Something I haven't seen mentioned yet, the witherhoard/taken bonus damage in fact stacks, so if you are using malfeasance and witherhoard on a taken enemy, you get the taken damage bonus twice, and if you pair that with the damage bonus of lucky pants, you can have a pretty fun time in something like shattered throne or last wish. Just have one wellock with witherhoard, and 5 hunters all with malfeasance and lucky pants. It's actually really funny to watch. In fact, Gladd's team cheesed riven with only malfeasance, so if you add in the other buff/debuffs, you could most likely 1 phase all the bosses, even though it's a primary handcannon
A great point indeed! I remember testing the Witherhoard / Taken Enemy damage stacking with Malfeasance in the past, but I did fail to mention it in the video! Thank you very much for offering up some additional information! 😁🍻
Malfeasance, my old friend. You love to see such a solid weapon get further buffs and I adore how it performs admirably just about everywhere. I do think a catalyst that either reduces the number of shots necessary for explosive shadow or makes the burst a larger area would make it perfect, IMO.
Larger explosions sound awesome! I've always felt like it came up a little short when clearing out packs of adds, and bigger booms would certainly do away with that problem! 😂🍻
I think the catalyst should have the detonations cause the target to count as taken. Would love to see it without the exotic perk being useless most of the time
As a long time viewer I can't express how happy I am you're vaulting Carl. The dungeon bosses seem to be the most practical testing dummies. Though the setting up for damage phases can be annoying it's much more accurate.
It was definitely a necessary change at this point. Running through and connecting the nodes is a bit tedious, but I really like testing vs a non-combative boss, and the ability to drop rally banners when testing specials and heavies is going to be a nice quality of life improvement! 😂👍
Malfeasance went through such a tough journey. Started it's life pretty much mocked for being useless at worse, and niche at best. But there was always something about That gun that felt extremely good to me. Absolutely loving the way Malfeasance keep getting the love it deserves!
Indeed! I really appreciate that Bungie never gave up on Malfeasance! Thanks to the incremental buffs over the years, Malfeasance is now an extremely well rounded weapon! 😁🍻
This buff was just in time for us to have two GM's with Taken enemies this season. Can confirm, it absolutely schlaps in Lake of Shadows and HyperNet Current. Felt great and has great utility since the explosive slugs don't have damage falloff. Unstoppables got very stopped.
"Unstoppables got very stopped"...I love that!!🤣 And great point about the Lake of Shadows and the Hypernet strikes! Malfeasance has plenty of room to stretch it's legs in those GMs! 👍🍻
Thanks a lot man! I do need to get the Hierarchy video out, but after the long break that I just took, I need a few "gimme" videos to get back on track.😂 The hand cannon buff really came at a great time for me! 🤣🍻
@Ironworker Gaming You're good. I'm glad you're okay. You can have all the gimme videos you want, bro. There's a lot of weapons that are nuts: Rufus', The Defiance Auto and Bow, Lumina (which is Shockingly putting in work since the HC buff for me). I'm glad you enjoyed your break too just be a gamer.
You're very welcome man! I would love to seen Malfeasance get a catalyst soon! It's been in the game for over 4 years....I feel like at this point it deserves one!! 😂🍻
Malf with Lucky Pants on Hunter is just disgustingly good and fun. It basically turns Malfeasance into a heavy with an 8 second cooldown between damage windows.
I love Malfeasance. It’s my main DPS weapon for Caretaker, since combined with Hunter multishot tether and lucky pants (at max making each shot so around 100k critical in a well) make me able to outdps everyone else on the team. It also allows me to avoid the ammo problems you run into on the upper floors.
Very smart play there! Ammo certainly can be really scarce in that encounter, and having a heavy-hitting primary to lean on as you progress upward can be extremely valuable!! 🍻👍
My favorite exotic and favorite gun in the entire game. It’s the ONLY kinetic I use in the game and people may laugh at me for it but I love this gun with a passion.
The quest to get this is tied to a mission in the dreaming city that takes you through a different path in the corrupted before it becomes an exotic quest tied to drifter and gambit.
Thank you this review Ironworker. Malfeasance is a favorite of mine. The large magazine, for a hand cannon, and stability make it easy to use. Regards to the ladies of testing.
As always, you're very welcome man! Malfeasance really is a great gun, that has just been getting better little by little over the years! I'm extremely happy with how it's preforming currently! 😁🍻
That does sound like a really nice setup! Keeping enemies suspended and helpless while dumping big damage with the Malfeasance / Lucky Pants combo sounds awesome! 👍👍
Thank you very much, and I'm glad to hear that you enjoyed it! I am overall pleased with the decision to move away from Carl for testing. It is nice being able to show data vs there different enemy tiers in a more relevant piece of content. 🍻👍
Still waiting on whatever catalyst they were planning to give it a bazillion seasons ago lol Man the effort to get these damage tests for us. Above and beyond. Much appreciate it. Really baffles me as to why they still havent reintroduced something like what we had in the Tribute Hall. The Enclave, the tower, the helm, Cloudstrider HQ on Neomuna, all these locations would be ripe to have some kind of simulated testing range added permanently.
Right!!?? Both are sorely needed at this point! Malfeasance is definitely deserving of a catalyst, and I've been begging for a proper test range to be reintroduced! If the whole Destiny community could have a standardized zone to test weapons, that would alleviate all of the confusion and discrepancies that we see when someone presents a set of damage numbers! 👍🍻
IG where you been man? Glad to see a video about old Mally - the Drifter would be proud :) I haven't used it much but totally forgot about the unstop ability. Filed away in my mental card file of game trix!
