In Destiny 2 you can now buy the winning weapon of the faction rally: Loquitor IV. But is it worth it?
The first faction rally in Season 2 has a winner: The New Monarch.
Executor Hideo is now offering all Guardians in the Tower Bazaar his winning weapon, the auto rifle Loquitor IV. Faction members receive the weapon for 1000 Glimmer, while others have to reach deeper into their pockets and pay 50,000 Glimmer.
By the way: The winning weapons from the Future War Cult and from the Dead Orbit remain under wraps until the next team battle.
Many a Guardian may now be wondering: “Is it worth buying Loquitor IV? Is the time well invested if I farm 50,000 Glimmer for it now?”
Loquitor IV – Auto Rifle of the New Monarch
The answer to this question is short: No. Loquitor IV is far from being a top weapon that belongs in every Guardian’s inventory. Why is that?
Loquitor IV is a legendary auto rifle with the perk “Impact Casing.” It has a slow rate of fire and high impact. The weapon belongs to the auto rifle archetype with the lowest rate of fire.
The weapon’s range is excellent, but stability is poor. Here are the stats:
The additional perks:
- Impact Reserves: The last rounds of a magazine deal increased damage.
You have a choice between:
- Ricochet Rounds: Rounds ricochet off hard surfaces. Increases stability, slightly increases range
- Extended Mag: Increases magazine size
- Alloy Magazine: Increased reload speed when the magazine is empty.
The sights:
- GA Linear: Short zoom, Significantly increases weapon readiness speed, slightly increases range
- SD Thermal: Medium zoom, Marks enemy targets, increases range
- LC Long: Long zoom, Significantly increases range, decreases weapon readiness speed
Loquitor IV has a major disadvantage: the poor stability coupled with a jerky recoil behavior. This makes it nearly impossible to land many hits in a row at medium range. The weapon sways terribly.
Stability is an important stat for auto rifles to bring the hail of bullets on target. However, with Loquitor IV, the bullets just wildly fly around.
Due to the high range, you don’t have to worry much about damage drop-off – the difficulty lies in landing the shots. With Kinetic Stability Mods, you can mitigate this somewhat. Nevertheless, Loquitor IV remains a weapon that is hard to control and certainly not competitive in PvP.
An auto rifle with the same archetype and a 360 rate of fire is the Halfdan-D. This weapon has a greater range and better stability than Loquitor IV, which is why you should prefer the Halfdan-D if you want to try this archetype.
Otherwise, auto rifles with a 450 rate of fire, like Uriel’s Gift, are significantly more popular – and better. While Loquitor IV does good damage if you land multiple shots in a row, this is virtually impossible.
Therefore, the conclusion: If you supported the New Monarch, then you can expand your weapon collection for 1000 Glimmer. But 50,000 Glimmer is way too much for Loquitor IV. It can be purchased until January 30th at 6 PM.
What do you think of the winning weapon?
Destiny 2: All faction weapons from Curse of Osiris can be seen here at a glance
