Elemental Wells are a Combat Style mechanic in Destiny 2. Introduced in Flavour of the Chosen, these Wells grant ability energy when picked upwardly. They acquit similarly to Orbs of Power, and they can be altered through the utilise of Combat Style mods. These mods range from allowing your grenades to spawn Elemental Wells to granting a damage vitrify when grabbed.

Today, nosotros'll exist looking at how every Elemental Well modernistic works in Destiny 2, discussing how the mod works and any notable synergies it has. If you aren't familiar with how Elemental Wells work, read our Elemental Well guide. Entries are listed in alphabetical club.

Updated August 3rd, 2022, by Charles Burgar: To help players with buildcrafting, we've updated this guide with updated values and talk over how certain mods synergize (or don't) with sure subclass keywords. Some entries have also seen some slight formatting changes to make the article more consistent and easier to read.

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Bountiful Wells

Destiny 2 Bountiful Wells

Bountiful Wells: Elemental well mods that cause you to spawn elemental wells can now stack, spawning boosted wells for each additional copy of the mod you take equipped.

Affinity

Solar

Price

ii Energy

Effect

Well-generating mods can now stack, spawning an additional Elemental Well per stack.

Unlisted in the modern's description, Bountiful Wells will cause all Well-spawning mods to create two Wells instead of only i, even if you don't have a duplicate modernistic equipped. When you equip copies of a modernistic, it'll add an additional Well for each copy, up to a maximum of four additional Wells. Stacking the Bountiful Wells mod does zippo.

How Each Mod Is Affected By Bountiful Wells

Elemental Armaments

Mods

Wells Generated

Elemental Armaments

1

Armaments + Bountiful

ii

Armaments x2 + Bountiful

3

Armaments x3 + Bountiful

4

Armaments x4 + Bountiful

5

Wellmaker Mods

Mods

Wells Generated

Wellmaker

1

Wellmaker + Bountiful

2

Wellmaker x2 + Bountiful

3

Wellmaker x3 + Bountiful

4

Wellmaker x4 + Bountiful

4

Supreme Wellmaker

Mods

Wells Generated

Supreme Wellmaker

3

Supreme + Bountiful

4

Supreme x2 + Bountiful

5

Supreme x3 + Bountiful

half dozen

Supreme x4 + Bountiful

6

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Elemental Armaments

Destiny 2 Elemental Armaments

Elemental Armaments: Weapon takedowns with a impairment type that matches your bracket element have an escalating chance to spawn an elemental well.

Affinity

Universal

Price

2 Energy

Issue

Matching elemental weapon kills can spawn Elemental Wells. Wells take a x% gamble to spawn per kill that stacks until a Well is formed.

Elemental Armaments behaves similarly to Accuse Harvester. Every kill has an escalating take a chance to spawn an Elemental Well. It takes around eight kills on average to spawn a Well, tougher enemies granting more progress. Y'all'll need to use a weapon that matches your subclass element. Stasis users should consider using Kinetic weapons with Osmosis to expand their options.

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Elemental Charge

Destiny 2 Elemental Charge

Elemental Charge: Become Charged with Light by picking up an elemental well. If the elemental well's element blazon matches your subclass element, you gain two stacks of Charged with Low-cal.

Affinity

Universal

Toll

2 Energy

Effect

Elemental Wells grant Charged with Light stacks. Wells that match your subclass grant double the stacks.

If you accept the Stacks on Stacks mod equipped, a matching Elemental Well grants four Charged with Light stacks, not three. Grabbing a non-matching Well will only grant 2 Charged with Light stacks. Yous tin utilize this mod combination to maintain effects similar High-Energy Burn much more easily.

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Elemental Low-cal

Destiny 2 Elemental Light

Elemental Light: Defeating a combatant with your Super spawns an elemental well that matches your subclass free energy blazon.

Analogousness

Universal

Cost

1 Free energy

Effect

Super kills spawn Elemental Wells

As with other Well-generating mods, Elemental Light can just make ane Elemental Well every couple of seconds. Your Super needs to be able to damage enemies to generate Wells.

