Perpetualis god roll & best perks

Perpetualis — Destiny 2 Auto Rifle
Legendary · Auto Rifle
Where it drops: Source: Season of Defiance

“For soldiers of the eternal war.”

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Built from 282 curated wishlist rolls for this Auto Rifle. Perks marked essential appear in every roll of a recommendation; alternatives are the other perks curators call worth keeping.

Recommended rolls

Datto

pve mkb 202 wishlist rolls

Datto (PvE, MKB): "Obviously the main appeal here is Hatchling for any sort of Strand based builds, although I'd argue that Hatchling is more important on Warlock than Titan or Hunter. [...] Envious Assassin seems very appealing. Loads more ammo into the gun, but you gotta get some kills with other weapons and they gotta be rapid kills. If you're using a machine gun, it's a good perk on a different gun, like this one, but I don't think it's the instalock perk that some people may think it is. It's good though. Keep Away is another solid option, but I think it kinda depends on the content. You're using an auto-rifle, you do need to be SOMEWHAT close to things and that might prevent this perk from activating. Elemental Capacitor, ehh, not for strand in my opinion, for PvE anyway. I guess I'm probably going Envious still, the rest of the roster is eh. Second column, Hatchling if you're doing a Threadling build, but if you're not, it's not like it's the worst choice you can possibly make and I think a lot of people are gonna go for it anyway. Target Lock I'm not sold on unless you're doing higher level content where things aren't gonna die as quickly. I would say don't sleep on Golden Tricorn because Strand can proc Golden Tricorn x2 REALLY easily and that's a very significant damage boost that can have a lot of up time. Demolitionist is also not too bad of an idea, but if I'm getting Demo, then I'm gonna use the raid auto, which feels like a laser beam. Go for Arrowhead Brake, Accurized and Range masterwork."

Strong alternatives

Hatchling Tactical Mag Arrowhead Brake Envious Assassin Golden Tricorn Enhanced Target Lock Hatchling Keep Away Target Lock Golden Tricorn Keep Away Envious Assassin Appended Mag Extended Mag Fluted Barrel Smallbore

pandapaxxy

pve mkb controller 54 wishlist rolls

pandapaxxy (PvE / M+KB / Controller): Recommended MW: Reload. Adaptive(600) Strand Auto Rifle Primary Ammo. "Depending on how much you like Strand in PvE you can definitely run Golden Tricorn for the damage bonus. Target Lock will be a subclass agnostic perk choice. Envious Assassin would be good with another good add-clear weapon."

Strong alternatives

Arrowhead Brake Envious Assassin Appended Mag Golden Tricorn Fluted Barrel Smallbore Tactical Mag Flared Magwell Zen Moment Target Lock Demolitionist

pandapaxxy

pvp controller 18 wishlist rolls

pandapaxxy (PvP / Controller): Recommended MW: Range. Adaptive(600) Strand Auto Rifle Primary Ammo. "In Crucible you can roll Keep Away and Target Lock for a great fast killing adaptive auto rifle. It stays above its competition by maintaining a good neutral stat spread and Target Lock. Arrowhead is great with a counterbalance mod for keeping the recoil nice and tight. Zen Moment is a great perk if you want to reduce flinch, especially useful now that Target Lock resets when you miss one shot. Being able to accurately hit your target is especially important on top of 600 autos having seen their day in the sun and need help."

Essential perks

Accurized Rounds

Strong alternatives

Target Lock Arrowhead Brake Keep Away Fluted Barrel Smallbore Zen Moment Killing Wind Eye of the Storm

Community wishlist roll

4 wishlist rolls

Inspired by @PodvsEnemies Podcast vs Enemies episode 55 (https://open.spotify.com/show/36OTFinErCUBrCzu6BaYbo) with @Saint_Kabr, @CourtProjects and @ImpetusAlways. First-choice PvE roll for add clear in end-game activities. Shapeable. This is the easier to get Strand adaptive auto-rifle for Season of Defiance, if you're unable to get into the Root of Nightmares Raid. The stats are decent, although both stability and handling are a little below par, and the recoil direction could maybe do with a little help, although the Noble Deeds origin perk can help out with the handling (and boost reload speed too). Extended Barrel or Smallbore are your best barrel choices, and Tactical Mag is the best of the mag perks. In the first trait column, there aren't many support perks that help in PvE - Keep Away is the pick of a limited budget, or possibly the reworked Zen Moment. For your second trait column signature perk, Golden Tricorn is unique (as at v7.0.0.6, anyway) on a Strand auto rifle and the second stack isn't too difficult to proc by either using a grapple melee or shooting a Tangle, for a massive 50% damage boost for 10s. Recommended MW: Range or Stability, with a damage-boosting (Minor or Taken Spec) or Backup Mag mod|tags: PvE, PvE-MinorSpec, PvE-EndGame, PvE-God, Controller, M+KB

Essential perks

Tactical Mag

Strong alternatives

Extended Barrel Golden Tricorn Keep Away Smallbore Zen Moment Unknown perk

Community wishlist roll

4 wishlist rolls

Inspired by @PodvsEnemies Podcast vs Enemies episode 55 (https://open.spotify.com/show/36OTFinErCUBrCzu6BaYbo) with @Saint_Kabr, @CourtProjects and @ImpetusAlways. First-choice PvE roll for Strand synergy in general activities. Shapeable. This is the easier to get Strand adaptive auto-rifle for Season of Defiance, if you're unable to get into the Root of Nightmares Raid. The stats are decent, although both stability and handling are a little below par, and the recoil direction could maybe do with a little help, although the Noble Deeds origin perk can help out with the handling (and reload speed too). Extended Barrel or Smallbore are your best barrel choices, and Tactical Mag is the best of the mag perks. In the first trait column, there aren't many support perks that help in PvE - Keep Away is the pick of a limited budget, or possibly the reworked Zen Moment. For your second trait column signature perk, you have Hatchling to work with Threadling-boosting fragments. Recommended MW: Range or Stability, with a damage-boosting (Minor or Taken Spec) or Backup Mag mod|tags: PvE, PvE-MinorSpec, PvE-God, Controller, M+KB

