Hushed Whisper god roll & best perks

Hushed Whisper — Destiny 2 Combat Bow
Legendary · Combat Bow

“Quiet now, I'll do the talking.”

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Built from 72 curated wishlist rolls for this Combat Bow. Perks marked essential appear in every roll of a recommendation; alternatives are the other perks curators call worth keeping.

Recommended rolls

Community wishlist roll

36 wishlist rolls

Inspired by @CourtProjects and @ImpetusAlways (PvE PvE-MinorSpec PvE-God PvE-EndGame M+KB Controller): First-choice PvE roll for Minor add control in both general at-level or better, and end-game underleveled content. Hushed Whisper is a precision frame bow which are rated C-Tier for endgame PvE by @TheAegisRelic tiering spreadsheet https://linktr.ee/TheAegisRelic, and provides ×0.8 horizontal recoil, which isn't that impactful on bows. The stats are good by comparison with its peers, and are helped further at Tier 4/5 when barrel and magazine perks are enhanced - see https://d2foundry.gg/w/3431536253 for how the weapon stats impact in-game performance. As ever for bows, use the bowstring perk to reduce Draw Time and boost Handling, and the arrow perk to boost Accuracy or Reload Speed. In the first trait perk column, Successful Warm-Up applies a ×0.625 scalar after a kill for 6s, with further kills adding 4s at a time to a maximum of 20s or until stowed. For damage in the second column, Hatchling spawns a Threadling on a crit kill or three crit hits within 3s of each other. Alternatively, Explosive Head boosts bodyshot damage by ×1.15 and crit damage by ×1.1 with increased stagger, and inflicts AoE damage on enemies within 3m or Precision Instrument procs on crit hits granting up to 6 stacks of escalating damage for ×1.25 (×1.3 when enhanced) for 1.25s or until you miss a crit. For the Origin Trait, there's either Wild Card to provide the chance of Telesto-like "Experimental Submunitions" dropping on a kill - the number depends on the enemy tier - that last up to 10.5s and explode on contact or proximity to an enemy, or Search Party which applies a ×0.85 ADS animation scalar and ×1.1 ADS movement speed when there are no allies within 15m. Recommended MW: Draw Time, with your preferred choice of mod/enhanced mod to boost mag size, weapon stats, ammo regeneration, or elemental pickups for builds - and don't forget to check any available seasonal fragile mods.|tags:PvE PvE-MinorSpec PvE-God PvE-EndGame M+KB Controller

Essential perks

Successful Warm-Up

Strong alternatives

Hatchling Elastic String Fiberglass Arrow Shaft Explosive Head Precision Instrument Straight Fletching Helical Fletching Compact Arrow Shaft Flexible String Polymer String

Community wishlist roll

24 wishlist rolls

Inspired by @CourtProjects and @ImpetusAlways (PvE PvE-MinorSpec PvE-God PvE-EndGame M+KB Controller): First-choice PvE roll for add group control in both general at-level or better, and end-game underleveled content, particularly on Strand builds. Hushed Whisper is a precision frame bow which are rated C-Tier for endgame PvE by @TheAegisRelic tiering spreadsheet https://linktr.ee/TheAegisRelic, and provides ×0.8 horizontal recoil, which isn't that impactful on bows. The stats are good by comparison with its peers, and are helped further at Tier 4/5 when barrel and magazine perks are enhanced - see https://d2foundry.gg/w/3431536253 for how the weapon stats impact in-game performance. As ever for bows, use the bowstring perk to reduce Draw Time and boost Handling, and the arrow perk to boost Accuracy or Reload Speed. For Strand synergy, Tear in the first trait perk column spreads ~4m AoE sever on a crit kill to reduce damage output to ×0.6 from enemies affected. For damage in the second column, Explosive Head boosts bodyshot damage by ×1.15 and crit damage by ×1.1 with increased stagger, and inflicts AoE damage on enemies within 3m. Precision Instrument also procs on crit hits granting up to 6 stacks of escalating damage for ×1.25 (×1.3 when enhanced) for 1.25s or until you miss a crit. For the Origin Trait, there's either Wild Card to provide the chance of Telesto-like "Experimental Submunitions" dropping on a kill - the number depends on the enemy tier - that last up to 10.5s and explode on contact or proximity to an enemy, or Search Party which applies a ×0.85 ADS animation scalar and ×1.1 ADS movement speed when there are no allies within 15m. Recommended MW: Draw Time, with your preferred choice of mod/enhanced mod to boost mag size, weapon stats, ammo regeneration, or elemental pickups for builds - and don't forget to check any available seasonal fragile mods.|tags:PvE PvE-MinorSpec PvE-God PvE-EndGame M+KB Controller

