Imperial Needle god roll & best perks

Imperial Needle — Destiny 2 Combat Bow
Legendary · Combat Bow
Where it drops: Source: Battlegrounds

“Honor among foes. Glory to the vanquished.”

Full perk pool, stats & source for Imperial Needle →

Built from 110 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

YeezyGT's S15

pve 54 wishlist rolls

[YeezyGT's S15] (PvE): [MW: Draw Time / Reload Speed] "Imperial Needle is the Void Bow. If you need a Void Bow for Overload Champions, this is the only Legendary one. Lightweight Frames typically don't have much advantage over Precision Frames, given that there's a "limit" for how low you can get Draw Time, but this will still steer you right. Most perks will work on this, Swashbuckler is pretty great for range variation, Quickdraw/Opening Shot if you're just wanting a Champion stopper, and Frenzy is great if you're playing mid-range. Truthfully, this is more of a PvP Bow, but we'll take the slot fillers where we can."

Strong alternatives

Impulse Amplifier Elastic String Helical Fletching Swashbuckler Opening Shot Frenzy Archer's Tempo Quickdraw Straight Fletching Fiberglass Arrow Shaft Natural String

Community wishlist roll

controller pve 26 wishlist rolls

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Strong alternatives

Archer's Tempo Elastic String Sympathetic Arsenal Fiberglass Arrow Shaft Impulse Amplifier Straight Fletching Flexible String Frenzy Swashbuckler Polymer String

Community wishlist roll

controller pvp 18 wishlist rolls

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Strong alternatives

Archer's Tempo Elastic String Fiberglass Arrow Shaft Wellspring Opening Shot Killing Wind Straight Fletching Flexible String Polymer String

Community wishlist roll

6 wishlist rolls

Inspired by Destiny Massive Breakdowns from Podcast 201. PvP first choice roll.

Essential perks

Opening Shot Polymer String

Strong alternatives

Archer's Tempo Fiberglass Arrow Shaft Straight Fletching Helical Fletching Killing Wind

Community wishlist roll

6 wishlist rolls

Inspired by Destiny Massive Breakdowns from Podcast 201. PvE first choice roll.

Essential perks

Archer's Tempo Polymer String

Strong alternatives

Thresh Fiberglass Arrow Shaft Straight Fletching Helical Fletching Swashbuckler

What these Imperial Needle perks do

Opening Shot

Grants the following benefits for your first shot (of the burst): • 20 Aim Assist and 25 Range • 5% decreased Accuracy Cone Size • 10% decreased Accuracy Cone Growth Special weapons only receive 50% of the benefits. Stats are rounded up. Firing the weapon prevents the perk from activating for 3 seconds.

Archer's Tempo

Precision Hits decrease Draw Time by 25% for 3 seconds. Buff is removed on stow.

Killing Wind

On Weapon Kill, for 5 seconds: • 50 Mobility • 40 Handling and 20 Range • 5% increased Damage Falloff Distance Additional Kills extend the duration by 5 seconds, up to 8 seconds. Buff is removed on stow.

Thresh

Weapon Kills grant an additional 1% Super Energy. Kills with Sniper Rifles, Shotguns, Glaives, and Fusion Rifles grant an additional 1.5% instead.

Swashbuckler

Weapon Kills grant a Stack of 'Swashbuckler' for 4.5 seconds. Maximum of 5 Stacks. (Glaive) Melee Kills grant all 5 Stacks instantly. Damage increase at 1|2|3|4|5 Stacks: 6.7% | 13.3% | 20% | 26.6% | 33.3% Stowing the weapon removes the buff.

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%

Frenzy

After being in Combat for 12 seconds: Grants 15% increased damage, 100 Handling, and 100 Reload Speed for 7.2 seconds. Works and can activate while stowed. Dealing and receiving damage refreshes the buff duration. For Frenzy, being in Combat is defined as having either dealt or received damage within the last 5 seconds. Self-damage and environmental damage do not count.

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.

Sympathetic Arsenal

Passively grants 20 Reload Speed. Finishing a reload within 3.6 seconds of a Weapon Kill refills stowed weapons from reserves.

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.

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

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