Well...I took the time to finish up a few big house projects that I had been meaning to do, and.....I played Elden Ring!😂 That game had it's hooks in me pretty deep! The game was a fantastic experience, but it was all consuming! 🤣🍻
You should take a look at final warning after the buff. I think its pretty slept on for pve with its only main problem being very short range. Besides that it does great damage, has great synergy with strand and inflicts unravel so it even has some trash clearing capabilities. Super cool gun
Malfeasance is a great weapon for the Shattered Throne! It handles the engagement ranges quite well, and you constantly get to make use of the Taken Predator damage boost! 👍👍
I ain’t no hunter, but I used to main this exotic. It’s arguably one of the best feeling and looking guns in the game. It also has a really nice sound and perk for both pve and PvP. I might come back to it if I can find the heart to switch off final warning.😊
It does pain me seeing weapons that have been in the game for a long time sitting there with no catalyst! It would be great if Bungie would get around to releasing one for Malfeasance! 👍🍻
Hey, I recommend you take a look at Tommy's Matchbook. I just did a build on my channel and the damage that it can put out is really good. Also, it's been leaked that next season the catalyst will get a rework that will allow it to deal scorch damage when overheated. Plus auto rifles got a 25% damage boost against red bars, and that stacks with the exotic 40% damage boost against red bars.
I should have another look at Tommy's! It's certainly a primary that can pour out the damage and with the recent buff, and it potentially getting scorch damage added in the future, I can see where things could get pretty wild! I'll add it to my "to do" list! 😁🍻
All it needs to be my favourite exotic is for some way to get more AoE out of the explosions. I remember in the reveal trailer for forsaken when they sneakily hid an explosive barrel behind the enemy making it look like a great weapon for clearing out ads, but really it's only the radius of explosive payload. I remember seeing a Catalyst in the database that would make killing enemies with slugs burrowed in them would create a larger explosion and that would be perfect IMO
I would love to see that blast radius increased! If it was just a bit better at eliminating packs of adds, it would pretty much be the complete package for a primary weapon! 😁🍻
Malfeasence isn't the best hand cannon much less exotic in my vault but I still use it not out of love, simply bacause of how annoying it was to get it. Espesically when doing the dungeon for it solo as a casual player.
Right!? I was shocked when I saw that they gave Malfeasance Vorpal since it was already one of the best single target damage dealing primaries in the game! 👍👍
Maybe the Neomuna lost sectors might be good since scaling is wayyy harder(enemy health wise) than something like a raid or master dungeon last time I saw it, so if a weapon is good there then it's probably good in alot of content
I actually pulled this out for the 1st time in years after the buff. Still hated it lol. Just not a fan of the 180s sadly. Great to see a vid up again!
Hahaha! I do remember you not being a big fan of Malfeasance!😂 It does feel good to finally get a video released finally! Aside from feeling a bit...uninspired...by the Lightfall expansion, I took some time over the past month to catch up on a bunch of house projects that I had on the back burner. Hopefully I can get settled back into the RUclips groove now! 🤞🍻
@Ironworker Gaming Yea, Lightfall for me had been a disappointment pretty much all the way around except for some quality of life changes like the loadout system. Luckily my clan is trying to keep folks active with raid events and the like so at least there is something to do!
Speaking of lucky pants, if you’re lucky and have a seventh seraph hand cannon with vorpal , and ambitious assassin . Pretty pretty impressive damage .
Hey man! Probably don’t remember me! Checking up on you, glad to see how big you have grown. I’m getting back into destiny 2! I haven’t seen you check up on the bad juju yet, and I definitely would like to see if it’s any better since the buff!
I absolutely remember you! There was a core group of supporters from early in the life of the channel that I'll never forget, and you're certainly one of them! Great to hear from you, and I'm happy to hear that you've diving back into Destiny! I been in a bit of a lull when it comes to getting videos posted...mainly do to crazy hours at work, but it might be time to have another look at Bad JuJu soon! 😁🍻
That is a shame. I was really excited for Verglas Curve when Bungie showed it off in the Lightfall vidoc, but after playing around with it I was a little underwhelmed...but some of that may be linked to changes made to the mod system. 👍👍
@@IronworkerGaming The draw time reduction for the perk is only a scalar but due to Lightweights already being fast for draw time so I don't see it quite useful.
@@IronworkerGaming I think you should take a second pass at it! I originally used it more like a Ticcu's and was quite disappointed but it's more like a Stasis Trinity Ghoul. I learned Stasis shatter proc the perk so you can go nigh infinite in ad dense environments. With it also being able to stuff Unstoppables and Overloads I think it's quite an effective weapon going to medium and high level content
When I use to play on PS4, I absolutely loved 180 HCs! I couldn't stand the way other archetypes flew up in my face blocking out the whole screen because of the limited feel of view! 🤣🍻
Yoooo where you been Bro!? I’ve been waiting you got a lot of updates to do lol. Idk how you gonna cover them all. 0:53 i’ve been using malfeasance with verities brow on strand with thread of generation that’s pretty much near constant grenade up time, especially with three grenade armor charge mods it’s ridiculous
Hahaha! Well, I've had a few things going on...gutted and remodeled 2 rooms in the house, and....I decided it was time to finally play Elden Ring. That game hooked me deep! 😂 I'm gonna do my best to focus up though and knock through a bunch of the hand cannons though! 😁🍻
I did consider using the Grasp Ogre. I can probably get to each encounter in about the same amount of time, but I really appreciate Akelous not trying to melt me with the eye blast during the damage phase! 😂🍻
Since fighting lion is doing more damage to the new hydra strike boss since its coded as a minor (for some reason), i wonder what malfeasance would do to it 🤔?
