Forbearance god roll & best perks

Forbearance — Destiny 2 Grenade Launcher
Legendary · Grenade Launcher
Where it drops: Source: "Vow of the Disciple" Raid

“Shape: Temperance”

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Built from 91 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

pandapaxxy

pve mkb controller 52 wishlist rolls

pandapaxxy (PvE / M+KB / Controller): "While it might not be as strong as Salvager’s Salvo in terms of room clearing as you’d need to get the enemies to line up to a degree, that will still not stop its fun factor. Getting the Salvager’s Salvo roll on Forbearance or unrelenting and chain reaction to get health from your booms would also be a nice way to roll into some thrall.". Recommended MW - Reload.

Strong alternatives

Linear Compensator Ambitious Assassin Chain Reaction High-Velocity Rounds Smart Drift Control Implosion Rounds Quick Launch Unrelenting Surplus Golden Tricorn One for All

YeezyGT's WQ

god-pve 15 wishlist rolls

[YeezyGT's WQ] [MW: Reload] "Forby is the best Legendary weapon of the expansion. A wave frame version of Salvo, which means you'll get way more shots off (no waiting for travel time), can point it at your feet, Souldrinker that heals you, Chain Reaction that essentially matches the Dead Messenger blast radius, its a Craftable, combo with Explosive Wellmaker and Well of Life to become unkillable as you run through trash adds like Thor, God of Thunder. It's viable in every level of content. It's Forby. It's King."

Essential perks

High-Velocity Rounds

Strong alternatives

Chain Reaction Surplus Quick Launch Chain Reaction Surplus Hard Launch Ambitious Assassin Ambitious Assassin Unrelenting Unrelenting

Community wishlist roll

pve 12 wishlist rolls

Inspired by DMB Player Versus Enemies Podcast 8. Shapeable through the Mars Relic. PvE first choice roll for end-game content. The first arc wave-frame Grenade Launcher, but no boss damage parks, so focus on those that help with add clear. You'll want decent weapon swap speeds, and shots to get where they're going as fast as possible. Both Unrelenting and Ambitious Assassin have their place with Chain Reaction. Recommended MW: Reload Speed, Velocity or Handling, with a damage-boosting (Minor, Major or Taken Spec) mod.

Essential perks

High-Velocity Rounds

Strong alternatives

Unrelenting Chain Reaction Quick Launch Smart Drift Control Ambitious Assassin Chain Reaction Unrelenting Ambitious Assassin

Speedrunner's Shopping List

god-pve 6 wishlist rolls

Speedrunner's Shopping List: Ammo efficient add clear (good for: all S21 raids and dungeons)

Essential perks

High-Velocity Rounds Quick Launch

Strong alternatives

Ambitious Assassin Wellspring Chain Reaction Genesis Unrelenting

pandapaxxy

pvp mkb controller 6 wishlist rolls

pandapaxxy (PvP / M+KB / Controller): "Similarly to Explosive Personality, wave frame grenade launchers aren’t going to break the meta, and won’t be super strong. They have some utility especially in Control or Iron Banner where there are capture points and choke points. But outside of that they are pretty limited.". Recommended MW - Handling or Reload.

Essential perks

Steady Hands Chain Reaction

Strong alternatives

High-Velocity Rounds Quick Launch Linear Compensator Smart Drift Control Implosion Rounds

What these Forbearance perks do

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%

Wellspring

On Weapon Kill: Grants 8% Ability Energy split equally amongst all uncharged abilities. Abilities with multiple charges only receive one third of the ability energy normally split to them once they have a full ability charge ready. 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.

Chain Reaction

Weapon Kills trigger an elemental explosion matching the weapon's element. Damage and radius of the explosions varies based on the weapon's ammo type: • Special Weapons: Up to 67.2 [44.8] damage in a 2.4 meter radius • Power Weapons: Up to 109.2 [72.8] damage in a 3 meter radius

Genesis

Energy Weapons are refunded 1 Ammo upon hitting matching PVE Combatant Elemental Shields. Refills magazine from reserves upon breaking a PVE Combatant, Barrier Champion, or Player Shield.

Unrelenting

Starts Health Regeneration and restores 65 HP upon reaching 100% Activation Progress with Weapon Kills within 5 seconds of each. Activation Progress by Enemy Rank: • Minor Combatants: 34% • Players: 67% • Elites, Minibosses, and Bosses: 100%

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

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.

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.

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.

Unrelenting

Starts Health Regeneration and restores 🡅70 HP upon reaching 100% Activation Progress with Weapon Kills within 5 seconds of each. Activation Progress by Enemy Rank: • Minor Combatants: 34% • Players: 67% • Elites, Minibosses, and Bosses: 100% 🡅 Restores an additional 5 HP.

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% 🡅 Passively grants 5 Reload Speed.

Chain Reaction

Weapon Kills trigger an elemental explosion matching the weapon's element. Damage and radius of the explosions varies based on the weapon's ammo type: • Special Weapons: Up to 🡅73.92 [49.28] damage in a 2.4 meter radius • Power Weapons: Up to 🡅120.12 [80.08] damage in a 3 meter radius 🡅 Explosion damage is increased by 10%. Swords receive 20 Guard Endurance.

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 🡅 Stronger Effect.

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