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I just have to say, I really miss scopes. I still keep sunset rifles with scope options. They're a cool thing gameplay wise, from a pure visibility standpoint different people prefer different scopes. It's also just not realistic or believable at all that you just magically can't change scopes or sights a million years in the future.

*THESE ARE THE NEW EXOTIC PRIMARY DROPOFF DISTANCES* Exotic SMG dropoff The Huckleberry: 13.745 hip/19.243 ADS Tarrabah: 14.07 hip/19.698 ADS Riskrunner: 15.50 hip/21.70 ADS Manticore: 13.29 hip/18.606 ADS - Exotic Sidearm Dropoff (base mode) Rat King: 12.48 hip/14.976 ADS Traveler's Chosen: 14.40 hip/17.28 ADS Cryosthesia 77K: 13.88 hip/16.656 ADS Devil's Ruin: 13.40 hip/16.08 ADS Trespasser: 13.36 hip/16.032 ADS - Exotic Scout Rifle dropoff: Dead Man's Tale minimum Range: 38.25 hip/76.50 ADS Dead Man's Tale maximum Range: 42.75 hip/85.50 ADS MIDA Multi-Tool: 36.75 hip/73.50 ADS Jade Rabbit: 42.75 hip/85.50 ADS Touch of Malice: 37.95 hip/75.90 ADS Wicked Implement: 39.30 hip/78.60 ADS Polaris Lance: 41.55 hip/83.10 ADS Symmetry: 34.50 hip/69.00 ADS Skyburners Oath: Infinite - Exotic Auto Rifle Dropoff: Sweet Business: 15.128 hip/25.7176 ADS SUROS Regime SU: 17.628 hip/29.9676 ADS SUROS Regime DSR: 21.378 hip/36.3426 ADS Cerberus+1: 50 meters reverse Monte Carlo: 17.003 hip/28.9051 ADS Quicksilver Storm: 17.003 hip/28.9051 ADS Hard Light (Base): 15.753 hip/26.7801 ADS Hard Light (Arc): 16.378 hip/27.8426 ADS Tommy's Matchbook: 17.378 hip/29.5426 ADS Centrifuse (non-charged): 16.628 hip/28.2676 ADS Vex Mythoclast: 21.378 hip/32.067 ADS - Exotic Primary Handcannon Dropoff Sturm: 26.10 hip/39.15 ADS Crimson: 24.28 hip/31.564 ADS Ace of Spades: 23.65 hip/35.475 ADS Malfeasance: 21.85 hip/32.775 ADS Thorn: 20.41 hip/30.615 ADS Lumina: 21.67 hip/32.505 ADS The Last Word: 19.15 hip/21.065 ADS Hawkmoon Minimum Range: 20.68 hip/31.02 ADS Hawkmoon Maximum Range: 22.03 hip/33.045 ADS Sunshot: 22.39 hip/33.585 ADS - Exotic Pulse Rifle dropoff Vigilance Wing: 20.525 hip/34.8925 ADS Outbreak Perfected: 20.44 hip/34.748 ADS Bad Juju: 22.08 hip/31.28 ADS No Time to Explain: 20.95 hip/35.615 ADS Revision Zero minimum range: 21.035 hip/35.7595 ADS Revision Zero maximum range: 23.50 hip/39.95 ADS Graviton Lance: 22.65 hip/38.505 ADS Collective Obligation: 19.165 hip/32.5805 ADS Ace of Spades (Mori) Dropoff: 20.1025 hip/30.15375 ADS Devil's Ruin Laser Dropoff: 14.74 hip/17.688 ADS

Keep away = new rangefinder imo

Just a reminder that Right Hook from season of plunder gives 10 range and 10 aim assist on melee hit, so Brigands Law and Blood Feud can also shine next season as they have some of the perks listed in this video as well.

Love these kinds of vids and your in depth explanations!🔥

Fragile focus and Adagio Firefright has been a personal fav of mine. Hits like a truck. Exciting that its looking this good for next season! Fantastic video CG

That's a strong vid. I feel highly informed, and I'm glad I've been rocking that box breathing scout already this season. Gonna be even sicker in a few days.

was looking forward to this video! Super useful breakdown, thanks!