That certainly is the quest step that trips up a lot of players. It's even tougher to pull off now to with the invasions be a bit more limited. Hopefully you get get it done one of these days! 👍🍻
It used to be one of my favorites in PvP! While I've moved away from it over the past few years, being able to outright win a gunfight at any range with 5 shots is a very nice feature, and with the addition of the Catalyst with Vorpal Weapon, it might be able to melt supers even faster! 👍👍
You know that I don't approve of Hunter shenanigans on this channel!! 🤣 In all seriousness though, Lucky Pants and Malfeasance are an amazingly powerful combo! 👍👍
Yeah, I said that in the video, but that's only part of it. For example, if you were to go to the Orrary Lost Sector on Nessus and shoot a Vex Goblin, and then shoot a Goblin in the Bunker E15 Lost Sector on Europa, you'll see that the Goblin on Nessus takes significantly more damage. I felt like something may have been a bit "off" when I was doing my Two-Tailed Fox testing, but didn't pinpoint the issue till now. Even though the destinations supposedly are equalized at the 1600 based power level, there is still a pretty significant discrepancy in the physical damage scaling, which is something that I did not see occurring pre Lightfall. I have no idea what caused the shift, but it certainly made bouncing back and forth between the two locations to compare the numbers no longer a viable option. 👍👍
It sounds like the main features of the event are the Strike Playlist with strike scoring added, and the class balanced Supremacy game mode in PvP. I would figure there is going be a lot of focus on those two activities. Also, if this year's Guardian Games is structured similar to the event in the past, higher end activities like Nightfalls and Trials should be a good source of gold medals. 👍👍
I don't know if I've ever seen anyone try 6 Malfeasance in a Raid (although I'm sure someone has 😂) but I'd have to think that is should fair pretty well. 👍👍
I will certainly do a damage update for Malfeasance once I get the catalyst! I was shocked to see that Bungie gave it Vorpal since it's already one of the best single target damage primaries in the game! I'm interested to see what it can accomplish now! 👍🍻
I thought the quest was very well done! I know a lot of people get tripped up on the team wipe step, but I was fortunate enough to get Queenbreaker very early on in Forsaken, and I abused it to it's fullest! 😂🍻
@@IronworkerGaming I used deathbringer on a void hunter with 6th coyote. Invade, shoot, dodge, shoot, dodge shoot. Not the best strat, but that's how I did my first team wipe
In their own right, they're both really solid exotic, but there is no direct synergy between the two. Are you perhaps thinking of the Necrotic Grip / Thorn combo? 👍👍
@Ironworker Gaming I stumbled upon the video today, and recently unlocked necrotic grips for the first time a couple days back. Was just curious if there was a unique synergy.
@@DuckGod9000 No unique synergy here...but I do have a Thorn video releasing tomorrow which is a weapon that does have direct synergy with Necrotic Grip! 🍻
I appreciate the info! I figured that Hawkmoon's Paracausal shot would be cranking out the damage, but it being nearly on par with Izi is pretty wild! 👍👍
I'd say do lucky pants and radiant, but... if we're doing boss damage, unfortunately a legendary HC can beat it out: a service revolver with fourth times and vorpal. Using lucky pants and radiant, a hunter using service revolver can pump out more damage than Malf, which already breaks the million mark like some heavy weapons- but service revolver with the roll above without radiant can put out near 500k more using lucky pants. In a boss situation... building to use a hc on a boss, Malf is just sadly beaten by a legendary. Which is honestly upsetting.
Does having 4th Times really give it that much more damage in the long run!? I figured Malfeasance's near 100% damage increase from a base 180 thanks to the detonations would have far out performed Service's Revolvers 20% Vorpal if all other external damage increase are equalized. What am I missing here!? 😂🍻
@Ironworker Gaming idk, but it's been tested sadly and I think the only way to really compete with bosses is with malf is to have a target affected with witherhoard
@Ironworker Gaming lemme correct myself, relooked at the video of the testing. My memory is going in my old age. The service revolver roll with lucky pants hits over 401k damage. But for malf is hitting under it at around 350k. For it to do better than service revolver it needs to be blighted with witherhoard to let malf get the taken damage putting it at 519k. But that requires a teammate. Getting old is pain.
@@Massen. a catalyst for the gun has actually been in the data base for a long time saying that killing enemies with slugs burrowed into them will cause a larger aoe
The Not So Good parts aren’t true. That gun is amazing at clearing packs of adds and also for Warlocks this gun is even more better when running Ophidian Aspect.
I wish bungie will give hawkmoon a pve buff it desperately needs hawkmoon used to be the best handcannon for pve why is that ace of spade s is the king of pve now hawkmoon needs what it deserves is it’s pve powers back
This might be a hot take, but I don't like the extra legwork that you have to go through in order for you go through to get us these numbers. It kind of feels like an absolute hassle if I'm being honest :s
It certainly is a bit more tedious than waltzing into the Conflux lost sector to snag numbers, but luckily, I've gotten pretty good a blazing through the Spire dungeon over that past few months.😂 I was pretty bummed when I saw that Europa's and Nessus's scaling were inconsistent now. Carl may not have been perfect, but it is sad parting ways with him. 👍👍
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Something I haven't seen mentioned yet, the witherhoard/taken bonus damage in fact stacks, so if you are using malfeasance and witherhoard on a taken enemy, you get the taken damage bonus twice, and if you pair that with the damage bonus of lucky pants, you can have a pretty fun time in something like shattered throne or last wish. Just have one wellock with witherhoard, and 5 hunters all with malfeasance and lucky pants. It's actually really funny to watch. In fact, Gladd's team cheesed riven with only malfeasance, so if you add in the other buff/debuffs, you could most likely 1 phase all the bosses, even though it's a primary handcannon
A great point indeed! I remember testing the Witherhoard / Taken Enemy damage stacking with Malfeasance in the past, but I did fail to mention it in the video! Thank you very much for offering up some additional information! 😁🍻
Malfeasance, my old friend. You love to see such a solid weapon get further buffs and I adore how it performs admirably just about everywhere. I do think a catalyst that either reduces the number of shots necessary for explosive shadow or makes the burst a larger area would make it perfect, IMO.
