Frontier's Cry god roll & best perks

Frontier's Cry — Destiny 2 Hand Cannon
Legendary · Hand Cannon
Where it drops: Source: Complete Iron Banner matches and earn rank-up packages from Lord Saladin.

“The sky bled crimson as the hills carried that terrible crack.”

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Built from 136 curated wishlist rolls for this Hand Cannon. Perks marked essential appear in every roll of a recommendation; alternatives are the other perks curators call worth keeping.

Recommended rolls

YeezyGT's WQ

pvp 60 wishlist rolls

[YeezyGT's WQ] [MW: Range / Stab] "Frontier's Cry does some interesting things, with access to some consistency perks like EotS / Rapid Hit, and also 3-tap potential at 180RPM with Kill Clip. Many will flock to Iron Reach for the huge visual Range stat bump, though I would recommend checking the breakdown on D2Gunsmith -- for 18 Range (roughly a 2m difference), you lose 27 Stability, which is very, very noticeable. The trade-off in-game is not as appealing as on paper. That being said, if you're investing heavily in Stability to offset it, it could be very nice to get the incremental range bump."

Essential perks

Rapid Hit Skulking Wolf

Strong alternatives

Kill Clip Fluted Barrel Accurized Rounds Eye of the Storm Iron Reach Steady Rounds Tactical Mag Flared Magwell Hammer-Forged Rifling Polygonal Rifling Smallbore Corkscrew Rifling

pandapaxxy

pve mkb controller 54 wishlist rolls

pandapaxxy (PvE / M+KB / Controller): "I think it’s leaps and bounds better than Survivor’s Epitaph but still not as good as our old and faithful Trust. With access to rapid hit and kill clip on a shallower loot pool than Survivor’s Epitaph you just have better luck getting one to drop. That roll will serve you well in all facets of the game where a 180 hand cannon isn’t an active detriment (I won’t yell at you in a raid for using it, but I cannot vouch for everyone). There isn’t too much more to say on Frontier’s Cry as it’s a pretty self explanatory precision hand cannon that just falls into a PvE meta that won’t appreciate it.". Recommended MW - Stability.

Strong alternatives

Tactical Mag Rapid Hit Kill Clip Fluted Barrel Smallbore Corkscrew Rifling Appended Mag Extended Mag Adaptive Munitions One for All Adagio

pandapaxxy

pvp mkb 15 wishlist rolls

pandapaxxy (PvP / M+KB): "The choice of either kill clip or iron reach to really maximize lethality or consistency, respectfully, is a really solid selling point. Fully investing into range with full bore, accurized rounds, iron reach, and range MW puts you right into 34m as a precision hand cannon. Literally tying Crisis Inverted with a similar all range build. Trust on its best day had explosive payload but less range to work with. While I won’t recommend doing a full range investment as you lower other stats it is incredible to see a precision frame hand cannon hang with the more meta hand cannons.". Recommended MW - Range.

Strong alternatives

Rapid Hit Kill Clip Fluted Barrel Accurized Rounds Hammer-Forged Rifling Tactical Mag Tunnel Vision Iron Reach

pandapaxxy

pvp controller 7 wishlist rolls

pandapaxxy (PvP / Controller): "The choice of either kill clip or iron reach to really maximize lethality or consistency, respectfully, is a really solid selling point. Fully investing into range with full bore, accurized rounds, iron reach, and range MW puts you right into 34m as a precision hand cannon. Literally tying Crisis Inverted with a similar all range build. Trust on its best day had explosive payload but less range to work with. While I won’t recommend doing a full range investment as you lower other stats it is incredible to see a precision frame hand cannon hang with the more meta hand cannons.". Recommended MW - Range.

Essential perks

Smallbore

Strong alternatives

Rapid Hit Kill Clip Accurized Rounds Tunnel Vision Tactical Mag Iron Reach

What these Frontier's Cry perks do

Rapid Hit

"Buffed Hits" grant 1 Stack of Rapid Hit for 2 seconds. Maximum of 5 Stacks. "Buffed Hits" refer to any "Yellow Number" Hits such as Precision Hits or Hits against debuffed targets. Benefits at 1|2|3|4|5 Stacks: • 2|12|14|18|25 Stability • 5|30|35|42|60 Reload Speed • 0.99x|0.96x|0.95x|0.945x|0.92x Reload Duration Multiplier

Kill Clip

Finishing a reload within 3.6 seconds of a kill grants 25% increased damage for 5 seconds. Stowing the weapon removes the buff. Does not buff the Splash/Explosive damage elements of other perks.

Adaptive Munitions

Hits against Barrier Champion or non-matching Elemental Shields deal increasingly higher damage. Buff is removed upon hitting a matching shield or an unshielded enemy. Damage increase by Weapon Archetype: • Fusion Rifles: untested • Machine Guns, Auto/Pulse/Trace Rifles: 10% per hit, up to 50% • Linear Fusion Rifles: 22% per hit, up to 44% • Bows, Glaives, Hand Cannons, Scout Rifles: 25% per hit, up to 50%

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.

Adagio

Weapon Kills grant the following for 7 seconds: • 10 Range • 30% increased damage • 20% longer Firing Delay/Charge Time/Draw Time Hand Cannons only recieve a 27% damage increase. Buff is removed on stow.

Tunnel Vision

Grants the following for 5 seconds upon finishing a Reload within 3.6 seconds of a Weapon Kill: • 20 Aim Assist • ? ADS Handling • ?% decreased Accuracy Cone Growth

Iron Reach

Passively increases Range by 20 but decreases Stability by 20.

Skulking Wolf

Weapon Kills while at or below 90 HP grant the following benefits for 10 seconds: • Enhanced Radar (6⁠🠚⁠12 sectors) • Removes you from passively pinging enemy radars • PvE Combatants become less accurate when targeting you Firing weapons will still ping enemy radars for 2 seconds. (Radar Blip indicates that it's only visible for 0.75 seconds; this is inaccurate)

Eye of the Storm

Grants a scaling buff to Handling and Accuracy as your Shield Health drops below 40 and reaches maximum strength at 0 Shield HP. Buff at maximum strength grants: • 30 Handling • 40% decreased Accuracy Cone Size • 17% decreased Accuracy Cone Growth The buff linearly scales from 0% at 80 Shield HP to 100% at 0 Shield HP (Critical Health). It initially triggers as you drop to 40 Shield HP — giving you 50% of the maximum buff. However, as you regenerate your Shield Health, the buff will still remain until you reach 80 Shield HP where the benefits scale down to zero.

Recommendations aggregated from curated community wishlists; credit to the curators linked above.

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