Dead Weight

Dead Weight — Destiny 2 Legendary Shotgun
Legendary Shotgun · Arc · Special
Where it drops: Source: Complete Gambit matches and earn rank-up packages from the Drifter.

“"Act like you're nothing, and no one'll ever ask you for anything." —The Drifter”

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Weapon stats

Stability 30
Handling 37
Range 28
Aim Assistance 66
Ammo Generation 49
Airborne Effectiveness 2
Recoil Direction 70
Zoom 12
Magazine 7
Impact 65
Reload Speed 64
Rounds Per Minute 140

Intrinsic Traits

Rapid-Fire Frame

Weapon Perks

Rifled Barrel Smoothbore Smallbore Barrel Shroud Corkscrew Rifling Full Choke Rifled Barrel Smoothbore Smallbore Barrel Shroud Corkscrew Rifling Full Choke
Appended Mag Tactical Mag Extended Mag Steady Rounds Accurized Rounds Light Mag Appended Mag Tactical Mag Extended Mag Steady Rounds Accurized Rounds Light Mag Flared Magwell Flared Magwell
Well-Rounded Field Prep Subsistence Grave Robber Perpetual Motion Steady Hands Ensemble Dual Loader Lead from Gold Surplus Feeding Frenzy Auto-Loading Holster
Golden Tricorn Turnabout Snapshot Sights Surrounded Frenzy Demolitionist One-Two Punch Harmony Swashbuckler Adrenaline Junkie Trench Barrel Vorpal Weapon
Gun and Run Field-Tested

What the Dead Weight perks do

Rapid-Fire Frame

Fires full auto with deeper ammo reserves. Faster reload when weapon is empty.

Rifled Barrel

Ranged shotgun barrel. • Increases range • Greatly decreases handling speed

Smoothbore

Increases Shotgun Pellet Spread by 7.5%

Smallbore

Dual strength barrel. • Increases range • Increases stability

Barrel Shroud

Balanced shotgun barrel. • Increases stability • Increases handling speed

Corkscrew Rifling

Balanced barrel. • Slightly increases range and stability • Slightly increases handling speed

Full Choke

While Aiming Down Sights: • Decreases Shotgun Pellet Spread by 5% • Reduces Precision Multiplier by 7.6% (1.1078x🠚1.0294x)

Appended Mag

This weapon's magazine is built for higher capacity. • Increases magazine size

Tactical Mag

This weapon has multiple tactical improvements. • Slightly increases stability • Increases reload speed • Slightly increases magazine size

Extended Mag

This weapon has a greatly increased magazine size, but reloads much slower. • Greatly increases magazine size • Greatly decreases reload speed • Increases airborne effectiveness

Steady Rounds

This magazine is optimized for recoil control. • Greatly increases stability • Slightly decreases range • Increases airborne effectiveness

Accurized Rounds

This weapon can fire longer distances. • Increases range

Light Mag

Improved reload and range. • Increases reload speed • Slightly increases range

Flared Magwell

Optimized for fast reloading. • Slightly increases stability • Greatly increases reload speed

Well-Rounded

Grenade Ability usage and Elemental Melee hits grant 1 Stack of Well-Rounded for 15 seconds. Super Ability usage grants 2 Stacks. Maximum of 2 Stacks. Each Stack grants 10 Range, 10 Stability, and 10 Handling. Clarity tooltip editor's note: We're replacing the previous Powered Melee term with Elemental Melee. The former is now exclusively used for perks that require the consumption of a Melee Ability Charge. This note is temporary and will be removed in the future.

Field Prep

Grants the following while Crouched: • 50 Reload Speed • 0.8x Reload Duration Multiplier • 0.8x Ready/Stow Duration Multiplier Passively grants 20 Ammo Generation stat. (50% more than 1 Ammo Generation armor mod)

Subsistence

Weapon Kills refill 10% of the magazine (rounded up) from reserves. Submachine Gun and Auto Rifle Kills refill 17% of the magazine.

Grave Robber

Powered Melee Hits and (Glaive) Melee Kills refill the magazine from reserves. 3 second cooldown between activations.

Perpetual Motion

While moving at a minimum of 2 meters per second: Grants a Stack of 'Perpetual Motion' after 2 seconds and a second Stack after 10 seconds. Each Stack provides 10 Stability, 10 Handling, and 10 Reload Speed. All Stacks are removed if movement speed is below 2 m/s for 0.5 seconds. Works and can activate while stowed.

Steady Hands

Weapon Kills grant 100 Handling and a 0.825x Handling Animation Duration Multiplier to all weapons for 8.5 seconds. Additional kills while the perk is active refresh the duration to 6.5 seconds.

Ensemble

Grants 30 Handling and 40 Reload Speed while within 15 meters of an ally. Buff lingers for 1.5 seconds once you're no longer near allies.

Dual Loader

Reloading loads 1 additional round into the magazine at a time.

Lead from Gold

Heavy Ammo Pickups grants 25% of your maximum Special Ammo Reserves even while the weapon is stowed. Equipping two Special Weapons halves the amount of ammo granted.

Surplus

Grants Stat Bonuses depending on the number of Charged Abilities. Stat Bonuses with 1|2|3+ Charged Abilities: • 5|15|25 Stability • 5|25|60 Handling • 10|25|60 Reload Speed

Feeding Frenzy

Weapon Kills grant 1 Stack of Feeding Frenzy for 3.5 seconds, increasing the Reload Speed of the weapon. Maximum of 5 Stacks. Bonuses at 1|2|3|4|5 Stacks: • 8|50|60|75|100 Reload Speed • 2.5%|10%|13%|16%|20% decreased Reload Animation Duration

Auto-Loading Holster

Refills stowed weapon from reserves after 3.5 seconds of it being stowed.

