The Palindrome (Adept) god roll & best perks

The Palindrome (Adept) — Destiny 2 Hand Cannon
Legendary · Hand Cannon
Where it drops: Source: Season of the Chosen Nightfall Grandmaster

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Built from 371 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.

Recommended rolls

Community wishlist roll

128 wishlist rolls

Inspired by DMB Player Versus Enemies Podcast 2. PvE first choice roll for non end game content. The traits are more aimed at PvP than PvE, but there are some decent combinations available. Recommended MW: Reload Speed or Stability, with Backup Mag or damage-boosting (Minor, Adept Bigs Ones or Taken Spec) mod.

Strong alternatives

Appended Mag Outlaw Polygonal Rifling One for All Smallbore Fluted Barrel Corkscrew Rifling Armor-Piercing Rounds High-Caliber Rounds Ricochet Rounds Subsistence Thresh Rampage Unrelenting

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controller pve 105 wishlist rolls

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Strong alternatives

Fluted Barrel Armor-Piercing Rounds Thresh Overflow Rampage High-Impact Reserves Subsistence One for All Bottomless Grief Outlaw Appended Mag Extended Mag Smallbore Corkscrew Rifling

YeezyGT's S16

god-pvp 80 wishlist rolls

[YeezyGT's S16] [MW: Range] "Palindrome's a household name. While the PvP-oriented perk selection is fairly small, the ones that it rolls with have transformed the Hand Cannon meta ever since their introduction. Typically you'll run Quickdraw/Killing Wind with Rangefinder/Rampage depending on your playstyle. I've seen a number of people using Thresh to great effect in sixes, also."

Strong alternatives

Quickdraw High-Caliber Rounds Rangefinder Hammer-Forged Rifling Rampage Killing Wind Ricochet Rounds Armor-Piercing Rounds Light Mag Smallbore Extended Barrel Corkscrew Rifling Polygonal Rifling

Community wishlist roll

20 wishlist rolls

Chevy's S14 Super Pog PvE Loot List (MKB/PVE). Recommended MW - Range

Strong alternatives

High-Caliber Rounds Hammer-Forged Rifling Overflow One for All Ricochet Rounds Outlaw Thresh Smallbore Rampage High-Impact Reserves

Community wishlist roll

controller pvp 18 wishlist rolls

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Strong alternatives

Quickdraw Fluted Barrel Ricochet Rounds High-Impact Reserves Killing Wind Rangefinder Overflow High-Caliber Rounds Smallbore

Community wishlist roll

12 wishlist rolls

Inspired by Destiny Massive Breakdowns from Podcast 205. PvP first choice roll. Recommended MW: Stability.

Strong alternatives

Outlaw Smallbore Thresh Flared Magwell Polygonal Rifling Ricochet Rounds Overflow Rampage

Community wishlist roll

3 wishlist rolls

Inspired by DMB Player Versus Enemies Podcast 2. PvE first choice roll for end game content. The traits are more aimed at PvP than PvE, but One for All gives a sizable 35% damage boost that can be reliably procced in end game content without having to get a kill, while Overflow helps with staying in the fight. Recommended MW: Reload Speed or Stability, with Backup Mag or damage-boosting (Minor, Adept Bigs Ones or Taken Spec) mod.

Essential perks

Smallbore Overflow One for All

Strong alternatives

Armor-Piercing Rounds High-Caliber Rounds Ricochet Rounds

Community wishlist roll

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Essential perks

Fluted Barrel Armor-Piercing Rounds Overflow One for All

Community wishlist roll

controller god-pvp 1 wishlist roll

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Essential perks

Quickdraw Fluted Barrel Ricochet Rounds Rangefinder

Community wishlist roll

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Essential perks

Quickdraw High-Caliber Rounds Fluted Barrel Rangefinder

Community wishlist roll

pve 1 wishlist roll

Inspired by DMB Player Versus Enemies Podcast 10. PvE first choice roll for end-game content. Barrel and mag depend on your range/stability/handling/reload speed and combat perk (Armor-Piercing/High-Calibre Rounds) preferences. The Stunning Recovery Origin Trait can be procced when there's an anti-Champion mod in town, or externally by a grenade or melee as long as the weapon is equipped. Recommended MW: Reload Speed or Stability, with a Backup Mag or damage-boosting (Minor, Major or Taken Spec) mod.

Essential perks

Stats for All One for All

Community wishlist roll

1 wishlist roll

Inspired by DMB Player Versus Enemies Podcast 2. PvE first choice roll for end game content. The traits are more aimed at PvP than PvE, but One for All gives a sizable 35% damage boost that can be reliably procced in end game content without having to get a kill, while Appended Mag and Overflow combine well to help with staying in the fight. Recommended MW: Reload Speed or Stability, with Backup Mag or damage-boosting (Minor, Adept Bigs Ones or Taken Spec) mod.

Essential perks

Appended Mag Smallbore Overflow One for All

What these The Palindrome (Adept) perks do

Outlaw

Precision Kills grant 70 Reload Speed with a 0.9x decreased Reload Animation Duration for 6 seconds. Buff is removed on stow.

Thresh

Weapon Kills grant an additional 1% Super Energy. Kills with Sniper Rifles, Shotguns, Glaives, and Fusion Rifles grant an additional 1.5% instead.

Overflow

Upon picking up Special or Heavy Ammo: Refills and Overfills the Magazine from reserves. Overfill amount maxes out at 100% of the Magazine Capacity. Activates even while stowed.

Rampage

Weapon Kills grant a Stack of Rampage. Maximum of 3 Stacks. Stacks expire one at a time every 4.5 seconds. Grants a 10%|21%|33.1% damage increase at 1|2|3 Stacks. Does not buff the Splash/Explosive damage elements of other perks.

Armor-Piercing Rounds

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

One for All

Scoring Weapon Hits against 3 Separate Enemies within 3 seconds of each grants 35% increased damage for 10 seconds. Does not require Direct Hits. Buff duration cannot be refreshed.

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.

Rangefinder

Aiming Down Sights grants the following benefits: • 10 Range • 10% increased Effective Zoom • 5% increased Projectile Speed The Effective Zoom increase pushes out Aim Assist Falloff by 10%, reduces (Absolute) Recoil by 10% and narrows the Accuracy and Aim Assist Cones by the same amount. (This is the normal behavior of Zoom and isn't unique to Rangefinder)

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%.

High-Impact Reserves

Increases damage by 12.1% [3%] to 25.6% [6%] as the Magazine drops from 50% of its base capacity to empty. The buff in PVE ranges between 10.3% and 22.9% instead on Fusion Rifles and Aggressive Frame Linear Fusion Rifles. Does not buff the Splash/Explosive damage elements of other perks.

Subsistence

Weapon Kills refill 10% of the magazine (rounded up) from reserves. Submachine Gun and Auto Rifle Kills refill 17% of the magazine.

Bottomless Grief

Passively grants 30 Magazine stat. (Identical to Extended Mag) Kills refill the magazine while Last Guardian Standing. Does not activate when playing solo.

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.

Stats for All

Upon damaging 3 Separate Enemies within 3 seconds of each, for 10 seconds: • 35 Handling and Reload Speed • 10 Stability and Range • 5% increased Damage Falloff Distance • 0.95x Reload Duration Multiplier Buff duration cannot be refreshed.

Unrelenting

Starts Health Regeneration and restores 65 HP upon reaching 100% Activation Progress with Weapon Kills within 5 seconds of each. Activation Progress by Enemy Rank: • Minor Combatants: 34% • Players: 67% • Elites, Minibosses, and Bosses: 100%

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