Built from 840 curated wishlist rolls for this Machine Gun. Perks marked essential appear in every roll of a recommendation; alternatives are the other perks curators call worth keeping.
Recommended rolls
Community wishlist roll
336 wishlist rolls
Constructed by @Adamsdown_Boy (PvE PvE-Minor PvE-GroupAdd PvE-EndGame PvE-God M+KB Controller): First-choice PvE roll for clearing groups of Minor adds in activities rated Normal, Hard or Very Hard difficulty. Temporal Clause has changed from a rapid-fire to an aggressive LMG, which are rated B-Tier for endgame PvE by @TheAegisRelic Endgame Analysis Spreadsheet, who says "best balance of DPS and total amongst LMGs, stagger intrinsic good". The frame intrinsic offers built in Anti-Unstoppable, but no other benefit as per the Destiny Data Compendium. The recoil direction is vertical and pretty tight, but you could still improve recoil control or look to boost Stability to help hit crits with the barrel perk anyway, or Handling if you can land your shots. In the magazine perk slot, perks that improve mag size or Reload Speed work best for a boss damage roll. There are quite a few double damage options - in the first trait column, Incandescent spreads +30 Solar Scorch stacks within 4m on a red bar Minor add kill (+45 stacks within 8m for orange and yellow bars). All of the scorch stacks are increased by ×1.5 with Solar Ember of Ashes. Alternatively, Meganeura builds up to ×3 stacks on crit hits for a refreshable 4s for solar AoE explosive damage in a 7.5m radius on a crit kill. In both cases the AoE damage is treated as weapon damage so inherits damage boosts and also procs subclass fragments. You can combine them with damage perks like Killing Tally which gains a stack for each enemy killed up to ×3 to boost damage by up to ×1.3 until you reload or stow, Surrounded which boosts damage by up to to ×1.47 while within 15m of 3+ enemies, or Rampage which stacks up to ×3 on kills for max ×1.331 damage for a refreshable 5s, with the stacks decaying one at a time. Aegis ranks the Fail Deadly origin trait as A-Tier - excellent for longer boss damage phases, granting a stack per damage tick up to the base magazine size - at max stacks a reload provides ×2 magazine size, as well as boosting Range by +15 and Aim Assist by +5. If you're interested, in linguistics a temporal clause is a type of dependent or subordinate clause that establishes when an action takes place - "*When Adams has finished eating,* we'll start the raid". It can also be read as a stipulation or condition in time - a fixed rule embedded within a Vex timeline, in which all alternative paths are deleted, forcing reality down a single corridor. Recommended MW: Handling, with your preferred choice of mod to boost weapon stats, ammo generation, or elemental pickups for builds.|tags:PvE PvE-Minor PvE-SingleAdd PvE-EndGame PvE-God M+KB Controller
Strong alternatives
Killing Tally
Arrowhead Brake
High-Caliber Rounds
Incandescent
Surrounded
Rampage
Meganeura
Armor-Piercing Rounds
Ricochet Rounds
Appended Mag
Alloy Magazine
Flared Magwell
Light Mag
Chambered Compensator
Extended Barrel
Fluted Barrel
Corkscrew Rifling
Polygonal Rifling
Smallbore
Hammer-Forged Rifling
Community wishlist roll
160 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. Temporal Clause has changed from a rapid-fire to an aggressive LMG, which are rated B-Tier for endgame PvE by @TheAegisRelic Endgame Analysis Spreadsheet, ho says "best balance of DPS and total amongst LMGs, stagger intrinsic good". The frame intrinsic offers built in Anti-Unstoppable, but no other benefit as per the Destiny Data Compendium. The recoil direction is vertical and pretty tight, but you could still improve recoil control or look to boost Stability to help hit crits with the barrel perk anyway, or Handling if you can land your shots. In the magazine perk slot, perks that improve mag size or Reload Speed work best for a boss damage roll. For sustained damage, in the first trait perk column Fourth Time's the Charm generates 2 shots from thin air after 4 crits within 3s of each other, almost doubling your total ammo if you can keep hitting crits, or Demolitionist provides an instant magazine refill on grenade use and chunk grenade ability energy on kills. In the second column for damage, Killing Tally gains a stack for each enemy killed during an add phase up to ×3 to boost damage by up to ×1.3 until you reload or stow, or if there are adds around you during a