Correction: Slickdraw is just as good if not better than Quickdraw for PvE swap shotguns, they have the same scalar for ready but Slick also affects stow! (and obviously AA doesn't matter)

Finally, my opinion has arrived

It's extremely weird that they chose to give us another nadir focus sword but its the same element and has very similar perks (like repulsor/destabilizing). It almost feels like a mistake.

Dragon’s Breath always has 1 stack of Composite Propellant, so you only need two ignitions to fill the stacks and get the autoload. Way I see it, this’ll be another heavy Wither where best-use is a single user so the ignitions don’t bottleneck you. Def gonna be goated for solo stuff imo.

I love your ability to understand when you don’t know enough to say whether something is good or not, like you know so much about the game and have scientifically tested everything that you know to prove for a fact whether something is good and I just wanted to say thank you for sharing your knowledge and not being arrogant about it at all! It’s incredibly rare in all aspects of life

Slice could be incredible in pvp, popping it before a duel to increase your enemies ttk just by shooting them, creating a tangle on kill

The Dawning Glaive (and seemingly the dungeon rocket sidearm) get a perk called Beacon Rounds that grants projectile tracking on kill, but since neither are out, we can't say how effective the effect is. Looks like it's a first slot perk so maybe it'll be useful?

I’m so happy subjunctive is back. There’s something about it that I love so much. I used it over The Recluse in Shadowkeep and kept my roll after it was sunset. It can finally rest in peace

I love how thorough you are dude, it goes without saying, but you are much appreciated for all you do!!!

10:38 Slickdraw instead of quick draw would be slightly better for Tractor swapping because slickdraw also effects the stow speed (D2 foundry data) while quick draw does not.

Fantastic breakdown. Thank you

Nice work, that was really helpful!

I've always wanted Voltshot on a waveframe, because for me Chain Reaction is really inconsistent, it always leaves half-damaged red bars very close to the wave even in easiest content and Undercurrent also having Demo is just perfect.

Thank you. I was waiting on your vid

From what I’ve seen, Nano-munitions can stack up to *7 and it’s rewind rounds but it’ll put 25% back into your mag after you hit 0 in the mag. It takes about 10 seconds for one stack to add on from what I’ve seen on Adhortative

I’m 100% going for that nightfall wave frame as well as the seasonal strand fusion rifle. Honestly can’t remember the last time I tried to actively grind vanguard other than the hothead.

Looking forward to your take on the exotic armor changes

Thanks for making the video and peeping all the comments man. Surprised that you didn't call out onslaught on the strand machine gun.

For “Abide the Return” the solar sword w/ incandescent, ignitions caused by the sword will proc tireless blade so you can sustain your ammo a long time if you’re able to ignition pop big groups. Pretty niche thing to do but I use it on the Titan exclusive sword now and again and it’s pretty fun

I'm really looking forward to the wave frame. Considering on level content is where ads reliably die in one wave chain reaction or not, I'm looking forward to trying something that offers more synergy with the current subclass sandbox

Definitely gonna be grinding for that nightfall wave frame. It’s a shame that there aren’t any fast farm gm’s again this season

The new seasonal weapons are old weapons such as scatter signal being the same base model as null composure but they look good

"Sorry for flashbanging you guys" as I violently recoiled like a gremlin from the flash.

I want to point out permeability has one small thing besides being easier to keep active it’s on energy weapons so the element swapping effect is no longer a damage decrease. So it could one day show up on weird weapons like a solar weapon with permeability and incandescent

I got the seasonal bow with Permeability + Golden Tricorne and I am absolutely obsessed with it. Having what is basically an infinite ammo sniper rifle nearly on demand no matter your subclass is hilarious. The seasonal pulse & the Vex handcannon can also roll the same combo.

My buddy has Rewind and Onslaught on Ros Arago (void auto) and it’s really nice for Gyrfalcon play Also considering Gunslinger is back on the menu in a big way, don’t necessarily write off Adhortative, the solar Vex pulse Gets Heal Clip + Incan, which for Gunslinger is huge since its only weakness is survivability, which basically just amounts to reliance on Restoration and perpetuating it with Empyrean But with Cure on any kill, you suddenly are way more comfortable than just Resto alone, and the same perk combo is on the Heliocentric sidearm (which is great imo) Waiting on a lightweight SMG to get Heal + Incandescent or Firefly/Dragonfly

Dude, Undercurrent looks like everything I wanted out of Prodigal Return. Voltshot on a GL was already exciting for a build I like to use, but having it on a wave frame? Definitely gonna grind for that.