Larger explosions sound awesome! I've always felt like it came up a little short when clearing out packs of adds, and bigger booms would certainly do away with that problem! 😂🍻
I think the catalyst should have the detonations cause the target to count as taken. Would love to see it without the exotic perk being useless most of the time
Hear me out, give malfeasance twinshot like the Warden's law handcannon
@@pukei-pukei2536 I've had the same fantasy for a while. Double the overall DPS via 2 shots and easier activation of the explosions.
Buffing the range to 60 and making it so you the radius of the blasts is bigger or you only need 3 instead of 5 shots would be great!
You’re definitely a real one for going all the way go the first boss of Spire just to test damage for the culture. Much respect.
I'm happy that you appreciate the effort! It is pretty nice being able to see a wider scope of damage numbers versus more relevant enemies! 👍🍻
As a long time viewer I can't express how happy I am you're vaulting Carl. The dungeon bosses seem to be the most practical testing dummies. Though the setting up for damage phases can be annoying it's much more accurate.
It was definitely a necessary change at this point. Running through and connecting the nodes is a bit tedious, but I really like testing vs a non-combative boss, and the ability to drop rally banners when testing specials and heavies is going to be a nice quality of life improvement! 😂👍
Malfeasance went through such a tough journey. Started it's life pretty much mocked for being useless at worse, and niche at best. But there was always something about That gun that felt extremely good to me.
Absolutely loving the way Malfeasance keep getting the love it deserves!
Indeed! I really appreciate that Bungie never gave up on Malfeasance! Thanks to the incremental buffs over the years, Malfeasance is now an extremely well rounded weapon! 😁🍻
This buff was just in time for us to have two GM's with Taken enemies this season. Can confirm, it absolutely schlaps in Lake of Shadows and HyperNet Current. Felt great and has great utility since the explosive slugs don't have damage falloff. Unstoppables got very stopped.
"Unstoppables got very stopped"...I love that!!🤣 And great point about the Lake of Shadows and the Hypernet strikes! Malfeasance has plenty of room to stretch it's legs in those GMs! 👍🍻
After a month, One of the Archivist of The Destiny Armory has returned. Welcome back. Waiting on that HIERARCHY OF NEEDS video.
Thanks a lot man! I do need to get the Hierarchy video out, but after the long break that I just took, I need a few "gimme" videos to get back on track.😂 The hand cannon buff really came at a great time for me! 🤣🍻
@Ironworker Gaming You're good. I'm glad you're okay. You can have all the gimme videos you want, bro. There's a lot of weapons that are nuts: Rufus', The Defiance Auto and Bow, Lumina (which is Shockingly putting in work since the HC buff for me). I'm glad you enjoyed your break too just be a gamer.
The catalyst now makes it even more fun.
Absolutely! Adding Vorpal Weapon to Malfeasance was an awesome call on Bungie's part! 👍👍
My favorite exotic HC in the game. The catalyst for it can't come out soon enough.
Thank you for all the work you put into these videos.
You're very welcome man! I would love to seen Malfeasance get a catalyst soon! It's been in the game for over 4 years....I feel like at this point it deserves one!! 😂🍻
Malf with Lucky Pants on Hunter is just disgustingly good and fun. It basically turns Malfeasance into a heavy with an 8 second cooldown between damage windows.
Absolutely! Malfeasance with Lucky Pants can certainly output a ton of damage!! 👍🍻
I love Malfeasance. It’s my main DPS weapon for Caretaker, since combined with Hunter multishot tether and lucky pants (at max making each shot so around 100k critical in a well) make me able to outdps everyone else on the team. It also allows me to avoid the ammo problems you run into on the upper floors.
Very smart play there! Ammo certainly can be really scarce in that encounter, and having a heavy-hitting primary to lean on as you progress upward can be extremely valuable!! 🍻👍
@@IronworkerGaming Lol did you use AI for a chat response
i havent watch a video from you since 2020 a couple months after you started this channel. great to see the growth!
I really appreciate it, and thank you for stopping back and staying subscribed to the channel for all that time! It means a lot to me! 😁🍻
My favorite exotic and favorite gun in the entire game. It’s the ONLY kinetic I use in the game and people may laugh at me for it but I love this gun with a passion.
That's awesome!! I think a lot of people underestimate Malfeasance's potential! 👍👍
The quest to get this is tied to a mission in the dreaming city that takes you through a different path in the corrupted before it becomes an exotic quest tied to drifter and gambit.
Ahhh ok! It sounds like Bungie reorder the quest steps a little bit since launch. Thank you for the intel! 🍻👍
Thank you this review Ironworker. Malfeasance is a favorite of mine. The large magazine, for a hand cannon, and stability make it easy to use. Regards to the ladies of testing.
As always, you're very welcome man! Malfeasance really is a great gun, that has just been getting better little by little over the years! I'm extremely happy with how it's preforming currently! 😁🍻
My favorite hand cannon in the game. Used this with the Suspend Strand with Lucky Pants. Crimson also works well with that build
That does sound like a really nice setup! Keeping enemies suspended and helpless while dumping big damage with the Malfeasance / Lucky Pants combo sounds awesome! 👍👍
@@IronworkerGaming Yeah it's a great set up! I got to give Plunderthabooty and Mactics the shoutout for that build
Chill clip will take care of all champs. Love the video!!
