Right, hello guys, I’m Librarian Husky, welcome back. Today we are doing an honest review for the sudden death shotgun from the reprised prophecy dungeon that’s currently dropping in the Right of the Nine event.

Sudden Death Shotgun Review

And as you can see from the title of the article, this shotgun is actually the first of its kind due to it getting the particular perk roll of one-two punch and trench barrel. No other shotgun before this has ever been able to receive this coveted combo. So, for that reason alone, I’d very much encourage you to prioritize farming it. And besides this very special role, the shotgun also gets various other highly sought-after combos that we will discuss in length.

But first, let’s get a brief overview of the weapon as a whole. A sudden death is a void aggressive frame shotgun, putting it in the same family as Imperial Decree and Found Verdict with a base fire rate of 55 rounds per minute. However, it can roll with assault mag, which bumps the RPM to 60. So, when looking for rolls, do remember that it’s also good if you manage to roll one with assault mag.

It being a prophecy weapon also means it comes with the crossing over origin trait, which states that this weapon has increased range and handling for the top half of the magazine while rounds from the bottom half of the magazine deal increased damage. And in the case of a sudden death, the top half will hit for a total of 43,000 when tested on Carl and the final shot for 44,000, which is exactly 3% more damage. Meaning that overall across the entire magazine, you’re dealing only 1.22% more damage than a standard aggressive frame. So, it isn’t much, but it is free damage at the end of the day.

Of course, it also gets the gravity well origin trait where reloading within close proximity of an ammo brick automatically collects it for you. But in my opinion, this is the less optimal origin trait, and I would instead exclusively run with crossing over. Looking at the perks as a whole for PvE, the perks I would recommend considering are one, two, punch, threat detector, and discord in the left column, then redirection, destabilizing rounds, and trench barrel in the right column. Some honorable mentions include repulsor brace and destabilizing rounds, which could make for a decent combo in any void-focused build. But in my opinion, this combo is better suited for primary weapons and rocket sidearms like Lotus Eater rather than any other special weapons.

Envious assassin is also here, which could give way to improve shotgun damage rotations by removing the need to reload. But this perk still completely removes your overflowed ammo if you make any change to your build whatsoever, like equipping surges or changing exotic armor. So for that particular use case, I wouldn’t recommend it when better, more suited shotguns like Perfect Paradox exist.

So now let’s move on to the first combo I want to discuss, and that is of course the very special one-two punch trench barrel roll. As a quick reminder, one-two punch will increase your melee damage by 100% or two times base if you land a majority of the pellets on a target. And for trench barrel, dealing melee damage instead increases your weapon damage by 50%. So having these perks together provides maximum value for your build since you’re now gaining the maximum damage bonus for both your melees and your shotgun, making it the clear winner for any one-two punch build. And as of right now, my head almost immediately goes to Strand Titan.

Looking at the damage on Carl with a grapple point available and five stacks of Burning Fists, he doesn’t really stand a chance. So let’s see the damage on a real boss instead. For the following setup, I’m tackling the first boss of Warlords Ruin on my Strand Titan with Banner of War, Synthps, and Tractor Cannon, giving way to the following.

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Exploring Powerful Shotgun Combos

So yeah, when paired together, this shotgun and Strand Titan can put in some serious work. Keep in mind that in the Edge of Fate, the seasonal artifact will contain several returning perks that benefit Strand Titan specifically, like Shield Crush, which will increase all outgoing melee damage by a further 25% when Woven Male is active. Then a new perk, Tightly Woven, which states that while Woven Male is active, gain increased grenade and super stats.

Going down the rabbit hole even further, having 200 grenade stat increases grenade damage by a further 65%. Grapple melees technically count as both melee and grenade damage. Buy your Strand Titan stocks now because they’re going to be going to the moon once we have access to these mods. One last note about this setup is that because the shotgun is void, it also makes running triple void surge the most optimal choice since it also affects Tractor Cannon also given that it too is a void exotic weapon.

