Briar's Contempt

Charge Time

533

Impact

38

Range

51

Stability

57

Handling

26

Reload Speed

25

Magazine

6

Aim Assistance

67

Zoom

23

Recoil Direction

84

+10

Airborne Effectiveness

14

Ammo Generation

39

• BackupPvELoad roll

  Sustained DPS against a single yellow-bar target in activities rated Normal, Hard or Very Hard difficulty.

  Bosses · Sustained damage · Endgame
  Trait 1

  Any of

  Envious AssassinRewind RoundsReconstruction

  Trait 2

  Any of

  SurroundedFocused FuryChaos Reshaped

  Barrel

  Any of

  Arrowhead BrakeChambered CompensatorCorkscrew RiflingExtended BarrelFluted BarrelPolygonal RiflingSmallbore

  Battery

  Any of

  Accelerated CoilsEnhanced BatteryIonized Battery

  Briar's Contempt is an adaptive burst linear fusion rifle, which are rated D-Tier for endgame PvE by @TheAegisRelic tiering spreadsheet https://linktr.ee/TheAegisRelic being "worse DPS than even upper-middle special weapons and no access to ammo return perks". The frame intrinsic offers built in Anti-Barrier, fires a 3-round burst as per the https://www.destiny2.science/ Destiny Data Compendium. The stats are decent by comparison with its peers - you can see them at https://destiny.report/w/1491665733/briars-contempt and hopefully https://d2foundry.gg/w/1491665733 will show how weapon stats impact in-game performance when the site is back up and running. The recoil direction is slightly left and reasonably tight so you could improve recoil control or just look to boost Stability to help hit crits, or Handling if you can land your shots. As the battery perk, Accelerated Coils improves charge time by 40ms at the cost of ×0.98 base damage, or Enhanced Battery with a Backup Mag mod or Ionized Battery gets you the maximum of 7 shots. To be honest, adaptive burst LFRs are a weak subfamily for boss damage but, if you insist, in the first trait perk column, Envious Assassin overflows the battery to up to ×3 capacity at 10% of base size per kill with primary weapons and 20% with specials (12.5%/22.5% when enhanced), so you can preload pretty much all your reserves before readying, Rewind Rounds refills 60% of hits landed (70% enhanced) from reserves when the battery empties, or Reconstruction refills 25% of the battery every 6s (5.5s enhanced) up to ×2 capacity when stowed or not firing. For damage, in the second column Chaos Reshaped stacks up to ×2 on dealing or receiving damage within a 5s window for at least 12s (11.5s enhanced) - at ×1 it provides a ×1.2 damage boost for a refreshable 7s and then at ×2 provides ×1.35 damage for a refreshable 7s together with a healing burst of up to 35HP that also starts health regeneration or Focused Fury boosts damage by ×1.25 for a refreshable 11s (12s enhanced) or until reload or stow, after hitting 35% of base capacity as precision hits - that's 3. More niche, for damage phases where there are adds around you, Surrounded boosts damage by up to to ×1.4 (×1.47 enhanced) while within 15m of 3+ enemies. The Harmonic Resonance origin trait boosts Handling and Reload Speed, and damage by up to a max ×1.1 against Dread and Lucent Hive Lightbearers for equipping other Root of Nightmares weapons. If you're interested, Briar was a former solar Titan, who was driven to madness and broken by Nezarec, before joining the Acolytes of Nezarec. Recommended MW: Charge Time, with a Backup Mag or Charge Time mod, or your preferred choice to boost weapon stats, ammo generation, or elemental pickups for builds.

  Why this roll
  By Adamsdown_Boy · PvE Podcast 173 - The Best Fusion Rifles
• BackupPvELoad roll

  Sustained DPS against a single yellow-bar target in activities rated Normal, Hard or Very Hard difficulty, particularly for Prismatic builds.

  Bosses · Sustained damage · Endgame
  Trait 1

  Any of

  Envious AssassinRewind RoundsReconstruction

  Trait 2

  Aggregate Charge

  Barrel

  Any of

  Arrowhead BrakeChambered CompensatorCorkscrew RiflingExtended BarrelFluted BarrelPolygonal RiflingSmallbore

  Battery

  Any of

  Accelerated CoilsEnhanced BatteryIonized Battery

  Briar's Contempt is an adaptive burst linear fusion rifle, which are rated D-Tier for endgame PvE by @TheAegisRelic tiering spreadsheet https://linktr.ee/TheAegisRelic being "worse DPS than even upper-middle special weapons and no access to ammo return perks". The frame intrinsic offers built in Anti-Barrier, fires a 3-round burst as per the https://www.destiny2.science/ Destiny Data Compendium. The stats are decent by comparison with its peers - you can see them at https://destiny.report/w/1491665733/briars-contempt and hopefully https://d2foundry.gg/w/1491665733 will show how weapon stats impact in-game performance when the site is back up and running. The recoil direction is slightly left and reasonably tight so you could improve recoil control or just look to boost Stability to help hit crits, or Handling if you can land your shots. As the battery perk, Accelerated Coils improves charge time by 40ms at the cost of ×0.98 base damage, or Enhanced Battery with a Backup Mag mod or Ionized Battery gets you the maximum of 7 shots. To be honest, adaptive burst LFRs are a weak subfamily for boss damage but, if you insist, in the first trait perk column, Envious Assassin overflows the battery to up to ×3 capacity at 10% of base size per kill with primary weapons and 20% with specials (12.5%/22.5% when enhanced), so you can preload pretty much all your reserves before readying, Rewind Rounds refills 60% of hits landed (70% enhanced) from reserves when the battery empties, or Reconstruction refills 25% of the battery every 6s (5.5s enhanced) up to ×2 capacity when stowed or not firing. For damage with Prismatic builds, in the second column Aggregate Charge provides a stack for each different elemental debuff up to ×3 stacks to boost damage to a max ×1.3 (×1.33 enhanced), with each stack lasting as long as the debuff is active. The Harmonic Resonance origin trait boosts Handling and Reload Speed, and damage by up to a max ×1.1 against Dread and Lucent Hive Lightbearers for equipping other Root of Nightmares weapons. If you're interested, Briar was a former solar Titan, who was driven to madness and broken by Nezarec, before joining the Acolytes of Nezarec. Recommended MW: Charge Time, with a Backup Mag or Charge Time mod, or your preferred choice to boost weapon stats, ammo generation, or elemental pickups for builds.

  Why this roll
  By Adamsdown_Boy · PvE Podcast 173 - The Best Fusion Rifles

From the DIM community wish lists (voltron), picks made since Edge of Fate.

• Briar's Contempt (Adept)Adept