Glad to hear that you enjoyed it man! 👍🍻
Nice vid. Glad to see the extra effort for proper boss/major/minor damage. Appreciated
Thank you very much, and I'm glad to hear that you enjoyed it! I am overall pleased with the decision to move away from Carl for testing. It is nice being able to show data vs there different enemy tiers in a more relevant piece of content. 🍻👍
Your vids have such a friendly and positive tone. Thanks for that!
You're very welcome man! I've always done my best to keep things on the upbeat and positive side! I'm happy that you can appreciate the approach! 😁🍻
I appreciate the effort that went into this. Good work.
Thank you very much! 😁🍻
Appreciate the extra effort, this is why you’re my go to destiny channel 👍
Thank you very much! I'm happy that you can appreciate the updated testing methods! 😁🍻
Still waiting on whatever catalyst they were planning to give it a bazillion seasons ago lol Man the effort to get these damage tests for us. Above and beyond. Much appreciate it. Really baffles me as to why they still havent reintroduced something like what we had in the Tribute Hall. The Enclave, the tower, the helm, Cloudstrider HQ on Neomuna, all these locations would be ripe to have some kind of simulated testing range added permanently.
Right!!?? Both are sorely needed at this point! Malfeasance is definitely deserving of a catalyst, and I've been begging for a proper test range to be reintroduced! If the whole Destiny community could have a standardized zone to test weapons, that would alleviate all of the confusion and discrepancies that we see when someone presents a set of damage numbers! 👍🍻
IG where you been man? Glad to see a video about old Mally - the Drifter would be proud :)
I haven't used it much but totally forgot about the unstop ability. Filed away in my mental card file of game trix!
Well...I took the time to finish up a few big house projects that I had been meaning to do, and.....I played Elden Ring!😂 That game had it's hooks in me pretty deep! The game was a fantastic experience, but it was all consuming! 🤣🍻
i complete quest for malfesance a while ago to pair it with lucky pants. It was pretty good by itself, now after buff its nuts vs all game content.
It does preform extremely well with Lucky Pants! The two exotic working in tandem can really output some serious numbers! 👍🍻
You should take a look at final warning after the buff. I think its pretty slept on for pve with its only main problem being very short range. Besides that it does great damage, has great synergy with strand and inflicts unravel so it even has some trash clearing capabilities. Super cool gun
I have been hearing good things about it! I'm not much of a sidearm guy, but perhaps I'll give it another shot! 👍🍻
If they add a catalyst that does increased reload speed, less shots to proc, or bigger explosion that spread it would be near S tier
I agree! Malfeasance is a great weapon, but it could another small bump to make it truly elite! 👍👍
Malfeasance is my main weapon through most of shattered throne
Malfeasance is a great weapon for the Shattered Throne! It handles the engagement ranges quite well, and you constantly get to make use of the Taken Predator damage boost! 👍👍
Good to see you back!
Thank you very much man! It feels good to finally get another video released!! 😁🍻
Back after another loooong break. But, always happy to see a new video Ironworker Gaming (and family) 😁
😁🍻👍
malfeasance = unstoppable champion killer . love how this gun feels
It is a great feeling hand cannon, and it just seems to get better and better as the years go by! 😁🍻
I ain’t no hunter, but I used to main this exotic. It’s arguably one of the best feeling and looking guns in the game. It also has a really nice sound and perk for both pve and PvP. I might come back to it if I can find the heart to switch off final warning.😊
I remember how happy I was to get this Exotic years ago. It was a feat. It took help of friends. And oh, that feeling.
Indeed! I remember how excited I was when I heard Thorn was getting reintroduced, and I had a lot of fun with the questline to obtain it! 👍🍻
@@IronworkerGaming And that damn meatball! Not only did you have to get it as a boss, but you needed to win that match. Oh the tension!
Malfeasance was my favorite exotic for a long time. I really want it to get a good catalyst
It does pain me seeing weapons that have been in the game for a long time sitting there with no catalyst! It would be great if Bungie would get around to releasing one for Malfeasance! 👍🍻
Hey, I recommend you take a look at Tommy's Matchbook. I just did a build on my channel and the damage that it can put out is really good. Also, it's been leaked that next season the catalyst will get a rework that will allow it to deal scorch damage when overheated. Plus auto rifles got a 25% damage boost against red bars, and that stacks with the exotic 40% damage boost against red bars.
I should have another look at Tommy's! It's certainly a primary that can pour out the damage and with the recent buff, and it potentially getting scorch damage added in the future, I can see where things could get pretty wild! I'll add it to my "to do" list! 😁🍻
All it needs to be my favourite exotic is for some way to get more AoE out of the explosions. I remember in the reveal trailer for forsaken when they sneakily hid an explosive barrel behind the enemy making it look like a great weapon for clearing out ads, but really it's only the radius of explosive payload.
I remember seeing a Catalyst in the database that would make killing enemies with slugs burrowed in them would create a larger explosion and that would be perfect IMO
I would love to see that blast radius increased! If it was just a bit better at eliminating packs of adds, it would pretty much be the complete package for a primary weapon! 😁🍻
I mean two classes get the best out of Malfeasance.
Hunter and Lucky Pants.
And
What you're looking for is Warlock with Chromatic Fire.
Malfeasence isn't the best hand cannon much less exotic in my vault but I still use it not out of love, simply bacause of how annoying it was to get it. Espesically when doing the dungeon for it solo as a casual player.
You know what's even more crazy it has a catalyst now that gives it Vorpal.
