New Purpose god roll & best perks

New Purpose — Destiny 2 Pulse Rifle
Legendary · Pulse Rifle

“I see you adorned in spots of blood like fallen rose petals. I see you victorious and bathed in light, I see you.”

Full perk pool, stats & source for New Purpose →

Built from 61 curated wishlist rolls for this Pulse Rifle. 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 18 wishlist rolls

pandapaxxy (PvE / M+KB / Controller): "New Purpose fills a different niche compared to Messenger. Neither are stronger than the other. New Purpose has headstone, vorpal weapon, and feeding frenzy. Messenger has rapid hit and adept mods. I think the strength of New Purpose is its synergy with stasis as well as the addition of feeding frenzy and vorpal weapon. Both have the stopping power of buffed desperado, but having vorpal for majors and champs is a bonus in New Purpose’s corner." Recommended MW - Reload.

Essential perks

Arrowhead Brake

Strong alternatives

Appended Mag Feeding Frenzy Desperado Armor-Piercing Rounds Extended Mag Perpetual Motion Vorpal Weapon Headstone

pandapaxxy

pvp mkb controller 18 wishlist rolls

pandapaxxy (PvP / M+KB / Controller): "In terms of PvP it’s really close. Rapid hit and the adept mods to give a small edge to messenger, but needing only arrowhead brake to clean up the recoil and have a perfectly vertical recoil direction is really hard to pass up. It completely frees up your mod slot for radar tuner, targeting, or whatever else tickles your fancy." Recommended MW - Range (M+KB) or Stability (Controller).

Essential perks

Arrowhead Brake

Strong alternatives

Perpetual Motion High-Caliber Rounds Desperado Ricochet Rounds Well-Rounded Heating Up Headstone Harmony

Community wishlist roll

pve 13 wishlist rolls

Inspired by DMB Player Versus Enemies Podcast 19. PvE first-choice roll for general content. Bitterspite origin trait is excellent - faster reload speed is always useful. A direct competitor to the Messenger, albeit with slightly worse stats in most attributes, but still decent. Arrowhead Brake sorts out the wonky recoil direction and adds Handling, or Fluted Barrel helps with Handling and Stability. Choose your favourite combat effect mag and then Perpetual Motion, Tunnel Vision or Heating Up (which also helps recoil direction) plus Desperado gives you stasis shards to play around with, with a Stasis class. Recommended MW: Handling, with a Full Auto Retrofit mod to take full advantage of Desperado, when procced.

Essential perks

Desperado

Strong alternatives

Perpetual Motion Fluted Barrel Armor-Piercing Rounds High-Caliber Rounds Ricochet Rounds Arrowhead Brake Tunnel Vision Heating Up

Community wishlist roll

pve 8 wishlist rolls

Inspired by DMB Player Versus Enemies Podcast 19. PvE first-choice roll for Stasis builds in end-game content. Bitterspite origin trait is excellent - faster reload speed is always useful. A direct competitor to the Messenger, albeit with slightly worse stats in most attributes, but still decent. Arrowhead Brake sorts out the wonky recoil direction and adds Handling, or Fluted Barrel helps with Handling and Stability. Choose your favourite combat effect mag and then Feeding Frenzy or Perpetual Motion plus Headstone gives you stasis shards to play around with, with a Stasis class. Recommended MW: Handling, with a Backup Mag mod or damage-boosting (Minor, Major or Taken Spec) mod.

Essential perks

Headstone

Strong alternatives

Fluted Barrel Armor-Piercing Rounds Feeding Frenzy Arrowhead Brake High-Caliber Rounds Ricochet Rounds Perpetual Motion

Community wishlist roll

4 wishlist rolls

Chevy's S17 Super Pog PVE List range MW tags:pve, M+KB

Essential perks

High-Caliber Rounds Desperado

Strong alternatives

Feeding Frenzy Hammer-Forged Rifling Perpetual Motion Corkscrew Rifling

What these New Purpose perks do

High-Caliber Rounds

Hits inflict increased Flinch on Enemies. PVE: Tier 1-2 Minors can be repeatedly staggered. Higher Tier Combatants stagger quicker. PVP: Flinch against Players varies based on damage and Weapon Archetype. Flinch increase ranges between 5-10%.

Feeding Frenzy

Weapon Kills grant 1 Stack of Feeding Frenzy for 3.5 seconds, increasing the Reload Speed of the weapon. Maximum of 5 Stacks. Bonuses at 1|2|3|4|5 Stacks: • 8|50|60|75|100 Reload Speed • 2.5%|10%|13%|16%|20% decreased Reload Animation Duration

Desperado

Finishing a reload 5.2 seconds after a Precision Kill or 3 kills within ? seconds of each reduces Firing Delay by 30% for 6 seconds. Buff is removed on stow.

Perpetual Motion

While moving at a minimum of 2 meters per second: Grants a Stack of 'Perpetual Motion' after 2 seconds and a second Stack after 10 seconds. Each Stack provides 10 Stability, 10 Handling, and 10 Reload Speed. All Stacks are removed if movement speed is below 2 m/s for 0.5 seconds. Works and can activate while stowed.

Armor-Piercing Rounds

Grants 5% increased damage against Elemental and Barrier Champion Shields. Allows bullets to overpenetrate enemies once.

Vorpal Weapon

Deals increased damage against Minibosses, Bosses, and Vehicles, as well as Players in their Super Ability. Damage increase by Ammo Type: • Primary Weapons: 20% [60%] • Special Weapons: 15% [20%] • Power Weapons: 10% [20%]

Headstone

Precision Kills create a Large Stasis Crystal at the target's location. Tier 1-2 Minor and Tier 1 Elite Combatants only spawn a Medium Stasis Crystal. Creating 5 Crystals within ? seconds prevents the perk from activating for 5 seconds.

Well-Rounded

Grenade Ability usage and Elemental Melee hits grant 1 Stack of Well-Rounded for 15 seconds. Super Ability usage grants 2 Stacks. Maximum of 2 Stacks. Each Stack grants 10 Range, 10 Stability, and 10 Handling. 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.

Heating Up

Weapon Kills grant a Stack of Heating Up for 5.5 seconds. Maximum of 2 Stacks. Benefits at 1|2 Stacks of Heating Up: • 15|30 Stability • 20|40 Recoil Direction • 15%|25% decreased Accuracy Cone Size • 15%|25% decreased Accuracy Cone Growth Buff remains active while stowed.

Harmony

Upon readying the weapon within 3 seconds of getting a Kill with a different weapon: Grants 20% increased damage and 15 Handling for 7 seconds.

Tunnel Vision

Grants the following for 5 seconds upon finishing a Reload within 3.6 seconds of a Weapon Kill: • 20 Aim Assist • ? ADS Handling • ?% decreased Accuracy Cone Growth

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

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