Talons of the Eagle

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Talons of the Eagle is a 150 RPM “High-Impact Frame” Kinetic Scout Rifle. It originally appeared wayyy back in Season 4 (aka Forsaken). It’s been recently re-issued in the first Season 11 Iron Banner. As part of this re-issue, the perk pool is unchanged, so we have years' worth of knowledge about how these work and years' worth of confusion as to why Scout Rifles can roll with Threat Detector and Hip-Fire Grip.

PvP Thoughts#

In order to beat out other long-range options in the Kinetic slot for PvP, I think you really want Explosive Payload here. 150s are the slowest-firing, heaviest-hitting scouts but when you’re competing against snipers and Arbalests, I think you need more flinch than they can put out at base. The drawbacks of 150s are their low Stability and Handling so we’re going to address those as a secondary focus in all in all of our rolls.

PvE Thoughts#

Talons is still rocking an ancient perk pool, so not a lot of compelling rolls here for PvE.

🌿 Planting Bombs (pvp)#

Firmly Planted is terrific on long-range weapons like Pulse and Scout Rifles where you can post up in cover and peek shoot from a distance. There’s also not much else terrific in that slot. Zen Moment is good, but Firmly Planted outclasses it.

• Collector’s Edition Roll
  • Barrels: Polygonal Rifling
  • Magazines: Steady Rounds
  • Perks 1: Firmly Planted
  • Perks 2: Explosive Payload
  • Masterworks: Stability MW
• Extended Perks (referred to with a ‘+’ below)
  • Barrels: Polygonal Rifling, Smallbore, Fluted Barrel, Corkscrew Rifling, Arrowhead Brake
  • Magazines: Steady Rounds, Tactical Mag, Flared Magwell

🌧 Raining Fire (pvp)#

We’re going to repeat the same set of rolls that we have above, minus Firmly Planted which is a pretty big playstyle preference that some folks are not super keen on. It’s not a make-or-break here, so we’re also going to feature rolls without it.

• Collector’s Edition Roll
  • Barrels: Polygonal Rifling
  • Magazines: Steady Rounds
  • Perks 1: Zen Moment
  • Perks 2: Explosive Payload
  • Masterworks: Stability MW
• Extended Perks (referred to with a ‘+’ below)
  • Barrels: Polygonal Rifling, Smallbore, Fluted Barrel, Corkscrew Rifling, Arrowhead Brake
  • Magazines: Steady Rounds, Tactical Mag, Flared Magwell

🤠 Gunslinger (pve)#

Outlaw + Rampage, same as it ever was! Going for the classic DPS combo with as much Range as we can get.

• Collector’s Edition Roll
  • Barrels: Hammer-Forged Rifling
  • Magazines: Accurized Rounds
  • Perks 1: Outlaw
  • Perks 2: Rampage
  • Masterworks: Range MW
• Extended Perks (referred to with a ‘+’ below)
  • Barrels: Hammer-Forged Rifling, Smallbore, Corkscrew Rifling