Tarnished Mettle

Tarnished Mettle
Attributes
Season	18
Type	Scout Rifle
Slot	Energy
Ammo	Primary
Rarity	Legendary
Damage Type	Arc
Foundry	?????
Archetype	?????
Description	Survival is the better part of valor.
Statistics
Impact	60
Range	30
Stability	33
Handling	66
Reload Speed	53
Rounds Per Minute	200
Magazine	16
Zoom	20
Inventory Size	49
Aim Assistance	73
Recoil	52

Weapon Shaping
	Weapon Pattern Completing Deepsight Resonance extractions on this weapon will unlock its Pattern.
	Deepsight Resonance Extractions required to unlock: 5

Acquisition
	Season of Plunder Activities

Tarnished Mettle PvP Stats

Tarnished Mettle is a Legendary Scout Rifle.

Perks - Curated Roll

Intrinsic

• Lightweight Frame - Superb Handling. Move faster with this weapon equipped.

Sight / Barrel

• Smallbore - Dual strength barrel.
  • Increases Range.
  • Increases Stability.

Magazine / Battery

• Steady Rounds - This magazine is optimized for recoil control.
  • Greatly increases Stability.
  • Slightly decreases Range.

Trait 1

• Killing Wind - Final blows grant increased mobility, weapon range, and handling for a short duration.

Trait 2

• Dragonfly - Precision kills create an elemental damage explosion.

Origin Trait

• 35px Right Hook - Dealing melee damage gives this weapon increased target acquisition and range for a short period of time. Dealing melee damage again extends the effect.

Perks - Random Rolls

Intrinsic

• Lightweight Frame - Superb Handling. Move faster with this weapon equipped.

Possible Sight / Barrel

• Polygonal Rifling - Barrel optimized for recoil reduction.
  • Increases Stability.
• Extended Barrel - Weighty barrel extension.
  • Increases range
  • Decreases handling speed
  • Moderately controls recoil
• Chambered Compensator - Stable barrel attachment.
  • Increases Stability.
  • Improves Recoil Direction.
  • Slightly decreases Handling Speed.
• Smallbore - Dual strength barrel.
  • Increases Range.
  • Increases Stability.
• Corkscrew Rifling - Balanced barrel.
  • Slightly increases Range and Stability.
  • Slightly increases Handling Speed.
• Full Bore - Barrel optimized for distance.
  • Greatly increases Range.
  • Decreases Stability.
  • Slightly decreases Handling Speed.
• Hammer-Forged Rifling - Durable ranged barrel.
  • Increases Range.
• Arrowhead Brake - Lightly vented barrel.
  • Greatly controls Recoil.
  • Increases Handling Speed.
• Fluted Barrel - Ultra-light barrel.
  • Greatly increases Handling Speed.
  • Slightly increases Stability.

Possible Magazine / Battery

• Steady Rounds - This magazine is optimized for recoil control.
  • Greatly increases Stability.
  • Slightly decreases Range.
• Alloy Magazine - Faster Reload when the magazine is empty.
• Appended Mag - This weapon's magazine is built for higher capacity.
  • Increases magazine size.
• Flared Magwell - Optimized for fast reloading.
  • Slightly increases Stability.
  • Greatly increases Reload Speed.
• Extended Mag - This weapon has a greatly increased magazine size, but reloads much slower.
  • Greatly increases magazine size.
  • Greatly decreases Reload Speed.
• Tactical Mag - This weapon has multiple tactical improvements.
  • Slightly increases Stability.
  • Slightly increases Reload Speed.
  • Slightly increases magazine size.
• Accurized Rounds - This weapon can fire longer distances.
  • Increases Range.

Possible Trait 1

• Shoot to Loot - Shooting an ammo brick picks it up and automatically reloads all of your equipped weapons from reserves.
• Moving Target - Increased movement speed and target acquisition when moving while aiming down sights.
• Fourth Time's the Charm - Rapidly landing precision hits will return two rounds to the magazine.
• Killing Wind - Final blows grant increased mobility, weapon range, and handling for a short duration.
• Steady Hands - Kills provide improved handling for all weapons for a short duration.
• Demolitionist - Kills with this weapon generate grenade energy. Activating your grenade ability reloads this weapon from reserves.
• Rapid Hit - Rapid precision hits temporarily increase stability and reload speed.

Possible Trait 2

• Explosive Payload — Projectiles create area of effect detonation on impact.
• Dragonfly - Precision kills create an elemental damage explosion.
• Voltshot - Reloading this weapon after defeating a target overcharges this weapon for a short period of time, causing it to jolt on its next hit.
• Eye of the Storm - This weapon becomes more accurate and boosts handling as your health gets lower.
• Focused Fury - Dealing half of the magazine as precision damage grants this weapon bonus damage. The shot count is reset whenever the weapon is reloaded or stowed.
• Swashbuckler - This weapon gains increased damage from melee kills and kills with this weapon.
• Multikill Clip - Reloading grants increased damage based on the number of rapid kills made beforehand.

Possible Origin Trait

• 35px Right Hook - Dealing melee damage gives this weapon increased target acquisition and range for a short period of time. Dealing melee damage again extends the effect.

How to Obtain

Detailed explanation on how to acquire Tarnished Mettle

Lore

Survival is the better part of valor.

Vrisk had been lying under his crewmate's corpse for the better part of an hour. His body ached from lack of Ether, but he dared not pull from his rebreather for fear of discovery.

Besides, if he survived, there would be enough to sate his hunger a dozen times over.

He and Krilix had been calibrating the landing struts on the crew's Ketch when the ambush hit. A long-range scout rifle slug punched through Krilix in the opening salvo, ripping a fist-sized hole in his chest. He fell on top of Vrisk in a heap of gore as a barrage of gunfire rained down on their position.

Vrisk could have shrugged off the Wretch's body and seized his Arc Spear to retaliate. Instead, he simply lay beneath his dying crewmate and let the battle play out.

After the shooting stopped, Vrisk listened to their assailants ransack the ship. A mix of guttural Cabal barks and familiar Eliksni chatter marked them as a competing crew, eager to claim the bounty set forth by the reawakened Shipstealer.

But Vrisk knew what their attackers did not: the relic they sought was not on the Ketch, or even on this planet. It was hidden in a safehouse deep within the asteroid belt beyond Mars. Once Vrisk found the courage to emerge from his hiding place, he would take the relic to Eramiskel himself and claim the reward for his own.

But there was time for that. For now, the Dreg let the weight and warmth of his dead companion press him into a peaceful slumber, where he dreamed of better days to come.

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