Built from 600 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
240 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 Arc builds. Watchful Eye is 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 right and loose so you could improve recoil control or look to boost Stability to help hit crits, or Handling if you can land your shots. In the magazine perk slot, perks that improve Reload Speed or mag size work best for a boss damage roll. For a sustained damage roll with Arc builds, in the first trait perk column Overflow refills the magazine and boosts its capacity to ×2.2 of base, rounded up, on picking up an ammo brick, or Eddy Current boosts Handling with a ×0.95 animation scalar and +20 Reload Speed with a ×0.95 animation scalar for 3s after sprinting for 1.5s, which is all applied instantly with +60 to Reload Speed when Amplified. Alternatively, Field Prep grants +55 Reload Speed with a ×0.8 animation scalar to both reload and ready/stow when crouched, and bumps Ammo Generation by +40. In the second column for both target and AoE damage, Jolting Feedback applies Arc Jolt after 14 hits (11 when Amplified) to tougher enemies who can survive the weapon damage, triggering chain lightning on further hits, or Rolling Storm generates ×1 stack of Arc Bolt Charge (×2 when Amplified) on a kill, to trigger a lightning bolt at ×10 stacks. Aegis ranks the Willing Vessel origin trait as C-Tier - it generates up to ×5 stacks of a slowly decaying buff on dealing damage and kills, to boost Stability, Handling and Reload Speed. If you're interested, the name carries a deeper narrative meaning that ties directly into vanguard espionage, internal paranoia, and the monitoring of corrupted allies during Episode: Heresy. Recommended MW: Handling, with your preferred choice of mod to boost weapon stats, ammo generation, or elemental pickups for builds.|tags:PvE PvE-Boss PvE-SustainedDamage PvE-EndGame PvE-God M+KB Controller
Strong alternatives
Arrowhead Brake
Extended Mag
Overflow
Jolting Feedback
Rolling Storm
Eddy Current
Field Prep
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
240 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. Watchful Eye is 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 right and loose so you could improve recoil control or look to boost Stability to help hit crits, or Handling if you can land your shots. In the magazine perk slot, perks that improve Reload Speed or mag size work best for a boss damage roll. For a sustained damage roll with Arc builds, in the first trait perk column Overflow refills the magazine and boosts its capacity to ×2.2 of base, rounded up, on picking up an ammo brick, or on an Arc subclass Eddy Current boosts Handling with a ×0.95 animation scalar and +20 Reload Speed with a ×0.95 animation scalar for 3s after sprinting for 1.5s, which is all applied instantly with +60 to Reload Speed when Amplified. Alternatively, Field Prep grants +55 Reload Speed with a ×0.8 animation scalar to both reload and ready/stow when crouched, and bumps Ammo Generation by +40. In the second column for damage, Killing Tally gains a stack for each enemy killed up to ×3 to boost damage by up to ×1.3 until you reload or stow. If there are adds arounding during damage, Surrounded boosts damage by up to to ×1.47 while within 15m of 3+ enemies. Aegis ranks the Willing Vessel origin trait as C-Tier - it generates up to ×5 stacks of a slowly decaying buff on dealing damage and kills, to boost Stability, Handling and Reload Speed. If you're interested, the name carries a deeper narrative meaning that ties directly into vanguard espionage, internal paranoia, and the monitoring of corrupted allies during Episode: Heresy. Recommended MW: Handling, with your preferred choice of mod to boost weapon stats, ammo generation, or elemental pickups for builds.|tags:PvE PvE-Boss PvE-SustainedDamage PvE-EndGame PvE-God M+KB Controller
Strong alternatives
Killing Tally
Arrowhead Brake
Extended Mag
Overflow
Surrounded
Eddy Current
Field Prep
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 Prismatic builds. Watchful Eye is 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 right and loose so you could improve recoil control or look to boost Stability to help hit crits, or Handling if you can land your shots. In the magazine perk slot, perks that improve Reload Speed or mag size work best for a boss damage roll. For a sustained damage roll with Prismatic builds, in the first trait perk column Overflow refills the magazine and boosts its capacity to ×2.2 of base, rounded up, on picking up an ammo brick. Alternatively, Field Prep grants +55 Reload Speed with a ×0.8 animation scalar to both reload and ready/stow when crouched, and bumps Ammo Generation by +40. In the second column for damage Elemental Honing grants an escalating stack of damage up to ×1.35 for 23s for each elemental damage type inflicted, which can be refreshed with a new damage type until you've run through all 5. Aegis ranks the Willing Vessel origin trait as C-Tier - it generates up to ×5 stacks of a slowly decaying buff on dealing damage and kills, to boost Stability, Handling and Reload Speed. If you're interested, the name carries a deeper narrative meaning that ties directly into vanguard espionage, internal paranoia, and the monitoring of corrupted allies like Sloane during Episode: Heresy. Recommended MW: Handling, with your preferred choice of mod to boost weapon stats, ammo generation, or elemental pickups for builds.|tags:PvE PvE-Boss PvE-SustainedDamage PvE-EndGame PvE-God M+KB Controller
Essential perks
Elemental Honing
Strong alternatives
Arrowhead Brake
Extended Mag
Overflow
Field Prep
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. Watchful Eye is 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 right and loose so you could improve recoil control or look to boost Stability to help hit crits, or Handling if you can land your shots. In the magazine perk slot, perks that improve Reload Speed or mag size work best for a boss damage roll. For a sustained damage roll with Arc builds, in the first trait perk column Overflow refills the magazine and boosts its capacity to ×2.2 of base, rounded up, on picking up an ammo brick. 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 best on overflowed or auto-refilled magazines. Aegis ranks the Willing Vessel origin trait as C-Tier - it generates up to ×5 stacks of a slowly decaying buff on dealing damage and kills, to boost Stability, Handling and Reload Speed. If you're interested, the name carries a deeper narrative meaning that ties directly into vanguard espionage, internal paranoia, and the monitoring of corrupted allies during Episode: Heresy. Recommended MW: Handling, with your preferred choice of mod to boost weapon stats, ammo generation, or elemental pickups for builds.|tags:PvE PvE-Boss PvE-SustainedDamage PvE-EndGame PvE-God M+KB Controller
Essential perks
Target Lock
Overflow
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
Recommendations aggregated from curated community wishlists; credit to the curators linked above.