Shining Sphere god roll & best perks

Shining Sphere — Destiny 2 Rocket Launcher
Legendary · Rocket Launcher
Where it drops: Source: Complete Iron Banner matches and earn rank-up packages from Lord Saladin.

“Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light.”

Full perk pool, stats & source for Shining Sphere →

Built from 82 curated wishlist rolls for this Rocket Launcher. Perks marked essential appear in every roll of a recommendation; alternatives are the other perks curators call worth keeping.

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Essential perks

Demolitionist

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Strong alternatives

Auto-Loading Holster Quick Launch Impact Casing Tracking Module Ambitious Assassin Field Prep Alloy Casing Smart Drift Control Linear Compensator

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Essential perks

Snapshot Sights

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Essential perks

Snapshot Sights Volatile Launch Black Powder Tracking Module

What these Shining Sphere perks do

Snapshot Sights

Passively decreases the ADS Animation Duration: • 50% decrease on Primary Weapons • 20% decrease on Special Weapons

Tracking Module

While Aiming Down Sights and targeting an Enemy: Fired Rockets track the targeted enemy. Diminshed effectiveness in PVP. Tracking persists for 1 second once no longer aiming at the enemy.

Auto-Loading Holster

Refills stowed weapon from reserves after 3.5 seconds of it being stowed.

Impact Casing

Increases Impact damage by 10%, resulting in a 2.2% total damage increase (not accounting for other damage perks). High-Impact Rocket Launchers only receive a 1.03% total damage increase.

Ambitious Assassin

Reloading after scoring Kills with the weapon overfills the magazine from reserves based on the number of Kills scored. Overfill amount maxes out at 150% of the Magazine Capacity. Always rounds up. Kill counter persists through stow. Overfill amount per Kill scored: • Primary Weapons: 20% • Special and Power Weapons: 10%

Field Prep

Grants the following while Crouched: • 50 Reload Speed • 0.8x Reload Duration Multiplier • 0.8x Ready/Stow Duration Multiplier Passively grants 20 Ammo Generation stat. (50% more than 1 Ammo Generation armor mod)

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.

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.

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

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