Right!? I was shocked when I saw that they gave Malfeasance Vorpal since it was already one of the best single target damage dealing primaries in the game! 👍👍
Yeaaa I'm glad you're back!!
Thank you very much! If feels good to be back...now hopefully I can "stay back"!! 😂🍻
Maybe the Neomuna lost sectors might be good since scaling is wayyy harder(enemy health wise) than something like a raid or master dungeon last time I saw it, so if a weapon is good there then it's probably good in alot of content
Not a bad idea! I run a few numbers in there and see how the compare!
This video made me wanna try using the weapon in PvP, and strangely enough, it feels good killing a guardian in a well with 10 crits.
I actually pulled this out for the 1st time in years after the buff. Still hated it lol. Just not a fan of the 180s sadly. Great to see a vid up again!
Hahaha! I do remember you not being a big fan of Malfeasance!😂 It does feel good to finally get a video released finally! Aside from feeling a bit...uninspired...by the Lightfall expansion, I took some time over the past month to catch up on a bunch of house projects that I had on the back burner. Hopefully I can get settled back into the RUclips groove now! 🤞🍻
@Ironworker Gaming Yea, Lightfall for me had been a disappointment pretty much all the way around except for some quality of life changes like the loadout system. Luckily my clan is trying to keep folks active with raid events and the like so at least there is something to do!
Welcome back, King.
Thank you very much man! It does feel good to finally get another video released! 😂🍻
I'm not a hand cannon fan in d2, but malfeasance...that's a different story. It's in my top 5 favorites
It really is an incredibly useful weapon! It holds up will no matter where you take it! 👍🍻
Try it with a radiant lucky pants hunter. Your welcome
Indeed! Lucky Pants can throw the damage up quite substantially! 👍👍
That or strand, god it just bullies champions it’s beautiful
Crimson is also epic with lucky pants because each round from the burst stacks the damage buff. By the fourth trigger pull it's already at 10x damage.
Speaking of lucky pants, if you’re lucky and have a seventh seraph hand cannon with vorpal , and ambitious assassin . Pretty pretty impressive damage .
@No Names best legendary in the game. Your right. Also its been proven insane half a mil damage during a damage phase on templer is just nuts
R.I.P. Karl he will be missed. :(
He will indeed. 🍻😢
Hey man! Probably don’t remember me! Checking up on you, glad to see how big you have grown. I’m getting back into destiny 2! I haven’t seen you check up on the bad juju yet, and I definitely would like to see if it’s any better since the buff!
I absolutely remember you! There was a core group of supporters from early in the life of the channel that I'll never forget, and you're certainly one of them! Great to hear from you, and I'm happy to hear that you've diving back into Destiny! I been in a bit of a lull when it comes to getting videos posted...mainly do to crazy hours at work, but it might be time to have another look at Bad JuJu soon! 😁🍻
@@IronworkerGaming I certainly understand the crazy hours! I’m excited to be back!
i wish the recoil animation for the gun didnt look like it has framerate issues it always looks so grindy
I can't say I've ever really noticed that...but now I'm scared to look for fear that I many never be able to un-see it! 😂🍻
@@IronworkerGaming just shoot the gun at a wall and get angry lmao
@@spzm3665 🤣🤣🤣
long time no see my friend, always love your video
It has been too long, but it feels good to finally get another video released! I appreciate you checking it out! 😁🍻
I hope the catalyst gives this thing twinshot like how Warden's law has
That would be a rather interesting change! If it resulted in a slightly increase fire rate...even better!! 😂🍻
I think it needs a cool catalyst like less shots to activate the explosion or activates a debuff that decreases enemy damage output.
A catalyst for Malfeasance is certainly long overdue! 👍🍻
I'd say it would be more thematic for the ignitions to cause blight on anything in the affected area.
@@corpsegarden9190 That would be really cool!! 👍👍
Still one of my favorite exotics!
Absolutely! It's a beautiful weapon that preforms well no matter where you take it! 😁🍻
Iron worker putting in the extra work
I do the best that I can!! 😁🍻
We also now have a Stasis bow too which its catalyst only reduces draw time which really isnt noticeable on it
That is a shame. I was really excited for Verglas Curve when Bungie showed it off in the Lightfall vidoc, but after playing around with it I was a little underwhelmed...but some of that may be linked to changes made to the mod system. 👍👍
@@IronworkerGaming The draw time reduction for the perk is only a scalar but due to Lightweights already being fast for draw time so I don't see it quite useful.
@@IronworkerGaming I think you should take a second pass at it! I originally used it more like a Ticcu's and was quite disappointed but it's more like a Stasis Trinity Ghoul. I learned Stasis shatter proc the perk so you can go nigh infinite in ad dense environments. With it also being able to stuff Unstoppables and Overloads I think it's quite an effective weapon going to medium and high level content
Thank you for another excellent video.
You've very welcome, and I'm glad to hear that you enjoyed it! 😁🍻
@Ironworker Gaming ps It is my favourite hand cannon, and I obtained it when the final part of the quest was on Titan.
One of my favorites and my favorite exotic hand cannon. I dont vibe well with non-180 hcs.
When I use to play on PS4, I absolutely loved 180 HCs! I couldn't stand the way other archetypes flew up in my face blocking out the whole screen because of the limited feel of view! 🤣🍻
@@IronworkerGaming yup for consoles they are the best.
Yoooo where you been Bro!? I’ve been waiting you got a lot of updates to do lol. Idk how you gonna cover them all. 0:53 i’ve been using malfeasance with verities brow on strand with thread of generation that’s pretty much near constant grenade up time, especially with three grenade armor charge mods it’s ridiculous
Hahaha! Well, I've had a few things going on...gutted and remodeled 2 rooms in the house, and....I decided it was time to finally play Elden Ring. That game hooked me deep! 😂 I'm gonna do my best to focus up though and knock through a bunch of the hand cannons though! 😁🍻
Great video dude
Thank you very much man! I'm glad to hear that you enjoyed it! 👍🍻
And now it has vorpal because reasons? Not gonna complain regardless.