damage phase, Surrounded boosts damage by up to to ×1.47 while within 15m of 3+ enemies. Aegis ranks the Fail Deadly origin trait as A-Tier - excellent for longer boss damage phases, granting a stack per damage tick up to the base magazine size - at max stacks a reload provides ×2 magazine size, as well as boosting Range by +15 and Aim Assist by +5. If you're interested, in linguistics a temporal clause is a type of dependent or subordinate clause that establishes when an action takes place - "*When Adams has finished eating,* we'll start the raid". It can also be read as a stipulation or condition in time - a fixed rule embedded within a Vex timeline, in which all alternative paths are deleted, forcing reality down a single corridor. Recommended MW: Handling, with your preferred choice of mod to boost weapon stats, ammo generation, or elemental pickups for builds.|tags:PvE PvE-Minor PvE-SingleAdd PvE-EndGame PvE-God M+KB Controller
Strong alternatives
Killing Tally
Arrowhead Brake
Fourth Time's the Charm
Extended Mag
Surrounded
Demolitionist
Appended Mag
Alloy Magazine
Flared Magwell
Light Mag
Chambered Compensator
Extended Barrel
Fluted Barrel
Corkscrew Rifling
Polygonal Rifling
Smallbore
Hammer-Forged Rifling
Community wishlist roll
112 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. Temporal Clause has changed from a rapid-fire to an aggressive LMG, which are rated B-Tier for endgame PvE by @TheAegisRelic Endgame Analysis Spreadsheet, who says "best balance of DPS and total amongst LMGs, stagger intrinsic good". The frame intrinsic offers built in Anti-Unstoppable, but no other benefit as per the Destiny Data Compendium. The recoil direction is vertical and pretty tight, but you could still improve recoil control or look to boost Stability to help hit crits with the barrel perk anyway, or Handling if you can land your shots. In the magazine perk slot, perks that improve mag size or Reload Speed work best for a boss damage roll. For dealing with tougher adds, in the first trait column, Enlightened Action builds stacks on hits for a refreshable 2s that build after 12 hits to a max +55 Handling and Reload Speed or Perpetual Motion generates a stack at 2s and 10s when you've moving over 2m/s, with each stack adding +10 to Stability, Handling and Reload Speed to improve gunfeel, until you stop moving again. That faster reload helps with Mega Kill Clip to boost damage by ×1.4 with a duration of 3s + (2s × the number of kills) up to a max 20s, on a reload within 5s of a kill. Aegis ranks the Fail Deadly origin trait as A-Tier - excellent for longer boss damage phases, granting a stack per damage tick up to the base magazine size - at max stacks a reload provides ×2 magazine size, as well as boosting Range by +15 and Aim Assist by +5. If you're interested, in linguistics a temporal clause is a type of dependent or subordinate clause that establishes when an action takes place - "*When Adams has finished eating,* we'll start the raid". It can also be read as a stipulation or condition in time - a fixed rule embedded within a Vex timeline, in which all alternative paths are deleted, forcing reality down a single corridor. Recommended MW: Handling, with your preferred choice of mod 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
Mega Kill Clip
Strong alternatives
Arrowhead Brake
High-Caliber Rounds
Enlightened Action
Perpetual Motion
Armor-Piercing Rounds
Ricochet Rounds
Appended Mag
Alloy Magazine
Flared Magwell
Light Mag
Chambered Compensator
Extended Barrel
Fluted Barrel
Corkscrew Rifling
Polygonal Rifling
Smallbore
Hammer-Forged Rifling
Community wishlist roll
80 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, particular with Solar Warlock builds. Temporal Clause has changed from a rapid-fire to an aggressive LMG, which are rated B-Tier for endgame PvE by @TheAegisRelic Endgame Analysis Spreadsheet, who says "best balance of DPS and total amongst LMGs, stagger intrinsic good". The frame intrinsic offers built in Anti-Unstoppable, but no other benefit as per the Destiny Data Compendium. The recoil direction is vertical and pretty tight, but you could still improve recoil control or look to boost Stability to help hit crits with the barrel perk anyway, or Handling if you can land your shots. In the magazine perk slot, perks that improve mag size or Reload Speed work best for a boss damage roll. For sustained damage, in the first trait perk column Fourth Time's the Charm generates 2 shots from