Harsh Language god roll & best perks

Harsh Language — Destiny 2 Grenade Launcher
Legendary · Grenade Launcher
Where it drops: Source: Open Legendary engrams and earn faction rank-up packages.

“This weapon was forged by Devrim Kay VIII for the survivors.”

Full perk pool, stats & source for Harsh Language →

Built from 73 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 44 wishlist rolls

pandapaxxy (PvE / M+KB / Controller): Recommended MW: Reload. Wave(72) Void Grenade Launcher Special Ammo. "It's fun to see more Truthteller clones out in the wild. Harsh Truths competes with Truthteller and all the other wave frame GLs. Truthteller served me very well in a lot of GM attempts so I'm expecting a lot from this GL. Disruption Break was extremely strong and Destabilizing Rounds looks to be even stronger. Especially paired with Envious Assassin for a larger magazine you can two shot without even getting a kill with this GL."

Strong alternatives

Envious Assassin Destabilizing Rounds High-Velocity Rounds Smart Drift Control Linear Compensator Implosion Rounds Quick Launch Field Prep Disruption Break Repulsor Brace Disruption Break

pandapaxxy

pvp controller 12 wishlist rolls

pandapaxxy (PvP / Controller): Recommended MW: Velocity. Wave(72) Void Grenade Launcher Special Ammo. "Disruption Break makes or breaks this GL in PvP. It does just enough damage to break shields which will give you that 50 percent damage bonus to your kinetic. You could try going for Envious Assassin for those two shots but I think Threat Detector is just simpler to use."

Essential perks

Threat Detector

Strong alternatives

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

Speedrunner's Shopping List

god-pve 9 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

Destabilizing Rounds Wellspring Repulsor Brace Unrelenting Field Prep Envious Assassin

Community wishlist roll

8 wishlist rolls

Inspired by @PodvsEnemies Podcast vs Enemies episode 56 (https://open.spotify.com/episode/6hjWp0NaachsNymnN22FDL) with @ImpetusAlways, @Saint_Kabr and @CourtProjects. First-choice PvE roll for void synergy and burst damage to Majors in end-game content. The reprised Harsh Language is only the second void wave-frame grenade launcher. Lower stats that Deafening Whisper (although the range of stats is pretty compressed) - the New Devrim Kay VIII Foundry Field Tested origin perk should help, but it takes a long time to proc the higher tiers. You start out with 100 blast radius - not that it makes any difference as it's the dump stat for wave frame GLs - so you can use the barrel and mag perks for velocity and handling. Quick Launch is ideal, and Smart Drift Control works as a good alternate, and out of the two choices, High-Velocity Rounds is the mag perk to choose. In the first trait column Envious Assassin can give you up to three shots in the barrel for killing adds with your primary or power weapon, but Field Prep, Threat Detector or Stats for All are all worth considering as a support perk. Void subclasses provide a great toolkit to trigger the second stack of Golden Tricorn for 50% bonus damage, in the second trait column for your signature perk. Recommended MW: Handling or Velocity, with a damage-boosting (Major or Taken Spec) mod|tags: PvE, PvE-Boss, PvE-MajorSpec, PvE-God, PvE-EndGame, Controller, M+KB

Essential perks

Golden Tricorn High-Velocity Rounds

Strong alternatives

Envious Assassin Quick Launch Smart Drift Control Field Prep Threat Detector Stats for All

What these Harsh Language perks do

Destabilizing Rounds

Weapon Kills apply Volatile to enemies in a 7 meter radius around the target and grant Volatile Rounds for 3 seconds. 1.5 second cooldown between activations.

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.

Repulsor Brace

Kills against Void Debuffed enemies grant a 45 HP Void Overshield for 8 seconds (12 with Echo of Persistence).

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%

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)

Envious Assassin

Upon readying the weapon after scoring Kills with your other Weapons: Refills and/or overfills the Magazine from reserves based on the amount of Weapon Kills scored. Maximum total overfill amount is 200% of the Magazine Capacity. Each activation can only load up to 100% of the Magazine Capacity into the magazine. Loaded ammo per Kill by ammo type (rounds up): • Primary Weapons: 10% of Magazine Capacity • Special and Power Weapons: 20%

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).

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

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.

Stats for All

Upon damaging 3 Separate Enemies within 3 seconds of each, for 10 seconds: • 35 Handling and Reload Speed • 10 Stability and Range • 5% increased Damage Falloff Distance • 0.95x Reload Duration Multiplier Buff duration cannot be refreshed.

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