Definitely try to get yourself this combo if you’re a Titan main, but in general, it’s just good to have because it’s basically the best in slot weapon for its intended purpose.

The next combo I want to discuss is Discord redirection. After the Succession sniper rifle from Into the Light, this weapon is the second ever to receive this combo. It’s much better to have this on a shotgun rather than a sniper. Discord will make it so getting a kill with a different weapon activates Discord for seven or 8 seconds when Enhanced on the weapon with Discord.

While active, final blows with the weapon fully refund the expended ammo from thin air. For 8 seconds, as long as you’re getting kills, you technically have infinite ammo. When paired with redirection, things really start to kick up a notch. Enhanced redirection makes it so scoring final blows on red bar enemies grants three stacks of redirection up to a maximum of 30 stacks. Dealing damage to orange bar or above enemies spends two stacks at a time where every shot is given a 100% damage buff, or in other words, literally double damage.

With the maximum 30 stacks, you’re able to dish out a total of 15 double damage shots, which for a shotgun is totally awesome in theory. In the gameplay you’re seeing now, I paired this exact role with a no backup plans void Titan build in a master loss sector, and admittedly I wasn’t actually that impressed.

The loop starts by simply getting a kill with your kinetic slot weapon. Get as many shotgun kills as you can to gather redirection stacks. As soon as you come across a champion, your shotgun deals double damage and a further 35% damage from the intrinsic no backup plants perk. The shotgun does perform decently well with this combo. However, aggressive frame shotguns feel exceptionally sluggish, which in the case of the previous grapple melee damage build doesn’t actually matter. But here, I did start to notice how awfully slow and clunky it felt despite outputting decent results.

You can actually acquire the seasonal strand glaive refusal of the call also with discord, meaning you can have a discord special weapon in both your kinetic and energy slot. When running both, you’ll effectively never run out of ammo. Plus, you get the added bonus of it being a glaive, giving you the frontal shield defensive property. There are other special weapons in the kinetic slot that roll discord, but most of them are snipers or iron banner weapons. Go for the glaive if you want to rock this play style.

Analysis and Recommendations

Overall though, I would carefully consider going for this role because while the results are good, it doesn’t feel great to use, especially since for a no backup plans build, Slayer’s Fang is likely the far better choice. Moreover, in a similar vein to Unvoiced from the Thunder Doctrine dungeon, you could also fit this into a damage rotation with having pre-built stacks of redirection. But if you want my advice on that, don’t bother. It’s too much effort to prep and if you die, you lose all of your stacks anyway.

So, I don’t see much merit for that particular use case. The same applies for one-two punch redirection as well. It’s simply too much effort and ammo loss to even bother. If you’re looking for a role that’s purely focused around trench barrel and has nothing to do with one-two punch, threat detector trench barrel is probably your best bet since if you’re at two stacks of the buff, threat detector gives you 100 handling, 63 reload speed, 44 stability, and a 0.8 81x handling animation duration scalar specifically when enhanced.

This role would be well suited for a solar warlock running song of flame for either boss stunning or major killing purposes since both the enhanced snap and celestial fire variants work with trench barrel. Quick side note on that actually both incinerator snap and celestial fire don’t work with one-two punch. Just thought you should be aware.

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So overall the two roles I would highly suggest going for are one-two punch trench barrel and discord redirection if you feel like it, bonus points if you manage to get all four on a single shiny or a depth drop. And actually, if you, the viewer, managed to get this perfect four out of four roll, please join the Discord and show me since I’d love to just see it be real. In terms of what the best way to farm it is, the Falank Eko is by far the easiest boss because he has little to no health and can be one-phased very easily with Legend of Acrias and appropriate damage supers. In fact, you can check out my full optimized guide that I posted a couple days ago detailing everything you could possibly want to know.

So, in conclusion, if there was one drop out of the entire Right of the Nine weapon set, including Ghost of the Deep, Prophecy, and Spire of the Watcher that you should be farming for, it’s this weapon right here without a doubt.

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