PvP

For all possible perks, check out Seventh Seraph Carbine over on light.gg

The Seventh Seraph Carbine (SSC) is a 450 RPM “Precision Frame” Kinetic Auto Rifle. Let’s start with a quick comparison to randomly-rolled 450s, over on light.gg. In general the 450s are fairly the same stat-wise, with a material deviation in Aim Assist for the SSC; easily addressable with an Aim Assist mod.

Should you pick one up for use in Season 10? In Season 10, 600 RPM “Adaptive Frame” Auto Rifles are the meta (e.g. SUROS Regime, Monte Carlo, Hard Light). There’s no pressing reason to chase SSC rolls for PvP.

I personally love ARs, so I played with a zero-Recoil, high Stability roll for several Iron Banner games, with both Enhanced Targeting and Enhanced Unflinching. I immediately wanted to go back to using my Arc Logic with Moving Target and Tap the Trigger :) The SSC is definitely a bit slower than you’d prefer (as are all 450 RPMs, even the vaunted Uriel’s Gift these days).

That being said, if you enjoy Destiny’s National Pasttime of shredding supers in sixes, a Vorpal-rolled SSC could be for you! If you’re a fan of ARs or even just the SSC itself, why not pick one up and vault it just in case the meta changes? Here are a few things to keep in mind:

  • The lower the RPM the higher the range, and falloff for a base range SSC starts ~30m which is quite far in-game; probably at the maximum range you’d choose to engage with an Auto Rifle anyway.
  • I’m passing on Threat Detector because at that engagement range of 15m, you’re going to feel like switching to your special weapon.
  • With a base Recoil of 74, you’re fine there. I shot a few magazines into a wall with 100 and the pattern was the same. Do not put on a Counterbalance mod or else you’ll ruin the recoil pattern.
  • I don’t have any rolls featuring Elemental Capacitor because at some point you hit diminishing returns on all this Stability. I pivot around Moving Target because it’s not something that many Auto Rifles can roll and it makes it far more lethal by directly addressing target acquisition.

Here’s a few rolls worth considering that you can put to work today!

  • (PvP) Slif’s “Pristine, Picture-Perfect Auto Rifle” 🧼📸 Collector’s Edition - 0.0% chance: This is my pristine, picture-perfect Auto Rifle roll. There’s less than a 0.1% chance you get this, so if you do please buy us both a lottery ticket.

    Barrels [ 22%]: Polygonal Rifling
Mags    [ 25%]: Ricochet Rounds
Perks 1 [ 16%]: Slideshot
Perks 2 [ 16%]: Moving Target
MWorks  [ 25%]: Stability MW

  • (PvP) “Pristine” 🧼📸 CE (Relaxed Barrels) - 0.2% chance: Same as the above, relaxing the Barrels.

    Barrels [100%]: *
Mags    [ 25%]: Ricochet Rounds
Perks 1 [ 16%]: Slideshot
Perks 2 [ 16%]: Moving Target
MWorks  [ 25%]: Stability MW

  • (PvP) “Pristine” 🧼📸 CE (Relaxed Magazines) - 0.2% chance: Same as the above, relaxing the Magazines.

    Barrels [100%]: *
Mags    [ 25%]: Ricochet Rounds
Perks 1 [ 16%]: Slideshot
Perks 2 [ 16%]: Moving Target
MWorks  [ 25%]: Stability MW

  • (PvP) “Pristine” 🧼📸 CE (Relaxed Slideshot) - 0.2% chance: Slideshot is active for two seconds starting from the slide, so you really only have about one second to put it to use. Without it, this is still a phenomenal roll.

    Barrels [ 22%]: Polygonal Rifling
Mags    [ 25%]: Ricochet Rounds
Perks 1 [100%]: *
Perks 2 [ 16%]: Moving Target
MWorks  [ 25%]: Stability MW

  • (PvP) “Pristine” 🧼📸 CE (Relaxed Slideshot and Masterwork) - 0.9% chance: Same as the above, also relaxing the Masterwork.

    Barrels [ 22%]: Polygonal Rifling
Mags    [ 25%]: Ricochet Rounds
Perks 1 [100%]: *
Perks 2 [ 16%]: Moving Target
MWorks  [100%]: *

  • (PvP) Slif’s “Classic AR” 🎩Collector’s Edition - 1.6% chance: Let’s repeat the above set of rolls by widening the Barrel and Magazine options to anything that boosts Stability. We’re also going to be removing Slideshot. It works for sure, but it’s not worth holding us up from banking these rolls.

    Barrels [ 83%]: Polygonal Rifling, Smallbore, Corkscrew Rifling, Fluted Barrel, Chambered Compensator
Mags    [ 46%]: Ricochet Rounds, Flared Magwell
Perks 1 [100%]: *
Perks 2 [ 16%]: Moving Target
MWorks  [ 25%]: Stability MW

  • (PvP) “Classic AR” 🎩 (Relaxed Barrels) - 1.9% chance: Same as the above, relaxing the Barrels.

