Malfeasance

Malfeasance
Attributes
Season	4
Type	Hand Cannon
Slot	Kinetic
Ammo	Primary
Rarity	Exotic
Damage Type	Kinetic
Description	"Nothing kills a Guardian faster than another Guardian." —The Drifter
Statistics
Impact	78
Range	40
Stability	80
Handling	29
Reload Speed	80
Rounds Per Minute	180
Magazine	14
Zoom	14
Inventory Size	57
Aim Assistance	50
Airborne Effectiveness	53
Recoil	98
Bounce Intensity	2
Bounce Direction	Tends Vertical

Acquisition
	An Exotic quest or challenge.
	Malfeasance/Darkness in the Light Quest reward.

Malfeasance is an Exotic Hand Cannon.

Perks - Curated Roll

Intrinsic

• Explosive Shadow — Shoot tainted slugs that burrow into combatants. Stacking enough slugs causes them all to explode, stunning surviving combatants. Strong against Unstoppable Champions.

Barrel

• Corkscrew Rifling - Balanced barrel.
  • Slightly increases Range and Stability.
  • Slightly increases Handling Speed.

Magazine

• Extended Mag - This weapon has a greatly increased magazine size, but reloads much slower.
  • Greatly increases magazine size.
  • Greatly decreases Reload Speed.

Trait 1

• Taken Predator — Bonus damage against Taken enemies and Gambit invaders.

Trait 2

• Heavy Grip - This grip is weighted for recoil control.
  • Increases Stability
  • Decreases Handling speed

Catalyst

• Vorpal Weapon - Increased damage against bosses, vehicles, and Guardians with their Super active.

Malfeasance Catalyst can be found as a random drop when completing strikes, Crucible and Gambit matches. Its upgrade is unlocked by defeating 700 enemies with Malfeasance.

The catalyst increases Malfeasance's Range by 20, adds the Vorpal Weapon perk, and Masterworks it.

Notes

Explosive Shadow

• Shots will apply an Explosive Shadow stack for 5s, successive stacks refresh the duration. Applying 5 stacks will cause them all to detonate in quick succession, each dealing 126% damage.

Lore

Yes, I wrote you a note. I want you to burn this in your memory. If you're wielding this gun, I've already told you all this and more. But I want you to keep it fresh in mind.

I want you to have this. You may need it. You and I have done a lot together in this system, and I hope and pray we'll get to do a lot more.

It'll be a lot safer with you wearin' one of these. It's the culmination of a lot of things. Long time ago I set out to find a replacement for a weapon called Thorn. This will never be that, but to me, it's better. We built it together.

And all of us, with this in hand? Even the Man with the Golden Gun should have pause.

Maybe we can't out-shoot him. Maybe he can't be out-shot. But if we all take our shot together? We don't have to beat him to it.

He'll die, too.

Remember this. For when the day comes.

—The Drifter

Images

Weapon Ornaments

• Aim to Misbehave
• Red String of Fate
• The Pink Mist

Patch History

• 6.2.0
  • Added intrinsic Unstoppable to explosions.
  • Added +25 to the base airborne effectiveness stat (28 to 53) to match other Precision Hand Cannon’s intrinsic bonus.
• 4.0.0.1
  • Primeval Servitor variant has been removed from Gambit.
  • Malfeasance quest will now be granted on any Primeval kill.
• 2.8.0
  • The Malfeasance exotic quest Darkness in the Light no longer requires owning the Forsaken expansion. Players who pick-up the New Light Malfeasance Intro quest will now be awarded "Darkness In the Light" upon killing the Ascendant Primeval Servitor boss.
• 2.1.0
  • Fixed an issue where the Ikelos Hand Cannon and Shotgun where displaying icons for Malfeasance and Chaperone in the obituary
• 2.0.5
  • Increased Explosive Shadow detonation damage
  • Increased damage against Taken and invaders
  • Removed quest Exotic weapons from the Exotic engram loot pool
    • Malfeasance

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