Built from 110 curated wishlist rolls for this Scout 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
54 wishlist rolls
pandapaxxy (PvE / M+KB / Controller): "The Guiding Sight lost Encore, Gutshot Straight, and Tunnel Vision, and instead now rolls with Slice, Strategist, and To the Pain" Recommended MW: Reload Speed.
Strong alternatives
Hatchling
Appended Mag
Perpetual Motion
Fluted Barrel
Precision Instrument
Cascade Point
Slice
Demolitionist
Tactical Mag
Flared Magwell
Corkscrew Rifling
pandapaxxy
pvp
controller
48 wishlist rolls
pandapaxxy (PvP / Controller): "The Guiding Sight lost Encore, Gutshot Straight, and Tunnel Vision, and instead now rolls with Slice, Strategist, and To the Pain" Recommended MW: Stability.
Strong alternatives
Kill Clip
Perpetual Motion
Fluted Barrel
Accurized Rounds
Precision Instrument
Enlightened Action
Moving Target
To the Pain
Steady Rounds
Corkscrew Rifling
Smallbore
Community wishlist roll
6 wishlist rolls
Adamsdown_Boy - information as at v8.0.0.6 (PvE / PvE-MinorSpec / PvE-God / M+KB / Controller): PvE pick for add-clearing Minor enemies in general content, particularly with strand fragments. The reprised The Guiding Sight has a couple of extra tricks up its sleeve that might be worth looking for. The stats are pretty much in-band, although there aren't many peers to compare against, but you'll definitely appreciate some extra handling and reload speed, so focus on improving those with the barrel and magazine perks. If you're a Warlock that wants to sever an enemy and reduce outgoing damage by 40% while quickly regaining class ability energy, or a Titan that wants to do the same (and maybe also use Hazardous Propulsion), this provides the rare combination of Slice and Strategist, so you can use your rift or barricade to proc Slice and then start quickly regenerating ability energy again. The Nadir Focus origin trait is useful to help land repeated crits, so that's the one to choose. Recommended MW: Handling or Reload Speed, with a Backup Mag mod.
Essential perks
Strategist
Slice
Strong alternatives
Fluted Barrel
Flared Magwell
Arrowhead Brake
Corkscrew Rifling
Tactical Mag
Community wishlist roll
2 wishlist rolls
Adamsdown_Boy - information as at v8.0.0.6 (PvE / PvE-MinorSpec / PvE-God / M+KB / Controller): PvE pick for add-clearing Minor enemies in general content, particularly with strand fragments. The reprised The Guiding Sight has a couple of extra tricks up its sleeve that might be worth looking for. The stats are pretty much in-band, although there aren't many peers to compare against, but you'll definitely appreciate some extra handling and reload speed, so focus on improving those with the barrel and magazine perks. For strand fragment synergy you now have access to both Slice (probably easier to proc for Hunters, with the faster cooldown for Dodge) and Hatchling in the two trait perk columns. The Nadir Focus origin trait is useful to help land repeated crits, so that's the one to choose. Recommended MW: Handling or Reload Speed, with a Backup Mag mod.
Essential perks
Hatchling
Arrowhead Brake
Slice
Strong alternatives
Flared Magwell
Tactical Mag
Recommendations aggregated from curated community wishlists; credit to the curators linked above.