History of The Helmsman

Overview

The Helmsman is a Legendary Sniper Rifle in Destiny 2. It is an Arc weapon. Its flavor text reads: "Keen of eye. Steady of hand. Stalwart on the endless sea."

Uses the High-Impact Frame archetype in the energy slot with special ammunition.

Acquisition

It cannot be reacquired from Collections.

It can be obtained from the following Crucible activities and modes:

• Arena Collision
• Arms Week: Medieval Hardware, Rocket Launchers, and Rumble Hardware
• Clash and Clash 3v3
• Collision: Slow Capture Variant
• Competitive
• Control
• Countdown
• Crucible: Clash
• Dawning: Snowball Fight
• Elimination
• Eruption
• Fortress
• Glass Cannon Control
• Guardian Games: Supremacy and Heavy Metal: Supremacy
• Hardware Mix and Hardware Mix 3v3
• Lockdown
• Mayhem
• Momentum Control
• Relic
• Rift
• Rumble
• Showdown
• Software Supremacy
• Solstice Scorched and Team Scorched
• Supremacy
• Survival
• Throwback Restricted
• Trials of Osiris
• Tribute
• Zone Control

Offered through Weekly: Vanguard Arms Rewards when listed by Commander Zavala. His current focusing covers tiered Ops gear, while Lord Shaxx focuses tiered Crucible gear.

Crafting and variants

This is a random-roll weapon without a crafting pattern. It has no legacy sunsetting Power cap; those caps were removed with The Final Shape.

Notable traits

Snapshot Sights speeds aiming down sights. Opening Shot improves the opening shot. Origin traits include Roar of Battle, Field-Tested.