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SCAVENGER'S FATE

Legendary / Energy / Shotgun

Go where scavengers fear to tread.

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Archetype

Precision Frame

Precision Frame

This weapon's recoil pattern is more predictably vertical.

Stats

Impact
70
Range
60
Stability
38
Handling
37
Reload Speed
46
Aim Assistance
72
Inventory Size
42
Zoom
12
Airborne Effectiveness
3
Recoil 77
Rounds Per Minute 65
Magazine 5
Selected Perks
Popularity: Overall Select 4 perks to see their popularity.
Popularity: Perks
Popularity: Trait Combo
Popularity: MW Bonus INACTIVE
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Perk Playground

Random Curated
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    • Full Choke
    • Corkscrew Rifling
    • Barrel Shroud
    • Smallbore
    • Smoothbore
    • Rifled Barrel
  • No Perk Selected
    • Light Mag
    • Accurized Rounds
    • Steady Rounds
    • Extended Mag
    • Tactical Mag
    • Appended Mag
    • Assault Mag
  • No Perk Selected
    • Dual Loader
    • Slideshot
    • Perpetual Motion
    • Discord
    • Repulsor Brace
    • Feeding Frenzy
    • Lone Wolf
  • No Perk Selected
    • Frenzy
    • Surrounded
    • Vorpal Weapon
    • Harmony
    • Desperate Measures
    • Closing Time
    • Destabilizing Rounds
  • No Perk Selected
    • Dark Ether Reaper
  • No Masterwork Selected
    • Range
    • Handling
    • Stability
    • Reload Speed
  • No Mod Selected
    • Anti-Flinch
    • Backup Mag
    • Ballistics
    • Counterbalance Stock
    • CQC Optics: High
    • CQC Optics: Low
    • Freehand Grip
    • Heavy Ammo Finder Enhancement
    • Icarus Grip
    • Quick Access Sling
    • Radar Booster
    • Radar Tuner
    • Sprint Grip
    • Stunloader
    • Synergy
    • Tactical
    • Targeting Adjuster
    • Adept Counterbalance
    • Adept Handling
    • Adept Icarus Grip
    • Adept Mag
    • Adept Range
    • Adept Reload
    • Adept Stability
    • Adept Targeting

Curated Roll

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TIP: Theorycrafter Recommendations

The blue/red/gold icons & glows below are Theorycrafter Recommendations. They are the perks that trusted community theorycrafters like for this weapon and can disagree with what is most popular. The colors indicate the game mode for which they prefer the perk.
Color Icon Game Mode
Blue PVE
Red PVP
Gold PVE & PVP
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Popular Trait Combos

This weapon can be crafted or enhanced. Enhanced and normal perks are combined in the stats below.
Lone Wolf
+ Closing Time
13.52% of Rolls
Slideshot
+ Closing Time
8.85% of Rolls
Repulsor Brace
+ Destabilizing Rounds
5.82% of Rolls
Perpetual Motion
+ Closing Time
4.3% of Rolls
Discord
+ Closing Time
2.72% of Rolls
Feeding Frenzy
+ Destabilizing Rounds
2.45% of Rolls
Dual Loader
+ Destabilizing Rounds
2.44% of Rolls
Discord
+ Destabilizing Rounds
2.4% of Rolls

Popular Individual Perks

Based on 115.4K+ copies of this weapon, these are the most frequently equipped perks.
This weapon can be crafted or enhanced. Enhanced and normal perks are combined in the stats below.
  • 24.1%
     
  • 21.8%
     
  • 21.7%
     
  • 16.3%
     
  • 12.6%
     
  • 3.3%
     
  • 25.2%
     
  • 19.6%
     
  • 16.4%
     
  • 16.4%
     
  • 8.8%
     
  • 6.8%
     
  • 6.5%
     
  • 21.6%
     
  • 18.8%
     
  • 14.5%
     
  • 11.9%
     
  • 11.6%
     
  • 11.2%
     
  • 10.1%
     
  • 34.6%
     
  • 18.6%
     
  • 10.9%
     
  • 9.8%
     
  • 9.8%
     
  • 8.6%
     
  • 7.4%
     
  • 100.0%
     

Masterwork Popularity

Based on 117.0K+ copies of this weapon, these are the most frequently equipped masterworks:
Of those 117.0K+ copies, 4.4K+ (3.7%) were fully masterworked.
Reload Speed
22.6% of Rolls
Stability
23.0% of Rolls
Handling
25.3% of Rolls
Range
28.9% of Rolls