When you mentioned If Disruption break being useful at all, If you have DB on a glaive it can buff the melee damage. The GOTD Glaive has DB in the 3rd column and has Close to melee in the 4th, So you could get some big melee damage.

the goat is back with an update letsgooo!!!

I've been enjoying Repulsor Brace + Explosive Head Lethophobia with Gyrfalcons, and it works a treat. though the weapon seems pretty useless without Gyrfalcons.

There's so many primary weapons with Permeability + Golden Tricorn in separate columns. Very funky even though you lose out on a utility perk.

On the marcato, unless they fixed it, if you kill an enemy suspended by Mindspun Invocation, that counts as an ability kill and will proc Golden Tricorn x2. Coolguy's video about perpetualis talks about it and I have used it and can confirm that this is how it works. Unless it was changed. This makes Golden Tricorn extremely easy to use on warlock.

Aztecross already tested the dragons breath catalyst, it doesnt change how fast the ignitions proc and reload your gun. In other words, it only changes the fuel charge rate when your not using your rocket

i’ve used the bow with deconstruct and after a couple hits it insta reloads like the arrow just appears

Slight correction; Abyss Defiant is a 360, not a 600 like Ros Arago - its only real competitors atm are Coronach-22 and Gnawing Hunger. I've played with it for a while and my first impressions on it are great. I suspect it'll find a home in many peoples' loadouts, and I know it's found one in mine.

This seasons perks and traits seem pretty centered around The Coil activity, which, might be a hot take, but I find it to be an absolute blast.

Regarding Slice, one niche thing I've wondered about is the Seasonal Perk Torch; If you're radiant you deal additional weapon damage to severed target. I don't think Slice will be good on Strand classes generally, which is ironic, but what I was wondering about was the potential for using one of the primaries as part of a BnS rotation on Striker, any hunter, or Solar Warlock. Especially Solar Hunter or Solar warlock feel like they have options for a quick class ability as well as good melees for proccing Radiant with. I do personally feel it might be moreso cute than good, but Lethal Abundance/GL(?)/BnS Apex on a solar hunter (potentially with foetracer or radiant dance machine?) feels like it could be fun to try out. Other than that, it could be cute on the Strand Fusion together with Rain of Fire, but personally I'd rather use a kinetic special or one of the ammo perks for a better damage build for the fusion. All in all Slice feels niche but fun to mess around with.

I’m gonna keep a roll of the competitive pulse with deconstruct, mostly for titan barricades but also for the cope that it’s going to useful in something really niche in the future for PvE. Like if wrath of machine gets reissued

thanks cutie ‼️

Swashbuckler subsistence energy slot smg. Ive been waiting for one of these for so long ever since the changed the moon one. I wanted to see it in momentum control with throwing hammers and its finally here.

The DPS god has spoken

i want to see that slideshot surrounded crux + 4th horseman at the top of the dps spreadsheet. Idc how impractical it is XD.

Feel like you’re underestimating Slice, for this season specifically. Lots of bonuses for solar damage supers this season, and the seasonal perk that goes smthn like “while radiant, do bonus damage to targets affected by strand or stasis debuff”. It’s a way to have a strand debuff in a solo or 3 man scenario without having a strand teammate. Of course, the question is “is it better than chill clip for this?” And I think 10 seconds of sever vs 4 seconds of slow speaks for itself.

so that exotic strand bow is craftable, probably from an exotic mission. Very exciting

Gonna use the void sword with repulsor/surrounded on my gryfalcon build for some invis ninja fun

Undercurrent: My problem is not Forbearance, but that we don't have a Subclass 3.0 Solar Wave frame since Explosive Personality released with mid perk options

Wonder how the void auto rifle will be with onslaught and volatile rounds getting max cooldown volatile explosions

For the stasis trace I would do demo and well spring. Being enhanced means even more energy back. On a osimio build you get non stop grenades even faster( was using a something new with this roll)

the trace is absolutely incredible on osmeomancy warlock

Incisor is phenomenal with Cenotaph, Slice and Killing Tally. Works well with double special including Indebted Kindness, but I know this video is old.