Supers That Don't Work

  • Shadowshot
    • Merely straight arrow impacts and explosions caused by deceased tethered enemies will spawn Wells.
  • Well of Radiance
    • Merely the sword plunge animation tin spawn Wells.
  • Ward of Dawn

Stasis Supers are extremely inconsistent. Most of these Supers impale enemies with shatters instead of Super impairment.

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Elemental Ordnance

Destiny 2 Elemental Ordnance

Elemental Ordnance: Defeating a combatant with a grenade spawns an elemental well that matches your bracket free energy type.

Affinity

Universal

Cost

iii Energy

Effect

Grenade kills spawn Elemental Wells

Grenades can only spawn an Elemental Well one time every couple of seconds. Any grenade that deals persistent damage over an surface area, such as a Vortex Grenade, works best with Elemental Ordnance.

When paired with Elemental Charge, this gives your abilities a means of generating stacks of Charged with Light, making for powerful synergies with mods similar Firepower, Heal Thyself, and Free energy Converter. Warlocks, in particular, can have full advantage of this modernistic with Contraverse Hold or Verity's Brow.

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Elemental Shards

Destiny 2 Elemental Shards

Elemental Shards: Stasis shards count as Stasis elemental wells for you. Does not utilise to Crucible, Trials, or Iron Banner.

Affinity

Stasis

Cost

two Free energy

Consequence

Stasis Shards count equally Stasis Elemental Wells. Has a v-second cooldown between each shard pickup.

While the mod'due south description makes it sound downright overpowered, in that location are ii things keeping Elemental Shards in bank check:

  1. Information technology doesn't work in PvP.
  2. There's a 5-second cooldown betwixt each pickup.
    1. Shown in-game every bit a debuff called "Elemental Shards Cooldown."

In essence, this modernistic will allow i Stasis Shard y'all take hold of to count as a Stasis Well every five seconds. You exercise not gain boosted ability energy from this Shard. Grabbing a Stasis Shard with this mod will only grant 10% melee energy—20% with Whisper of Hunger equipped—and activate any Elemental Well mods on your armor. Seeking Wells does not work with Stasis Shards while this mod is equipped.

Mods That Work With Elemental Shards

  • Elemental Accuse
  • Font of Might
  • Font of Wisdom
  • Well of Restoration

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Elemental Time Dilation

Destiny 2 Elemental Time Dilation

Elemental Time Dilation: Elemental Well mods that grant yous fourth dimension-limited benefits tin now stack, increasing the duration of the effect for each re-create of the modern you have equipped.

Affinity

Stasis

Cost

3 Energy

Outcome

You lot can now stack Elemental Well mods that grant a time-limited buff, increasing the duration of the effect.

Not listed in the modernistic's description, Elemental Time Dilation extends the elapsing of time-sensitive buff effects on its own. You can't stack Elemental Time Dilation on itself; you'll need to stack the mod that grants the fourth dimension-limited buff.

How Each Mod Is Affected By Time Dilation

Font of Might

Mods

Duration

Font of Might

ten seconds

Might + Dilation

13 seconds

Might x2 + Dilation

xvi seconds

Might x3 + Dilation

twenty seconds

Font of Wisdom

Mods

Elapsing

Font of Wisdom

30 seconds

Wisdom + Dilation

35 seconds

Wisdom x2 + Dilation

40 seconds

Wisdom x3 + Dilation

45 seconds

Well of Ions

Mods

Elapsing

Well of Ions

10 seconds

Ions + Dilation

thirteen seconds

Ions x2 + Dilation

16 seconds

Ions x3 + Dilation

xx seconds

Well of Life

Mods

Duration

Well of Life

x seconds

Life + Dilation

13 seconds

Life x2 + Dilation

sixteen seconds

Life x3 + Dilation

xx seconds

Well of Tenacity

Mods

Duration

Well of Tenacity

v seconds

Tenacity + Dilation

8 seconds

Tenacity x2 + Dilation

11 seconds

Tenacity x2 + Dilation

15 seconds

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Enduring Wells

Destiny 2 Enduring Wells Elemental Well Mod

Enduring Wells: Increases the lifespan of elemental wells you create. Multiple copies of this mod stack, further extending the lifespan.

Affinity

Void

Cost

two Energy

Effect

Your Elemental Wells take longer to elapse. This mod stacks.

