Trace Rifle

"The trick with Traces is keepin' your laser on the target. Longer you keep it there, the more damage you do."

- Banshee-44

Trace Rifles are powerful rifles capable of firing singular, concentrated energy beams that can be focused down upon multiple targets at once. They are under the energy weapon category. Because of the low amount of known rifles, they were instead infused with Auto Rifles until the introduction of Upgrade Modules. All trace rifles wieldable by Guardians are of Exotic rarity, except for the Retraced Path.

Exotic trace rifles

 * Coldheart - Available via pre-ordering Destiny 2. Later added to world drop.
 * Prometheus Lens - World drop. Added in Curse of Osiris expansion.
 * Wavesplitter - World drop. Added in the Forsaken expansion.
 * Divinity - Raid Exotic for Garden of Salvation. Obtained as part of the Divinity Exotic Quest.
 * Ruinous Effigy - Acquired through the Missive (Growth) quest during Season of Arrivals.
 * Ager's Scepter - Acquired through the Tracing the Stars quest during Season of the Lost.

Legendary trace rifles

 * Retraced Path - Acquired as a drop from Xur's Treasure Hoard, which is part of the Dares of Eternity activity during Bungie's 30th Anniversary event.
 * Hollow Denial - Obtainable during the Season of the Haunted.

Enemy trace rifles

 * Vex Laser Rifle
 * Chronology Rifle

Trivia

 * Trace rifles are technically the fastest firing weapons in the game, beating out Sweet Business when fully spun-up, Rapid-Fire Frame machine guns, Lightweight Frame and Adaptive Frame submachine guns.

List of appearances

 * Destiny 2
 * Curse of Osiris
 * Forsaken
 * Shadowkeep
 * Season of Arrivals
 * Beyond Light
 * Season of the Lost
 * The Witch Queen
 * ''Season of the Haunted