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Legendary Shotgun

Pure Recollection

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Heavy Burst

Fires a hard-hitting, two-round burst. Slightly reduces flinching from incoming fire while aiming.

Barrel
Magazine
Trait 1
Trait 2
Origin Trait

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Stats

This roll, before masterwork
Rounds Per Minute
62
Impact
70
Range
65
Stability
41
Handling
68
Reload Speed
47
Magazine
14
Aim Assistance
42
Zoom
12
Recoil Direction
86
Airborne Effectiveness
14
Ammo Generation
40

Usage this week

From Bungie match reports
Endgame PvE
0.00%
of kills · #580 of 581 · 13 players
PvP
0.00%
of kills · #574 of 602 · 15 players

Community god rolls

  • BackupPvE

    Sustained damage against Bosses in both general at-level or better, and end-game underleveled content.

    Bosses · Endgame
    Trait 1
    Envious Arsenal
    Trait 2
    Bait and Switch
    Barrel
    Any of
    Arrowhead BrakeCorkscrew RiflingFluted Barrel
    Magazine
    Any of
    Extended MagAppended Mag

    Pure Recollection is only the second heavy burst shotgun and is unfortunately not great for damage output. At base, by comparison with its peers, the stats are decent, and are improved further at Tier 4/5 when barrel and mag perks are enhanced - d2foundry.gg calculates that 65 Range equates to 7.69m hipfire and ADS, 41 Stability is ×1.0262 flinch resist, 58 Handling is a 0.35s ready, 0.32s ADS and 0.37 stow speed and 67 Reload Speed is a 0.59s per shell reload. According to MossyMax's spreadsheetat on destiny.science, Magazine Size is 12 (max 16) and total ammo is 36 (max 36). For weapons in a Bait and Switch weapon rotation, Handling and Magazine size are the weapon stats that need boosting by the barrel and magazine perks. The traditional trait perk combination of Envious Arsenal, refilling the magazine after hitting targets with your other weapons with Bait and Switch providing ×1.3 damage for 10s (11 when enhanced) on the same proccing condition. Roar of Battle's +10 Handling and Stability is unspectacular, but is better for this roll than Suros Synergy which procs on a reload (which we're bypassing) to provide +40 Handling and ×1.2 Flinch Resistance for 6s. Recommended MW: Handling, with your preferred choice of mod/enhanced mod to boost mag size, weapon stats, ammo regeneration, or elemental pickups for builds - and don't forget to check any available seasonal fragile mods.

    By PodvsEnemies ep. 152 (2 September 2025) with Saint_Kabr, CourtProjects and ImpetusAlways · PvE Podcast 152 Edge of Fate Crucible weapons

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