Destiny 2 Iron Banner Weapon God Rolls - Monument Guide

Lord Saladin is standing in the Tower again, selling you the same tired lecture about honor while dangling loot you'd trip a teammate for. This is your Destiny 2 Iron Banner weapon guide for the Monument of Triumph refresh: twelve actively-dropped weapons, each with new perk pools, each demanding your attention whether you like it or not. Skip the vendor-focused tier 5 junk on the side of his cart. That gear shares the exact same perks as the version you already ignored two years ago. Bungie tiered it up, slapped a new coat of paint on it, and hoped nobody would check. We checked.

You also strictly recommended read the following:

• Destiny 2 Iron Banner June 30 Reset Guide
• Felwinter's Lie Tier 5 Guide
• Black Armory God Rolls: Monument of Triumph
• Destiny 2 Final Hunter Builds: Monument of Triumph
• Crimil's Dagger God Roll Guide
• Destiny 2 Iron Banner Guide: Weekly Reset
• Destiny 2 Iron Banner Armor Set Bonus Guide
• Destiny 2 Iron Banner Weapon God Rolls: Monument of Triumph
• Destiny 2 Bungie Updates: Patch Delay Iron Banner

Every weapon below is judged for Destiny 2 Iron Banner god rolls in both PvP and PvE, because apparently one column of perks was never going to be enough content for a "final" expansion. Pull up destiny.report, ready your Enhancement Cores, and prepare to lose several evenings of your life to RNG that does not care about your feelings.

Crimil's Dagger

Kinetic, Aggressive Frame, 120 RPM Hand Cannon

Already one of the best 120s in the game before this update, which tells you everything about how unbothered Bungie is by the concept of balance. The Crimil's Dagger god roll for PvP doesn't even need its main perks to be terrifying; a range masterwork with Hammer-Forged Rifling and Accurized Rounds pushes it to 99 range before you've picked a single trait.

Verdict: Opening Shot and Precision Instrument turn every duel into a math problem the enemy loses. PvE is a shrug, but nobody farms a 120 for PvE anyway.

Kinetic, Aggressive Frame, 55 RPM Shotgun

The only shotgun in the game with Shot Package, an origin trait that tightens pellet spread on aim-down-sights, because Bungie decided one busted mechanic deserved to be permanently exclusive. This is the Felwinter's Lie god roll discussion, and yes, it earns the reputation. Full Choke got quietly buffed too, so stacking it with Shot Package produces spread numbers that should be illegal in six-versus-six.

Verdict: Full Choke plus Iron Reach gets you 80 range on an aggressive shotgun, which is a stat line that should not exist and does anyway.

Solar, Pinpoint Slug Frame Shotgun

Hunting for the best Iron Banner shotgun for PvP comes down to a fight between this and Felwinter's, and Gunnora's Axe wins on pure absurdity. Hammer-Forged Rifling plus Ricochet Rounds hits 100 range without touching a single main perk, which means you get to spend your real perk slots on aim assist instead of praying.

Verdict: Already at 100 range with the barrel and mag alone, so use your remaining perks on handling instead of stacking a stat that's already maxed.

Strand, High-Impact Frame, 400 RPM Auto Rifle

High-impact autos got bumped from 360 to 400 RPM with this update, so the archetype you dismissed as a slow-firing relic is suddenly worth your time again. Between Zen Moment and Dynamic Sway Reduction this thing turns into a laser beam that also happens to shred through Strand synergies for anyone still pretending to build-craft in PvE.

Verdict: Target Lock rewards you for staying on a target at max range, which is exactly the passive-aggressive playstyle this auto rifle was built for.

Kinetic, Lightweight Frame, 900 RPM Submachine Gun

The Multimach CCX god roll conversation hasn't changed much because the old Attrition Orbs plus Kinetic Tremors combo is still sitting there, still criminally good, still farming itself thanks to a 900 RPM fire rate that spawns orbs faster than your fireteam can use them. Iron Reach is new here and it's tempting, but it nukes your stability, and 900s already fight you enough.

Verdict: Attrition Orbs plus Kinetic Tremors is old, ugly, and still better than whatever new perk you're tempted to swap it for.

