Trait
Bait and Switch
Deal damage with all equipped weapons within a short time to give this weapon a damage boost.
Overview
Bait and Switch is a Trait weapon perk introduced in Season 16: dealing damage with all equipped weapons within a short time boosts this weapon's damage.
Mechanics
Per community guides: damage starts a 7-second timer, refreshed by more damage. Damaging all three weapons before it expires grants +30% damage for 10 seconds; the timer is disabled while the buff is active. An Enhanced version exists.
Rolls on
- Alone as a god
- Bad Omens
- Bitter/Sweet
- Cataclysmic
- Cataclysmic (Adept)
- Cataphract GL3
- Cataphract GL3 (Adept)
- Cold Comfort
- Cold Comfort (Adept)
- Conspiracy Honed
- Critical Anomaly
- Critical Anomaly (Adept)
- Crowning Duologue
- Cynosure
- Deliverance
- Deliverance (Adept)
- Dimensional Hypotrochoid
- Doomsday
- Edge Transit
- Falling Guillotine
- False Idols
- Father's Sins
- Felwinter's Lie
- Finite Maybe
- Forbearance
- Forbearance (Adept)
- Gizmo Weft
- Hezen Vengeance
- Hezen Vengeance (Timelost)
- Insidious
- Insidious (Adept)
- Keen Thistle
- Keen Thistle (Adept)
- Koraxis's Distress
- Koraxis's Distress (Adept)
- Lance Ephemeral
- Last Foray
- Line in the Sand
- Love and Death
- Lubrae's Ruin
- Lubrae's Ruin (Adept)
- Mercurial Overreach
- Micromort
- Mint Retrograde
- Mistral Lift
- Outrageous Fortune
- Praedyth's Revenge
- Praedyth's Revenge (Timelost)
- Pro Memoria
- Pure Recollection
- Pyroclastic Flow
- Scintillation
- Scintillation (Adept)
- Sleepless
- Song of Ir Yût
- Song of Ir Yût (Adept)
- Starscape Null
- Submission
- Submission (Adept)
- Sullen Claw
- Summum Bonum
- Summum Bonum (Adept)
- Tarnation
- The Beacon
- The Ever-Present
- The Hothead
- The Inquisitor (Adept)
- The Slammer
- The Slammer (Adept)
- The When and Where
- Thermal Erosion
- Threat Level
- Tinasha's Mastery
- Tomorrow's Answer
- Tomorrow's Answer (Adept)
- Trophy Hunter
- Tusk of the Boar
- Twilight Oath
- Undercurrent
- Undercurrent (Adept)
- Unvoiced
- Unwavering Duty
- VS Chill Inhibitor
- VS Velocity Baton
- Wicked Sister
- Wild Style
- Wild Style (Adept)
- Wilderflight
- Wilderflight (Adept)
- Willful Hamartia
Community guides & sources
Bait and Switch explained in under a minute.YouTube · YouTube
shatteredvault.com
Destiny 2: Weapon PerksShattered Vault · shatteredvault.com
d2.destinygamewiki.com
Bait and Switch - Destiny 2 WikiDestiny Game Wiki · d2.destinygamewiki.com
Category: Weapon perks · Last edited 2026-10-01 23:46:49 UTC