Should You be Grinding for Luna's Howl In 2024? (PvE & PvP Review) | Destiny 2 Into the Light (2024)

I love the the lore tab for this version of luna's howl. For those that don't know luna was a dog that got killed by the hive and you can see her grave at a vex gate on the moon. The lore tab for this version says that Shaxx gave Josef(luna's owner) a box with 2 war beasts puppies in it.

Yes it's worth it. Heal clip/incandescent is a workhorse for solar builds.

I friggin love this thing on controller. I've always liked hand cannons but didn't like the recoil pattern of them aside from on 180s. Luna's Howl shoots like a dream for me- I just wish it could roll Firefly.

imma get it for pve just because it's prettier than zaouli's bane 💪

And people thought Heal Clip/Incandescent was not the roll for Luna's Howl.
Ah, redemption. Feels good. Suck it doubters, YAAAH!
Great video Mr. Cross.

Dude the content output …. YOU’RE a MACHINE!!! We appreciate it my Man 👍

You’re probably the only RUclipsr, out of hundreds I’ve subscribed to over the years, who can do an upload pretty much every day and I’ll still click on every one.
I never get bored of your videos!

Your advice on how to get luna's/nf back in the day was what made me follow you, I never got nf (I did get close a few times) but your tips and encouragement made this non pvp main really try to improve and stick it out and while I mostly dislike pvp as it is nowadays that feeling of trying to get better has still stuck with me. Thanks dude.

I love 180's. They're the only hand cannon that feels good to me so having a hand cannon that feels like a 180 but hits like 140 is allowing me to expand experience a vit and I'm here for it.

Ran transversive steps with the curated roll last night, loving it ❤ Logged 200+ kills

The funny thing is that OG MagHowl was really strong in PvE and slept on by most. It was like only hitting 2 precision shots gave a 50% boost in damage or something until you got a kill and could be continuously re-procced on beefier targets. People just focused on the Maghowl twins ruining Console PvP for months.

Appreciate the breakdown cross

got a SHINY Heal Clip/Incandescent roll last night as my second ever drop of Luna’s, couldn’t be happier

Ive fallen In Love with precision instrument/enlighted action roll
Both perks just build on hitting an enemy. It’s a MONSTER of a dueling roll.

Encore + precision instrument is amazing !

Its wild, I HC's are probably my least used weapon class and I landed a throwaway roll of this with heal clip & precision instrument and I've ened up using it in IB all week.

heal clip incandescant lunas paired with the path of the burning steps feels really good in PvE

Precision instrument feels like old Mag Howl.
Great video!

Super solid review

You just became my favorite destiny player … eye of the storm precision instrument my god roll I’m lookin for

Been loving encore mag howl

I was waiting for this vid! Thanks cross

About to play for first time in weeks tonight. Can’t wait to see if I can get this to drop!

Don’t sleep on encore!.. got a fullbore ricochet encore precision instrument role with a range masterwork...feels great and that 71 range is icing on the cake!

I’m not a crucible player and I’m not a HC user in PvP but I tried an eye of the storm/opening shot roll with hammer forged/ricochet rounds and I was actually doing great. It actually surprised me. I was on PS5 as well.

Subsistence and incandescence is a fun combo to use great for add clear 😄

Loving the new Luna's. Already have more than 5k kills on my Incandescent/Heal Clip roll.

This only solidifies my love for Luna's Howl.
I love how the gun feels as a PS5 player, i got the god roll on PvE and might grind for the PvP rolls too.

My best guess for an enhanced Mag Howl is just a small stat boost, probably to either Stability or Range. Given how powerful the perk is, I doubt they’d go as far as to give it more stacks on difficult targets.

Something I want to mention about enhanced incandescent that isn’t mentioned enough, is that additionally to increased the amount of scorch stacks, the tick duration of incandescent scorch get increased, as well as the tick delay. For example, with regular incandescent you get a large initial burst of aoe damage, then a tick damage number, but that number slowly goes down before the effect wears off. With the enhanced perk, scorch last longer and the tick damage decay decreases at a slower rate. This also means that the stagger capabilities of incandescent scorch also increases due to the duration increase.

Literally my first (and only) Luna's Howl shiny has Slideshot/Magnificent Howl & Heal Clip/Incandescent. Let's goooooooooooooo.

The encore/precision instrument roll I got has been my favorite roll in pvp so far. It made pvp fun for me now which is rare for me nowadays.

Got a shiny with slideshot/eots & pecision instrument. Feels great!

last night i got a shiny luna with slideshot, mag howl, harmony, enlightened action, richochet rounds, armor piercing rounds, fluted barrel, and hexagonal rifling. stability masterwork.