Essential perks

Tear

Strong alternatives

Elastic String Explosive Head Fiberglass Arrow Shaft Precision Instrument Straight Fletching Helical Fletching Compact Arrow Shaft Flexible String Polymer String

Community wishlist roll

12 wishlist rolls

Inspired by @CourtProjects and @ImpetusAlways (PvE PvE-MinorSpec PvE-God PvE-EndGame M+KB Controller): First-choice PvE roll for add group control in both general at-level or better, and end-game underleveled content, particularly on Strand builds. Hushed Whisper is a precision frame bow which are rated C-Tier for endgame PvE by @TheAegisRelic tiering spreadsheet https://linktr.ee/TheAegisRelic, and provides ×0.8 horizontal recoil, which isn't that impactful on bows. The stats are good by comparison with its peers, and are helped further at Tier 4/5 when barrel and magazine perks are enhanced - see https://d2foundry.gg/w/3431536253 for how the weapon stats impact in-game performance. As ever for bows, use the bowstring perk to reduce Draw Time and boost Handling, and the arrow perk to boost Accuracy or Reload Speed. For Strand synergy, there's the trait perk pairing of Tear which spreads ~4m AoE sever on a crit kill to reduce damage output to ×0.6 from enemies affected. A crit kill, or three crit hits within 3s of each other, also procs Hatchling to spawn a Threadling. For the Origin Trait, there's either Wild Card to provide the chance of Telesto-like "Experimental Submunitions" dropping on a kill - the number depends on the enemy tier - that last up to 10.5s and explode on contact or proximity to an enemy, or Search Party which applies a ×0.85 ADS animation scalar and ×1.1 ADS movement speed when there are no allies within 15m. Recommended MW: Draw Time, with your preferred choice of mod/enhanced mod to boost mag size, weapon stats, ammo regeneration, or elemental pickups for builds - and don't forget to check any available seasonal fragile mods.|tags:PvE PvE-MinorSpec PvE-God PvE-EndGame M+KB Controller

Essential perks

Hatchling Tear

Strong alternatives

Elastic String Fiberglass Arrow Shaft Straight Fletching Helical Fletching Compact Arrow Shaft Flexible String Polymer String

What these Hushed Whisper perks do

Hatchling

Scoring a Precision Kill or 3 kills within 3 seconds of each other spawns a Threadling at the target's location.

Tear

Precision Kills Sever enemies within ? meters of the target for ? seconds. ? second cooldown between activations.

Explosive Head

Splits off 50% of the Bow's bodyshot damage into an Explosive Payload that detonates in a 3 meter radius on impact. The Payload deals 30% increased damage in PvE and staggers PvE Combatants more. Payload detonation time after hitting a target or surface depends on the distance. The remaining Impact damage portion receives an increased Crit Multiplier to compensate for the Payload not benefitting from crits. [PvE] Total damage is increased by ~15% of the weapon's bodyshot damage. On crits, the overall increase is 10.33% for Precision Bows and 9.69% for Lightweight Bows. [PvP] Total damage remains roughly the same but can vary by 1-2% in either direction for crits.

Precision Instrument

Direct Weapon Hits grant a stack of Precision Instrument for 1.25 seconds (2.1 seconds on weapons with a Draw/Charge Time). Maximum of 6 stacks. Reloading the weapon (except on Bows) or missing removes all stacks... usually. Heavy Burst Frame weapons can only gain 1 stack per burst. Adaptive Burst Linear Fusion Rifles require 1.5? Hits for each stack (and missing sometimes does not remove your stacks on them). Precision damage increase at 1|2|... stacks: 4.17% | 8.33% | 12.5% | 16.67% | 20.83% | 25%

Successful Warm-Up

Weapon Kills decrease Charge/Draw Time by 37.5% for 6 seconds. Kills while the perk is active add 4 seconds to the duration up to a maximum of 20 seconds. Buff is removed on stow.

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