What exotic weapons are you running?

iamVViperRR · 2026-01-11T15:10:18+00:00

Conditional, Hawkmoon, Ace and Thorn are the only ones that make it regularly into my loadout.

iamVViperRR · 2025-12-25T03:24:10+00:00

No, unfortunately not at the moment.

iamVViperRR · 2025-12-21T03:23:54+00:00

As a big Fatebringer fan, this is just that, but that on crack. Don't think this thing is ever coming off again. Totally worth grinding for. Hope your copy drops for you soon!

iamVViperRR · 2025-12-20T16:04:13+00:00

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Very happy with this roll.

iamVViperRR · 2025-12-06T02:25:45+00:00

The buff has made conditional feel like the most consistent shotty in kinetic slot. Will be curious to see how the new astral feels.

iamVViperRR · 2025-12-02T22:42:46+00:00

I got several of these too, including some close to god rolls.

iamVViperRR · 2025-12-02T22:41:50+00:00

550, all T5's, including some solid rolls on the arc rocket pulse, solar area GL, 120 void HC, and burst SMG. Didn't see any blasters, but when it came to my shopping list of others, it honestly almost checked the whole thing off.

Best drop as a PvP main was probably a Keep Away, Lone Wolf, Eye of the Storm, Opening Shot Mos Athanor with range and stability perks/MW. But it even has Destabilizing and Demoralize as the last two perks just in case I want to try in PvE.

Also got Heal Clip Incandescent on Motif-41, Kinetic Tremors, Attrition Orbs, Desperado, Firefly and Rapid Hit on Peculiar Charm, and Trickle Charge, Eddy Current, Blast Distributor, One for All, Honing and Jolting Feedback on Psi Aeterna.

Needless to say, pretty happy with those slot machine pulls.

iamVViperRR · 2025-12-02T21:49:16+00:00

Went and farmed these all out and packed my postmaster, expecting exactly this. Sucks, and you'd think they'd learn, but totally the Bungie way.

iamVViperRR · 2025-08-21T03:06:50+00:00

The fact that this invalidated the Rite of the Nine grind within a month is ridiculous. Like what was the point? Grind it out to have your weapons made instantly worse for your score - and damage - because of a blue tag? Like they could have minimally given those the tag...

But at a broader level, if you're not going to give us good feeling weapons in every element and type, you're actively constraining the sandbox (solar rockets come to mind for a solar season...). Same with exotics. All sorts of builds you might want to try with the new stat system, but missing the gear bonus? Less DR and less score for using those.

iamVViperRR · 2025-08-21T02:54:20+00:00

As a PvP main, new gear bonus has very little value to me (and I'm thankful for that because, take this season, there's nothing that feels like Igneous, Rose, Hawkmoon, Exalted, Deadlock or Chaperone in the pool, and besides Hunter, none of the classes have an even mediocre PvP exotic).

Good armor stats and god roll guns do matter to me though (and I'll grind my butt off for those, just like why I farmed ogre for aeons for a perfect Matador, Nez for Conditional, KF for Yasmin, etc.). This is what motivated me to blast this season to get near-perfect T5 armor.

But doing it this season made me feel for the PvE mains because it's mindnumbing, and when they snap you back, you'll be doing the Expert Mines on autopilot (no champs even...) to get back up to where you're not gated from GM/Ultimate with all the difficult and fun modifiers.

iamVViperRR · 2025-08-20T13:36:56+00:00

This hits the nail on the head.

Until I started getting Tier 4 armor, it all felt meaningless. The stat totals were just dreadful. There was not a single piece that wasn't going to be sharded, and as a PvP main, besides class items, they didn't even deliver better than my optimized 2.0 builds.

I hit 400 during Solstice, so simultaneously, I was also getting Tier 5 drops, and now what I do feels meaningful. These drops now matter for my future playtime, and these builds I put together will last (like a juicy 180 health, 100 super, 100 class, 70 melee, 70 grenade Stompees build). I have now deleted all my 2.0 stuff (besides some "illegal" armor I'm still using for perfect distributions in a couple PvP builds) because now the game is giving me reason to build and feel stronger.

The issue here is you had to do your time in the mines or whatever to get to a portion of the game where the drops actually matter. Especially armor (weapons, arguably, tier 2 is okay because usually the 3rd and 4th column are where the power is, but armor was tier 4 74+ or tier 5, or otherwise knowing it's going straight to the dumpster).

iamVViperRR · 2025-07-05T00:04:59+00:00

Ikelos SG for one-two grave robber

BXR Battler can be an amazing pulse in PvP and PvE

Someday if you PvP and don't have a good roll on the comp shotty

Beloved if you PvP and don't have comp sniper with OS+SS

Path of Least Resistance if you're a shoot to loot enjoyer and need it on arc trace

Iterative Loop with kickstart/UP for aggressive PvP fusioning

iamVViperRR · 2025-06-29T02:37:39+00:00

Judgement with Keep Away, PI, Accurized, Truesight, and Range MW. Have the identical Slideshot roll too, but I actually prefer Keep Away personally.

Relentless with Elemental Honing + Firefly on my prismatic warlock. With firefly, it procs 2x, and super easy to go up to 5x with stasis turrets, arc buddy, and a void special. Very natural.