Wouldnt the ogre in GoA be easier to get to?
I did consider using the Grasp Ogre. I can probably get to each encounter in about the same amount of time, but I really appreciate Akelous not trying to melt me with the eye blast during the damage phase! 😂🍻
@@IronworkerGaming my well really made me forgot about the laser lol
@@Demon-nu7ht Haha! A well certainly does a world of good! 😂😂
what a coincidence, I just finished the quest yesterday, haven't fired the gun once so far
Nice!! I hope that you enjoy it! Malfeasance it a weapon that will preform in almost any activity that you bring it into! 👍🍻
This gun is insane with Lucky Pants
Absolutely!! 👍👍
Since fighting lion is doing more damage to the new hydra strike boss since its coded as a minor (for some reason), i wonder what malfeasance would do to it 🤔?
A very interesting thought! If that holds true, Malfeasance could be able to dump a ton of damage on it! 👍🍻
If only i could get the damn thing. Ive been on the last quest step for a year.
That certainly is the quest step that trips up a lot of players. It's even tougher to pull off now to with the invasions be a bit more limited. Hopefully you get get it done one of these days! 👍🍻
I use it constantly i love it and i use it in crucible when iron banner is active
It used to be one of my favorites in PvP! While I've moved away from it over the past few years, being able to outright win a gunfight at any range with 5 shots is a very nice feature, and with the addition of the Catalyst with Vorpal Weapon, it might be able to melt supers even faster! 👍👍
Mix malf with lucky pants and it melts everything that 77k doubles if not more. It's like having mini suppers every 10 sec
Absolutely! Malfeasance / Lucky Pants truly are an amazing combo for Hunters! 😁🍻
I literally finally get it today and try it with Lucky Pants on my Hunter.. pretty damn nasty
Congrats on snagging Malfeasance! It really can pour out a ton of damage when boosted by Lucky Pants! 👍👍
Still waiting for the catalyst to drop that has been leaked since forsaken.
Right!? It's mind boggling that Malfeasance still doesn't have a catalyst over 4 years later! 👍👍
Has a catalyst now...adds range and Vorpal
It does indeed!! I think the addition of Vorpal is an amazing change for Malfeasance! 👍👍
If only boss champs and mini boss took the extra damage from the buff as well with lucky pants this thing would outclass nearly any heavy
That would have been pretty wild if it did!! 😁🍻
Where's your Lucky Pants testing! This gun was made to run with them. Subclass neutral monster build!
You know that I don't approve of Hunter shenanigans on this channel!! 🤣 In all seriousness though, Lucky Pants and Malfeasance are an amazingly powerful combo! 👍👍
Played 10 games of Gambit and 5 games of Nightfall last night and no catalyst. I'll try Crucible today
And with lucky pants, fire
Absolutely! Lucky Pants can throw up the damage in a big way! 👍🍻
Just unlocked mine a couple days ago :)
That's awesome! I hope you've been enjoying it so far! 👍🍻
Time to put on my Lucky Pants and go to town on some champs
Absolutely! Malfeasance can get pretty nutty when paired up with Lucky Pants! 😂🍻
I’ve been super interested in this weapon but I can’t seem to find anyone who says it’s good in gambit or not
conflux carl is a major, not a boss. this is why you get a discrepancy in damage numbers. thanks bungie.
Yeah, I said that in the video, but that's only part of it. For example, if you were to go to the Orrary Lost Sector on Nessus and shoot a Vex Goblin, and then shoot a Goblin in the Bunker E15 Lost Sector on Europa, you'll see that the Goblin on Nessus takes significantly more damage. I felt like something may have been a bit "off" when I was doing my Two-Tailed Fox testing, but didn't pinpoint the issue till now. Even though the destinations supposedly are equalized at the 1600 based power level, there is still a pretty significant discrepancy in the physical damage scaling, which is something that I did not see occurring pre Lightfall. I have no idea what caused the shift, but it certainly made bouncing back and forth between the two locations to compare the numbers no longer a viable option. 👍👍
what playlist should I be playing to do more guardian games triumphs / bounties .. Anyone know which playlist is unlocking them
It sounds like the main features of the event are the Strike Playlist with strike scoring added, and the class balanced Supremacy game mode in PvP. I would figure there is going be a lot of focus on those two activities. Also, if this year's Guardian Games is structured similar to the event in the past, higher end activities like Nightfalls and Trials should be a good source of gold medals. 👍👍
RIP Carl 🙏
Hahaha! RIP indeed. He had a good run, but a change was definitely necessary! 😂🍻
Carl finally getting a vacation 😭🤣
Haha! He had a solid run and is very deserving of some time off!😂 Great to hear from you also! Hope all has been well! 😁🍻
What heavy machine gun is that when your fighting the vex boss
That was Retrofit Escapade from last season's seasonal loot pool. 👍👍
I wanna try it in a raid , my fireteam did rat king in the whole raid, it melts everything including nezerac and tormentors
before sidearm buff
I don't know if I've ever seen anyone try 6 Malfeasance in a Raid (although I'm sure someone has 😂) but I'd have to think that is should fair pretty well. 👍👍
yo you should cover the catalyst
I will certainly do a damage update for Malfeasance once I get the catalyst! I was shocked to see that Bungie gave it Vorpal since it's already one of the best single target damage primaries in the game! I'm interested to see what it can accomplish now! 👍🍻
Imagine if you put lucky pants on.