PVE: sub/incan PVP heal/kill clips have been my go to rolls

I just got a subsistence and incandescent and didn't even know it. Can't wait to try it with solar class.

I actually got the heal clip/incandescent roll not too long ago. Feels good so far.

I do wanna say that harmony is solid as we get more and more high ammo economy specials. For instance, using something like tusk of the boar as your "primary" and then swapping to luna's for orange bars with harmony is better than people think. I use this roll on kept confidence for pve.

If you're using Mag Howl, you should almost Always go for the 2 tap. If you're running a damage perk for a 2 head 1 body set up, you might as well just use Kill Clip.

Enlightened and incandescent is what I finally got over the shax drop

i landed a heal clip + incandescent while watching this. thats a sign. im keeping it lol

I have a full bore high cal roll with slideshot precision instrument and a range masterwork and it’s the best feeling hand cannon I’ve used

The other benefits of precision instrument is that it counters healing/ overshield use, and can secure the 3 crit when experiencing range falloff.

Got the shiney, small bore, appended mag, eye of the storm, mag howl, subsistance and incandescent.

I think Lunas is fine on smaller maps but on large maps it struggles a lot and I decided to use austringer with eye of storm zen moment and crimson and those 2 hand cannons can do well from farther ranges and tons of accuracy compared to lunas. Lunas I for some reason have trouble hitting rapid precision shots I’m jus not big on the 180ish feel. Not a bad hand cannon at all but when you look at all the hand cannon options we have that is also craftable it’s hard to chose Lunas over those

Granted I didn't try it in pvp, I gotta say that Luna's on m&k just feels right to me, I did a run of Pantheon with it, sunshot, and the neomuna one and Lunas was by far my favourite feeling of the 3

I don't use hand cannons in pvp, but i got a shiny drop with kill clip + eye of the storm so I played a couple iron banner games with it (on controller) and it felt pretty noice. 👍👍

somehow heal clip + desperate measure is really good with ember of benevolence ability build, it really give you ability to spam nade, melee, and ability on warlock, perfect pair with verity brow exotic

You can also run Traversive Steps on Warlock to refill mag without reloading.

With xür sellinf hawkmoon this weekend, would you recommend buying it? Or stick with luna's howl?

my second luna's drop was a shiny with subsistence incandescent. It's def a "me" roll, my most used legendary is a long arm with sub dragonfly lol. I like this gun a lot, but I'm sure thats also partly because I never had it back in the day

Love heal clip incandescent with a precious scars titan. Solar juiced up banner of war and explosions

Yes because of the synergy of mag howl with subsistence and slideshot.

I play on m+kb and I still love Lina’s Howl as it stands rn. Feels super consistent

I have a Luna Howl with encore and mag howl - it's pretty damn noice!

I got a 66 range heal clip/prec inst and its by far my favorite roll

Incandescent heal clip my beloved

One of the biggest reasons I don't use hand cannons is because of their animated diagonal kick (outside of 180's). It has always messed with my aim and threw me off. I'm grateful to have a hand cannon with an animated vertical kick. Maybe I'm an outlier in this, or I'm a complete numpty, but whatever. This'll be one that I actually try to farm for and try to use.

Been loving my heal clip/incandescent. Never got the crafted Zaouli's Bane, so i've been using Epochal Integration instead. While i like it, I don't care for stats for all. Hopefully I'll get a shiny one eventually.

I got a solid one that's not shiny. Full bore, ricochet, slideshot, precision instrument with a range masterwork

small bore-high cal-heal clip-precision instrument-range mw on solar with radiant and benevolence is my go to after trying out so many rolls.+frostees & radiant dodge (on your mark to help lacking handling and reload), thank me later x

Imo the best perk combination on Luna is Encore with Precision instrument. Just a great synergy

I have a heal clip Luna’s Howl and I love it with my Starfire Protocol Build.

I have a smallbore richochet slide shot opening shot range mw and I love it so much

I have a full bore accurized EotS and MagH roll with a range masterwork. It performs exceptionally. Getting two stacks of magnificent Howell to kill into Shots is not that bad. You just have to be mindful of your magazine and even in the comp playlist it happens often enough to make a huge difference.

First shiny, second or third drop ever got me a subsistence/incandescent roll.
Been some real good fun on solar hunter.
Still gonna hunt heal clip/incandescent as solar hunter needs more healing.
Still can't get used to 180 recoil @140rpm though it's just weird.

Discord is a fun sleeper pick with mag howl. You have to swap a little more but it’s super easy to build a 10 stack.

