Fatebringer

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Fatebringer is a 140 RPM hand cannon, back in a reprised version from Destiny 1 via the Vault of Glass. It drops from either the Templar or Gatekeeper encounters. Once acquired, it will also drop from either of the two secret chests and can be acquired from the post-Atheon chest for Spoils of Conquest x 20.

We’re going with recommendations on this heavily influenced by Fallout’s review.

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PvP Thoughts#

After the 120 RPM Hand Cannon nerf, 140 RPM hand cannons are top-tier in the Crucible in Season 15. Fatebringer has a terrific set of base stats, arguably the best Kinetic Hand Cannon alongside Eyasluna.

PvE Thoughts#

Fatebringer has a very crisp feel to it, reminiscent of it’s D1 incarnation. There are a number of solid perks available on it and it is viable in both regular and end-game content, especially GMs when Hand Cannons have Champion mods.

✔️ Fait Accompli (pvp)#

Tunnel Vision and Kill Clip proc on kill; sold pairing.

• Collector’s Edition Roll
  • Barrels: Hammer-Forged Rifling, Polygonal Rifling
  • Magazines: Accurized Rounds, Steady Rounds
  • Perks 1: Tunnel Vision
  • Perks 2: Kill Clip
  • Masterworks: Range MW, Stability MW
• Extended Perks (referred to with a ‘+’ below)
  • Barrels: Hammer-Forged Rifling, Polygonal Rifling, Smallbore, Corkscrew Rifling, Fluted Barrel
  • Magazines: Accurized Rounds, Steady Rounds, Tactical Mag, Flared Magwell

🛠 No Fate but What we Make (pvp)#

Killing Wind is phenomenal. Killing Wind (procs on kill) lasts six seconds and Kill Clip lasts five seconds (procs on reload). The base reload on Fatebringer is 2.81s (thank you d2gunsmith.com) meaning you’ll have the combined benefit for a minimum of 3.2s. The more you buff your reload, the longer the benefit. No, Rewind Rounds does not proc Kill Clip 🙂

• Collector’s Edition Roll
  • Barrels: Hammer-Forged Rifling, Polygonal Rifling
  • Magazines: Accurized Rounds, Steady Rounds
  • Perks 1: Killing Wind
  • Perks 2: Kill Clip
  • Masterworks: Range MW, Stability MW
• Extended Perks (referred to with a ‘+’ below)
  • Barrels: Hammer-Forged Rifling, Polygonal Rifling, Smallbore, Corkscrew Rifling, Fluted Barrel
  • Magazines: Accurized Rounds, Steady Rounds, Tactical Mag, Flared Magwell

🔮 Density (pvp,pve)#

Strong arugument here for the pvp god roll. Two terrific perks on 140s.

• Collector’s Edition Roll
  • Barrels: Hammer-Forged Rifling, Polygonal Rifling
  • Magazines: Accurized Rounds, Steady Rounds
  • Perks 1: Explosive Payload
  • Perks 2: Kill Clip
  • Masterworks: Range MW, Stability MW
• Extended Perks (referred to with a ‘+’ below)
  • Barrels: Hammer-Forged Rifling, Polygonal Rifling, Smallbore, Corkscrew Rifling, Fluted Barrel
  • Magazines: Accurized Rounds, Steady Rounds, Tactical Mag, Flared Magwell

🧙‍♀️ The Three Fates (pvp)#

Any pairing here in the final two columns would be terrific.

• Collector’s Edition Roll
  • Barrels: Hammer-Forged Rifling, Polygonal Rifling
  • Magazines: Accurized Rounds, Steady Rounds
  • Perks 1: Killing Wind, Explosive Payload
  • Perks 2: Opening Shot, Eye of the Storm
  • Masterworks: Range MW, Stability MW
• Extended Perks (referred to with a ‘+’ below)
  • Barrels: Hammer-Forged Rifling, Polygonal Rifling, Smallbore, Corkscrew Rifling, Fluted Barrel
  • Magazines: Accurized Rounds, Steady Rounds, Tactical Mag, Flared Magwell

♻️ Do It Again (pve)#

Rewind Rounds returns approximately 40% of the hits you made with it to the magazine recursively. So a Fatebringer with 10 in the magazine will go 10 -> 4 -> 1 = 15 rounds before needing to reload. Fatebringer is a 140 RPM, which equates to 2.3 bullets per second. Kill Clip lasts six seconds which would be or 13.8 (14) bullets. With Rewind Rounds you can make maximum use of Kill Clip without reloading. This of course, assumes you’re hitting every shot 😬😬😬

• Collector’s Edition Roll
  • Barrels: Hammer-Forged Rifling
  • Magazines: Accurized Rounds
  • Perks 1: Rewind Rounds
  • Perks 2: Kill Clip
  • Masterworks: Range MW
• Extended Perks (referred to with a ‘+’ below)
  • Barrels: Hammer-Forged Rifling, Smallbore, Corkscrew Rifling, Full Bore, Extended Barrel
  • Magazines: Accurized Rounds, Appended Mag, Alloy Magazine

💣 Bombs Away (pve)#

Niche utility roll to benefit perks and exotics (e.g. Nezarac’s) that proc on specific elemental kills.

• Collector’s Edition Roll
  • Barrels: Hammer-Forged Rifling
  • Magazines: Accurized Rounds
  • Perks 1: Osmosis
  • Perks 2: Adrenaline Junkie
  • Masterworks: Range MW
• Extended Perks (referred to with a ‘+’ below)
  • Barrels: Hammer-Forged Rifling, Smallbore, Corkscrew Rifling, Full Bore, Extended Barrel
  • Magazines: Accurized Rounds, Appended Mag, Alloy Magazine

😡 Rage Against the Dying (pve)#

In GMs, even minor enemies are bullet sponges. Frenzy has always been a solid perk (like One for All) to get you a damage bump without having to get kills.

• Collector’s Edition Roll
  • Barrels: Hammer-Forged Rifling
  • Magazines: Accurized Rounds
  • Perks 1: Explosive Payload, Rewind Rounds
  • Perks 2: Frenzy
  • Masterworks: Range MW
• Extended Perks (referred to with a ‘+’ below)
  • Barrels: Hammer-Forged Rifling, Smallbore, Corkscrew Rifling, Full Bore, Extended Barrel
  • Magazines: Accurized Rounds, Appended Mag, Alloy Magazine

🧨 Mr. Torgue’s Fave (pve)#

Explosions!?! Explosive Payload is the rare 3rd column damage perk! Great for damaging enemies at a distance and proc’ing Overload Champion stunning (when hand cannons are in season) one shot earlier.

• Collector’s Edition Roll
  • Barrels: Hammer-Forged Rifling
  • Magazines: Accurized Rounds
  • Perks 1: Explosive Payload
  • Perks 2: Firefly
  • Masterworks: Range MW
• Extended Perks (referred to with a ‘+’ below)
  • Barrels: Hammer-Forged Rifling, Smallbore, Corkscrew Rifling, Full Bore, Extended Barrel
  • Magazines: Accurized Rounds, Appended Mag, Alloy Magazine