The Dawning event is once again in full swing in Destiny 2, and while baking delicious cookies to deliver to your favorite vendor is a major part of the appeal, many players will be focused on hunting down great rolls of limited-time Dawning weapons such as Glacioclasm.

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In the event’s 2023 incarnation, the Glacioclasm Fusion Rifle has been reprised once more with a fresh set of perks. Unlike last year’s offerings, the PvP prospects aren’t great—perks like Kickstart are sorely missed, especially on a High-Impact Frame like this. However, this year’s Glacioclasm has one of the strongest suite of offerings for PvE players that the gun has ever had, which more than makes up for it at a time when Fusion Rifles are seeing a huge resurgence in the PvE sandbox thanks to new perks like Controlled Burst.

The Dawning event runs for only a few weeks until the snow and festive lights disappear on Jan. 2, so it’s crucial that you secure the rolls now before the window of opportunity closes. As with other limited-time weapons, Glacioclasm is not craftable, but Eva Levante will be handing out a plentiful amount of Dawning loot to make the RNG sting a little less.

What is the Glacioclasm god roll in Destiny 2?

Glacioclasm PvE god roll

  • Barrel: Polygonal Rifling
  • Battery: Liquid Coils
  • First perk: Overflow
  • Second perk: Controlled Burst or Reservoir Burst
  • Masterwork: Charge Time

In PvE, the Glacioclasm Fusion Rifle’s god roll can’t be anything other than Overflow paired with Controlled Burst and a Charge Time masterwork. With Controlled Burst equipped, Fusion Rifles are capable of dishing out some impressive damage against single targets with high health bars, and Overflow only helps to add more efficacy to your output.

Controlled Burst both increases your damage and reduces the gun’s charge time for a short duration if you manage to land every bolt from a single burst. High-Impact Frames, especially with a barrel like Polygonal Rifling, are exceedingly stable, making that an easy set of bonuses to proc against bosses and Champions. It’s then natural to want to grab Overflow in the third column, which can bump up your magazine from 5 to 10, giving you a longer window of opportunity to deal damage before needing to reload.

However, if you already have a weapon like Scatter Signal or The Eremite that suits your Fusion Rifle needs in the boss damage department, you can also get Glacioclasm with Reservoir Burst in the fourth column instead. This perk will be a much better choice in comparison to Controlled Burst if you plan to use Glacioclasm in PvE content featuring high levels of enemy density. High-Impact Frames are slow and clunky, so taking out large swaths of small targets quickly can be hard—adding some explosions to the kills that you do get can help thin out the herd faster.

Glacioclasm PvP god roll

  • Barrel: Smallbore
  • Battery: Liquid Coils
  • First perk: Under Pressure or Slideshot
  • Second perk: High-Impact Reserves or Eye of the Storm
  • Masterwork: Charge Time

The PvP god roll for Glacioclasm this year is a little different, with Under Pressure and High-Impact Reserves being the best perk combo you can hope for now that Kickstart is missing. However, with a Charge Time masterwork and Liquid Coils, we can mitigate some of what is now lost in the perk’s absence.

High-Impact Frame Fusion Rifles aren’t exactly in high demand in the PvP meta right now, but you can still find success with one if you build into the archetype’s inherent strengths. That’s why we’re going all in on stability and range, trying to push out Glacioclasm’s maximum range to a point where you can construct an advantage at medium range against Fusion Rifles with a shorter falloff distance. This is why Under Pressure and Slideshot both work in the third column—both perks are giving us some crucial boosts to stability, accuracy and range that Glacioclasm doesn’t feel the same without.

In the fourth column, the battle between High-Impact Reserves and Eye of the Storm is an intense one. In any previous year, High-Impact Reserves would win outright, owing to how strong High-Impact Frames were. But with the Crucible’s faster pace now, and with how easy it is to nearly get killed while trying to charge up Glacioclasm’s shots, Eye of the Storm finds a lot of newfound value. Once you reach critical health, Eye of the Storm is giving you a massive bump to your accuracy, which can be the difference between hitting all of the bolts in your burst or dying while under the effects of flinch.

Which perk you choose to go for is going to ultimately come down to personal preference, but running a perk like High-Impact Reserves will potentially require adjusting your playstyle a bit. When up against Fusion Rifles with shorter charge times in the majority of your Crucible lobbies in season 23, developing a habit of pre-charging Glacioclasm before going around a corner is going to be vital to making this roll work.

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