Golden Tricorn

While the perk's buff isn't active, Weapon Kills grant 'Golden Tricorn x1' for 7 seconds, increasing weapon damage by 15%. Additional Kills refresh the buff duration. While Golden Tricorn x1 or x2 is active: Grenade or Elemental Melee Kills matching the element of the Weapon grant Golden Tricorn x2 for 10 seconds, increasing weapon damage by 50%. Clarity tooltip editor's note: We're replacing the previous Powered Melee term with Elemental Melee. The former is now exclusively used for perks that require the consumption of a Melee Ability Charge. This note is temporary and will be removed in the future.

Turnabout

Upon breaking a Combatant's Elemental Shield or the Shield of a Guardian in their Super: Grants a 30 HP Overshield for 10 seconds.

Snapshot Sights

Passively decreases the ADS Animation Duration: • 50% decrease on Primary Weapons • 20% decrease on Special Weapons

Surrounded

Being within 15 meters of 3 Enemies grants 40% increased damage. Buff lingers for 1.5 seconds once the condition is no longer met. Exceptions: • Swords only receive a 35% damage increase. • Grenade and Rocket Launchers receive a 35% Explosive Damage increase and a 40% Impact Damage increase. • Wolfpack Rounds receive a 35% Explosive Damage increase.

Frenzy

After being in Combat for 12 seconds: Grants 15% increased damage, 100 Handling, and 100 Reload Speed for 7.2 seconds. Works and can activate while stowed. Dealing and receiving damage refreshes the buff duration. For Frenzy, being in Combat is defined as having either dealt or received damage within the last 5 seconds. Self-damage and environmental damage do not count.

Demolitionist

Weapon Kills grant 10% Grenade Ability Energy. Kills with Sniper Rifles, Shotguns, Glaives, and Fusion Rifles grant 20%. Using your Grenade Ability refills the Magazine with a 3 second cooldown. Ability energy gained may be significantly decreased based on your selected ability's Chunk Energy Scalar. Learn more about this mechanic in our explainer blog post on the Clarity website.

One-Two Punch

Hitting a target with all 12 Pellets in the spread increases the damage of your next Melee attack within 3 seconds. Melee Damage increase by weapon type: • Shotgun: 150% additional base melee damage • Hand Cannon: 75% [100?%] additional base melee damage Stowing the weapon removes the buff. The buff does not stack with the passive Melee Damage increase against Frozen non-Boss targets. The higher buff of the two takes precedence.

Harmony

Upon readying the weapon within 3 seconds of getting a Kill with a different weapon: Grants 20% increased damage and 15 Handling for 7 seconds.

Swashbuckler

Weapon Kills grant a Stack of 'Swashbuckler' for 4.5 seconds. Maximum of 5 Stacks. (Glaive) Melee Kills grant all 5 Stacks instantly. Damage increase at 1|2|3|4|5 Stacks: 6.7% | 13.3% | 20% | 26.6% | 33.3% Stowing the weapon removes the buff.

Adrenaline Junkie

Weapon Kills grant 1 Stack of Adrenaline Junkie for 4.5 seconds. Grenade Kills grant all 5 Stacks instantly even if the weapon is stowed. Adrenaline Junkie benefits: • 20 Handling • 6.7%|13.3%|20%|26.6%|33.3% increased damage at 1|2|3|4|5 Stacks

Trench Barrel

Dealing Melee Damage grants the following for the next 3 shots within 5 seconds: • 30 Reload Speed and 30 Handling • 50% increased damage Stowing the weapon removes the buff.

Vorpal Weapon

Deals increased damage against Minibosses, Bosses, and Vehicles, as well as Players in their Super Ability. Damage increase by Ammo Type: • Primary Weapons: 20% [60%] • Special Weapons: 15% [20%] • Power Weapons: 10% [20%]

Gun and Run

Kills grant one stack of 'Gun And Run' for 10 (🡅 11) seconds. Maximum of 3 stacks. If the buff expires, the next kill will grant however many stacks were previously held. After sprinting for 0.75 seconds without a full magazine, consume one stack and refill 25% magazine capacity every 0.85 seconds. For bows, this trait instead grants a 15% Faster Draw Time for ? seconds. Provides no benefit to Swords.

Field-Tested

Hits and Kills with your Weapon grant you 'Points'. Hitting Point thresholds grants Stacks of Field Test. Maximum of 5 Stacks. Buff is only removed on death. Stat Bonuses at 1|2|3|4|5 Stacks: • 3 | 6 | 9 | 12 | 20 Range • 5 | 10 | 20 | 35 | 50 Reload Speed • ? | ? | ? | ? | 30? Stability • ? | ? | ? | ? | ? Handling • 5 | 10 | 20 | 35 | 55 Charge Rate (Swords) • 5 | 10 | 20 | 30 | 40 Guard Resistance (Swords) Points required for 1|2|3|4|5 Stacks: • Primary Weapons: 51|151|351|651|1001 • Special Weapons: 26|76|176|326|501 • Power Weapons: 11|31|71|131|201 Each Hit grants 1 Point regardless of Weapon Archetype and Enemy Rank. Does not require Direct Hits. Points granted by Kills are based on Enemy Rank: • Tier 1-2 Minors: 1 Point • Tier 3-4 Minors, Tier 2+ Elites, and higher: 4 Points • Tier 1 Elites: 5 Points • Enemy Players: 10 Points Kill Point Multipliers by Weapon Archetype: • Primary Weapons and Shotguns: 5x • Sniper Rifles: 2.5x • Breech-Loaded Grenade Launchers: 2x

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