Arc, Aggressive Frame, 72 RPM Sniper Rifle

The Occluded Finality god roll question splits into two camps: range for people who like free headshots at absurd distances, and handling for people who enjoy whipping this thing out mid-slide like it owes them money. Either way, expect to run a backup mag, because base capacity on this sniper is an insult.

Verdict: Ricochet Rounds gets you to near-100 range while feeding stability, meaning your quickscope forgiveness goes up while your effort goes down.

Arc, Precision Frame Bow

A precision bow that Bungie apparently forgot to nerf, because Dragonfly paired with Voltshot creates a reload loop that triggers itself every time you fire normally. You get an explosion, a Voltshot chain, and a bow that reloads faster than most people can process what just happened to their shields.

Verdict: Dragonfly plus Voltshot is the sleeper PvE roll of the entire set. Nobody's talking about it, which means more crystals for the rest of us.

Strand, Adaptive Frame Fusion Rifle

One of the only Strand fusion rifles in the game, which is a novelty that wears off the moment you check its perk pool for PvE and find nothing worth writing home about. PvP is where this earns its keep, mostly because Under Pressure still functions even after its nerf and PvP players are perpetually low on ammo anyway.

Verdict: Fine in PvP, forgettable in PvE. Grab it for the Crucible pool and don't expect it to carry a raid encounter.

Solar, High-Impact Frame, 15 RPM Rocket Launcher

Explosive Light showing up in the left column instead of the right is the kind of clerical error Bungie makes maybe once a decade, and it happened here. Pair it with a damage perk on the right side and you get a rare double-damage roll on a rocket launcher, which is not something you were supposed to have.

Verdict: Explosive Light plus Vorpal Weapon on a rocket launcher shouldn't be legal. Farm it before someone at Bungie notices.

Strand, Aggressive Frame, 600 RPM Auto Rifle

Converted from Kinetic to Strand, because consistency was never part of the plan. Iron Grip showing up here is the real headline: plus 20 stability for a minor reload penalty is a trade you take blindfolded, and it turns an already accurate auto rifle into a weapon with almost no recoil to manage.

Verdict: Iron Grip turns this into a PvP stat monster. Flinch resistance alone makes it worth the grind over every other auto in the pool.

Stasis, Rapid-Fire Frame, 540 RPM Pulse Rifle

Now running Stasis instead of whatever it used to be, and hiding a genuinely rare interaction: Firefly paired with Headstone lets a precision kill's explosion detonate a Stasis crystal for shatter damage on top. That combo used to be exclusive to a couple of hand cannons. It has no business being on a pulse rifle, but here we are.

Verdict: Firefly plus Headstone is the most overlooked roll in this entire update. Chase it before the theorycrafting subreddits catch on.

Arc, High-Impact Frame Fusion Rifle

Iron Grip returns here too, and on a fusion rifle it's even more unhinged: plus 20 stability with a reload penalty nobody will ever notice because you're one-shotting people before a reload matters. Combine it with a full range roll and you're staring down triple-digit range and stability on a weapon archetype that usually forces you to pick one.

How not to waste your Iron Banner rank

Chasing the best Iron Banner weapons PvP pool means prioritizing range on almost everything above. Range masterworks, range barrels, Accurized Rounds: the same three ingredients show up on ten of these twelve weapons because Bungie's sandbox team has one idea and they are sticking to it. Stack range first, then chase whichever main perk turns your gun into the laser beam you were promised.

PvE is a different fight entirely. Farming Iron Banner PvE god rolls means accepting that half this loot pool is mediocre outside the Crucible, and that's fine, because the other half hides combos like Firefly-Headstone and Dragonfly-Voltshot that nobody bothered advertising. Read the tables, not the marketing.

None of this drops from a vendor. Play matches, rank up with Lord Saladin, and focus your engrams once you've earned the privilege. This Destiny 2 Iron Banner weapon guide only covers the actively dropped gear from the Iron Banner Monument of Triumph refresh, because the vendor-exclusive tier 5 rolls are recycled perks in a shinier wrapper, and you deserve better than being sold your own leftovers twice.