Essential perks

Tactical Mag Hatchling

Strong alternatives

Extended Barrel Keep Away Smallbore Zen Moment

What these Perpetualis perks do

Envious Assassin

Upon readying the weapon after scoring Kills with your other Weapons: Refills and/or overfills the Magazine from reserves based on the amount of Weapon Kills scored. Maximum total overfill amount is 200% of the Magazine Capacity. Each activation can only load up to 100% of the Magazine Capacity into the magazine. Loaded ammo per Kill by ammo type (rounds up): • Primary Weapons: 10% of Magazine Capacity • Special and Power Weapons: 20%

Golden Tricorn

While the perk's buff isn't active, Weapon Kills grant 'Golden Tricorn x1' for 7 seconds, increasing weapon damage by 15%. Additional Kills refresh the buff duration. While Golden Tricorn x1 or x2 is active: Grenade or Elemental Melee Kills matching the element of the Weapon grant Golden Tricorn x2 for 10 seconds, increasing weapon damage by 50%. 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.

Zen Moment

Weapon Hits grant 1 Stack of the perk for 1 second up to the maximum of 5? Stacks. Benefits granted per Stack: • Grants ?% Flinch Resistance • Reduces Visual Weapon Shake by 15% • Reduces Reticle Bounce by 15% Stacks gained per Weapon Hit by weapon type: • Hand Cannons, Scout Rifles: 2? • Pulse Rifles, Sidearms: 1.5 • Other Weapons: 1

Target Lock

Successive Hits within 0.2 seconds of each grant a ramping Damage Buff after scoring 12.5% of the Magazine Capacity as hits. Missing deactivates the buff. Stacks displayed on-screen are only visual aides, the buff ramps up with each shot once active. Reaches maximum strength at 5 Stacks. % of the Magazine Capacity as Hits required for each Visual Stack: 12.5%|35.5%|54.5%|74.5%|110.33% Damage Buff ramps up from 16.73% [10.46%] to 40% [25%] upon reaching maximum strength. Assuming no missed shots, it provides roughly a 25% [15.85%] Damage Buff on average after firing 100% of the Magazine Capacity.

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.

Keep Away

While no enemies are within 15 meters: Grants 10 Range, 30 Reload Speed, and decreases Accuracy Cone Growth by 5?%.

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.

Eye of the Storm

Grants a scaling buff to Handling and Accuracy as your Shield Health drops below 40 and reaches maximum strength at 0 Shield HP. Buff at maximum strength grants: • 30 Handling • 40% decreased Accuracy Cone Size • 17% decreased Accuracy Cone Growth The buff linearly scales from 0% at 80 Shield HP to 100% at 0 Shield HP (Critical Health). It initially triggers as you drop to 40 Shield HP — giving you 50% of the maximum buff. However, as you regenerate your Shield Health, the buff will still remain until you reach 80 Shield HP where the benefits scale down to zero.

Hatchling

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

Hatchling

Scoring a Precision Kill or 3 kills within 3 seconds of each other spawns a Threadling at the target's location. 🡅 Spawns an additional hatchling every ? activations.

Golden Tricorn Enhanced

While the perk's buff isn't active, Weapon Kills grant 'Golden Tricorn x1' for 7 seconds, increasing weapon damage by 15%. Additional Kills refresh the buff duration to 🡅8 seconds. While Golden Tricorn x1 or x2 is active: Grenade or Elemental Melee Kills matching the element of the Weapon grant Golden Tricorn x2 for 10 seconds, increasing weapon damage by 50%. 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. 🡅 Golden Tricorn x1's duration is refreshed to 8 seconds.

Target Lock

Successive Hits within 0.2 seconds of each grant a ramping Damage Buff after scoring 12.5% of the Magazine Capacity as hits. Missing deactivates the buff. Stacks displayed on-screen are only visual aides, the buff ramps up with each shot once active. Reaches maximum strength at 5 Stacks. % of the Magazine Capacity as Hits required for each Visual Stack: 12.5%|35.5%|54.5%|74.5%|110.33% Damage Buff ramps up from 🡅18.82% [12.55%] to 🡅45% [30%] upon reaching maximum strength. Assuming no missed shots, it provides roughly a 🡅28.13% [19.02%] Damage Buff on average after firing 100% of the Magazine Capacity. 🡅 Damage Buff is increased by 12.5% [20%].

Keep Away

While no enemies are within 15 meters: Grants 10 Range, 🡅35 Reload Speed, and decreases Accuracy Cone Growth by 🡅7.5?%. 🡅 Grants an additional 5 Reload Speed and further decreases Accuracy Cone Growth by 2.5?%. (5?⁠%🠚7.5?⁠%)

Envious Assassin

Upon readying the weapon after scoring Kills with your other Weapons: Refills and/or overfills the Magazine from reserves based on the amount of Weapon Kills scored. Maximum total overfill amount is 200% of the Magazine Capacity. Each activation can only load up to 100% of the Magazine Capacity into the magazine. Loaded ammo per Kill by ammo type (rounds up): • Primary Weapons: 🡅12.5% of Magazine Capacity • Special and Power Weapons: 🡅22.5% 🡅 Loaded ammo per Kill is increased by 2.5% of the Magazine Capacity (e.g. 10%⁠🠚⁠12.5%).

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