Archetype
Stats
Impact | 41 | ||||
Range | 39 | ||||
• Damage Falloff | |||||
Stability | 48 | ||||
Handling | 31 | ||||
Reload Speed | 25 | ||||
• Reload Time | |||||
Aim Assistance | 66 | ||||
Inventory Size | 37 | ||||
Zoom | 25 | ||||
Airborne Effectiveness | 13 | ||||
Recoil Direction | 70 | ||||
Charge Time | 533 | ||||
Magazine | 6 | ||||
Selected Perks | |||||
Popularity: Overall | Select 4 perks to see their popularity. | ||||
Popularity: Perks | |||||
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Perk Playground
Curated Roll
Random Rolls
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.Learn More
Color Icon Game Mode Blue PVE Red PVP Gold PVE & PVP
Popular Trait Combos
Popular Individual Perks
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21.1%
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14.1%
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12.9%
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12.1%
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10.2%
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9.3%
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7.7%
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7.5%
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4.7%
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28.1%
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21.9%
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17.9%
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13.3%
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9.6%
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8.9%
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57.2%
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11.8%
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8.9%
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6.1%
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6.0%
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5.8%
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3.9%
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51.7%
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11.4%
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11.3%
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8.7%
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6.8%
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6.0%
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3.9%
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100.0%
Masterwork Popularity
Mod Popularity
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.Learn More
Color Icon Game Mode Blue PVE Red PVP Gold PVE & PVP
TIP: API Perk Swap
The Bungie API now allows us to swap weapon perks for you*. Click individual perks below to swap them in-game. Click "Equip Popular Perks" to pick the perks that result in the highest popularity rank (if you're not already using them).* You must be in orbit, a social space, or logged off.
With Adept weapons from Vow and King's Fall becoming enhanceable once The Final Shape comes out, your barrel and mag choices will be yours to make instead of relying on RNG for the 5/5 roll. Instead, you only need to go for a 3/3, with Charge Time MW and the fabled Fourth Time's the Charm and Bait & Switch being the perks and MW you're looking for. For barrel and mag, you'll want to minimize the recoil for consistency (range is irrelevant since linears have no falloff distance) and preferrably add 1 more to the mag at minimum to shoot a total of 10 rounds before having to reload. Arrowhead Brake and Enhanced Battery are the go to here since the former greatly controls recoil and the latter is a flat +1 to mag without compromising anything, allowing FTTC to proc twice in the mag assuming you land all your shots.
And because it's an Adept weapon, it can take Adept mods - Adept Mag does nothing noteworthy over Backup Mag (both give a +1 to mag stat) while the rest of the Adept mods are pure preference, except for one: Adept Charge Time. With Adept Charge Time, Cataclysmic charges a shot in 467ms without any hits to damage.
Godroll: Arrowhead Brake / Enhanced Battery / Fourth Time's the Charm / Bait & Switch / Charge Time MW + Adept Charge Time
Note: Above godroll applies to Episode 1 onwards with spec mods going away in The Final Shape, until then you'll want to use Adept Big Ones for extra damage.