I have that roll for sidearm also but one of the devs need to tilt it up and drop the rear sight animation as it’s tougher to see enemies or getting higher accuracy shots.

Shaxx gives you really good one after finishing its quest (smallbore+ ricohet rounds+ eye of the storm+ magnificent howl+ handling MW)

Bungie was pretty generous with the curated Luna's Howl so if I don't get a shiny God roll I won't sweat it too much. That said I do hope my luck improves because I haven't even got a base Luna God roll and I've only got 1 shiny all week (Full Bore/fluted barrel, High cal/appended mag, Discord/enlightened action, and Kill Clip/Desperate measures, and a stability masterwork. It's not awful by any stretch but it's not what I'm looking for.

I will get it but I have pulled Not Forgotten out of the vault so I’m not going to lose sleep chasing LH.

Also Mag Howl gives crazy damage fall off. In PvE and PvP it's nice. You get into a more medium range engagement to get the initial stacks then once you've got them you can play a bit more at range. Even more range (for the first shot) with Slideshot or Encore.

I use Luna howl with heal clip and MH on solar hunter with celestial nighthawk. It feels awesome on hunter solar subclass

I have two for PvE. Incandescent/Heal Clip and Discord/Harmony. I think the Discord/Harmony roll is odd, but still fun with something like lucky pants to just pop off on a group of spread out adds. Kills refill the mag and you do increased damage. Feel like what The Last Word should be for PvE.

How will they retroactively enhance/make stuff craftable? Will we auto have the patterns or have to refarm for red borders?

Do not ignore subsistence + incandescent for pve it is pretty good

that's so weird. I love the way luna's howl feels on M&K and I never used it previously. I see youtubers love guns like sunshot though and I absolutely hate the feel of that weapon. I guess it all comes down to preference. I'll keep doing work with it

Mine rolled with Magnificent Howl & Eye of The Storm

I've got an encore precision instrument roll, and while I've got a 2.6kd on controller, im awful on Mnk, but using this and midnight feel so good (probally the 100 aim assist i got 💀)
It definitely has me enjoying hand cannons like i used to

I'm going to be honest I don't like Handcanons, but I got a Subsistence/incandescent Lunas howl and I'm going to be real sh*t is fun

Glad to see aztecross mains a lock welcome to the fold brother

A Discord/Harmony roll pairs so well with an Auto/Recombination Mountaintop. Add a Rampage/KillingTally Hammerhead for a monster loadout all from free, approachable content!

Thought I’d share I just got my first shiny lunas.. it has eye of the storm and slide shot in column 3 and magnificent howl and opening shot column 4 :))) range mw

got the shiny with slide, mag howl, heal clip and incandescent. It’s super good but I’m not really great at pvp so I doubt I’ll see it’s full potential

Encore / Precision Instrument is my favorite PVP roll.

I personally hope they add magnificent howl to eyasluna, it would be such a good combo especially since they did the same thing for d1 hawkmoon and eyasluna (making them both look similar and have somewhat the same inclusion of perks)

Short version it's dope af don't miss out

Slide shot / Lunas howl combo is insane in PvP

My momma taught me right

Glad a review finally called out how bad this gun feels on MKB. For me its basically unusable.

Idk man, I got one with discord + heal clip on 3rd and incandescent + kill clip in 4th and it's amazing. However I have yet to use it in PVP, and I'm a controller player...I am now inspired 😎

Try subsistence / incandescent, its a great combination but it starts to struggle in harder content.

All I wanted was a heal clip/incandescent roll because I only play PvE...it took over 60 drops for me to finally get that roll.... but the range is crap lol... so back to the grind

I’ve always liked 180s in pvp the damage is just lacking. Got a decent Lunas and first game of Iron Banner went undefeated and was out gunning most. Love it!

i think they should revert mag houl to what it was previously, two headshots, one super shot, the ttk would stay the same, but it would be an "range buff" and a consistency buff in pvp and an awesome perk in pve

Only got one Shiny so far, and I got Heal Clip/Incandescent!

Am iissing something on ember of benevolence? In the video he says, and the texts says something different then in game. Does it work on giving yourself those things or only teammates? In game it says giving your allies those things so im confused

I still wanna see some magnificent howl damage testing with 10 stacks and lucky pants

Supposedly there’s been more testing on PI and it doesn’t really do much for anyone higher than 5 resil. I think it adds with extra damage not even a meter in range while still needing 3 crits

Got one with slideshot and pi with hammer and high cal feels amazing I prefer pi over howl cause I also play a lot 3v3 since howl is way better in 6v6