GUY YOU ARE SO COOL!

Fantastic information . A lot of time and effort gone into this . Thanks ver mucg Cool Guy👌

Actually I got a Dynamic Target Lock Age Old Bond with Range MW and that gun hits at long ranges. It gave me a 5.63 Combat Efficiency in a sweaty lobby with guys that had Cloudstrikes, Snipers, and Immortals. It works. I just need to be in the right engagement with it. Was dueling Hand Cannons, Crimson and Pulses with it. So good.

Listen, all i want is for the gun I'm using to land shots and whatever everyone else is using to miss me.

I really like the quality from your videos, keep up!

I have an Encore Headseeker Stay Frosty that I have been enjoying. Gonna try that Firefright roll out too

Killing Wind is now the only perk that increases your range with a multiplicative modifier, right? Gives you 20 range and a +5% damage falloff distance. One of the best perks in the game getting even more valuable

You’re the best, been waiting for this ‘change’ vid from you. Thank you.

Thanks Coolguy for all these tips. I wasn't aware of that many changes😅

I crafted my Firefright from your video a while back, Poly, ricochet, fragile focus, elemental capacitor. I’m going to go for adagio instead. I didn’t do enhanced perks as I try this thing out I’ll make the best version. I would love an “Auto Riffle” review video sometime in season 22. Thx for all you do

Still think RF will be a go to perk. The benefits it gives will still out weigh most perks. It will def open up more options, but I wouldn’t be surprised if players go back to their RF rolls after a couple weeks.

Flawless vid. Really enjoyed it

Rifle Scope ST was so nice! Extra +4 zoom a lot of the time.

Thank you CoolGuy!

The one thing I am actually slightly scared of is the fact that Exploding Payload might skyrocket like crazy. A good ole Adept Fatebringer with EP / OS will absolutely slay next season.

I hope we get some more scope options now that zoom doesn't affect range.

Started using scouts this season bc I had a feeling these changes would try to push pulse rifles down a bit

This balance patch has made so many perks that were sleeper picks into real contenders it’s unreal. It’s going to be so much more about what feels right to the player rather than using one thing to win, and that is such a good thing for the game overall. I know there is lot of bad things Bungie needs to fix, but this is definitely a win.

Rangefinder will likely still be the premier perk on any gun that gets it, extra aim assist distance, accuracy, and less recoil on the same perk is still going to be extremely strong

Great video as always, but I disagree about the Zoom changes. It's really sad to see Zoom go away in terms of being tied in with range. It actually offered a really cool way to balance extra range by essentially making the gun harder to use up close. Now extra zoom will just pretty much always be universally bad because there's no weapon class in which more than it's base zoom is required to accurate hit/track your target in it's intended range. The problem is it's a delicate thing and needed to be handled with care. It required having the developers have some common sense and awareness about what was happening with their game. It should be obvious you can't have buffed zoom/RF on certain weapon archetypes as especially on the already lower zoom range weapons (SMGs in particular) the downsides of having the extra zoom are less apparent/don't exist. And sure AR's are cool now but they could have just buffed them under the old system as well so that doesn't really count.

Exactly why I was going for Keep Away Opening Shot on Outlast

Looking forward to the amount of viable options increasing, there were some weapons I wouldn't even touch before because of their low zoom like Forensic Nightmare or Synchronic Roulette, but now with the zoom changes some of the more mid-tier options like this have some breathing room now. Like sure Shayura's Wrath is better in every way statwise, but Forensic is still an SMG that's craftable with Killclip that everyone has access to through Witch Queen, making it a much more accessible baseline.

Super hyped for autos to have their time to shine again

I checked my vault when the changes were announced and found a “Last breath” auto from the prophecy dungeon with KW and Adagio. Its already a good gun but I think it might just slap everything after the changes go live.

Wow stay frosty’s muzzle flash got butchered when they updated the stasis muzzle flashes. Took mine out after watching this and was having a harder time tracking targets. Hopefully they fix…

My adept Hung Jury with box breathing just started looking a lot better.

i apreciate your PvP point of view. It does give me ideas for PvE. Strangely, noone talked about the best PvE Auto Rifle this season: Positive Outlook with Destabilising Rounds. (i have a couple with HighCal. it's damn fun!)

