The second week of Destiny 2’s Into the Gentle brings extra fan-favourite weapons again to the game–including The Mountaintop, a breech-loading grenade launcher that dominated the Crucible for years after its launch. Whereas the brand new model of The Mountaintop is not fairly the drive of terror the unique was, it is nonetheless a fairly highly effective choice to your Particular weapon slot, whether or not in participant-vs.-player or participant-vs.-environment content material.
As with the opposite reprised weapons within the Courageous arsenal, it is doable to earn each a curated model of The Mountaintop and random rolls of the gun, which brings new choices to the fore with a brand new perk pool. Here is every part you must know to unlock The Mountaintop, farm extra rolls on it, and which copies of the gun you will wish to maintain to your god roll assortment.
How To Unlock The Mountaintop
As with the opposite weapons within the Courageous arsenal launched in Into the Gentle, you will get The Mountaintop by finishing quests within the Corridor of Champions and participating within the new Onslaught exercise. As with the opposite weapons, you will first want to finish the Feats of Power quest with Lord Shaxx as a way to unlock the complete potential of the Corridor of Champions. That additionally means knocking out the primary weapon-particular quest you may decide up from Shaxx’s proper-hand bot, Arcite 99-40, referred to as Stranger Hazard.
The second week of Into the Gentle sees the discharge of The Mountaintop and Midnight Coup, however to get them as rewards for finishing Onslaught, you will first must unlock them. With Feats of Power achieved, you are now capable of decide up weapon quests from Arcite that cowl all of the accessible Courageous arsenal weapons, together with The Mountaintop.
Arcite’s Climbing the Mountaintop quest will unlock The Mountaintop. Like the opposite weapon quests, it has two totally different technique of finishing it:
- Quickly defeat combatants utilizing Breech-Loaded Grenade Launchers wherever within the system, with bonus progress for fast remaining blows in Onslaught, or:
- Defeat Guardians utilizing Grenade Launchers
Seize a wave-body grenade launcher like Forbearance to make fast progress on the search, particularly in Onslaught. Notice that heavy grenade launchers will not depend for the search, though–you want to make use of a breech-loader for progress to depend.
When you end the Climbing the Mountaintop quest, The Mountaintop will begin showing as a random reward in Onslaught actions. You can too go to the hologram of Shaxx holding The Mountaintop to “attune” the weapon, which is able to improve the possibility of receiving The Mountaintop from rewards chests whereas taking part in Onslaught.
Finishing the search can even web you your first model of The Mountaintop–Bungie’s curated roll on the gun, which is a fairly stable providing for PvE.
The Mountaintop Curated Perks
- Barrel: Exhausting Launch
- +15 Velocity, -10 Stability, -5 Blast Radius
- Journal: Spike Grenades
- Grenades fired from this weapon do elevated injury on direct hits
- First Column: Lead From Gold
- Choosing up heavy ammo additionally grants ammo for this weapon
- Second Column: One For All
- Hitting three totally different targets with this weapon will increase injury for a average length
- Origin Perk: Indomitability
- Kills with this weapon present grenade vitality in case you’re utilizing a Gentle subclass, or melee vitality in case you’re utilizing a Darkish subclass
The Mountaintop God Rolls
The authentic model of The Mountaintop required finishing a prolonged quest and was a PvP monster. The weapon shoots its grenades in a straight line because of the Micro-Missile perk (or Micro-Missile body within the new model), which permits it to be a extremely correct option to ship explosives. With the brand new group of perks accessible on the Courageous arsenal model of The Mountaintop, it is also extra viable as a PvE weapon, whereas nonetheless being fairly formidable in PvP.
Whereas there are a number of viable combos for The Mountaintop, in PvE, it may be stable for clearing weak enemies or dealing injury to harder foes like bosses, relying in your desire. In PvP, the accuracy and excessive velocity of the grenades makes it nice for slugging opposing Guardians. The Mountaintop will not one-shot opponents prefer it used to, however it may possibly nonetheless inflict some severe ache on the opposite staff.
The Mountaintop PvE God Roll
- Barrel: Fast Launch
- +10 Velocity, +15 Dealing with
- Journal: Spike Grenades
- Grenades fired from this weapon do elevated injury on direct hits; +10 Stability
- First Perk: Auto-Loading Holster, Demolitionist
- Auto-Loading Holster: The holstered weapon is reloaded after a brief interval
- Demolitionist: Kills with this weapon generate grenade vitality; utilizing a grenade reloads this weapon
- Second Perk: Frenzy or Recombination
- Frenzy: Being in fight for an prolonged interval will increase injury, dealing with, and reload pace for this weapon till you are out of fight
- Recombination: Elemental kills improve the injury of this weapon’s subsequent shot
- Masterwork: Velocity
There are a bunch of probably stable PvE perk combos for The Mountaintop, relying on what you wish to use it for. Auto-Loading Holster is an efficient normal decide, because it’s all the time good to have a grenade able to shoot everytime you want it, whereas mitigating the necessity to fear concerning the pace of your reload. Demolitionist can be a good selection, particularly with the synergy you get from Indomitability whereas utilizing a Gentle subclass, serving to you to get grenades again faster and use them to skip reloading. Frenzy is a dependable increase to a number of stats, together with injury, with out requiring you to do something to activate it, whereas Recombination could be nice for making The Mountaintop hit arduous in opposition to harder enemies like Champions.
If you wish to go all-in on grenades, although, there’s additionally Adrenaline Junky to pair with Demolitionist, and in case you choose to make use of The Mountaintop for clearing smaller enemies, One For All and Bold Murderer might help you fling extra grenades shortly with further injury.
The Mountaintop PvP God Roll
- Barrel: Fast Launch
- +10 Velocity, +15 Dealing with
- Journal: Excessive-Velocity Rounds or Spike Grenades
- Excessive-Velocity Rounds: +10 Velocity, +10 Reload Pace
- Spike Grenades: Grenades fired from this weapon do elevated injury on direct hits; +10 Stability
- First Perk: Auto-Loading Holster or Impulse Amplifier
- Auto-Loading Holster: The holstered weapon is reloaded after a brief time period
- Impulse Amplifier: Massively will increase projectile pace, will increase reload pace
- Second Perk: Concord
- Last blows with different weapons improve this weapon’s injury and efficiency for a brief time period
- Masterwork: Reload Pace or Dealing with
The Mountaintop’s effectiveness in PvP is in shortly delivering excessive injury with explosives, however not like the unique model of the grenade launcher, direct hits will now not kill Guardians in a single shot. That adjustments the equation on what you need from The Mountaintop, since in nearly all instances, you will must shortly swap to a different weapon to shut out the kill.
The Mountaintop’s energy has all the time been its accuracy, because it fires grenades in a straight line somewhat than over an arc like different launchers. Due to that, the upper you will get the Velocity stat, the extra correct and harder to dodge your grenades could be. Dealing with can be vital for serving to with switching weapons on the fly, as is Reload Pace, significantly in case you’re not utilizing Auto-Loading Holster.
You may additionally wish to take a look at the god rolls for The Recluse and make notice of every part you must do to unlock the Superblack shader.