Hezen Vengeance

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Hezen Vengeance is a 25 RPM Aggressive Frame Rocket Launcher that drops in the Vault of Glass from the Gatekeeper or Atheon encounters. It’s the only Rocket Launcher in the game currently that can roll with Overflow which makes it a DPS monster.

PvE Thoughts#

A few highlights from Ehroar’s review combined with highlights from Rustopholis' video on Rocket Launcher perks in general.

Column Three Perks#

• 🔴 Surplus Reload benefit is outclassed by Impluse Amplifer.
• 🟡 Tracking Module is good for situations where you want to use a Rocket Launcher and the Champion/Boss is moving around a lot.
• 🟡 Impulse Amplifier would be used more for the Reload speed buff than Velocity.
• 🟢 Overflow is far and away the best perk in this column, allowing sustained DPS far beyond any other Rocket Launcher in the game.

Column Four Perks#

• 🔴 Cluster Bombs, after two successive nerfs, now looks to provide a ~6% damage boost if all the clusters hit the target. This perk was the absolute meta in Year 1 of Destiny 2 and that is no longer the case.
• 🔴/🟢 Lasting Impression provides a ~19% damage boost. “Works great with add clear too and can be good for Champions to burst them down quickly.” This one is going to have multiple perspectives. Rustopholis feels the opposite on the usefulness of Lasting Impression in spite of its damage boost.
• 🟡 Demolitionist was changed so that the reload part of the perk has a cooldown, so you can’t chain reload a Rocket Launcher by throwing grenades. It works for sure, but isn’t going to boost your DPS as much as the other options.
• 🟢 Vorpal continues to provide a flat 15% damage boost with no activation requirements. Well, it needs to be a Champion or Boss 🙃

What, no Impact Casing?!#

“Impact Casing is a 2.22% damage boost. You are still misinformed." - Rustopholis

“OK but Slif, 2.22% is a better damage boost than nothing. And nothing else in the Magazine column boosts damage.”

The faster you can reload your Rocket Launcher, the more damage you can do, and there are a handful of Reload-boosting perks in that column that are (always?) better choices.

😤 Revengeance (pve)#

Unparalleled large-target DPS. Overflow is super easy to proc with a Special finisher.

• Collector’s Edition Roll
  • Barrels: Hard Launch
  • Magazines: High-Velocity Rounds
  • Perks 1: Overflow
  • Perks 2: Vorpal
  • Masterworks: Reload MW
• Extended Perks (referred to with a ‘+’ below)
  • Barrels: Hard Launch, Quick Launch, Smart Drift Control, Linear Compensator
  • Magazines: High-Velocity Rounds, Alloy Casing, Impact Casing

🧊 Served Cold (pve)#

The reload benefit from Impulse Amplifier is what we’re after here, to get as many rockets off onto big targets as quickly as possible.

• Collector’s Edition Roll
  • Barrels: Hard Launch
  • Magazines: High-Velocity Rounds
  • Perks 1: Impulse Amplifier
  • Perks 2: Vorpal
  • Masterworks: Reload MW
• Extended Perks (referred to with a ‘+’ below)
  • Barrels: Hard Launch, Quick Launch, Smart Drift Control, Linear Compensator
  • Magazines: High-Velocity Rounds, Alloy Casing, Impact Casing

🧑‍⚖️ Justified (pve)#

Often we fight dancing large targets that are far away. Tracking ensures you won’t miss when peek shooting from cover.

• Collector’s Edition Roll
  • Barrels: Hard Launch
  • Magazines: High-Velocity Rounds
  • Perks 1: Tracking Module
  • Perks 2: Vorpal
  • Masterworks: Reload MW
• Extended Perks (referred to with a ‘+’ below)
  • Barrels: Hard Launch, Quick Launch, Smart Drift Control, Linear Compensator
  • Magazines: High-Velocity Rounds, Alloy Casing, Impact Casing

🥛 Emptiness (pve)#

Auto-Loading Holster works well with boss DPS in rhythm with a special weapon. E.g. snipe-snipe-snipe-rocket-snipe-snipe-snipe-rocket.

• Collector’s Edition Roll
  • Barrels: Hard Launch
  • Magazines: High-Velocity Rounds
  • Perks 1: Auto-Loading Holster
  • Perks 2: Vorpal
  • Masterworks: Reload MW
• Extended Perks (referred to with a ‘+’ below)
  • Barrels: Hard Launch, Quick Launch, Smart Drift Control, Linear Compensator
  • Magazines: High-Velocity Rounds, Alloy Casing, Impact Casing

🧨 The One With Demolitionist (pve)#

It pairs well with any large-target-related dps perk in the third column. Demolitionist does have a cooldown, but an extra RL from a “free” reload is effectively a damage boost of another kind. This is more of a specialized but with so many ways to keep a grenade ready to go, worth investing in.

• Collector’s Edition Roll
  • Barrels: Hard Launch
  • Magazines: High-Velocity Rounds
  • Perks 1: Overflow, Impulse Amplifier, Tracking Module, Auto-Loading Holster
  • Perks 2: Demolitionist
  • Masterworks: Reload MW
• Extended Perks (referred to with a ‘+’ below)
  • Barrels: Hard Launch, Quick Launch, Smart Drift Control, Linear Compensator
  • Magazines: High-Velocity Rounds, Alloy Casing, Impact Casing