    Barrels [100%]: *
Mags    [ 46%]: Ricochet Rounds, Flared Magwell
Perks 1 [100%]: *
Perks 2 [ 16%]: Moving Target
MWorks  [ 25%]: Stability MW

  • (PvP) “Classic AR” 🎩 (Relaxed Magazines) - 3.5% chance: Same as the above, relaxing the Magazines.

    Barrels [ 83%]: Polygonal Rifling, Smallbore, Corkscrew Rifling, Fluted Barrel, Chambered Compensator
Mags    [100%]: *
Perks 1 [100%]: *
Perks 2 [ 16%]: Moving Target
MWorks  [ 25%]: Stability MW

  • (PvP) “Classic AR” 🎩 (Relaxed Masterwork) - 6.4% chance: Same as the above, relaxing the Masterworks.

    Barrels [ 83%]: Polygonal Rifling, Smallbore, Corkscrew Rifling, Fluted Barrel, Chambered Compensator
Mags    [ 46%]: Ricochet Rounds, Flared Magwell
Perks 1 [100%]: *
Perks 2 [ 16%]: Moving Target
MWorks  [100%]: *

  • (PvP) Slif’s “Super Shredder” 💥 Collector’s Edition - 1.6% chance: Shredding supers in 6s is, we can all agree, Destiny’s National Pastime. We’re repeating the same set of relaxed rolls above, this time pivoting around Vorpal in the final column.

    Barrels [ 83%]: Polygonal Rifling, Smallbore, Corkscrew Rifling, Fluted Barrel, Chambered Compensator
Mags    [ 46%]: Ricochet Rounds, Flared Magwell
Perks 1 [100%]: *
Perks 2 [ 16%]: Vorpal
MWorks  [ 25%]: Stability MW

  • (PvP) “Super Shredder” 💥 (Relaxed Barrels) - 1.9% chance: Same as the above, relaxing the Barrels.

    Barrels [100%]: *
Mags    [ 46%]: Ricochet Rounds, Flared Magwell
Perks 1 [100%]: *
Perks 2 [ 16%]: Vorpal
MWorks  [ 25%]: Stability MW

  • (PvP) “Super Shredder” 💥 (Relaxed Magazines) - 3.5% chance: Same as the above, relaxing the Magazines.

    Barrels [ 83%]: Polygonal Rifling, Smallbore, Corkscrew Rifling, Fluted Barrel, Chambered Compensator
Mags    [100%]: *
Perks 1 [100%]: *
Perks 2 [ 16%]: Vorpal
MWorks  [ 25%]: Stability MW

  • (PvP) “Super Shredder” 💥 (Relaxed Masterwork) - 6.4% chance: Same as the above, relaxing the Masterworks.

    Barrels [ 83%]: Polygonal Rifling, Smallbore, Corkscrew Rifling, Fluted Barrel, Chambered Compensator
Mags    [ 46%]: Ricochet Rounds, Flared Magwell
Perks 1 [100%]: *
Perks 2 [ 16%]: Vorpal
MWorks  [100%]: *

    PvE

    For all possible perks, check out Seventh Seraph Carbine over on light.gg

For its base stats and perks, there isn’t a whole lot of reason to consider the SSC for PvE. While it does feature Swashbuckler and Rampage, it doesn’t combine it with a reload-boosting perk like Feeding Frenzy or Outlaw. Breakneck, the Gambit Pinnacle weapon with the unique perk Onslaught is also 450 RPM and recently received a buff in Season 10. It shreds in PvE and since it’s a Legendary weapon, it can take the Season 10 Artifact mods. Still, there’s at least a couple of reasons why you might want to consider a SSC.

  1. It’s a Seraph weapon! If you’re running Warmind mods on your armor, Seraph weapons will spawn Warmind Cells.
  2. It can roll with Fourth Time's the Charm and Vorpal together, which activates on Champions and in the current Season 10, Auto Rifles can take Overload mods. In the future things will rotate back around to take Anti-Barrier too. The mag seems endless when dumping in to Champions and bosses; kinda cool :)
    • (PvE) Slif’s “Butter and Citrus Bar Shredder” 🧈🍊 - 2.8% chance: This is designed for dumping rounds in to enemies in high(er) end PvE content. FTTC and Vorpal make the roll; without both you may as well use another Vorpal weapon. Based on the past two seasons, they won’t be hard to come by :)
  Barrels [100%]: *
  Mags    [100%]: *
  Perks 1 [ 16%]: Fourth Time's the Charm
  Perks 2 [ 16%]: Vorpal
  MWorks  [100%]: *

  • (PvE) “Warmind Cell Generator” ☄️ - 6.0% chance: Run-of-the-mill Auto-Rifle PvE slayer perk set here. If you like the look, feel and sound of the Carbine as I do, you’ll do solid work with this roll.

    Barrels [ 83%]: Hammer-Forged Rifling, Smallbore, Corkscrew Rifling, Polygonal Rifling, Fluted Barrel
Mags    [ 64%]: Flared Magwell, Light Mag, Alloy Magazine
Perks 1 [ 33%]: Threat Detector, Slideshot
Perks 2 [ 33%]: Swashbuckler, Rampage
MWorks  [100%]: *