What are the best Remnant 2 mods? Raw firepower is all well and good, but if you’re looking to really take the fight to the Root, then mods should be your first port of call. These unique components can be socketed into your weapons, imbuing them with special abilities that can drastically change your combat style.
The majority of crafting materials for the best Remnant 2 mods are dropped from Remnant 2 bosses. Of course, you might find that your favorite mod on this list is related to a boss or area that you haven’t encountered on your first Remnant 2 playthrough. In that case, Adventure Mode should be your first port of call – or a campaign reroll, if you’re in need of a Remnant 2 difficulty change without starting your character from scratch.
The best Remnant 2 mods
Remnant 2 mods are typically purchased from Ava McCabe in Ward 13, though she requires their unique crafting material in order to create them. They also come with an additional flat rate of Lumenite Crystals and Scrap in order to craft them, and cannot be sold once purchased, so it’s important to take note of the best mods available for your Remnant 2 archetype rather than spending all your materials prematurely.
Here are the best Remnant 2 mods:
| Mods | Effect | Location | Required Materials |
| Concussive Shot | Fires a focused blast of air through all targets within eight meters, dealing 155 damage and 4x impact. | Available to purchase from Ava McCabe. | Root Ganglia x1 |
| Corrosive Rounds | Imbues ammunition with Toxic and increases range crit chance by 15% for 20 seconds. Shots also apply Corroded, dealing 100 damage over ten seconds. | Available to purchase from Ava McCabe after defeating Legion in The Twisted Chantry on Yaesha. | Agnosia Driftwood x1, Lumenite Crystal x5, Scrap x650 |
| Defrag | Infects weapon with Malware for 3 secondss, causing shots to apply Fragmented for five seconds. When a Fragmented enemy dies, they create a Glitch that lasts 15 seconds. Picking up a Glitch increases all damage by 20% for fifteen seconds. Destroying a Glitch causes it to destabilize, creating a five-meter Virus Pool which deals 25 damage per second and applies the Fragmented debuff to enemies inside. Virus Pools last fifteen seconds. | Available to craft from Ava McCabe after defeating Cancer in the Ashen Wasteland on Root Earth. | Necrocyte Strand x1, Lumenite Crystal x5, Scrap x650 |
| Fargazer | Calls forth an eye of Legion to gaze at player’s aim target. For every 0.25s Fargazer focuses on a target within 25m, a stack of Madness status is applied for 5s. Each stack deals three damage per second. Maximum ten stacks. | Available to purchase from Ava McCabe after defeating Legion in The Twisted Chantry on Yaesha. | Agnosia Driftwood x1, Lumenite Crystal x5, Scrap x650 |
| Hot Shot | Imbues ammunition with Fire and increases Ranged damage by 15% for 20s. Shots also apply Burning, dealing 200 Fire damage over 10 seconds. | Available to purchase from Ava McCabe. | Root Ganglia x1 |
| Scrap Shot | Fires a caltrops grenade that explodes to cover an area of 6m. Caltrops deal 20 damage per second and apply Slow to enemies that walk over them. Lasts 10s. | Available to purchase from Ava McCabe. | Root Ganglia x1 |
| Skewer 2.0 | Fires a Wretched Spear which embeds itself on contact. Spears deal 125 damage on hit, rapidly dividing inside the target until bursting, dealing 140 damage to all targets within 3m. Spears embedded in the environment remain in place for 10s. | Available to craft from Ava McCabe after defeating Venom in Corrupted Harbor on Root Earth. | Dread Core x1, Lumenite Crystal x5, Scrap x650 |
| Space Crabs | Launch an alien egg that bursts on impact, releasing five Space Crabs. Crabs follow that caster, leaping towards enemies within 4m, and exploding, dealing 60 damage each. | Available to craft from Ava McCabe after defeating the Primogenitor in The Hatchery on N’Erud. | Cracked Shell x1, Lumenite Crystal x5, Scrap x650 |
| Stasis Beam | Fires a beam which deals 15 damage per second and applies Slow. After two seconds of application to an enemy, Slow becomes Stasis, freezing the target in place for ten seconds. | Available to craft from Ava McCabe after looting a corpse that contains the Stasis Core from The Eon Vault on N’Erud. | Stasis Core x1, Lumenite Crystal x5, Scrap x650 |
| Time Lapse | Creates a six meter blast which freezes all standard enemies for seven seconds. Dealing damage to frozen enemies immediately breaks the Time Lapse effect, applying Slow for the remaining duration. | Available to craft from Ava McCabe after completing the clock tower puzzle in Morrow Parish on Losomn. | Broken Timepiece x1, Lumenite Crystal x5, Scrap x650 |
| Tremor | Fires a projectile that cracks the ground and spawns shockwaves that deal 75 damage within nine meters for six seconds. Shockwaves inflict 3x impact. | Available to purchase from Ava McCabe after defeating Mother Mind in The Nameless Nest on Yaesha. | Cordyceps Gland x1, Lumenite Crystal x5, Scrap x650 |
| Voltaic Rondure | Launches a slow-moving orb that pulses every 0.5 seconds, striking enemies within three meters for 20 Shock damage and applying Overloaded for 15 seconds. The orb lasts 20 seconds. The orb can be overcharged by striking it with additional damage. | Available to craft from Ava McCabe after defeating Bloat King in the Great Sewers on Losomn. | Bone Sap x1, Lumenite Crystal x5, Scrap x650 |
All Remnant 2 mods
While you start off Remnant 2 with a choice of just four mods to purchase from Ava McCabe, this selection will expand as you defeat bosses and retrieve their unique crafting materials. That said, many mods cannot be removed from the weapons in which they’re socketed.
Here’s a complete list of all Remnant 2 mods:
- Accelerator
- Astral Burst
- Athibar
- Beta Ray
- Beyond the Veil
- Big Bang
- Blood Draw
- Bloodline
- Bloodthirst
- Bore
- Chaos Driver
- Concussive Shot
- Corrosive Rounds
- Cube Shield
- Death Sentence
- Defrag
- Dreadwalker
- Dreamwave
- Dying Breath
- Energy Wall
- Energy Wave
- Eulogy
- Explosive Shot
- Familiar
- Fargazer
- Faultline
- Firestorm
- Fission Strike
- Fracture
- Guardian’s Call
- Healing Shot
- Heat Sink
- Helix
- Hot Shot
- Krell Edge
- Lifeline
- Moonlight Barrage
- Nano Swarm
- Ouroboros
- Overflow
- Prismatic Driver
- Root Blades
- Rootlash
- Rotted Arrow
- Scrap Shot
- Screamer
- Skewer
- Song of Eafire
- Soulbinder
- Soul Brand
- Space Crabs
- Starfall
- Stasis Beam
- Supernova
- Time Lapse
- Tremor
- Voltaic Rondure
- Whirlwind
- Witchfire
With the best Remnant 2 mods equipped, you’re guaranteed to have a more enjoyable time tearing through the Root. You can also find additional mods socketed into the best Remnant 2 weapons – while these can’t be removed, it’s well worth checking if any can complement your build. Once you’re all kitted out, be sure to keep the Remnant 2 Water Harp and plinth puzzle to hand as you explore the realms. Finally, check out our Remnant 2 review for our own thoughts on build customization in the sequel.