Trait
Explosive Payload
Projectiles create an area-of-effect detonation on impact.
Explosive Payload is a weapon perk: projectiles create an area-of-effect detonation on impact.
Effect
Direct impact damage is reduced by 50% and replaced by explosive damage equal to 50% (PvP) or 65% (PvE) of the original impact damage. If the shot was a precision hit the explosion inherits the precision multiplier, but explosive kills cannot trigger effects that need a precision kill, such as Encore.
Where it appears
It appears on Hand Cannon Better Devils, Scout Rifles Nameless Midnight, Madrugada SR2, Manannan SR4 and Purpose, and Sniper Rifles Persuader and A Single Clap. It improves body-shot damage in PvE. See also Weapon perk.
Rolls on
- A Distant Pull
- A Single Clap
- Albruna-D
- Ancient Gospel
- Apostate
- Bad News XF4354
- Better Devils
- Bite of the Fox
- Black Scorpion-4sr
- Bottom Dollar
- Brya's Love
- Corundum Hammer
- Crimil's Dagger
- Critical Anomaly
- Critical Anomaly (Adept)
- D.F.A.
- Distant Relation
- Does Not Compute
- Doom of Chelchis
- Doom of Chelchis (Harrowed)
- Dreaded Venture
- Elegy-49
- Epochal Integration
- Exuviae
- Fatebringer
- Fatebringer (Timelost)
- Forced Memorializer
- Hung Jury SR4
- Imperative
- Inbound Surveillance
- Jurisprudent
- Kindled Orchid
- Last Foray
- Last Rite
- Long Arm
- Long Arm (Adept)
- Long Shadow
- Loud Lullaby
- Luna Regolith III
- Malediction
- Manannan SR4
- Midnight Coup
- Nameless Midnight
- Nation of Beasts
- Nature Reclaimed
- Night Watch
- No Feelings
- Patron of Lost Causes
- Perses-D
- Posterity
- Pribina-D
- Purpose
- Red Tape
- Rose
- Service Revolver
- Seventh Seraph Officer Revolver
- Shoreline Dissident
- Show of Force XF4865
- Sixth Sense
- Something New
- Sovereignty
- Spare Rations
- Staccato-46
- Sublimation
- Survivor's Epitaph
- Talons of the Eagle
- Tango-45 XK5094
- Taraxippos
- Targeted Redaction
- Tarnished Mettle
- Tears of Contrition
- The Helmsman
- The Old Fashioned
- The Palindrome
- The Palindrome (Adept)
- The Prophet
- The Prophet (Adept)
- The Scholar
- Transfiguration
- True Prophecy
- Trust
- Uzume RR4
- Uzume RR4 (Adept)
- Vision of Confluence
- Vision of Confluence (Timelost)
- Volta Bracket
- Vouchsafe
- Vulpecula
- Wrong Side of Right
- Zaouli's Bane
- Zaouli's Bane (Harrowed)
Community guides & sources
shatteredvault.com
Destiny 2: Weapon PerksShattered Vault · shatteredvault.com
d2.destinygamewiki.com
Explosive Payload - Destiny 2 WikiDestiny Game Wiki · d2.destinygamewiki.com
Category: Weapon perks · Last edited 2026-10-10 08:03:18 UTC