Enduring Wells extends the elapsing of Elemental Wells y'all create. For clarity, this mod only affects the duration of the Elemental Well itself, not any vitrify effects that well grants. Wells final for 20 seconds by default. Enduring Wells extends this duration past ten seconds per Enduring Well mod on your armor.

Enduring Well Duration

Mods

Duration

None

20 seconds

Enduring Wells x1

30 seconds

Indelible Wells x2

forty seconds

Enduring Wells x3

50 seconds

Enduring Wells x4

sixty seconds

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Explosive Wellmaker

Destiny 2 Explosive Wellmaker

Explosive Wellmaker: Chop-chop defeating combatants with explosive damage spawns a Solar elemental well.

Affinity

Solar

Toll

three Energy

Upshot

AoE multikills tin can spawn Solar Elemental Wells.

Explosive damage consists of anything that deals damage over an area (known as AoE damage past most).

What Works With Explosive Wellmaker

A few notable sources of explosive damage include:

Weapon

Annotation

Grenades

Persistent grenades are best for spawning Wells.

Solar Ignites

Whatever source of Ignite can spawn a Solar Well

Xenophage

Whatsoever impale from Xeno spawns Wells.

Sunshot

On-kill explosions count.

Ticuu'southward Divination

Sacred Flame explosions count.

Graviton Lance

Black Pigsty kills count.

Grenade Launchers

Any GL works.

Rocket Launchers

Any Rocket Launcher works.

Dragonfly and Firefly

The perk must land the final blow for information technology to count.

Explosive Exotics

Chromatic Fire, Bombardiers, and Severance Enclosure can all spawn elemental Wells.

The only notable exception to this is Warmind Cells. These practise not spawn Solar Elemental Wells at all, regardless of how many enemies they kill.

Spawning a Well with this mod seems to exist highly dependent on how many enemies yous apace defeat. The more enemies you kill with Solar AoE damage a curt timespan, the more likely a Solar Elemental Well will spawn.

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Font Of Might

Destiny 2 Font of Might

Font of Might: Picking up an elemental well that matches your subclass energy type grants a temporary bonus to weapon damage of that same elemental type.

Affinity

Universal

Cost

4 Energy

Effect

Gain a 25% harm boost after grabbing a matching Elemental Well. Stacks with other buffs, and lasts for x seconds.

Font of Might grants a 25% damage buff for 10 seconds whenever you grab an Elemental Well that matches your bracket element type. Similar to Mask of Bakris' Light Shift vitrify, this damage buff stacks with character buffs like Weapons of Light and High-Energy Fire.

This damage buff is only for elemental damage that matches your subclass blazon. If you are running a Solar bracket, for example, Font of Might volition only heave your Solar weapon harm by 25% while active. Weapons with Osmosis tin can do good from Font of Might while the perk is agile.

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Font Of Wisdom

Destiny 2 Font of Wisdom

Font of Wisdom: Picking up an elemental well that matches your bracket energy type grants you a temporary significant increase in your Intellect, improving the recharge rate of your Super.

Affinity

Universal

Cost

4 Free energy

Result

Sets your Intellect to 100 after grabbing an Elemental Well. Lasts 30 seconds.

Font of Wisdom sets your Intellect stat to 100 for 30 seconds after you grab an Elemental Well that matches your subclass element. Grabbing an Elemental Well while Font of Light is agile will refresh the buff'south timer back to thirty seconds.

As powerful equally this sounds on newspaper, Intellect suffers from extreme diminishing returns. Most of your Super energy comes from dealing and receiving damage in Destiny two, not from waiting effectually. Intellect itself doesn't increase Super energy returns from taking or receiving damage. Keep in mind that you'd have to continue this buff active for multiple minutes to run across the full cooldown reduction.

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Melee Wellmaker

Destiny 2 Melee Wellmaker

Melee Wellmaker: Powered melee combatant terminal blows spawn elemental wells matching your subclass energy type.

Affinity

Universal

Toll

four Energy

Result

Powered melee kills spawn an Elemental Well

Similar to other Well-making mods, Melee Wellmaker has an internal cooldown of around a second between each Elemental Well spawn. Only melee abilities can spawn Elemental Wells, excluding Sunbreaker Titans. If Roaring Flames is active, your uncharged melee kills can spawn Wells.