thin air after 4 crits within 3s of each other, almost doubling your total ammo if you can keep hitting crits, or Demolitionist provides an instant magazine refill on grenade use and chunk grenade ability energy on kills. In the second column for damage, Burning Ambition works better to build Solar ignitions on tougher targets if you have a solar ability like a Eunoia Helion to apply scorch initially, otherwise it'll take 27 hits within 2s of each other to apply +20 scorch stacks with +20 added on each additional hit to build towards an ignition. All of the scorch stacks are increased by ×1.5 with Ember of Ashes, and Dawn Chorus provides ×3 Scorch damage. Aegis ranks the Fail Deadly origin trait as A-Tier - excellent for longer boss damage phases, granting a stack per damage tick up to the base magazine size - at max stacks a reload provides ×2 magazine size, as well as boosting Range by +15 and Aim Assist by +5. If you're interested, in linguistics a temporal clause is a type of dependent or subordinate clause that establishes when an action takes place - "*When Adams has finished eating,* we'll start the raid". It can also be read as a stipulation or condition in time - a fixed rule embedded within a Vex timeline, in which all alternative paths are deleted, forcing reality down a single corridor. Recommended MW: Handling, with your preferred choice of mod 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
Burning Ambition
Strong alternatives
Arrowhead Brake
Fourth Time's the Charm
Extended Mag
Demolitionist
Appended Mag
Alloy Magazine
Flared Magwell
Light Mag
Chambered Compensator
Extended Barrel
Fluted Barrel
Corkscrew Rifling
Polygonal Rifling
Smallbore
Hammer-Forged Rifling
Community wishlist roll
56 wishlist rolls
Constructed by @Adamsdown_Boy (PvE PvE-Utility PvE-EndGame PvE-God M+KB Controller): First-choice PvE utility roll for solar Warlocks running Eunoia or Dawn Chorus in activities rated Normal, Hard or Very Hard difficulty. Temporal Clause has changed from a rapid-fire to an aggressive LMG, which are rated B-Tier for endgame PvE by @TheAegisRelic Endgame Analysis Spreadsheet, who says "best balance of DPS and total amongst LMGs, stagger intrinsic good". The frame intrinsic offers built in Anti-Unstoppable, but no other benefit as per the Destiny Data Compendium. The recoil direction is vertical and pretty tight, but you could still improve recoil control or look to boost Stability to help hit crits with the barrel perk anyway, or Handling if you can land your shots. In the magazine perk slot, perks that improve mag size or Reload Speed work best for a boss damage roll. For weapon-based application and progression of scorch into ignitions, you can roll both solar damage perk traits - Incandescent spreads +30 Solar Scorch stacks within 4m on a red bar Minor add kill (+45 stacks within 8m for orange and yellow bars), with scorch damage counting as weapon damage so can inherit damage boosts, and also proc subclass fragments, while Burning Ambition works better to build Solar ignitions on tougher targets if you have a solar ability like a Eunoia Helion to apply scorch initially, otherwise it'll take 27 hits within 2s of each other to apply +20 scorch stacks with +20 added on each additional hit to build towards an ignition. All of the scorch stacks are increased by ×1.5 with Ember of Ashes, and Dawn Chorus provides ×3 Scorch damage. Aegis ranks the Fail Deadly origin trait as A-Tier - excellent for longer boss damage phases, granting a stack per damage tick up to the base magazine size - at max stacks a reload provides ×2 magazine size, as well as boosting Range by +15 and Aim Assist by +5. If you're interested, in linguistics a temporal clause is a type of dependent or subordinate clause that establishes when an action takes place - "*When Adams has finished eating,* we'll start the raid". It can also be read as a stipulation or condition in time - a fixed rule embedded within a Vex timeline, in which all alternative paths are deleted, forcing reality down a single corridor. Recommended MW: Handling, with your preferred choice of mod to boost weapon stats, ammo generation, or elemental pickups for builds.|tags:PvE PvE-Utility PvE-EndGame PvE-God M+KB Controller
Essential perks
Burning Ambition
Incandescent
Strong alternatives
Arrowhead Brake
High-Caliber Rounds
Armor-Piercing Rounds
Ricochet Rounds
Appended Mag
Alloy Magazine
Flared Magwell
Light Mag
Chambered Compensator
Extended Barrel
