Cartesian Coordinate god roll & best perks

Cartesian Coordinate — Destiny 2 Fusion Rifle
Legendary · Fusion Rifle
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Built from 160 curated wishlist rolls for this Fusion Rifle. Perks marked essential appear in every roll of a recommendation; alternatives are the other perks curators call worth keeping.

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Community wishlist roll

64 wishlist rolls

Constructed by @Adamsdown_Boy (PvE PvE-Boss PvE-SustainedDamage PvE-EndGame M+KB Controller): Backup PvE roll for sustained DPS against a single yellow-bar target in activities rated Normal, Hard or Very Hard difficulty. Cartesian Coordinate is a rapid-fire fusion rifle, which are rated F-Tier for endgame PvE by @TheAegisRelic tiering spreadsheet https://linktr.ee/TheAegisRelic being a "strict downgrade from high-impact and precision frames for boss damage". The frame intrinsic offers built in Anti-Overload, better total ammo reserves and a ×0.8 reload animation scalar when the battery is empty as per the https://www.destiny2.science/ Destiny Data Compendium. The stats are good by comparison with its peers - you can see them at https://destiny.report/w/3719824177/cartesian-coordinate and hopefully https://d2foundry.gg/w/3719824177 will show how weapon stats impact in-game performance when the site is back up and running. With 9 bolts to control, look for a barrel perk that helps with recoil control together with any other stat that you want to bump. Accelerated Coils improves charge time by 40ms at the cost of ×0.98 base damage or Enhanced Battery in the battery perk slot gets you to the maximum of 8 shots. While losing out to precision and high-impact frames for total boss damage, if you wanted one for ease of use, in the first trait perk slot, either Envious Arsenal refills the battery from reserves on dealing damage with both of your other weapons as part of a damage weapon rotation, or Reconstruction refills 25% of the battery every 6s (5.5s when enhanced) up to ×2 capacity when stowed or not firing. In the second column for damage, Aggregate Charge, particularly on a Prismatic build, provides a stack for each different elemental debuff up to ×3 stacks to boost damage by a max ×1.3 (×1.33 when enhanced), with each stack lasting as long as the debuff is active, or Controlled Burst reduces charge time to ×0.9 and boosts damage by ×1.2 for 2s (2.5s enhanced) after a kill or landing all the bolts in a burst. Neither origin trait is particularly useful for a boss roll - Veteran's Wisdom procs on a crit kill or 3 kills within 3s of each other to generate an 8m (9m enhanced) AoE kinetic shockwave which inflicts Exhaust on enemies. There's also Field-Tested which starts subtly but if you can stay alive to get hits and kills, you'll start to feel the boosts to Range, Stability, Handling and Reload Speed as you get to the higher stacks. If you're interested, in mathematics a Cartesian coordinate system specifies each point uniquely in a plane by a set of numerical coordinates. Recommended MW: Charge Time, with a Charge Time mod or your preferred choice to boost weapon stats, ammo generation, or elemental pickups for builds.|tags:PvE PvE-Boss PvE-SustainedDamage PvE-EndGame M+KB Controller

Strong alternatives

Accelerated Coils Arrowhead Brake Aggregate Charge Envious Arsenal Controlled Burst Reconstruction Enhanced Battery Chambered Compensator Extended Barrel Fluted Barrel Polygonal Rifling Smallbore Corkscrew Rifling Hammer-Forged Rifling

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48 wishlist rolls

Constructed by @Adamsdown_Boy (PvE PvE-Minor PvE-GroupAdd PvE-God PvE-EndGame M+KB Controller): First-choice PvE roll for clearing groups of Minor adds in activities rated Normal, Hard or Very Hard difficulty, particularly on Solar builds. Cartesian Coordinate is a rapid-fire fusion rifle, which are rated F-Tier for endgame PvE by @TheAegisRelic tiering spreadsheet https://linktr.ee/TheAegisRelic being a "strict downgrade from high-impact and precision frames for boss damage". The frame intrinsic offers built in Anti-Overload, better total ammo reserves and a ×0.8 reload animation scalar when the battery is empty as per the https://www.destiny2.science/ Destiny Data Compendium. The stats are good by comparison with its peers - you can see them at https://destiny.report/w/3719824177/cartesian-coordinate and hopefully https://d2foundry.gg/w/3719824177 will show how weapon stats impact in-game performance when the site is back up and running. With 9 bolts to control, look for a barrel perk that helps with recoil control together with any other stat that you want to bump. Accelerated Coils improves charge time by 40ms at the cost of ×0.98 base damage or Enhanced Battery in the battery perk slot gets you to the maximum of 8 shots. For dealing with Minor add groups, in the first trait perk column, Reconstruction refills 25% of the battery every 6s (5.5s when enhanced) up to ×2 capacity when stowed or not firing, Lead from Gold generates 25% (35% enhanced) of your special ammo reserves when you pick up heavy bricks, saving on Ammo Generation, Scavenger and Finder mods, or for solar grenade builds, Collective Demolition provides grenade ability energy on hits after interacting with an elemental pickup - Firesprites last 8s - so working well with Embers of Searing and Tempering. In the second column, for solar synergy, Incandescent spreads +30 Solar Scorch stacks within 4m on a red bar Minor add kill (+40 stacks within 8m for orange and yellow bars, +45 enhanced), with scorch damage counting as weapon damage so can inherit any weapon damage bonuses. All of the scorch stacks are increased by ×1.5 with Ember of Ashes. The Veteran's Wisdom origin trait procs on a crit kill or 3 kills within 3s of each other to generate an 8m (9m enhanced) AoE kinetic shockwave which inflicts Exhaust on enemies. There's also Field-Tested which starts subtly but if you can stay alive to get hits and kills, you'll start to feel the boosts to Range, Stability, Handling and Reload Speed as you get to the higher stacks. If you're interested, in mathematics a Cartesian coordinate system specifies each point uniquely in a plane by a set of numerical coordinates. Recommended MW: Charge Time, with a Charge Time mod or your preferred choice to boost weapon stats, ammo generation, or elemental pickups for builds.|tags:PvE PvE-Minor PvE-GroupAdd PvE-God PvE-EndGame M+KB Controller