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Overload Wellmaker

Destiny 2 Overload Wellmaker

Overload Wellmaker: Defeating a combatant with a finisher spawns 2 Arc elemental wells.

Affinity

Arc

Cost

4 Free energy

Effect

Finishers spawn 2 Arc Elemental Wells

Due to how finishers identify you next to enemies, y'all'll normally consume both Elemental Wells when the animation ends. Since finisher animations are rather lengthy, this mod indirectly bypasses the Elemental Well spawn cooldown, allowing you to spawn two Wells with every finisher.

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Reaping Wellmaker

Destiny 2 Reaping Wellmaker

Reaping Wellmaker: After activating your class power, your side by side weapon final blow spawns a Void elemental well.

Analogousness

Void

Toll

two Energy

Effect

Spawn a Void Elemental Well on your next kill after using a class ability.

Reaping Wellmaker's result lasts until you either kill an enemy or you dice. If you use your form ability, expect four minutes, and then kill an enemy, they'll still spawn a Void Elemental Well.

Using your course power multiple times does non spawn additional Void Elemental Wells.

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Seeking Wells

Destiny 2 Seeking Wells

Seeking Wells: Elemental wells you create will move across the ground toward nearby players.

Analogousness

Arc

Cost

2 Energy

Upshot

Elemental Wells yous create move towards you and your allies.

While this mod is installed, Elemental Wells yous create will slide across the ground toward your location if you're inside 20 meters of the Well. In terms of speed, they movement a little faster than Stasis Shards affected by Whisper of Conduction. Moving out of range will crusade the Elemental Well to stop moving. This mod affects allies besides, even if they don't have the mod equipped. Since everyone gets their own instanced amount of Elemental Wells whenever you lot make them, this is a massive quality of life improvement for every player in your fireteam.

Go along in mind that Elemental Wells cannot ascend or descend, so you lot'll need to be grounded to option upwards your Wells. Notwithstanding, Elemental Wells will gravitate under you if you're in the air, making it fairly like shooting fish in a barrel to choice them up once y'all're grounded. Wells tend to get stuck in corners and stairs while Seeking Wells is installed. This mod does not affect Stasis Shards if Elemental Shards is installed​​​​​​.

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Shieldcrash Wellmaker

Destiny 2 Shieldcrash Wellmaker

Shieldcrash Wellmaker: Breaking a shield with the matching weapon type creates an elemental well.

Affinity

Universal

Cost

four Energy

Effect

Spawn an Elemental Well after breaking an enemy shield that matches your weapon's damage type.

The Elemental Well is generated nether the target that just had their shield destroyed. This mod pairs exceptionally well with Shield-Break Charge.

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Supreme Wellmaker

Destiny 2 Supreme Wellmaker

Supreme Wellmaker: Casting your Super spawns three Stasis elemental wells near y'all. Does not use to Crucible, Trials, or Iron Banner.

Affinity

Stasis

Cost

3 Energy

Effect

Spawn three Stasis Wells upon casting your Super. Doesn't work in PvP.

Casting any Super (not just Stasis) will spawn three Stasis Wells abreast you right when the Super activates. There'due south a good chance y'all'll consume ane or two of the Wells while casting your Super. Stacking this mod through Bountiful Wells will only grant one additional Stasis Well per stack.

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Well Of Ions

Destiny 2 Well of Ions

Well of Ions: Picking up an Arc elemental well causes your side by side melee to deal increased damage.

Affinity

Arc

Cost

2 Free energy

Effect

Arc Elemental Wells cause your next melee to bargain 30% increased damage. Buff expires after 10 seconds or afterwards you melee.

When you grab an Arc Elemental Well, your adjacent melee set on will deal 30% increased damage. The buff will expire after ten seconds or until you use your melee attack. This event works on melee abilities and uncharged melee attacks. Melee-based Supers and Swords practise not count. This mod buffs ranged melee abilities such as Celestial Fire. Grabbing multiple Arc Wells does not refresh the grace period on this vitrify.

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Well Of Life

Destiny 2 Well of Life

Well of Life: Picking upward a Solar elemental well grants increased regeneration for a short menstruum of time.

Affinity

Solar

Cost

2 Energy

Outcome

Solar Elemental Wells grant passive HP regen. Lasts ten seconds.