Could you do a Sturm and Drang combo review but for this meta? I've been loving it recently and can see it being awesome next season.

So I’ve got a Herod-c that’s about to feel like a scout rifle, nice.

When iron reach gets mentioned and I suddenly remember how long it’s been since I brought out multimach.

I'm upset that you didn't mention my favorite auto with killing wind adagio "Last Breath" from the prophecy dungeon. That auto can get 100 range with both perks active if you spec it into range fully

Thoughts on this? Any weapon like a pulse or auto rifle need to receive more flinch in general since its easier to land shots without affecting TTK much. Best example, hand cannons you miss 1 bullet your TTK drops dramatically.

Such a good video. No one understands the weapons sandbox like @coolguygames

Targeted Redaction can hit 100 range with Well Rounded and Keep Away very easily. It's going to be a very great pick for dueling pretty much no matter the map

I got my firefright ready and i love adagio it’s a really good perfect on auto rifles

Really glad I saved an adept Exalted Truth with Killing Wind / Encore. Max or near max stats across the board with just one kill needed.

That golden tricorn pulse goes stupid

Hip-fire for the 1.2x range multiplier is helpful

Really didn’t wanna have to think about what to keep and what to shard going into the new season, CoolGuy always comes in clutch when I can’t form my own opinions

hopefully now scopes could come back, thatd be cool

If you have the breytech wear wolf that you can pull from collections, the one with zen moment and multikill clip, you will probably have the best 450 in the game. Base has 94 range, enhanced scope that highlights enemies, clean looking sights, and with one kill, you can up the ttk.. zen moment got a huge buff, and this makes the weapon a absolute beast. No flinch, high range, clean scope, and damage perk buff with kills. But not everyone with have it

Surely damage parks (especially adagio) will fall into Bungie’s sights after the zoom change because of their buffs to range

Still have the OG braytech werewolf in my vault. 94 range base with zen moment and multi kill clip? Might put that on for a spin next sandbox see how it feels. 🤔

On point!!!

Part of me does miss 2 bursting from 50m on Equinox with Blast Furnace tho

THE GOAT OF D2 KZfaq

How does this impact rangefinder? Will it still drop on weapons? If it does, what will it do?

You're right, it is going to make things more interesting!

3:30 Not sure if it was an article or Mercules talking about it, but they've mentioned that the range stat on auto rifles has little impact on their effective range and that it's zoom that makes all of the difference on them. That's why there's such a disparity between the two autos in you example. I wonder if that's something they flip with this change.

Holy shit, given that on mnk low zoom weapons are vastly superior at its intended ranges than high zoom (better aa cone, better tracking really close range) cold denial is going to be just insane, were talking high impact pulse rifle with hc zoom unaffected by the range that sounds insane ngl O.O like wtf hows that not the most op weapon ever.

Have they mentioned how the perk Range Finder is going to work in previous twids?

With the range compression happening, I wonder how will my igneous hammer with opening shot and encore will feel.

Worth noting the artifact gives some buffs to rapid hits with scout rifles. Hung jury might be a menace

So, for someone who's only ok at Crucible and definitely isn't carefully measuring optimal engagement distances or hitting optimal TTK, do existing god rolls with Rangefinder now just get sharded? Or is it worth keeping some of them around to test with or enjoy the other aspects of Rangefinder that may be useful? Some are easy calls for me to keep (I love my Tap the Trigger / Rangefinder Liminal Vigil, and I imagine I still will after this), but others I kept in my vault because Rangefinder was part of the god roll, and I'm not sure if I can just shard those now or wait to try everything out. (I'm always looking for ways to slim down my vault around this time of the season.)

They need to rework how HCs take flinch. Make stability actually matter on mouse and keyboard.

Got a False Promises from either Banshee or Xur a little while back with 95 range, stability masterwork, Dynamic Sway Reduction and Zen Moment. It’s a long range laser beam now so god knows how good it’s gonna be next week.

