Empty Vessel god roll & best perks

Empty Vessel — Destiny 2 Grenade Launcher
Legendary · Grenade Launcher
Where it drops: Source: Complete strikes and earn rank-up packages from Commander Zavala.

“"It's versatile. By itself, it's nothing, just an empty tube. But that's its deceptive beauty; it's all about what you fill it with. What you make it. What you make it do." —Banshee-44”

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Built from 146 curated wishlist rolls for this Grenade Launcher. Perks marked essential appear in every roll of a recommendation; alternatives are the other perks curators call worth keeping.

Recommended rolls

Community wishlist roll

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Strong alternatives

Vorpal Weapon Ambitious Assassin Disorienting Grenades Quick Launch Disruption Break Demolitionist Field Prep Spike Grenades Auto-Loading Holster Smart Drift Control Linear Compensator

Community wishlist roll

32 wishlist rolls

Chevy's S14 Super Pog PvE Loot List (MKB/PVE). Recommended MW - Reload

Strong alternatives

Disorienting Grenades Auto-Loading Holster Quick Launch One for All Hard Launch Spike Grenades Ambitious Assassin Threat Detector Vorpal Weapon Demolitionist Disruption Break

Community wishlist roll

controller pvp 30 wishlist rolls

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Strong alternatives

Proximity Grenades Volatile Launch Vorpal Weapon Auto-Loading Holster Ambitious Assassin Demolitionist Surplus Spike Grenades Confined Launch Quick Launch

YeezyGT's S15

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[YeezyGT's S15] (PvE/PvP): [MW: Velocity] "God, this thing rocks. Not only does the little burst of flame on the explosion feel cool, the perk pool on it has insane potential. As always, Quick/Hard Launch, Spike (+30% dmg) or Blinding (utility). If you roll Auto-Loading Holster, congratulations. If not, Surplus is very good - and Quickdraw is fantastic for PvP / clutching with Blinding Grenades in GMs. Disruption Break is fantastic in PvP (if you want to be that guy), but a bit more situational for PvE. If you wanted Demolitionist here, I'd probably redirect you to Our Lord and Savior Salvager's Salvo."

Strong alternatives

Disruption Break Auto-Loading Holster Spike Grenades Quick Launch Vorpal Weapon Surplus Quickdraw Disorienting Grenades Hard Launch

Speedrunner's Shopping List

god-pve 6 wishlist rolls

Speedrunner's Shopping List: "Blinding enemies/Filling ranged swap rotation" (good for: all S21 raids and dungeons)

Essential perks

Auto-Loading Holster Quick Launch

Strong alternatives

Danger Zone Disorienting Grenades Demolitionist Vorpal Weapon Spike Grenades

demonjoefrance

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demonjoefrance (PvE): A-Tier (Strong). Recommended MW: Blast Radius / Velocity.

Essential perks

Volatile Launch Spike Grenades

Strong alternatives

Ambitious Assassin Multikill Clip Feeding Frenzy Swashbuckler Vorpal Weapon

demonjoefrance

pvp 2 wishlist rolls

demonjoefrance (PvP): A-Tier (Strong). Recommended MW: Blast Radius / Velocity.

Essential perks

Quickdraw Volatile Launch Spike Grenades

Strong alternatives

Vorpal Weapon Thresh

Community wishlist roll

controller god-pvp 1 wishlist roll

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Essential perks

Proximity Grenades Volatile Launch Auto-Loading Holster Demolitionist

What these Empty Vessel perks do

Danger Zone

Increases Blast Radius by ?% and decreased Self-Damage while within 15 meters of 3 enemies. Effect lingers for 3.5 seconds once no longer surrounded. Grenade Launchers: 40% decreased Self-Damage Rocket Launchers: 99.99% decreased Self-Damage and allows for rocket jumping

Disorienting Grenades

Passively grants -200 Blast Radius, 25% decreased damage, and 15% decreased detonation radius. Enemies within 6 meters of the explosion are disoriented for 4.5 seconds. Disorient radius cannot be increased using other perks. Champions and Bosses are unaffected by Disorient. (Disorient is effectively the equivalent of Arc Blind without any of the elemental synergies and anti-champion benefits) Players near the explosion briefly lose their HUD and have their screen distorted for up to ? seconds. Duration varies depending on the distance from the blast.

Auto-Loading Holster

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

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.

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%]

Spike Grenades

Increases Grenade Impact damage: • 12.12% increase on Special Grenade Launchers • 12.5% increase on Power Grenade Launchers Due to the ratio of Detonation and Impact damage being tied to the Blast Radius stat on Grenade Launchers, a lower stat will provide a slightly higher overall damage increase.

Ambitious Assassin

Reloading after scoring Kills with the weapon overfills the magazine from reserves based on the number of Kills scored. Overfill amount maxes out at 150% of the Magazine Capacity. Always rounds up. Kill counter persists through stow. Overfill amount per Kill scored: • Primary Weapons: 20% • Special and Power Weapons: 10%

Disruption Break

On Elemental, Barrier or Guardian Shield Break: Applies Kinetic Damage Vulnerability to the enemy, increasing Kinetic damage taken by 50% for 5.5 [5] seconds. Stacks with all other Buffs and Debuffs (including itself).

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

One for All

Scoring Weapon Hits against 3 Separate Enemies within 3 seconds of each grants 35% increased damage for 10 seconds. Does not require Direct Hits. Buff duration cannot be refreshed.

Threat Detector

Grants 1|2 Stacks while within 15 meters of 1|2+ enemies. Bonuses at 1|2 Stacks: • 15|40 Stability • 18|60 Reload Speed • 25|100 Handling • 0.9x|0.81x Handling Animation Duration Multiplier

Multikill Clip

Finishing a reload within 3.6 seconds of scoring 1|2|3 Weapon Kills within 3.5 seconds of each grants 17%|33%|50% increased damage for 5 seconds. Buff is overwritten every time it is triggered and is removed on stow.

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

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.

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.

Thresh

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

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