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The Waltz
Hi Swaye here with another in-depth weapon review. Today we are going to review the Vendor Roll Pulse Rifle The Waltz from the Future War Cult.
As usual we will be going through the perks of this vendor roll and afterwards we will compare this with the popular grasp of malok and the similar iron banner Clever Dragon pulse rifle. We will finish the video with my final thoughts!
Lets start with examining the weapon. The description says: A burst-fire weapon, named and sanctified by the Future War Cult's leaders.
The Vendor roll comes with
Red Dot sight
SteadyHand IS
And the OEG scope
Armor Piercing Rounds
Lightweight
Perfect Balance
Eye of the Storm
And Rangefinder
This is a decent roll, I use SteadyHand IS in combination with Perfect balance to minimize the recoil as much as possible. Rangefinder will help you with those long range encounters and Lightweight will make you more mobile and Armor Piercing Rounds is fun for sixes where guardians are grouped up more often so you can hit multiple enemies with the same bullet.
So the Waltz is a new addition to the rare low impact fast firing pulse rifle archetype which is mainly dominated by the Grasp of Malok and to some extent the Praedyth's Timepiece and Oversoul Edict from pre-Taken King.
The only other pulse rifle with the Rise of Iron expansion that fits in this category is The Clever Dragon which can only be acquired from the Iron Banner.
So we will be only comparing these three with each other as the Praedyth's Timepiece and Oversoul Edict can not be infused up to the current light levels.
As you can see the base stats of these guns don’t differ too much there is only 7 points different between the highest and lowest Reload time and Aim Assist values and there is only a 5 point gap when you compare the highest and lowest values between range and stability.
The differences between these guns lies in the perk trees. The Grasp of Malok and the Clever Dragon have more perk options where you can gain stability, range or reload at sacrifice of something else, which allows for interesting options where you can almost max out the stability. Whereas the options for the Waltz are relatively limited.
Having said that, this does mean that it is much harder to get a decent roll on the Grasp of Malok. A God Roll Grasp of Malok is considered to be CounterBalance, with either Perfect Balance or Hand Laid Stock and as for the last perk that is up to your own preference ( i would go for Spray and Play). But the odds on getting Counterbalance with either perfect balance or hand laid stock is very low. Considering the odds on getting counterbalance alone is already 1 out of 11 or 9%, if for argument sake lets say you are lucky with counter balance the odds on you getting perfect balance or hand laid stock in the second perk tree is 2 out of 9 which is 22%, so in the end the odds of you getting the god roll is only 2% which is awfully low.
Coming back to the Waltz the vendor roll comes with Perfect balance straight out of the box! This is really the perk that you want , the other perks are up to your own preference. But Ideally you want to have counterbalance in the last column which is occupied by Rangefinder in the vendor roll. My god roll would be Perfect Balance , Counter Balance and Flared Magwell since I find the current reload speed a bit too slow for me.
So if you compare this with the Grasp of Malok I would recommend you to get the Waltz instead and forget about the painful grind for the grasp. You can easily buy this gun from the vendor and the perks are very decent, it is not the god roll but it is very good.
So I have been using the waltz during Iron Banner and I was surprised how good this gun is, it fires very fast and it is very consistent. The armor piercing rounds perk is really effective in Supremacy where guardians are usually grouped together. I was firing at guardians that were lined up and I managed to get so many double downs with this gun, which was really a blast.
One of the downside of the gun is firing at long ranges where the gun does kick a lot, however on short to medium ranges you shouldnt have a problem with this.
Other than that I find the reload speed a bit too slow, but a pair of pulse rifle reload gauntlets will bring up the speed just enough to be respectable.
So to conclude the Waltz from the Vendor is an amazing gun, it has the right perks to get you going in the crucible. Is it better than the Grasp of Malok, statistically speaking no since the Grasp’s stability can be almost maxed out making that gun a laser beam, whereas the room for stability improvements for the Waltz is more limited.
But if you just want to have a good gun in this archetype and you don’t want to grind for the perfect Grasp of Malok god roll, just buy the Waltz from the Vendor when you have enough marks for it , it is really a good gun, and it won’t let you down.
Let me know what you think of this gun, is it a worthy replacement for the grasp of malok? Let me know in the comments below. I hope you enjoyed this video. Thanks for Watching, subscribe if you havent done so yet to stay up to date on my latest video and as always I will see you in the next video Guardians.
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