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Sunshot
Attributes
Season	1
Type	Hand Cannon
Slot	Energy
Rarity	Exotic
Damage Type	Solar
Archetype	Lightweight
Description	"Can't outrun the sunrise." —Liu Feng
Statistics
Impact	80
Range	31
Stability	40
Handling	81
Reload Speed	72
Rounds Per Minute	150
Magazine	12
Zoom	14
Inventory Size	53
Aim Assistance	60
Airborne Effectiveness	27
Recoil	98
Bounce Intensity	2
Bounce Direction	Tends Vertical

Acquisition
	Exotic engrams; extremely rare world drops.
	Exotic Engram Possible reward.
	Xûr Occasionally sells this weapon.

Sunshot is an Exotic Hand Cannon.

Perks - Curated Roll

Intrinsic

• Sunburn - This weapon fires explosive rounds and highlights targets that take damage from Sunshot.

Barrel

• Chambered Compensator - Stable barrel attachment.
  • Increases Stability.
  • Improves Recoil Direction.
  • Slightly decreases Handling Speed.

Magazine

• Accurized Rounds - This weapon can fire longer distances.
  • Increases Range.

Trait

• Sun Blast - Targets killed with Sunshot explode in Solar energy.

Grip

• Textured Grip - The friction on this weapon's grip is exceptionally strong.
  • Greatly increases Handling Speed.
  • Slightly decreases stability.

Catalyst

Sunshot Catalyst can be obtained in strikes or in the Crucible. To unlock its upgrade, the player has to defeat enemies, and get Sun Blast kills.

The Catalyst increases Sunshot's range by 30 and stability by 20, and Masterworks the weapon.

Notes

• Sun Blast kill explosion applies 10 scorch stacks (+5 with Ember of Ashes).^[1]

Lore

She bowed her head, heat shimmering from her fist. A silent salute to the Hive closing around her, their eyes forming a glowing jade ring.

She was a Sunbreaker. A mercenary from days before the City. Not like the new Lights from the Tower. She was weary. But there was no rest out here, where the City Lights didn't reach. She and her allies were committed to their arduous, solitary task. But they could always use more numbers.

Sometimes, they left trinkets for the City. Meant as challenge and bribe at once-we offer you this. Come find us.

She had forged the Warlock gauntlets herself. Ouros laughed in her face when she told her their name. She wasn't very good at names.

A gun. She would forge a gun, next. It would speak like her Hammer. And burn like fire. The ring of jade eyes closed on her. Liu Feng laughed, her arms open for a fiery embrace.

Images

Weapon Ornaments

• Burning Red
• Quark Star
• Red Dwarf
• Vexplosion

Patch History

• 7.0.0.1^[1]
  • Explosion on kill now applies 10 + 5 scorch stacks.

• 3.0.0.1^[2]
  • Moved all Lightweight Hand Cannons (150 RoF) to the Adaptive subfamily (140 RoF).
  • One Exotic Hand Cannon will retain 150 RoF.
  • We aren’t going to leave it to speculation.
  • It’s beautiful.
  • It does Solar damage.
  • It makes enemies explode.
  • It’s Sunshot.

• 2.6.0.1^[3]
  • Magazine size increased to 12 from 8.
• 1.2.0^[4]
  • Increased damage and radius of kill explosion
• 1.1.0^[5]
  • Shooting destructible objects with Graviton Lance, Sunshot, Merciless, Sturm, and Drang no longer trigger the Exotic weapon perks

References