The HP regen is slightly less than what Karnstein Armlets provide, regenerating 17 HP per second. Well of Life does non grant the Restoration keyword, although it stacks with other Restoration sources. Spec for damage resistance through Resilience and armor mods to drastically increment your Guardian's survivability.

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Well Of Ordnance

Destiny 2 Well Of Ordnance

Well of Ordnance: Picking upward a Solar elemental well grants y'all additional grenade energy. Multiple copies of this mod increment this outcome.

Affinity

Solar

Toll

1 Free energy

Effect

Solar Elemental Wells give ~6% boosted grenade energy per stack of this mod.

It'south hard to give an exact number on the boosted energy given past this mod, simply it seems to exist effectually 6%. Stacking this modernistic on your armor will increment the amount of grenade energy received. Keep in mind that matching Elemental Wells already grant 10% grenade free energy, stacking with this effect.

Stacking Well Of Ordnance

Stacks

Additional Energy

1

6%

two

12%

iii

xviii%

iv

24%

v

30%

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Well Of Restoration

Destiny 2 Well of Restoration

Well of Restoration: Picking up a Stasis elemental well grants you additional energy for your ability that has the everyman free energy. Multiple copies of this modern increment this effect.

Affinity

Stasis

Price

four Free energy

Consequence

Stasis Wells grant 15% boosted energy to the power with the everyman free energy.

Well of Restoration is significantly stronger than information technology sounds on paper. Every Stasis Elemental Well will grant an additional 15% power energy to whichever ability has the lowest energy. This stacks with the default ten% free energy y'all get from grabbing a Well, pregnant a single Well of Restoration modernistic will cause Stasis wells to give 25% ability energy. If you take Elemental Shards equipped, that Stasis shard will too activate this perk before Elemental Shards enters its five-second cooldown.

Stacking Well Of Restoration

Stacks

Additional Energy

1

15%

2

thirty%

3

45%

4

thirty%

That is not a typo: x4 Well of Restoration gives as much as x2. It's unknown when this bug will be fixed. Until then, don't use more than than three copies of this mod.

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Well Of Hit

Destiny 2 Well Of Striking

Well of Striking: Picking up an Arc elemental well grants yous additional melee energy. Multiple copies of this modern increase this effect.

Affinity

Arc

Cost

1 Energy

Event

Arc Elemental Wells give ~half dozen% boosted melee energy per stack of this modern.

Similar to Well of Ordnance, Well of Striking gives around 6% melee free energy upon grabbing an Arc Elemental Well. Multiple copies of this mod will stack, allowing you to gain up to 24% melee energy per Arc Well. If your melee accuse was just expended when you grab the Well, yous'd gain an additional x%, assuasive you to gain a third of your melee charge from a unmarried Well.

Stacking Well Of Striking

Stacks

Additional Energy

1

6%

two

12%

3

18%

4

24%

5

30%

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Well Of Tenacity

Destiny 2 Well of Tenacity

Well of Tenacity: Picking up a Void elemental well reduces the damage you accept from combatants for a brusque period of fourth dimension.

Analogousness

Void

Cost

ii Energy

Effect

Void Elemental Wells grant 40% damage reduction. Lasts five seconds.

Upon grabbing a Void Elemental Well, you'll gain the "Resist x3" vitrify for five seconds. This buff reduces all damage you have by xl%, stacking multiplicatively with damage resistance furnishings—chest armor mods, Warmind'southward Protection, etc.

Well of Tenacity no longer extends the duration of other damage resistance sources as of The Witch Queen expansion (source).

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Well Of Utility

Destiny 2 Well Of Utility

Well of Utility: Picking up a Void elemental well grants you additional class ability energy. Multiple copies of this mod increment this effect.

Analogousness

Void

Cost

ane Energy

Effect

Void Elemental Wells give ~6% additional grade ability energy per stack of this mod.

Grabbing a Void Elemental Well will grant about vi% of your class power energy. Stacking this modern will enhance this upshot. This tin can be especially useful for Hunters that want to make a build centered around their Contrivance power, utilizing Bombardiers or similar Dodge effects.

Stacking Well Of Utility

Stacks

Additional Energy

ane

half-dozen%

ii

12%

iii

18%

4

24%

5

30%

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