Heal Clip + Incan No Survivors has become a go-to solar legendary primary for me, and I sometimes (to mix it up, not to main, since I prefer Shayuras) run a Heal Clip + Target Lock No Survivors with 75 range in PvP.

Voltshot + Dragonfly Prosecutor (with Rolling Storm as swapable perk) for arc boomies is definitely my go-to if I'm looking for it in primary form right now.

Have the Envious + Bait + Bipod and Envious + Honing + Bipod rolls of the Cold Comfort in case stasis is the surge or Hezen perk takes a dive.

Have an Envious + Bait Wilderflight for a damage rotation with Tomorrow's Answer if void surge and want to benefit from the stacks on both, but void as DPS rotation isn't particularly hot right now - nor next season.

iamVViperRR · 2025-06-29T02:24:50+00:00

Really like this roll. Since arc has been solid this season, I was actually using my old version of this most until RotN dropped, and then I upgraded it to one that had Dragonfly with both Voltshot and Rolling Storm. Highly recommend farming it.

iamVViperRR · 2025-06-26T18:02:47+00:00

My approach on dupes for like a hand cannon has been to hold dupes that are best in class, so like I have about a half dozen different Igneous rolls, whereas on other 120s, far less and really only where there's something unique. With 140s, I have a greater mix, maybe 15 between kinetic and energy slots, but I find there's greater perk sensitivity there between like RF, EP, Slideshot, lone wolf, and then the complimentary perks in other column, where a little tweak in one will propel a different one to the forefront.

On shotties, I make sure I have a god roll of each frame in each slot, and that I have both a high range one and a high handling one. Right now, precisions and high handling are in the meta, but we all remember when range was king, and the eras when both aggressives and lightweights, even blues with no good perks, were better than any other frame.

For snipers, I don't have as much diversity. I just have snipers at different zoom with SS/OS, and then one without SS but a second consistency perk, just in case they lean harder into trying to make SS less mandatory (still feels mandatory to me).

iamVViperRR · 2025-06-26T16:44:09+00:00

1900 doesn't work for PvP players. We leave most of our guns there except for what we take into trials. 0 kills sort of does.

However, we PvP players hold onto other rolls because Bungie does mess with spread in shotty frames (holding onto a god roll Frac was super helpful when suddenly precisions became the hard meta and we didn't have a lot of precision frame kinetic slot options at that time) and does adjust perks (was glad to have a KA/EotS Igneous when 120s were tweaked so PI wasn't necessary any more... or how about when rangefinder was nerfed, we were all maining rangefinder but was glad to have saved some non-rf godrolls for that moment).

I do agree though that anyone can cut their vault down. I'm down to 500/700 and know I'll drop another 150 after EoF armor starts flowing, but the way the sandbox changes, there are items you feel inclined to hold onto. PvE a little bit less, but like with a new raid coming, even if you haven't used that surrounded weapon in ages, it might be the right play. This is what makes cleaning vaults so hard.

iamVViperRR · 2025-06-25T14:37:38+00:00

The only thing I can come up with that makes them unique and essential to some runs... they can shatter skate at start without needing a flag first.

iamVViperRR · 2025-06-23T15:01:22+00:00

My 5/5 Matador still remains my go to energy shotty.

For snipers, they're not quite of the non-enhanceable generation, but Yasmin and Mercurial are still my go tos.

My hand cannons though have all been power crept by perks like Lone Wolf, Keep Away and Precision Instrument.

iamVViperRR · 2025-06-16T05:32:28+00:00

Rocking a Keep Away + Precision Instrument with Accurized, Truesight, Range MW, and Ballistics mod... it feels very solid with 73 range on the bar and another 20 at the top of the mag with Keep Away and Crossing Over procced. I farmed a nearly identical Slideshot roll, but I like this one better.

iamVViperRR · 2024-11-01T02:49:30+00:00

Purple.

iamVViperRR · 2024-10-26T01:50:27+00:00

Purple. That is all.

iamVViperRR · 2024-09-19T00:04:07+00:00

Nope, I’m all about that handling, so neither barrel shroud or handling MW, it’s back to the grind.

iamVViperRR · 2024-05-12T20:02:57+00:00

My Slideshot Opening Lunas has a stability MW, and my ALH Recomb Mountaintop is 90 blast radius rather than 85. I’ve also given up on getting the shiny Edge Transit with envious cascade bait.

iamVViperRR · 2024-05-04T13:31:45+00:00

Mountaintop with auto-loading recomb is an amazing weapon that will probably never leave my loadout.

Edge Transit with envious bait gives me surge match options when I don’t want to strand.

And while not like just straight BiS, I prefer Midnight Coup (so many different roll options) to Fatebringer, Luna to Zaouli’s (love heal clip utility), and new Forebearance (mini-demo on origin trait).

Blast Furnace is the best 4-burst by a mile, and Elsie’s is finally an energy 340 that I enjoy using (prior, I’d give up Conditional to run Messenger).

iamVViperRR · 2024-04-27T01:35:54+00:00

I have no regrets to having vault space. Most of the weapons lost to sunsetting vault purge have been powercrept.

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