Aegis my king 👑

the four guns with the wacky names are reprised season of the undying (season 8) weapons btw

I’m going to get a rod arago with perm and onslaught. Pair it with ballidorse wrath weavers for triple stasis weapons and surge on rift cast.

Peep the classical music popping up mide twilight oath 👍

Dismantled a clown/bipod crux roll earlier. I dont really expect to like it, but ill try it out if it drops again. Thanks for the vid

I think Doomed Petitioner's best general use for precision boss damage crafted roll will be Enhanced battery, Envious, and Precision Instrument. Fully overflowed is 15 rounds vs 12 with reconstruction.

Not that it's immediately relevant to this PVE specialist channel, but the new comp pulse gets both Deconstruct AND Hakke origin trait, so probably really good anti-Titan anti-Stasis weapon in PVP.

hell yeah aegis

13:29 a certain sweaty guy is gonna have fun with this RL

High impact autos feel pretty good with the slight dps increase.

My opinion on the meta has finally arrived

Regarding your comment that Bungie usually doesn't put really good weapons in the world drop pool - that definitely was true for a long time but lately they've been putting some really good stuff in there. Season of Defiance, we had Battle Scar (which was the only pulse at the time to get kinetic tremors) and harsh language. Last season, we had heliocentric, nox perennial, and psi hermetic. It's really annoying since there used to be no way to grind for world drop weapons. And even with the gunsmith and lost sector loot changes, we still can't grind for the brand new world drop weapons, which absolutely sucks.

So dragons breath catalyst doesn't effect how many stacks of fuel it gains with each ignite, but increases the passive charge of the fuel the weapon naturally has. Without the catalyst, each stack takes 6 seconds to gain, where as with the catalyst (i'd know, I played way to many strikes already this season) it's halved to 3s per stack. With how you're all but guarantied an ignite from the x5 shot, this means you only have to really wait for 2 stacks to build up before you fire. Without catalyst, that means you can cycle it every 12s(Technically a bit more from travel time, and its count starting sometime between first contact and first fuel eject), where as with the catalyst, that turns to 6s ~. Its 1000% a big difference, since that rocket easily fills up 6-7s worth of time in damage, but may not carry our all 12. A few side points with this. I'm all but convinced its main rocket has an entity limit of 1, so if you fire another rocket, im pretty sure the first one disappears, even if it hasn't finished everything it'd do. More confidently, I can say its a weapon that is AMAZING in solo content, without needed ghorn proc for good damage, and not being bad like Ghorn. But in team setups, almost always wants to be a single use case on the fireteam, similar is effect and reason to witherhoard, and your tik and ignite damage gets eaten up by each other, tending to result in just less dmg. Finally, this thing makes mfing earthquakes, and can very often stagger bosses otherwise not being staggered by other rockets, see dmg testing with this against grasp ogre boss for example

Would a slide shot rocket be good for solo content or are there generally better power weapons for that?

Slickdraw and Quickdraw both have a .95 animation scalar.

Even though I’m 90% sure it won’t work on anything serious/high difficulty. Adhortative having heal clip/incandescent might be fine as a “filthy casual” pve perk if you missed out on Jurassic green. (Mostly because I just think the grungy overgrown look is rad as hell)

Onslaught is back too on a few weapons and it slaps

Babe wake up, Aegis just posted the new meta

Could you consider making a video talking about the different archetypes? At several points in this video, you mention "_ is a preferred Pulse Rifle archetype in PVE". I would really appreciate some guidance on certain weapon classes and what makes one archetype better than another in your view.

Rewind attrition orbs parabellum is an orb generation monster for anyone interested.

Voltshot only applies to the first enemy it hits afaik, so a wave should only apply 1 instance of Jolt per proc, which is fairly limiting. It could work different on a wave though and pop off, and even if it only tags 1 target it ain’t bad either.

