Q: What are masterwork rolls?
A: Most legendary weapons are capable of being Masterworked. The masterwork system is a way for you to upgrade your favorite weapons to their maximum potential.
Q: What does it take to upgrade a weapon to a masterwork?
A: Upgrading your weapons, in broad terms, takes a small amount of glimmer, legendary shards, and, most importantly, Enhancement Cores.
Depending on what Tier your weapon is at, the requirements to raise it to the next tier increase the closer the weapon is to being fully masterworked (Tier 10).
Q: What benefits do I get for masterworking a weapon?
A: Each tier that you increase your weapon will grant a small buff to a single stat, chosen randomly when the item drops.
Beyond that, at Tier 5 you gain access to a kill tracker. At Tier 10, your multi-kills will generate orbs of light.
Q: So what are these "masterwork roll" stats?
A: These are the possible stats that upgrading your weapon will grant a bonus to. Depending on what tier you are at, you can grant anywhere from 1-10 additional points in any of the stats listed to your weapon.
Q: Any catch with this?
A: The Bungie API currently says that all weapons can potentially roll with all stats as their masterwork stat. This obviously isn't accurate, as Blast Radius isn't applicable to, say, Auto Rifles.
The list you see on this page is trimmed to only show stats that actually appear on the weapon. However, it is possible that Bungie has additional logic behind the scenes that further filters these
possibilities to, for example, prevent certain items from being able to have an Impact masterwork. Until Bungie modifies the API files to 100% accurately display which masterwork stats are possible on
each item, take what you see here with a pinch of salt.
This description is review only. Red framed raid GL’s and materials sold separately
Sleight of Hand
- Grants a stacking bonus Handling, Reload and Stability for every kill you get while Forbearance is stowed
- Stacks up to 3 times
- Great for running double specials, or if you want to treat Forbearance as a panic button
Unrelenting
- Grants regeneration when you kill a lot of enemies in a short amount of time
- Pairs well with Souldrinker, letting you stay healed
Stats for All
- Firing into a crowd buffs your Range, Handling, Stability and Reload
- Surplus can provide a stronger reload buff, but given Forbearance's passively high reload speed, they both cause it to reach 100 Reload
- Unlike Surplus, Stats for All also buffs your reload animation speed, making it the best reload perk for this weapon.
It's your gun, so the perks are your choice, but Souldrinker's saved my life a lot of times. I like to leave it unloaded after killing a bunch of enemies so that I can reload when I need some health. It's like a spare healing grenade.
Performs surprisingly well in PvP now that aerial combat has been nerfed into the ground for anyone who isn't a solar warlock. Options are to stay on the ground and get roasted or jump in the air and hit nothing, do have to lead enemies a lot harder than you would with a normal grenade launcher though due to accounting for the wave's travel speed in addition to the projectile.
Enhanced Ambitious Assassin for 2 (sometimes even *3*) rounds in the mag
Enhanced Chain Reaction to watch entire rooms explode with Arc energy
Souldrinker intrinsic perk to give your health back from the enemies that never really stood a chance in the first place.
Being able to craft this gun is possibly reason enough on its own to grind red borders from Vow of the Disciple. Go get one for yourself, and you'll never want to use another special weapon ever again.
My life changed with this GL, in terms of VOTD and other PVE activities
Chain Reaction is the other big perk, but this is much less effective in GM's because you can't exactly mow through GM content the same way you could in Legend or even Master. Still leaning more toward Salvager's for Chain Reaction GL action
It is one of the best add-clear weapons in the game.
This weapon is basically if Salvager's Salvo could get enhanced perks, and healed every time you damaged something.
I've been using Quicksilver Storm and Forbearance for so damn long now and I never get tired of this combo.
I can't say I use waveframes in PvP so I'll stick my rating to PvE where it's an easy 5/5
My God roll for Forbearance is:
Quick launch (remember blast radius does nothing on wave launchers)
High-velocity rounds
AA
Chain reaction
Easily one of the best ad clear weapons in the game