Destiny 2 VS Velocity Baton: God Rolls & How to get it

Perhaps the most anticipated part of every Destiny 2 release is new raids and dungeons. Along with them, however, typically comes with some of the best loot the game has to offer.

Today, we’ll cover one of the new weapons coming from the Vesper’s Host dungeon: VS Velocity Baton.

Name: VS Velocity Baton

Type: Grenade Launcher Archetype: Area Denial

Ammo: Special Element: Void

Craftable: No Released: Episode 2

Source: Vesper's Host Dungeon Requires: The Final Shape Dungeon Key

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How good is VS Velocity Baton

VS Velocity Baton is a part of the new area denial family of grenade launchers, which only had one previous installment—Lost Signal. While that one was released with very little attention surrounding it, VS Velocity Baton seems like it could hold up a lot better.

In PvE, VS Velocity Baton has some interesting picks in both columns. While none of them are bound to make for a meta pick, there’s definitely some room for this weapon to shine in the current sandbox.

Area denial grenade launchers as a whole aren’t really used much in The Crucible, but VS Velocity Baton has a perk or two that could prove useful. Even so, if you’re looking for a weapon of this type to use in PvP, fully committing to Witherhoard is the play. VS Velocity Baton is B-Tier in PvE and C-Tier in PvP.

Best alternatives:

	Witherhoard	Grenade Launcher	Special	Kinetic	Exotic Kiosk
	Lost Signal	Grenade Launcher	Special	Stasis	Echoes Activities

VS Velocity Baton Perks & God Rolls

The VS Velocity Baton grenade launcher can roll with the following perks:

• Perk 1: Demolitionist, Unrelenting, Slickdraw, Under-Over, Danger Zone, Reverberation.
• Perk 2: Attrition Orbs, High Ground, Repulsor Brace, Adagio, Destabilizing Rounds, Harmony.
• Origin Trait: Bray Legacy

VS Velocity Baton God Rolls, Destiny 2

VS Velocity Baton PvE god rolls

We’ll begin by looking for high-velocity and handling stats through Quick Launch, High-Velocity Rounds, and either a velocity or handling masterwork.

There are two ways you can shape this weapon for PvE: for builds or for general gameplay. If you’re interested in the former, Demolitionist and Destabilizing Rounds or Repulsor Brace are your best picks. However, VS Velocity Baton’s general roll is arguably more potent. Unrelenting offers significant health regeneration while you’re clearing waves of enemies, while Attrition Orbs is absolutely insane on this weapon. Because the perk is hit-based and area denial frames feature hefty damage over time, using this perk results in an orb-generating machine.

VS Velocity Baton PvP god rolls

For The Crucible, we’ll start with the same base as we used for our PvE roll: Quick Launch, High-Velocity Rounds, and a velocity masterwork.

VS Velocity Baton’s main two perk columns really don’t feature much for PvP. Slickdraw is best for column one since target acquisition doesn’t matter much if you’re spraying this weapon on the ground. As for the final perk, everything in this column doesn’t succeed well in The Crucible. Regardless, we’ll choose Harmony for some extra damage, provided you play into it properly.

How to get VS Velocity Baton

VS Velocity Baton is one of four legendary weapons from the new Vesper’s Host dungeon. As with all raids and dungeons, the activity features a loot table that restricts what items you can obtain from each encounter.

If you’re looking for VS Velocity Baton specifically, you’ll find it dropping from the first and third encounters of the dungeon, as well as secret chests after obtaining it once. We cover the entire Vesper’s Host Loot Table here.

How to get VS Velocity Baton, Destiny 2

Before you go

Interested in more weapons from the Vesper’s Host dungeon? You should check out these VS Gravitic Arrest God Rolls.