Lucky pants absolutely can give Malfeasance a massive damage boost! 👍👍
me when no malfeasance :(
That's a bummer. Hopefully you can get your hands on it one of these days! 👍🍻
@@IronworkerGaming had the quest since beyond light, just never able to get past the gambit motes/wins step
This was a fun weapon to get. To be fair though, I like Gambit..
I thought the quest was very well done! I know a lot of people get tripped up on the team wipe step, but I was fortunate enough to get Queenbreaker very early on in Forsaken, and I abused it to it's fullest! 😂🍻
@@IronworkerGaming I used deathbringer on a void hunter with 6th coyote.
Invade, shoot, dodge, shoot, dodge shoot.
Not the best strat, but that's how I did my first team wipe
@@Zelisius Deathbringer is a SCARY weapon!! Nobody ever sees it coming! 😁
Anyone know how malfeasance pairs with necrotic grip? Edit:went to test it out, and the poison damage does not proc with the exotic trait.
In their own right, they're both really solid exotic, but there is no direct synergy between the two. Are you perhaps thinking of the Necrotic Grip / Thorn combo? 👍👍
@Ironworker Gaming I stumbled upon the video today, and recently unlocked necrotic grips for the first time a couple days back. Was just curious if there was a unique synergy.
@@DuckGod9000 No unique synergy here...but I do have a Thorn video releasing tomorrow which is a weapon that does have direct synergy with Necrotic Grip! 🍻
With the resent change to damage, hakmoons damage is near izys damage.
On 7 stacks atleast
I appreciate the info! I figured that Hawkmoon's Paracausal shot would be cranking out the damage, but it being nearly on par with Izi is pretty wild! 👍👍
There near the same damage, but with damage mods I imagine both are equally scary in dps
I'd say do lucky pants and radiant, but... if we're doing boss damage, unfortunately a legendary HC can beat it out: a service revolver with fourth times and vorpal.
Using lucky pants and radiant, a hunter using service revolver can pump out more damage than Malf, which already breaks the million mark like some heavy weapons- but service revolver with the roll above without radiant can put out near 500k more using lucky pants.
In a boss situation... building to use a hc on a boss, Malf is just sadly beaten by a legendary.
Which is honestly upsetting.
Does having 4th Times really give it that much more damage in the long run!? I figured Malfeasance's near 100% damage increase from a base 180 thanks to the detonations would have far out performed Service's Revolvers 20% Vorpal if all other external damage increase are equalized. What am I missing here!? 😂🍻
@Ironworker Gaming idk, but it's been tested sadly and I think the only way to really compete with bosses is with malf is to have a target affected with witherhoard
@@noodlethenerdle Are you able to find and link the testing? You have officially piqued my interest with this one! 😂👍
@Ironworker Gaming lemme correct myself, relooked at the video of the testing. My memory is going in my old age.
The service revolver roll with lucky pants hits over 401k damage. But for malf is hitting under it at around 350k.
For it to do better than service revolver it needs to be blighted with witherhoard to let malf get the taken damage putting it at 519k.
But that requires a teammate.
Getting old is pain.
@@noodlethenerdle I appreciate the intel Noodle!! Getting old certainly is no fun! 🤣🍻
Imagine if the catalyst gave it 4th times the charm
That would be a phenomenal catalyst! I definitely want to live in a world where I never have to stop shooting my Malfeasance!! 🤣🍻
@@IronworkerGaming lol I know right the dps would be insane
Triple Double from D1
@@themediocrethor I wish I knew what that was
If this gun had 4 times, 3 tap, or rapid hit instead of the Taken buff it would be S tier, but it's just missing some utility imo
That would certainly make it more valuable in a much wider range of encounters. 👍👍
maybe we get a catalyst with FTTC or triple tap
@@Massen. a catalyst for the gun has actually been in the data base for a long time saying that killing enemies with slugs burrowed into them will cause a larger aoe
The Not So Good parts aren’t true. That gun is amazing at clearing packs of adds and also for Warlocks this gun is even more better when running Ophidian Aspect.
Got vorpal weapon catalyst
It did indeed!! A fantastic addition to the weapon as far as I'm concerned! 👍👍
It will never replace my ace of spade for pve just you wait till hawkmoon gets the right perks I rather use hawkmoon then this hand cannon
catalyst should be= Vorpal weapon + bigger explosions
I'd take that!! 😂🍻
For my fellow hunters
.... run this with lucky pants. It's simply ridiculous. You're welcome
Absolutely! On of the best Weapon / Exotic pairings out there for Hunters! 👍👍
I wish bungie will give hawkmoon a pve buff it desperately needs hawkmoon used to be the best handcannon for pve why is that ace of spade s is the king of pve now hawkmoon needs what it deserves is it’s pve powers back
This might be a hot take, but I don't like the extra legwork that you have to go through in order for you go through to get us these numbers.
It kind of feels like an absolute hassle if I'm being honest :s
It certainly is a bit more tedious than waltzing into the Conflux lost sector to snag numbers, but luckily, I've gotten pretty good a blazing through the Spire dungeon over that past few months.😂 I was pretty bummed when I saw that Europa's and Nessus's scaling were inconsistent now. Carl may not have been perfect, but it is sad parting ways with him. 👍👍
Tee-off on their face 😂😂😂😂😂
I appreciate the effort of fighting a relevant enemy instead of Carl, thanks for your service Carl
Thank you very much! The change was definitely needed, and it should help in collecting more relatable data! 👍🍻
You canadian?
Negative. I'm from the US, but I'm only a 50 mile swim away from the Canadian boarder! 😂👍