“"Hey. You see Cayde around, tell him his gun's ready." —Banshee-44”
Built from 168 curated wishlist rolls for this Fusion Rifle. Perks marked essential appear in every roll of a recommendation; alternatives are the other perks curators call worth keeping.
Recommended rolls
Community wishlist roll
96 wishlist rolls
Constructed by @Adamsdown_Boy (PvE PvE-Boss PvE-SustainedDamage PvE-EndGame PvE-God M+KB Controller): First-choice PvE roll for sustained DPS in a damage phase against a single yellow-bar target in activities rated Normal, Hard or Very Hard difficulty. Loaded Question is a high impact fusion rifle, which are rated C-Tier for endgame PvE by @TheAegisRelic tiering spreadsheet https://linktr.ee/TheAegisRelic being "strongest standout for body and ranged QoL DPS and a big step up over other fusions". The frame intrinsic offers built in Anti-Overload, and a ×0.8 accuracy cone size and ×0.83 accuracy cone growth when ADS and moving slower that 2.8m/s - crouch walking speed - as per the https://www.destiny2.science/ Destiny Data Compendium. The stats are good by comparison with its peers - you can see them at https://destiny.report/w/852069910/loaded-question and hopefully https://d2foundry.gg/w/852069910 will show how weapon stats impact in-game performance when the site is back up and running. The Recoil Direction is a bit right and fairly tight, but with only 5 bolts to control, you could look to boost Range with the barrel perk, which helps to a degree with recoil anyway, or to boost your preferred stat. As the battery perk, Accelerated Coils improves charge time by 40ms at the cost of ×0.98 base damage, or Enhanced or Ionized Battery with an Backup Mag mod gets you to 7 or the maximum of 8 shots respectively. High-impacts provide the best boss total damage and DPS among fusions. You can overflow the battery with Overflow which refills the magazine and boosts its capacity to ×2 of base (×2.2 when enhanced), rounded up, on picking up an ammo brick, or Envious Assassin in the first trait perk column, which overflows the magazine to up to ×3 capacity at 10% of mag size per kill with primary weapons and 20% with heavy (12.5%/22.5% enhanced) before readying. Alternatively, Demolitionist provides an instant magazine refill on grenade use and generates chunk grenade ability energy on kills or Auto-Loading Holster refills the magazine 3.5s (3.3s enhanced) after stowing. In the second column, for damage, Controlled Burst reduces charge time to ×0.9 and boosts damage by ×1.2 for 2s (2.5s when enhanced) after a kill or landing all the bolts in a burst. The Problem Solver origin trait is very good for PvE when facing yellow bars - 12 hits (4 bursts) will apply Exhaust to an enemy, reducing damage output to ×0.9 for a refreshable 5s and granting +50 to Reload Speed and Handling for 10s (12s when enhanced) - both effects are refreshable. Otherwise, Vanguard Determination provides up to ×3 stacks that reduces incoming damage to max ×0.94 for a refreshable 10s (12.5s when enhanced), on kills within 20s of using a class ability. If you're interested, "Loaded Question" has a deeper, tragic-comic meaning tied directly to Cayde-6 and his relationship with the gunsmith, described in the lore and the flavour text. Recommended MW: Charge Time, with a Charge Time or Backup Mag mod, or your preferred choice to boost weapon stats, ammo generation, or elemental pickups for builds.|tags:PvE PvE-Boss PvE-SustainedDamage PvE-EndGame PvE-God M+KB Controller
Essential perks
Controlled Burst
Strong alternatives
Accelerated Coils
Extended Barrel
Overflow
Envious Assassin
Demolitionist
Auto-Loading Holster
Enhanced Battery
Ionized Battery
Smallbore
Hammer-Forged Rifling
Corkscrew Rifling
Fluted Barrel
Polygonal Rifling
Arrowhead Brake
Chambered Compensator
Community wishlist roll
48 wishlist rolls
Constructed by @Adamsdown_Boy (PvE PvE-Boss PvE-SustainedDamage PvE-God PvE-EndGame M+KB Controller): First-choice PvE roll for sustained DPS in a damage phase against a single yellow-bar target in activities rated Normal, Hard or Very Hard difficulty. Loaded Question is a high impact fusion rifle, which are rated C-Tier for endgame PvE by @TheAegisRelic tiering spreadsheet https://linktr.ee/TheAegisRelic being strongest standout for body and ranged QoL DPS and a big step up over other fusions. The frame intrinsic offers built in Anti-Overload, and a ×0.8 accuracy cone size and ×0.83 accuracy cone growth when ADS and moving slower that 2.8m/s - crouch walking speed - as per the https://www.destiny2.science/ Destiny Data Compendium. The stats are good by comparison with its peers - you can see them at https://destiny.report/w/852069910/loaded-question and hopefully https://d2foundry.gg/w/852069910 will show how weapon stats impact in-game performance when the site is back up and running. The Recoil Direction is a bit right and fairly tight, but with only 5 bolts to control, you could look to boost Range with the barrel perk, which helps to a degree with recoil anyway, or to boost your preferred stat. With precision frames, you need to worry less about recoil control for look to improve Handling or maybe Stability. Accelerated Coils improves charge time by 40ms at the cost of ×0.98 base damage, or Enhanced or Ionized