Skyburner's Oath

Skyburner's Oath
Attributes
Season	1
Type	Scout Rifle
Slot	Energy
Rarity	Exotic
Damage Type	Solar
Description	The inscription, written in a Cabal dialect, reads: "Victory or death!"
Statistics
Impact	67
Range	70
Stability	50
Handling	60
Reload Speed	50
Rounds Per Minute	150
Magazine	17
Zoom	21
Inventory Size	60
Aim Assistance	90
Airborne Effectiveness	35
Recoil	100
Bounce Intensity	0
Bounce Direction	Tends Vertical

Acquisition
	Exotic Engram May rarely be obtained upon completion of any challenge or dropped from defeated enemies.
	Xûr Occasionally sells this weapon in exchange for 29 Legendary Shards.

Skyburner's Oath PvP Stats
Optimal Time-to-Kill	0.90s
Optimal Kill	1 crit 3 body
Body Shot Time-to-Kill	1.20s
Body Shots to Kill	5
Crit Damage	52
Body Damage	47

Skyburner's Oath is an Exotic Scout Rifle.

Perks - Curated Roll

Intrinsic

• Slug Rifle — This weapon lobs explosive slugs. When you're aiming down sights, the slugs travel fast and straight. When you're firing from the hip, the explosion is larger and applies Scorch to the target.

Barrel

• Extended Barrel - Weighty barrel extension.
  • Increases Range.
  • Decreases 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

• For the Empire - This weapon is Full Auto, does extra damage to Cabal, and penetrates Phalanx Shields.

Trait 2

• Short-Action Stock - This weapon is especially easy to grip.
  • Greatly increases Handling Speed.

Catalyst

Skyburner Catalyst can be found by completing strikes, Crucible and Gambit matches. To unlock its upgrade, the player has to defeat Cabal enemies with this weapon.

The Catalyst increases Skyburner's Oath's Reload Speed by 20 and Masterworks it.

Notes

• Slug Rifle

  • Aim-down-sights (ADS) projectile has a speed of 9999, effectively making it hitscan.
  • Hip-fire slug travels ≈51.72m/s
  • 185% damage on precision hit.
  • Hip-fire explosion damage deals 82% on body, 93% on precision. ADS explosion damage deals 82% on body, 54% on precision.
  • Hip-fire explosion applies Scorch on hit.
  • This weapon has Explosive Payload.

• Extended Mag

  • Magazine adjusted to 18 rounds.

• For the Empire

  • Deals 123% damage to Cabal.

• As with most weapons the Oath includes a small display with an ammo readout, though the numerals are displayed using Cabal characters.

• Before version 4.1.0, Skyburner's Oath behaved like a Lightweight (200 RPM) Scout Rifle when it was hip-fired. While aiming down sights, the weapon instead behaved like a High-Impact (150 RPM) Scout Rifle due to the Slug Rifle perk taking effect.
  • A side-effect of the Oath's archetype change from Lightweight to High-Impact when aiming down sights was a noticeable reduction in fire rate. The increase in damage was equal to roughly +27%.
  • As of version 4.1.0, both ADS and hip-fire behave like a High-Impact (150 RPM) Scout Rifle.

Lore

Some grunts are born to fight the war. Yes, they're loyal and true, and when the call comes "hot drop in five," well, they're always first in the queue. But I'm not one of them. I'm no hero, I'm in no hurry to die. I shot my own squad on Phobos, when death came to wear us like armor. I rode the Primus's ship that rammed the Hive dreadnaught. Second wave out the hatch. We won that fight. Victory or death. We're not dead, so we won.

Now this is the end, brothers, our final fight. Ghaul's here to finish it. Mars taught us how to fight Guardians. The Hive taught us how to eat their Light. Remember that we made it possible. The Red Legion ends it. But we held the line and we didn't die. That's victory. It says so on the gun.

Images

Weapon Ornaments

• Beware the Red Legion
• Calus's Promise
• Honor of the Empress

Patch History

• 4.1.0.4
  • Fixed an issue where Skyburner’s Oath and the Explosive Payload perk could bypass the bosses’ shields in Duality’s Vault encounter.
• 4.1.0
  • Increased aim-down-sights (ADS) projectile speed to 9999 (i.e., this projectile is now hitscan).
  • Both ADS and hip-fire are now 150 RPM.
  • Hip-fire projectile no longer tracks, but arcs similar to a Grenade Launcher have a larger detonation size than ADS.
  • The hip-fire detonation also applies Scorch to targets.
  • The bonus range from the Masterwork has been rolled into the base stats of the weapon. The Masterwork now grants bonus reload speed instead.
  • Has the highest airborne effectiveness stat of any weapon in the game.
• 3.1.0
  • Catalysts for the following weapons have had their sources and objectives updated to not be associated with Vaulted content:
    • Skyburner's Oath

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