I got a subsistence + onslaught on Breakneck with Ricochet and Fluted with a stab MW and holy shit, it might be my main auto from now on. Theres no damage reduction from onslaught so the RPM increase is a direct DPS increase and with subsistence it can surprisingly keep going. In PvE with red bars I basically never reload. Its not great for harder content though, Id pick kinetic for that if anything. But PvP and general PvE Onslaught is absolutely the play.

does the increased charge rate from the origin trait increase the rpm of the supercluster shotgun?

Quickdraw frenzy is basically instant stow and ready

Dragons breath + Dawn Chorus is apparently chunking (1 shot then pop dawnblade) but idk where this would rank on strategy’s though

I’ve been using slice for solo content to proc the artifact mod that gives a damage bonus while radiant to enemies affected by strand debuffs. Only really relevant for solo this season, but worth noting

Undercurrent definitely looks worth grinding

uniquely, riiswalker is the only special ammo gun in the game that can roll discord+harmony for a no backup plans build or something.

I got a tracking/bipod sleepless and man it isnt top tier but im in love

Hey aegis! Somethijg to consider, DB can reload on any ignition, not just its own, mayhe something there?

On deconstruct you missed the part where it says you get ammo back in the mag after sustained damage.

Hiw did you skim over overflow kinetic tremors? You can proc swap without needing to reload for a reproc compared to breakneck

Nice. I need to know which ones to bother with.

It's purely for niche reasons, but I'd be interested to get an Optative with Permeability/Golden Tricorn. I'd have to test the combo myself but having an HC that you can run in any build on Hunter is rather nice, especially since Unstop HC is in the artifact this season. Assuming Tricorn still activates properly _after_ you change the burn, it'd essentially be able to fit in any mono-burn build which I genuinely appreciate. That said, this is an insanely niche and gimmicky reason but the fact that a weapon can even fill that slot is cool to me. Now if only Bungie would give me back my damn Trophy Hunter back. Best damn legendary sniper ever released in all of D2. I adore it, I want it back, and they either need to bring it back or bring back If Materia.

Double-Edged Answer can get En Garde in the left column, though, and it’s an Adaptive. Could that make it a good swap option a la Heartshadow?

Do you have a discord with announcements for your KZfaq video releases so I can add it to my server?

I know its been a day but I got Scatter Signal crafted with Enhanced Overflow & Controlled Burst. I don’t know how to test it, all I know is “haha funny rapid fusion with controlled burst”.

The void 180 hc looks interesting with demo+tricorn

Lethophobia has successful warm up (typically a fourth column perk) in the third column as the replacement to archer’s tempo

What is the usage of rocket in GM? I know it’s mainly for champ nuke but i don’t understand why BnS apex is not as good as slideshot biopod crux. Isn’t more damage always good?

Aegis showing his newlight thinking those undying weapons were new this season.

Onslaught got it's nerf reverted, so it doesn't decrease damage per bullet as you ramp up the stacks. So a Breakneck at max stacks being 720RPM produces a 60% DPS increase. The question is does it increase RPM by 90RPM per stack or is it a 20% increase per stack, as this could make high impacts with it insane or everything is just balanced.

My first Crux got Slide, Surrounded with Quick Launch and Impact with Velocity MW and it is so much damn fun to dump ammo into bosses

Im surprised you choose chattering bone with rapid hit kinetic over battlescar with shoot to loot kinetic.

Attrition orbs is kinda crazy. About every 2 seconds of dmg with Parabellum smg was dropping an orb.

I think you're underrating permeability. If they ever put it on a kinetic slot weapon you'll be able to use it with a gyrfalcon build while still having a void special and power weapon.

Do you think the new Linear can surpass Cataclysmic or is it just a pipe dream? Enhanced Precision is a 30% damage buff, which is nearly similar to Bait and Switch while having way less setup and since it’s an Agg frame, it does more damage than Precision linears. This is all just conjecture though, I’m not really sure

Optative with the new version of osmosis could be a good start for radiant hunters in pvp, I know this is a pve focused vid but figured I’d mention this for anyone who doesn’t have a trust or frontiers cry

Nano munitions would have been good on a dps weapon but all the Undying weapons are primaries. So rip

Is supercluster just strictly worse than until its return, assuming both have cascade point?