Essential perks

Incandescent

Strong alternatives

Accelerated Coils Arrowhead Brake Reconstruction Lead from Gold Collective Demolition Enhanced Battery Chambered Compensator Extended Barrel Fluted Barrel Polygonal Rifling Smallbore Corkscrew Rifling Hammer-Forged Rifling

Community wishlist roll

32 wishlist rolls

Constructed by @Adamsdown_Boy (PvE PvE-Boss PvE-BurstDamage PvE-EndGame PvE-God M+KB Controller): First-choice PvE roll for burst DPS against Banes, Elites, Champions or Minibosses, or shorter boss DPS windows in activities rated Normal, Hard or Very Hard difficulty. Cartesian Coordinate is a rapid-fire fusion rifle, which are rated F-Tier for endgame PvE by @TheAegisRelic tiering spreadsheet https://linktr.ee/TheAegisRelic being a "strict downgrade from high-impact and precision frames for boss damage". The frame intrinsic offers built in Anti-Overload, better total ammo reserves and a ×0.8 reload animation scalar when the battery is empty as per the https://www.destiny2.science/ Destiny Data Compendium. The stats are good by comparison with its peers - you can see them at https://destiny.report/w/3719824177/cartesian-coordinate and hopefully https://d2foundry.gg/w/3719824177 will show how weapon stats impact in-game performance when the site is back up and running. With 9 bolts to control, look for a barrel perk that helps with recoil control together with any other stat that you want to bump. Accelerated Coils improves charge time by 40ms at the cost of ×0.98 base damage or Enhanced Battery in the battery perk slot gets you to the maximum of 8 shots. While losing out to precision and high-impact frames for total damage, if you wanted one for ease of use, in the first trait perk slot, either Reconstruction refills 25% of the battery every 6s (5.5s when enhanced) up to ×2 capacity when stowed or not firing, or Lead from Gold generates 25% (35% when enhanced) of your special ammo reserves when you pick up heavy bricks, saving on Ammo Generation, Scavenger and Finder mods. In the second column for damage, Aggregate Charge, particularly on a Prismatic build, provides a stack for each different elemental debuff up to ×3 stacks to boost damage by a max ×1.3 (×1.33 when enhanced), with each stack lasting as long as the debuff is active, or Controlled Burst reduces charge time to ×0.9 and boosts damage by ×1.2 for 2s (2.5s enhanced) after a kill or landing all the bolts in a burst. The Veteran's Wisdom origin trait procs on a crit kill or 3 kills within 3s of each other to generate an 8m (9m enhanced) AoE kinetic shockwave which inflicts Exhaust on enemies. There's also Field-Tested which starts subtly but if you can stay alive to get hits and kills, you'll start to feel the boosts to Range, Stability, Handling and Reload Speed as you get to the higher stacks. If you're interested, in mathematics a Cartesian coordinate system specifies each point uniquely in a plane by a set of numerical coordinates. Recommended MW: Charge Time, with a Charge Time mod or your preferred choice to boost weapon stats, ammo generation, or elemental pickups for builds.|tags:PvE PvE-Boss PvE-BurstDamage PvE-EndGame M+KB Controller

Essential perks

Lead from Gold

Strong alternatives

Accelerated Coils Arrowhead Brake Aggregate Charge Controlled Burst Enhanced Battery Chambered Compensator Extended Barrel Fluted Barrel Polygonal Rifling Smallbore Corkscrew Rifling Hammer-Forged Rifling