Fluted Barrel
Corkscrew Rifling
Polygonal Rifling
Smallbore
Hammer-Forged Rifling
Community wishlist roll
56 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 with grenade builds. Temporal Clause has changed from a rapid-fire to an aggressive LMG, which are rated B-Tier for endgame PvE by @TheAegisRelic Endgame Analysis Spreadsheet, who says "best balance of DPS and total amongst LMGs, stagger intrinsic good". The frame intrinsic offers built in Anti-Unstoppable, but no other benefit as per the Destiny Data Compendium. The recoil direction is vertical and pretty tight, but you could still improve recoil control or look to boost Stability to help hit crits with the barrel perk anyway, or Handling if you can land your shots. In the magazine perk slot, perks that improve mag size or Reload Speed work best for a boss damage roll. For grenade builds, in the first trait perk column Demolitionist generates chunk grenade ability energy on kills and an instant magazine refill on grenade use to pair with Adrenaline Junkie in the second column which stacks up to ×5 on kills for +20 handling and max ×1.33 damage, with a grenade kill giving an instant 5 stacks, for a refreshable 5s. Aegis ranks the Fail Deadly origin trait as A-Tier - excellent for longer boss damage phases, granting a stack per damage tick up to the base magazine size - at max stacks a reload provides ×2 magazine size, as well as boosting Range by +15 and Aim Assist by +5. If you're interested, in linguistics a temporal clause is a type of dependent or subordinate clause that establishes when an action takes place - "*When Adams has finished eating,* we'll start the raid". It can also be read as a stipulation or condition in time - a fixed rule embedded within a Vex timeline, in which all alternative paths are deleted, forcing reality down a single corridor. Recommended MW: Handling, with your preferred choice of mod 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
Adrenaline Junkie
Demolitionist
Strong alternatives
Arrowhead Brake
High-Caliber Rounds
Armor-Piercing Rounds
Ricochet Rounds
Appended Mag
Alloy Magazine
Flared Magwell
Light Mag
Chambered Compensator
Extended Barrel
Fluted Barrel
Corkscrew Rifling
Polygonal Rifling
Smallbore
Hammer-Forged Rifling
Community wishlist roll
40 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. Temporal Clause has changed from a rapid-fire to an aggressive LMG, which are rated B-Tier for endgame PvE by @TheAegisRelic Endgame Analysis Spreadsheet, who says "best balance of DPS and total amongst LMGs, stagger intrinsic good". The frame intrinsic offers built in Anti-Unstoppable, but no other benefit as per the Destiny Data Compendium. The recoil direction is vertical and pretty tight, but you could still improve recoil control or look to boost Stability to help hit crits with the barrel perk anyway, or Handling if you can land your shots. In the magazine perk slot, perks that improve mag size or Reload Speed work best for a boss damage roll. For sustained damage, in the first trait perk column Fourth Time's the Charm generates 2 shots from thin air after 4 crits within 3s of each other, almost doubling your total ammo if you can keep hitting crits. In the second column for damage, Target Lock stacks up to 5 times on repeated hits within 0.2s of each other for up to ×1.4 damage at 110.33% of base magazine capacity - so works well with FttC. Aegis ranks the Fail Deadly origin trait as A-Tier - excellent for longer boss damage phases, granting a stack per damage tick up to the base magazine size - at max stacks a reload provides ×2 magazine size, as well as boosting Range by +15 and Aim Assist by +5. If you're interested, in linguistics a temporal clause is a type of dependent or subordinate clause that establishes when an action takes place - "*When Adams has finished eating,* we'll start the raid". It can also be read as a stipulation or condition in time - a fixed rule embedded within a Vex timeline, in which all alternative paths are deleted, forcing reality down a single corridor. Recommended MW: Handling, with your preferred choice of mod 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
Target Lock
Fourth Time's the Charm
Strong alternatives
Arrowhead Brake
Extended Mag
Appended Mag
Alloy Magazine
Flared Magwell
Light Mag
Chambered Compensator
Extended Barrel
Fluted Barrel
Corkscrew Rifling
Polygonal Rifling
Smallbore
Hammer-Forged Rifling
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