Festival Flight god rolls and how to get them in Destiny 2

Destiny 2‘s Solstice added the Festival Flight to the game, the first Strand area denial frame in the game. It can be a good pick if you’re looking for a new weapon for your Kinetic slot, especially if you get a god roll.

Festival Flight adds another area denial frame to your Kinetic slot, after Echoes’ Lost Signal. This time, the grenade launcher comes in Strand green instead of the dark blue of Stasis. It has more options than Lost Signal thanks to being a product of a newer sandbox instead of being the first of its kind, so you have access to more unique combinations.

Here are our PvE god rolls for Festival Flight in Destiny 2, if you can ever put your Mint Retrograde down. Since Festival Flight is more aligned to PvE, we’re focusing on that side of the god roll coin instead.

Festival Flight PvE god roll in Destiny 2

• Barrel: Quick Launch, Smart Drift Control, or Linear Compensator.
• Mag: High-Velocity Rounds.
• First perk: Demolitionist, Blast Distributor, or Ambitious Assassin.
• Second perk: Attrition Orbs or One For All.
• Honorable mentions: Frenzy or Binary Orbit.

The third column for Festival Flight has a few good options to watch. Demolitionist is our favorite here. Ambitious Assassin helps make tube launchers even better by giving you more than one round in the mag (shoutout to Forbearance), and it’s certainly nothing to dismantle instantly. Blast Distributor also has the potential to make grenade builds even more powerful by bumping your Grenade stat.

Slice shows promise by letting you sever multiple targets easily, but it’s a tough sell against the competition. Envious Arsenal isn’t bad either, especially if you want to use it in boss rotations or are using your heavy liberally.

The real stars are in the fourth column. Festival Flight can roll Demolitionist and Attrition Orbs, the combination that crowned VS Velocity Baton as one of the most sought-after weapons in Destiny 2 last year. This perk was so strong on the Vesper’s Host grenade launcher that it underwent brutal nerfs specific to its archetype. It’s not the borderline illegal orb-printing machine it used to be, but it’s still quite good.

We tested Attrition Orbs on Mythic difficulty using a VS Velocity Baton, and it’s not difficult to generate orbs, though you might need to spread out your projectile to rain on a bigger area. Enemies in higher difficulties stay longer in the pool, so you get more ticks and more orbs. The post-Edge of Fate ammo economy is still a bit off for area denial frames, though, and a damage perk can help in that regard (sans the orb generation).

For more damage, three perks are standout choices: Frenzy, Binary Orbit, and One For All. Frenzy is a tried-and-true trait that grants you more damage, handling, and reload speed just by being in combat, no kills required. One For All only asks that you hit three enemies, which isn’t difficult, while Binary Orbit requires a kill with a Light element to work with Festival Flight. Our choice might have been different with any other weapon, but One For All is our favorite for this grenade launcher.

How to get Festival Flight in Destiny 2

You can get more rolls of Festival Flight (and the rest of the Solstice weaponry) by completing featured activities in the Portal. Hovering your mouse over each activity will tell you there’s a Distorted Solstice Engram available as a reward. This can get you any Solstice reward, including armor, and its quality depends on your difficulty, reward score, and Guardian Rank.