks much worse on armor for whatever reason
Calus' Selected on guns, Scarlet Semblance on armor.
Azura. Released during SRL in D1, closest thing in D2 is Metro Shift, but it's no replacement for me since I don't like the fabric Titan armour, and the shader shades fabric as blue.
Double banshee
Metro Shift. Sure its basic but no other shader has a shade of blue I like as much.
Valkyrie Zero, Pole Position, Carminica and Jacarina. Just depends on the weapon or armor and how it takes em.
Jacarina
Currently either Sundered flesh or Ancient defender .
Glowhoo
Iron Bone
I personally love Gloamstrife and Metallic Sunrise :D been consistently using Metallic Sunrise since I first started playing in late 2019 LMAO
Side bar comment.. I wish there was a filtering system so I can look through the filters better
Chitin slate and new monarchy diamonds.
Sunrise warrior or neopop wave, gotta be fabulous
Dreaming spectrum has some really nice colours on fabric
Pissed I missed the faction rally shaders...
Iron Bone. I call it the tactical shader. As soon as i turn up, everyone is blind.
Avalon teal
Dead zone bark
Double banshee
New Age Black Armory, Venomous, Carbon Blood, Seven Sisters are all staples for me(and I assume many other edgelords)
It was gambit jade stone but after the nerf i dont know
Scarlet Semblance. You get blood splatters on Caliban’s Hand.
Gambit jadestone because it glows more than other shaders! Oh wait
gunmetal marigold for me and it’s not even close
Last season crucible one, it looks like blood and Has a nice glowing effect