Mod Popularity

Based on 45.7K+ copies of this weapon with a mod equipped, these are the 8 most frequently used:
Ballistics
31.4% of Rolls
Quick Access Sling
17.3% of Rolls
Backup Mag
16.3% of Rolls
Tactical
13.8% of Rolls
Freehand Grip
4.4% of Rolls
Counterbalance Stock
4.3% of Rolls
Targeting Adjuster
3.8% of Rolls
Icarus Grip
2.5% of Rolls

Your Rolls

TIP: Popularity Ranks

The letters F thru S below are Popularity Ranks. They measure how popular your roll is versus the most popular roll for this weapon among the global community. The most popular roll is ranked S+. The least popular is ranked F-. Popular doesn't necessarily mean "good"; unpopular doesn't necessarily mean "bad". Use what you enjoy!

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TIP: Theorycrafter Recommendations

The blue/red/gold icons & glows below are Theorycrafter Recommendations. They are the perks that trusted community theorycrafters like for this weapon and can disagree with what is most popular. The colors indicate the game mode for which they prefer the perk.
Color Icon Game Mode
Blue PVE
Red PVP
Gold PVE & PVP
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Lore

Scavenger's Fate

Go where scavengers fear to tread.

Arrha threw the datapad to the ground in fury. It bounced once, then settled against a crate of contraband Psion weaponry. The screen continued to flash implacably:

CONNECTION LOST… REESTABLISHING CONNECTION… FAILED… CONNECTION LOST…

There was nothing for it. He would have to break the news to the Spider.

He found the crime boss at the bar, glad-handing with a bookie in an oversized fur vest. They spoke in low tones before a subtle nod by both parties let Arrha know that a deal had been closed. No doubt a sizeable adjustment to the Crucible betting odds would soon hit the tote boards.

Arrha gave a series of subtle clicks:

.::: .:. : .:. :. :. trouble glimmer loss

Arrha could sense Spider's countenance sour beneath his helmet. The elder Eliksni dismissed the oblivious Human with a curt wave and headed wordlessly to the back room.

"Skira's anus, what now!?"

"Another scav crew lost, the Spider," Arrha replied. "Iiraahk came under heavy fire in the Reef. Went dark minutes later."

"That's the third this cycle," Spider fumed. "Send a replacement crew. Heavy weapons this time. I want the nav system from Iiraahk's ship back."

Spider turned to leave, but Arrha felt compelled to stop him. "But the Spider," he blurted, "the crews… they won't go. Not until Fikrul is gone."

"They WON'T?" Spider growled. "That sounds an awful lot like mutiny."

"It's fear," Arrha said, hunching his shoulders. "They fear Fikrul more than the Spider."

"I could remedy that," Spider replied menacingly. "But I can't afford to make any more examples."

"I didn't want word to get out about that sector," he lamented, "but it hardly matters now. Time I called in a specialist."

He picked up the fallen datapad and opened a comms channel. "Welcome to my most lucrative customer…"

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PVP GOD ROLL (Lone Wolf + Closing Time)

I don't know why people in this review section are calling this gun bad but if you land that perk combo the gun will feel perfect.
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Closing Time on last shot of magazine adds (50 Handling + 20 Range + Accuracy) Lone Wolf adds (passive 10 Aim Assist and 10 Airborne + ADS Animation Multipliers doubling with no allies around) The only thing that prophet of doom has over this shotgun is that its craftable otherwise this one would be the clear winner for best in slot.
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You're absolutely right. This gun can get 100 range, 100 handling, and 92 aim assist. Prophet of doom gets 100, 100, 73 aim assist. To all the readers, listen to Edwin. If you get a lone wolf + closing time roll, check it out. You may have just RNG dropped the best PvP shotgun in the game.
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Now. You may be looking at this gun and thinking "Look at all these PvE perks, it must be a PvE gun!" WRONG. The PvE shotgun meta at the time of writing relies on either 1-2 Punch, Trench Barrel, or Shotgun Swapping for damage. Scavengers has a decent PvE perk pool, but nothing to make it stand out among the competition (unless you want a Surrounded Void Precision Non-Slug shotgun, which is basically the only thing it has over Retold Tale [which has 1-2P] PvE wise).

