Heretic god roll & best perks

Heretic — Destiny 2 Rocket Launcher
Legendary · Rocket Launcher
Where it drops: Source: Altars of Sorrow

“"Death is only and forever an ending. All else is sacrilege." —Kuldax”

Full perk pool, stats & source for Heretic →

Built from 121 curated wishlist rolls for this Rocket Launcher. Perks marked essential appear in every roll of a recommendation; alternatives are the other perks curators call worth keeping.

Recommended rolls

YeezyGT's S16

pve 54 wishlist rolls

[YeezyGT's S16] [MW: Velocity] "Heretic is a Rocket Launcher with spikes. It doesn't come with Clown Cartridge, but does at least get Lasting Impression / Cluster Bombs. Impulse Amplifier is great, Field Prep is great, the spikes are pretty great. There's better options, sure. But Heretic has frosted tips."

Strong alternatives

Impulse Amplifier Quick Launch Impact Casing Lasting Impression Cluster Bomb Demolitionist Field Prep Surplus High-Velocity Rounds Hard Launch Smart Drift Control

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Strong alternatives

Ambitious Assassin Quick Launch Impact Casing Lasting Impression Demolitionist Cluster Bomb Impulse Amplifier Alloy Casing Field Prep Smart Drift Control Linear Compensator

Community wishlist roll

controller pvp 21 wishlist rolls

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Strong alternatives

Quickdraw Impulse Amplifier Volatile Launch Black Powder Cluster Bomb Surplus High-Velocity Rounds Confined Launch Quick Launch

Community wishlist roll

1 wishlist roll

Mercules904 (PVP; pretty good PvE) - "Honestly a weapon with great possibilities if the heavy weapon classes ever get reworked."

Essential perks

Cluster Bomb Volatile Launch Black Powder Rangefinder

Community wishlist roll

1 wishlist roll

Mercules904 (pretty good PvE) - "Honestly a weapon with great possibilities if the heavy weapon classes ever get reworked."

Essential perks

Hard Launch Cluster Bomb Demolitionist Impact Casing

Community wishlist roll

1 wishlist roll

Mercules904 (pretty good PvE; curated) - "Honestly a weapon with great possibilities if the heavy weapon classes ever get reworked."

Essential perks

Cluster Bomb Implosion Rounds Demolitionist Quick Launch

Community wishlist roll

controller god-pvp 1 wishlist roll

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Essential perks

Impulse Amplifier Cluster Bomb Volatile Launch Black Powder

What these Heretic perks do

Cluster Bomb

Rocket detonations release 8 Cluster Bombs. Each Cluster Bomb deals up to 150 [11] damage in a 4 meter radius.

Rangefinder

Aiming Down Sights grants the following benefits: • 10 Range • 10% increased Effective Zoom • 5% increased Projectile Speed The Effective Zoom increase pushes out Aim Assist Falloff by 10%, reduces (Absolute) Recoil by 10% and narrows the Accuracy and Aim Assist Cones by the same amount. (This is the normal behavior of Zoom and isn't unique to Rangefinder)

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.

Impact Casing

Increases Impact damage by 10%, resulting in a 2.2% total damage increase (not accounting for other damage perks). High-Impact Rocket Launchers only receive a 1.03% total damage increase.

Impulse Amplifier

Passively grants 20 Reload Speed and 15% decreased Reload Animation Duration (20% for Rocket Launchers). Passively increases Projectile Velocity based on Weapon Archetype: • Rocket Launchers: 10% • Support-Frame Auto Rifles: 15% • Micro-Missile Frame Weapons: 25%

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%

Lasting Impression

Passively grants 50 Blast Radius. Rockets attach on impact and detonate after 3 seconds, dealing 35% increased Explosive Damage. Due to the split of impact and explosive damage on Rocket Launchers, this perk only provides an overall increase of 26-27% damage for the sake of boss DPS. Does not buff the damage of Wolfpack Rounds.

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)

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.

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

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

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