Community wishlist roll

16 wishlist rolls

Constructed by @Adamsdown_Boy (PvE PvE-Boss PvE-BurstDamage PvE-EndGame M+KB Controller): Backup PvE roll for burst DPS against Banes, Elites, Champions or Minibosses, or shorter boss DPS windows in activities rated Normal, Hard or Very Hard difficulty. Cartesian Coordinate is a rapid-fire fusion rifle, which are rated F-Tier for endgame PvE by @TheAegisRelic tiering spreadsheet https://linktr.ee/TheAegisRelic being a "strict downgrade from high-impact and precision frames for boss damage". The frame intrinsic offers built in Anti-Overload, better total ammo reserves and a ×0.8 reload animation scalar when the battery is empty as per the https://www.destiny2.science/ Destiny Data Compendium. The stats are good by comparison with its peers - you can see them at https://destiny.report/w/3719824177/cartesian-coordinate and hopefully https://d2foundry.gg/w/3719824177 will show how weapon stats impact in-game performance when the site is back up and running. With 9 bolts to control, look for a barrel perk that helps with recoil control together with any other stat that you want to bump. Accelerated Coils improves charge time by 40ms at the cost of ×0.98 base damage or Enhanced Battery in the battery perk slot gets you to the maximum of 8 shots. While losing out to precision and high-impact frames for total boss damage, if you wanted one for ease of use, in the first trait perk slot, Reconstruction refills 25% of the battery every 6s (5.5s when enhanced) up to ×2 capacity when stowed or not firing. In the second column, for damage, Reservoir Burst provides a ×1.3 (×1.33 enhanced) damage boost when the battery is at or above maximum base capacity and triggers an AoE explosion on a kill, as well as passively granting +30 to Battery Capacity - the equivalent of a Backup Mag mod. The Veteran's Wisdom origin trait procs on a crit kill or 3 kills within 3s of each other to generate an 8m (9m enhanced) AoE kinetic shockwave which inflicts Exhaust on enemies. There's also Field-Tested which starts subtly but if you can stay alive to get hits and kills, you'll start to feel the boosts to Range, Stability, Handling and Reload Speed as you get to the higher stacks. If you're interested, in mathematics a Cartesian coordinate system specifies each point uniquely in a plane by a set of numerical coordinates. Recommended MW: Charge Time, with a Charge Time mod or your preferred choice to boost weapon stats, ammo generation, or elemental pickups for builds.|tags:PvE PvE-Boss PvE-BurstDamage PvE-EndGame M+KB Controller

Essential perks

Reservoir Burst Reconstruction

Strong alternatives

Accelerated Coils Arrowhead Brake Enhanced Battery Chambered Compensator Extended Barrel Fluted Barrel Polygonal Rifling Smallbore Corkscrew Rifling Hammer-Forged Rifling

What these Cartesian Coordinate perks do

Accelerated Coils

Decreases charge time by 40ms and damage by 2%.

Aggregate Charge

Damage against Elemental-Debuffed Targets is increased per unique debuff applied to the target. Damage increased is 10%|20%|30% at 1|2|3 Debuffs.

Envious Arsenal

Dealing any damage with both of your other weapons refills the magazine from reserves upon readying the weapon.

Controlled Burst

Scoring a Kill or hitting every shot in a burst grants 20% increased damage and 10% decreased Charge Time for 2 seconds.

Reconstruction

Every 6 seconds while not firing the weapon: Loads 25% of the Magazine Capacity (rounded up) into the Magazine from reserves. Can overfill the Magazine up to double the normal capacity. Works even while stowed.

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.

Reservoir Burst

Passively grants 30 Magazine Size stat. (Identical to a Backup Mag mod) While Magazine is at or above maximum capacity: Grants 30% increased damage and causes enemies to explode on death, dealing 162.5 damage in a ? meter radius. Explosions inherit the weapon's element and Combatant Damage Scaling. Explosions triggered with Linear Fusion Rifle kills deal an additional 30% increased damage.

Incandescent

Weapon Kills trigger a Solar explosion that applies 30 Scorch Stacks (40 with Ember of Ashes) and deals up to 30 damage to enemies within 4 meters of the target. Killing Elite or higher tier Combatants and Players increases the radius to 8 meters and applies 10 more Scorch Stacks. Scorch damage can be increased through Weapon Damage Buffs.

Collective Demolition

Collecting an Elemental Pickup enables Weapon Damage to generate Grenade Ability energy per hit for 8 seconds. Ionic Traces, Stasis Shards, and Shot Tangles extend the timer by 4 seconds. Firesprites, Void Breaches, and Thrown Tangles extend the timer by 8 seconds. Timer can be extended to a maximum of 16 seconds. Grenade energy granted by weapon type: Spreadshot HC: 0.5% Burst Sidearm: 0.78% Fusion Rifle: 1.15% Rocket Pulse: 1.95% Sidearm: 2.34% Scout: 3.34% Rocket Launcher: 12.9% Elemental Pickups include Firesprites, Ionic Traces, Stasis Shards, Tangles, and Void Breaches.

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