Linear fusion rifles may not be the top of the meta in Destiny 2, but the Dawning’s Mistral Lift brings some powerful god rolls to anyone who wants a different option on their heavy slot.
Thanks to its three-burst fire mode and stacked perk pool, Mistral Lift can be a formidable weapon on its own. It provides a good, crit-based, ranged alternative for damage on your heavy slot, focusing more on taking down bosses or Champions than a weapon you’d normally use for add-clear.
Here are our god rolls for Mistral Lift, based on data from d2foundry.gg.
Mistral Lift PvE god roll in Destiny 2
- Barrel: Polygonal Rifling, Smallbore, or Corkscrew Rifling
- Mag: Liquid Coils, Enhanced Battery, or Ionized Battery
- First perk: Envious Arsenal, Withering Gaze, or Reconstruction
- Honorable mention: Overflow
- Second perk: Bait and Switch
- Honorable mention: Rewind Rounds
- Don’t forget to use the Veist Stinger origin trait.
The rules for what makes a good heavy weapon are somewhat rigid in Destiny 2. For a weapon to be competitive, it has to have a few of the top-tier traits in its archetype, and Mistral Lift has those in spades.
Envious Arsenal is by far the highlight of the third column. It’s effective, fits in a damage loop, and can reload your magazine to full with minimum effort. Overflow and Reconstruction do the same thing, with the bonus of overfilling your magazine, but they’re a bit harder to control. Any of the three on its own is enough to pass the vault test, but Withering Gaze is the icing on the Dawning cookie.
Withering Gaze allows you to apply Weaken on demand by aiming down sights, which works if you (or the rest of the fireteam) don’t have a source of the powerful debuff at hand. The extra damage can be worth it, especially if you use this perk before casting your Super or using an ability. You won’t resort to it if your team has another source of Weaken, such as Tractor Cannon or a Hunter using Tether, but it’s handy to have a roll with it—especially with multiple perks being a reality.
The third column also brings heavy hitters, but the gold standard is here: Bait and Switch. It provides a strong damage boost while slotting perfectly into rotations using Envious Arsenal.
There’s an honorable mention, pending further testing: Rewind Rounds paired with Reconstruction lets you unleash your full magazine without having to reload or interrupt your rotations. Damage with Envious and Bait and Switch was still higher, but there is something special about firing forever with Mistral Lift. Pouring one out for pre-nerf Veist Stinger with Taipan-4fr.
How to get Mistral Lift in Destiny 2
Mistral Lift is available through the Dawning 2025. You have a chance of getting this linear fusion rifle after opening any event gifts or completing activities with extra Dawning Engrams as rewards. There’s no way to focus on it specifically, though, outside of your limited purchases with event tokens.
We recommend upgrading Eva Levante’s vendor inventory and masterworking your oven by baking all Dawning cookies once. Doing so lets you make more cookies, which in turn improves your odds of getting this linear fusion rifle.
