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Archon's Thunder god roll & best perks

Archon's Thunder — Destiny 2 Machine Gun
Legendary · Machine Gun
Where it drops: Source: Complete Iron Banner matches and earn rank-up packages from Lord Saladin.

“"Earth weapons strong, but Eliksni make stronger. What your Zavalakel says: stronger, together?" —House Light Weaponsmith”

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Built from 270 curated wishlist rolls for this Machine Gun. Perks marked essential appear in every roll of a recommendation; alternatives are the other perks curators call worth keeping.

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[YeezyGT's S16] [MW: Stability/Reload] "Any LMG without Auto-Loading Holster hurts my feelings. That being said, there are things you can do here to make it not so painful - Surplus/Field Prep, Elemental Capacitor, Flared Magwell... none of it beats ALH, but Archon's comes with a decent base stat package and vertical recoil out of the box, so, if you don't have an Avalanche, I guess this'll work?"

Strong alternatives

Fluted Barrel Flared Magwell Rampage Surplus Elemental Capacitor Field Prep Mulligan Extended Mag Tactical Mag Accurized Rounds Corkscrew Rifling Arrowhead Brake Chambered Compensator Smallbore Hammer-Forged Rifling

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Strong alternatives

Fluted Barrel Rangefinder Accurized Rounds Rampage Iron Grip Snapshot Sights Killing Wind Quickdraw Tactical Mag Smallbore Arrowhead Brake

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sharditkeepit Community - PVP recommended roll - Hammer-Forged Rifling (MKB), Fluted Barrel (Controller), Accurized Rounds (MKB), Steady Rounds (Controller), Surplus (Controller), Iron Grip (MKB), Snapshot Sights (Controller), Range (MKB), Stability (Controller)

Strong alternatives

Iron Grip Arrowhead Brake Rangefinder Steady Rounds Smallbore Killing Wind Quickdraw Accurized Rounds Surplus Tactical Mag Snapshot Sights Rampage

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Strong alternatives

Tactical Mag Fluted Barrel Thresh Field Prep Surplus Appended Mag Rampage Extended Mag Arrowhead Brake Smallbore

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Essential perks

Hammer-Forged Rifling

Strong alternatives

Snapshot Sights Rangefinder Accurized Rounds Rampage Killing Wind Quickdraw Tactical Mag

Community wishlist roll

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sharditkeepit Community - PVE recommended roll - Appended Mag (MKB), Flared Magwell (Controller)

Essential perks

Thresh Flared Magwell

Strong alternatives

Arrowhead Brake Field Prep Smallbore Surplus

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Essential perks

Snapshot Sights Fluted Barrel Rangefinder Accurized Rounds

What these Archon's Thunder perks do

Snapshot Sights

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

Rangefinder

Aiming Down Sights grants the following benefits: • 10 Range • 10% increased Effective Zoom • 5% increased Projectile Speed The Effective Zoom increase pushes out Aim Assist Falloff by 10%, reduces (Absolute) Recoil by 10% and narrows the Accuracy and Aim Assist Cones by the same amount. (This is the normal behavior of Zoom and isn't unique to Rangefinder)

Thresh

Weapon Kills grant an additional 1% Super Energy. Kills with Sniper Rifles, Shotguns, Glaives, and Fusion Rifles grant an additional 1.5% instead.

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)

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

Rampage

Weapon Kills grant a Stack of Rampage. Maximum of 3 Stacks. Stacks expire one at a time every 4.5 seconds. Grants a 10%|21%|33.1% damage increase at 1|2|3 Stacks. Does not buff the Splash/Explosive damage elements of other perks.

Iron Grip

Passively increases Stability by 20 but decreases Reload Speed by 20.

Killing Wind

On Weapon Kill, for 5 seconds: • 50 Mobility • 40 Handling and 20 Range • 5% increased Damage Falloff Distance Additional Kills extend the duration by 5 seconds, up to 8 seconds. Buff is removed on stow.

Quickdraw

Switching to the Weapon grants 100 Ready/Stow Handling and a 0.95x Ready Animation Duration Multiplier for 1 second. Buff is removed as soon as ADS input is pressed.

Elemental Capacitor

Grants Passive Bonuses based on the element of your selected Super's element: • Solar: 50 Reload Speed • Arc: 50 Handling • Void: 20 Stability • Strand: 20 Airborne Effectiveness • Stasis: 20 Recoil Direction & 20% decreased ADS Movement Speed Penalty

Mulligan

Missing has a chance to refund 1 ammo into the magazine based on the ammo type: • Primary Weapons: 35% • Special and Power Weapons: 20%

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