Speaking of Retold Tale, thats probably this guns main competition in PvP, being the exact same frame and element. And Scavengers at a glance doesn't look great. Retold has 5 more range, 7 more stability, 3 less handling, 5 less reload, 1 more round in the mag, 1 less AE (but Scavengers only has 3 AE to begin with so its not a huge difference), and 13 less recoil (non-factor on a shotgun). So at a base level, the only thing Scavengers has going for it is the fact it can be enhanced, which makes the stat disparity a little smaller. Retolds Origin Trait is also significantly more applicable in PvP than Scavengers.

As for perks, both get access to Slideshot, but Retold gets access to Quickdraw, Snapshot, and Killing Wind. However, the big difference - and the reason Scavengers might be worth your time - is that Scavengers can run the combo of Lone Wolf/Slideshot and Closing Time. Because of how Special Ammo works in the Crucible, you are practically guaranteed to be benefitting from Closing Time unless you are on a huge streak, giving you a massive bump in Range, Handling, and Accuracy - all very useful stats on shotguns that catapults this ahead of Retold, especially since neither can roll Opening Shot. You can pair it with Slideshot for more Range, or make it snappier with Lone Wolf, which also offers AE for those who prefer the air.

Overall there are definitely reasons to run this gun over something like Retold - if you prefer the latters perks, sure, but there's no overstating the effectiveness of a Lone Wolf/Slideshot + Closing Time roll on this bad boy.
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I think Discord and Destabilizing Rounds could be legit PVE perks for this shotgun
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PvP, it's a great gun when using slideshot/lonewolf + closing time. These perks easily make up for the lower base stats compared to others in its archetype.

PvE, I think it's a little better than most people are giving it credit for (only a little). Combinations like discord + harmony/surrounded or repulsor brace + destabilizing rounds can enable up close run and gun style builds that work well for assassinating majors. Though usually this up close style of play is dominated by melee heavy builds using 1-2 punch shotguns, this gun can fill some niches where melee is not a strong damage dealer like on void hunter where you're constantly dipping in and out of invisibility. There definitely are better void shotguns that fill this role better and are more versatile, like A Sudden Death and especially Nessas Oblation, but those are a lot harder to acquire for casual players.
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Discord / Destabilizing is very fun roll for a versatile special weapon. (I think of it in a similar vein as LMG's place in the heavy slot.)
Its origin trait is especially useful for keeping ammo topped for ad clear.

Imo its pvp feel is decent in 6v6, but starts to become unreliable in Trials. (Based off my experience with discord / closing time)
It could just be my choice in perks, though! Perhaps I should experiment with Lone Wolf or Slideshot more.
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As of patch 8.1.5.3, "Fixed an issue where the Scavenger's Fate Shotgun unintentionally received Demolitionist. This perk will be replaced with Slideshot, with enhanced versions of Demolitionist being replaced with Enhanced Slideshot."
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It’s good, but it’s not replacing other options without a 5/5.

Scav is cursed with the lowest base range among precision shotguns by a good margin. This means you need a lot to bring it up. Closing time is a must here. On the final shot, gives 20 range, 50 handling, and some accuracy.

Slideshot gives 20 range. These 2 get you to 100 instantly. But you then need to work on its handling. 87 with closing time, you need a handling Masterwork and either corkscrew or barrel shroud.

Now we can compare to Prophet of Doom.
Prophet of doom is craftable, meaning a 5/5 is guaranteed. Corkscrew + Accurized + Handling MW + Threat Detector + Closing Time = 100 range, 100 handling, a handling animation scalar, and accuracy help. Plus Prophet of Doom has an origin trait that is actually helpful in PvP.

Instead, I’d suggest Lone Wolf + Closing Time + Barrel Shroud, Accurized, Range MW. 100 range, passable holding with dex mods, and extra ads speed, AE and Aim Assist.

Just my take tho. It’s great for nostalgia.

In PvE, Discord/Repulsor + Destabilizing/Desperate Measures. Nothing special but not bad.
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Small Bore/Accurized/Slide Shot/Closing Time

Inject it straight in my veins.
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It’s good but it’s an accessibility option.

A Prophet of Doom is going to be easier to use and have a higher stat ceiling than this even with a 5/5.

Scav has 60 range - the lowest among precision frames by a noticeable margin. And you need to do everything to make that up.

Meanwhile Prophet is craftable, can roll threat detector for an animation handling scalar, and has a useful origin trait in PvP. All while being able to min-max its stats.

This gun is accessibility and nostalgia
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Kid named discord harmony no backup plans.
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