Destiny 2’s Guardian Games event is finally back with Season of the Wish and brings a selection of great weapons to choose from for guardians. One of the returning rewards is the Taraxippos scout rifle with a refreshed perk pool. This 200 RPM Lightweight Frame scout rifle hasn’t changed much since last year but the perks pool did get a small reshuffle with the addition of a few new perks that change overall recommendations.
How to get Taraxippos in Destiny 2
As usual with the Guardian Games, you’ll earn most of your drops by completing Contender Cards for Eva Levante in the Tower. You’ll be able to choose from Gold, Platinum, and Diamond tiers of Cards with the higher tiers naturally translating to more and better loot. Diamond Cards in particular are limited to only 3 cards per week: one from end-game PVE and PVP each and one acquired from Twitch Drops by watching a Destiny 2 stream for two hours.
Alongside the Contender Cards, you’ll also receive rewards for participating in Guardian Games activities and completing their weekly accompanying quests. You’ll receive your first quest, Shoot to Score, from Zavala and it’ll require you to get medals and points in the Nightfall playlist. The second quest, Vying for Supremacy, on the other hand, requires playing in either the Crucible’s Supremacy playlist or the Gambit playlist tied to the event.
By getting high scores in the PVE (Nightfall) and PVP (Supremacy & Gambit) playlists, you’ll be able to unlock up to 4 tiers of weekly chests in the Tower for each of the quests. These chests will reward you with loot and materials as well as buffs to make achieving higher scores possible.
On top of all that, every few hours, one of the Guardian Games All-Stars playlists (remember, Nightfall, Supremacy, or Gambit) will be the Focus Activity which you’ll be able to see in your Director. Playing a Focus Activity unlocks up to three tiers of reward packages that go from bronze to silver to gold, with better prizes for each tier. There’s one more package, the Champions Package, that (as you can imagine) will go to the class that dominates the Focus Activity by earning the highest scores. The Champions Package will fill the Medallion Case, not including Diamond Medallions.
This way, you’ll be gaining medallions at an even faster rate compared to otherwise. More medallions naturally mean more loot and who doesn’t like more loot?
Taraxippos PVE God Roll
Keep Away moving to the third column this year opened up a lot of new possibilities and is in my opinion the most appealing choice in its column by quite a long distance. The addition of Precision Instrument to the fourth column is likewise a pleasant surprise and the combination of these two perks can honestly easily pull double duty for use in both PVE and PVP.
Gutshot Straight with Explosive Payload is also a pretty solid option as the combination of the two can buff your damage up quite significantly even if you’re only hitting body shots on enemies — although I certainly wouldn’t recommend running this in PVP.
- Smallbore or Corkscrew Rifling or Fluted Barrel
- Tactical Mag or Flared Magwell (if not running a reload perk) or Accurized Rounds
- Keep Away or Fourth Time’s the Charm or Gutshot Straight (ONLY with Explosive Payload)
- Precision Instrument or Explosive Payload or Hatchling
- Stability or Range Masterwork
Taraxippos PVP God Roll
As usual, scouts really don’t need range in most situations for PVP so I generally recommend opting for stability instead — particularly so with the faster-firing archetypes like Lightweights and Rapid-Fires. Keep Away with Precision Instrument is going to be an excellent choice as we’ve already mentioned but there are other appealing choices as well.
Explosive Payload in particular has been a staple for Lightweight Scouts for quite some time and that’s because it’s really good. The last combo worth mentioning here is either Zen Moment or Keep Away combined with Cascade Point for some high-RPM weapon-swapping action. It’s not for everyone but it can be a really fun choice — especially now that special ammo is less abundant in the crucible.
- Fluted Barrel or Corkscrew Rifling or Smallbore
- Steady Rounds (or Accurized Rounds)
- Keep Away or Zen Moment or Moving Target
- Precision Instrument or Explosive Payload or Cascade Point
- Stability Masterwork