So what will Rangefinder even be good for next season going forward?

this exact firefright is my main weapon for awhile now and i have been laughing seeing these changes, its already amazing in this sandbox

My keepaway/killclip Synchronic Roulette is about to *slap*

Hung jury box and fragile firefright user here. These weapons are my favorite to use in trials right now Also i think submission will see more play with encore/KW

Killing wind and fragile focus will be super nice going forward I think.

Appreciate your videos dude. Just want the info on what to chase atm when I turn my focus back to Destiny ... Don't care about the drama at all.

If they reprise Dire Promise, i hope we get to role Encore w/ the Field Tested Origin Trait. A heavy range boost from both perks for a single precision down. That would be GAS!

My multimac with killing wind/iron reach may need to be dusted off and brought out of the vault again next season.

I dont clear my vault...but even I cleared away some stuff

Firefight with Well Rounded I think might be a tad better than fragile focus......perhaps.....

I wish this makes Epochal Integration better in pvp as the gun looks so dope.

Have a Messenger with KC & Encore. The stability is 84 with a recoil direction of 85. I might have to pull this out of the vault.

I miss scopes since I mainly used them to change crappy scopes to make it easier to aim lol.

Looking badly for any pulse with encore + Killing wind to use on transversive solar warlock

I thought I got unlucky because my godroll adept Immortal had Keep Away... Now I have one of the best rolls you can get, having near max range with Kill Clip, absolute fricking W

DFA with fragil and timed payload is about to pop off

so what does range finder still do besides increase zoom?

I'm still trying to get, Surplus +Box Breathing on my hung jury. I get everything else, except that😔

My Adept Rufus with Paracausal/Moving Target, Ricochet Rounds and a Range MW is about to become way more vicious.

Great vid. Thanks CG. Totally off topic, but does Stay Frosty not have the WORST muzzle flash of all time? I literally shot it once and said, nope, never again. It popping up in the video, I knew it was stay frosty instantly from that muzzle flash. 12:07

Question for you if you don’t mind. Since enhanced Keep Away adds 5 more Range instead of 2, does that apply to all enhanced perk or just Keep Away?

Can the vault get a search feature now plz?😂

Exotic Trace Rifle Dropoff Ager's Scepter: 21.77 hip/34.83 ADS The Navigator: 23.50 hip/37.60 ADS Coldheart: 21.88 hip/35.01 ADS Prometheus Lens: 21.88 hip/35.01 ADS Wavesplitter: 21.57 hip/34.51 ADS Divinity: 21.57 hip/34.51 ADS Ruinous Effigy: 19.33 hip/30.93 ADS

Can you do some more crucible perk vids I’ve completely lost track of the meta

Explosive payload rose bouta slap

I'm thinking perpetualis might be really good. It can get 80 range with the god roll which is really good for an adaptive auto.

I just wish stay frosty didn't flashbang your screen every time you fire the weapon. Great gun, annoying to use imo

I’m confused so instead of rangefinder increasing zoom what is it gonna do?

And not long after watching this video, I find a Keep Away/Box Breathing Glissando in my vault. Good job, past me!

If this means i get scope options again, then thats awesome

My full range + adagio vulpecula is about to slap even harder

While the change may have been necessary I think there’s a case to be made about how it reduces the chase for a “golden goose”. High zoom allowed inherently meh weapons to have some sort of leverage or importance. Why farm for a god roll smg or hand cannon without rangefinder when I can just use ace of spades and have the same range capability with far more potency?

Does range effect bullet magnetism? Crafted Beloved and unsure to go full into the range stat or not!

He says that they removed scope perk because they were too much, but they replaced them with barrel perks which is basically just the same thing no? minus the really helpful ability to change the weapon scope model to make it easier to aim. They could have easily just done a balance pass to all scopes to fix the issues and it would be a lot easier than just replacing them all (besides the ones with hidden stats that even bungie doesn't know about like Ikelos SMG lol.)

I hope the rangefinder changes are good. If not I oddly have faith bungie will make it good in the mid season patch. I have not had faith in bungie on anything for the past year and a half. I am not sure why I am optimistic on this one. But I really do hope we get changeable scopes back.