Battery in the battery perk slot with an Backup Mag mod gets you to 7 or the maximum of 8 shots respectively. High-impacts provide the best boss total damage and DPS among fusions. You can overflow the battery with Overflow which refills the magazine and boosts its capacity to ×2 of base (×2.2 when enhanced), rounded up, on picking up an ammo brick, or Envious Assassin in the first trait perk column, which overflows the battery to up to ×3 capacity at 10% of base size per kill with primary weapons and 20% with heavy (12.5%/22.5% enhanced) before readying. Is the second column, Reservoir Burst makes this a multipurpose roll, Reservoir Burst provides a ×1.3 (×1.33 when enhanced) damage boost when the battery is at or above maximum capacity and triggers an AoE explosion on a kill to help clear groups of Minor adds, as well as passively granting +30 to Battery Capacity - the equivalent of a Backup Mag mod. The Problem Solver origin trait is very good for PvE when facing yellow bars - 12 hits (4 bursts) will apply Exhaust to an enemy, reducing damage output to ×0.9 for a refreshable 5s and granting +50 to Reload Speed and Handling for 10s (12s when enhanced) - both effects are refreshable. Otherwise, Vanguard Determination provides up to ×3 stacks that reduces incoming damage to max ×0.94 for a refreshable 10s (12.5s when enhanced), on kills within 20s of using a class ability. If you're interested, "Loaded Question" has a deeper, tragic-comic meaning tied directly to Cayde-6 and his relationship with the gunsmith, described in the lore and the flavour text. Recommended MW: Charge Time, with a Charge Time or Backup Mag mod, or your preferred choice to boost weapon stats, ammo generation, or elemental pickups for builds.|tags:PvE PvE-Boss PvE-SustainedDamage PvE-God PvE-EndGame M+KB Controller
Essential perks
Reservoir Burst
Strong alternatives
Accelerated Coils
Extended Barrel
Overflow
Envious Assassin
Enhanced Battery
Ionized Battery
Smallbore
Hammer-Forged Rifling
Corkscrew Rifling
Fluted Barrel
Polygonal Rifling
Arrowhead Brake
Chambered Compensator
Community wishlist roll
24 wishlist rolls
Constructed by @Adamsdown_Boy (PvE PvE-Minor PvE-SingleAdd PvE-EndGame PvE-God M+KB Controller): First-choice PvE roll for clearing individual Minor adds or tougher enemies in activities rated Normal, Hard or Very Hard difficulty, particularly on grenade builds. Loaded Question is a high impact fusion rifle, which are rated C-Tier for endgame PvE by @TheAegisRelic tiering spreadsheet https://linktr.ee/TheAegisRelic being strongest standout for body and ranged QoL DPS and a big step up over other fusions. The frame intrinsic offers built in Anti-Overload, and a ×0.8 accuracy cone size and ×0.83 accuracy cone growth when ADS and moving slower that 2.8m/s - crouch walking speed - as per the https://www.destiny2.science/ Destiny Data Compendium. The stats are good by comparison with its peers - you can see them at https://destiny.report/w/852069910/loaded-question and hopefully https://d2foundry.gg/w/852069910 will show how weapon stats impact in-game performance when the site is back up and running. The Recoil Direction is a bit right and fairly tight, but with only 5 bolts to control, you could look to boost Range with the barrel perk, which helps to a degree with recoil anyway, or to boost your preferred stat. With precision frames, you need to worry less about recoil control for look to improve Handling or maybe Stability. Accelerated Coils improves charge time by 40ms at the cost of ×0.98 base damage, or Enhanced or Ionized Battery in the battery perk slot with an Backup Mag mod gets you to 7 or the maximum of 8 shots respectively. To help with tougher minor adds, in the first trait perk column Demolitionist generates chunk grenade ability energy on kills and an instant battery refill on grenade use, while in the second column, Frenzy after being in combat for 12s - that's dealing or taking damage - boosts Handling and Reload Speed by +100 and boosts damage by ×1.15 for a refreshable 7.2s. The Problem Solver origin trait is very good for PvE when facing yellow bars - 12 hits (4 bursts) will apply Exhaust to an enemy, reducing damage output to ×0.9 for a refreshable 5s and granting +50 to Reload Speed and Handling for 10s (12s when enhanced) - both effects are refreshable. Otherwise, Vanguard Determination provides up to ×3 stacks that reduces incoming damage to max ×0.94 for a refreshable 10s (12.5s when enhanced), on kills within 20s of using a class ability. If you're interested, "Loaded Question" has a deeper, tragic-comic meaning tied directly to Cayde-6 and his relationship with the gunsmith, described in the lore and the flavour text. Recommended MW: Charge Time, with a Charge Time or Backup Mag mod, or your preferred choice to boost weapon stats, ammo generation, or elemental pickups for builds.|tags:PvE PvE-Minor PvE-SingleAdd PvE-EndGame PvE-God M+KB Controller
Essential perks
Demolitionist
Frenzy
Strong alternatives
Accelerated Coils
Extended Barrel
Enhanced Battery
Ionized Battery
Smallbore
Hammer-Forged Rifling
Corkscrew Rifling
Fluted Barrel
Polygonal Rifling
Arrowhead Brake
Chambered Compensator
Recommendations aggregated from curated community wishlists; credit to the curators linked above.