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Something New — Destiny 2 Hand Cannon
Legendary · Hand Cannon

“"It's new to me." —Banshee-44”

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Built from 48 curated wishlist rolls for this Hand Cannon. Perks marked essential appear in every roll of a recommendation; alternatives are the other perks curators call worth keeping.

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Inspired by @PodvsEnemies Podcast vs Enemies episode 72 (https://open.spotify.com/episode/5vRI9hBynq3jq712XCu7oc?si=c87cbb8036254e4a) with @ImpetusAlways, @Saint_Kabr and @CourtProjects. (??? ???): First-choice PvE pick for minor add-clear in end-game activities. Aggressive hand cannons have two main weaknesses - handling and reload speed. Fortunately, there are season 21 perk combinations that can help with that! Start with adding handling or a little extra stability with your barrel perk. You can go one of two ways with the magazine - either look for a perk that helps with reload or enjoy a combat effect perk and let the traits do the heavy lifting. While there are additional reload perks in the first trait column, you shouldn't really need them, so Wellspring offers useful ability energy on kills as your support trait. Then, in the second trait column as your signature perk, Frenzy maxes out handling and reload speed when procced, as well as providing a solid 15% weapon damage boost. The Dream Works origin trait is useful in a fireteam to get the occasional overflowed magazine in a firefight. Recommended MW: Reload Speed or Handling, with a damage-boosting (Minor or Taken Spec) mod.|tags: PvE, PvE-MinorSpec, PvE-God, PvE-EndGame, M+KB, Controller

Essential perks

Wellspring Frenzy

Strong alternatives

Fluted Barrel Flared Magwell Corkscrew Rifling Smallbore Polygonal Rifling Light Mag Alloy Magazine High-Caliber Rounds Armor-Piercing Rounds Ricochet Rounds

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Inspired by @PodvsEnemies Podcast vs Enemies episode 72 (https://open.spotify.com/episode/5vRI9hBynq3jq712XCu7oc?si=c87cbb8036254e4a) with @ImpetusAlways, @Saint_Kabr and @CourtProjects. (??? ???): First-choice PvE pick for minor add-clear in end-game activities with a Stasis (probably Hunter) subclass. Aggressive hand cannons have two main weaknesses - handling and reload speed. So. start with adding handling or a little extra stability with your barrel perk, and look for a perk that helps with reload in your magazine. In the second trait column, as your signature perk, the second tier of Golden Tricorn can be difficult to proc with Stasis - shattering a target that's frozen with a Glacier Grenade will do it or, if you're a Hunter, your Shurikens will also work. To support that, you could go one of two ways with your first column trait - Rapid Hit, to speed up the reload speed and take full advantage of the 50% damage boost, or Pugilist to get melee energy back so you can proc it again sooner. The Dream Works origin trait is useful in a fireteam to get the occasional overflowed magazine in a firefight. Recommended MW: Reload Speed or Handling, with a damage-boosting (Minor or Taken Spec) mod.|tags: PvE, PvE-MinorSpec, PvE-God, PvE-EndGame, M+KB, Controller

Essential perks

Golden Tricorn

Strong alternatives

Rapid Hit Fluted Barrel Flared Magwell Corkscrew Rifling Light Mag Alloy Magazine Pugilist

Community wishlist roll

12 wishlist rolls

Inspired by @PodvsEnemies Podcast vs Enemies episode 72 (https://open.spotify.com/episode/5vRI9hBynq3jq712XCu7oc?si=c87cbb8036254e4a) with @ImpetusAlways, @Saint_Kabr and @CourtProjects. (??? ???): First-choice PvE pick for minor add-clear in general. Aggressive hand cannons have two main weaknesses - handling and reload speed. So. start with adding handling or a little extra stability with your barrel perk, and look for a perk that helps with reload in your magazine. In the trait columns, if you enjoy ability spam (and who doesn't?), you can unusually roll both Wellspring or Pugilist and Demolitionist to keep the grenades/charged melees/class abilities coming in a firefight. The Dream Works origin trait is useful in a fireteam to get the occasional overflowed magazine in a firefight too. Recommended MW: Reload Speed of Handling, with a damage-boosting (Minor or Taken Spec) mod.|tags: PvE, PvE-MinorSpec, PvE-God, M+KB, Controller

Essential perks

Demolitionist

Strong alternatives

Fluted Barrel Flared Magwell Wellspring Corkscrew Rifling Light Mag Alloy Magazine Pugilist

What these Something New perks do

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.

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.

Alloy Magazine

Linearly grants a Reload Duration Multiplier as your magazine drops from 50% capacity to empty. Reload Duration Multiplier scales from 0.9x at 50% capacity to 0.8x with an empty magazine.

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%.

Armor-Piercing Rounds

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

Rapid Hit

"Buffed Hits" grant 1 Stack of Rapid Hit for 2 seconds. Maximum of 5 Stacks. "Buffed Hits" refer to any "Yellow Number" Hits such as Precision Hits or Hits against debuffed targets. Benefits at 1|2|3|4|5 Stacks: • 2|12|14|18|25 Stability • 5|30|35|42|60 Reload Speed • 0.99x|0.96x|0.95x|0.945x|0.92x Reload Duration Multiplier

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.

Pugilist

Weapon Kills grant 10% Melee Ability Energy. Kills with Sniper Rifles, Shotguns, Glaives, and Fusion Rifles grant 20%. Dealing Melee Damage grants 35 Handling for 3 seconds. 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.

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.

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