Destiny 2: Blast Furnace PvE & PvP God Roll Guide

Looking to get the most out of your Arena Ops weapons in Destiny 2? Check out our PvE and PvP God Roll guides for every weapon available through Arena Ops Attunement, including recommended perks, alternative rolls, and how the stats change. In this guide, I’m continuing our renewed Destiny 2 coverage with my personal god roll guide for the reissued Black Armory weapon, Blast Furnace.

Originally released during Season of the Forge back in November 2018, Blast Furnace made its return to Destiny 2 as a BRAVE arsenal weapon in the Into the Light update back in April 2024, and again with its Black Armory variant in June 2026’s Monument of Triumph update.

Blast Furnace is a Kinetic Aggressive Burst (450RPM) Pulse Rifle that you can acquire and can target farm from the Arena Ops playlist, as such it’s available for free-to-play players to grab.

The weapon comes with the Forge’s Kin origin trait: Black Armory weapon final blows briefly grant ammo generation, reload speed, and damage against combatants when the weapon is redrawn. Buff potency and duration increases for each equipped Black Armory weapon.

Here you can see our infographic for Blast Furnace’s base stats. These are the weapon’s base stats before any perks, mods, or masterworks are applied.

Do note that I play on PS5, so my personal God Roll, which is what I’m basing the guide on, is what I like on console playing with a controller.

In PvE content, Blast Furnace is an intrinsic Unstoppable weapon.

First, the perks that Blast Furnace can roll with:

Perk 1: Zen Moment, Bewildering Burst, Ancillary Ordinance, Keep Away, Lone Wolf, Kinetic Tremors, Headseeker

Perk 2: Kill Clip, Firefly, Desperate Measures, All Star, Rampage, Desperado, Chaos Reshaped

Blast Furnace PvE God Roll

Stat bonuses shown are the enhanced versions.

In the first perk slot, for PvE there’s only one I would be interested in and that’s Kinetic Tremors. In the table above I gave two other options, because at Tier 5 you have three options, but really it’s Kinetic Tremors or bust for me.

Kinetic Tremors activates after landing 10 hits on a target, triggering three damaging shockwaves around the enemy, with each shockwave hitting for up to 90 damage in a 6-meter radius. The shockwaves are spaced one second apart and deal 33% more damage against minibosses and higher-tier enemies. They also benefit from weapon damage buffs and the 10% kinetic damage bonus for primary weapons. You have three seconds between hits to keep building towards activation, and the hit counter doesn’t reset when you swap weapons. Once triggered, there’s a short cooldown before you can activate it again on the same target.

In the second slot, you have more options but there’s one winner by a large margin and that’s Chaos Reshaped. The other two I’d like to have on a Tier 5 are included in the table, but that’s really for my PvP roll because I wouldn’t want to use anything other than Chaos Reshaped in PvE.

Chaos Reshaped activates after 11 seconds in combat, giving you a 20% damage increase. Stay in combat for another 11 seconds and that jumps to 35%, along with some healing. It also works while the weapon is stowed. The healing is currently bugged (I believe that’s still the case) though, as it can prevent other healing sources from fully restoring your health while the effect is active.

As is always the case for me, the barrel and magazine are more personal preference. As a console player, I like Arrowhead Brake (bumps Handling up to 36 and Recoil Direction to 95), but Polygonal Rifling and Fluted Barrel are good too, as are a few others. I lean towards Arrowhead Brake.

For the magazine, Ricochet Rounds is almost always my go-to. It gives us +6 Range and +11 stability, plus the rounds ricochet. I also like Armor-Piercing Rounds, Appended Mag, Tactical Mag, High Caliber Rounds, and Flared Magwell.

For the Masterwork I like Reload Speed, or Stability. For the Mod, I like Enhanced Stability.

With Arrowhead Brake, Ricochet Rounds, Kinetic Tremors, Chaos Reshaped (x2), Reload Speed Masterwork, and Enhanced Stability Mod, here is how the stats change versus the base stats shown in the Blast Furnace infographic image up above (information from D2 Gun Locker).

Blast Furnace PvP God Roll

Stat bonuses shown above for the enhanced versions.

For me, in PvP, Blast Furnace has one big thing working against it… that it’s in the kinetic slot (I use Traveler’s Chosen in my kinetic slot approximately 95% of my Crucible matches). It’s also an Aggressive Burst, where I prefer Rapid-Fire like Horror’s Least. With that said, I have used Blast Furnace in PvP and it can certainly be a beast.

At its base, it has an optimal TTK of 0.93 seconds. That requires 7 crits and 1 body. It does 31 crit, 16 body. But we’ll definitely get that time down and those damage numbers up.

As is usually the case for PvP, the God Roll depends on what you’re doing and what your objective is.

For the first perk slot, there’s only two that I would care about though our table lists three options because of Tier 5. This is one of those weapons where you can easily get the god roll for PvE and PvP instead of needing another copy of it. Headseeker grants +5 Stability, and landing body shots increases precision damage and aim assist. Zen Moment grants +5 Stability, and causing damage with the weapon reduces recoil and flinch over time which can certainly help you stay on target and win duels. Finally, Kinetic Tremors is there because we can have three options and it’s the only one my PvE roll cared about.

Both Headseeker and Zen Moment have their strengths, and don’t depend on mode of Crucible. Headseeker can give more damage if you hit the body, but if you’re good at landing crits it’s not doing much for you. Zen Moment can keep you on target and have less flinch when in combat. I guess for comp or Trials, unless you’re deliberately aiming at the body, I’d favor Zen Moment. In 6s where it can be more chaotic, I’d favor Headseeker.

Headseeker is a great perk for Aggressive Burst Pulse Rifles like Blast Furnace. Landing a body shot increases precision damage by 10% and boosts the aim assist cone size by 3% for 0.55 seconds, making it a little easier to land those follow-up crits and win your duels.

In the second perk slot, it’s a little easier. Kill Clip is the play here, across all game modes for me. The other option is Desperado, which increases rate of fire by 1.43x upon reloading after a headshot. Because we have three options, and it was our PvE option, Chaos Reshaped is in the table too. Unless you’re just fooling around in 6s and are good at staying alive, I wouldn’t rock it in PvP though.

With Kill Clip active, our optimal TTK drops down to 0.80s, requiring 6 crits and 1 body. Damage goes up to 39 per crit, 20 per body. Headseeker could make this even more forgiving.

Technically speaking, Desperado can improve upon the TTK and get it down to 0.65s with 7 crits and 1 body required due to its faster fire rate. Both are great options, I just like Kill Clip better since both require a kill to activate, and Kill Clip doesn’t need it to be a headshot.

I’d go with Reload or Stability masterwork. If you use Loader mods on your arms, then Stability.

With the Reload Masterwork, Arrowhead Brake, Ricochet Rounds, Headseeker, Kill Clip, and an Enhanced Stability mod here is how the stats change versus the base stats in the Blast Furnace image (information from D2 Gun Locker):

How to Farm Blast Furnace

If you’re farming Blast Furnace, it’s pretty easy to get the roll you want. All you have to do is hop into the Arena Ops playlist (that’s the playlist of activities for 6 players, with matchmaking). You can head to your inventory and go into Arena Ops Attunement and attune to Blast Furnace to increase your chances of getting it.

You will occasionally find it as the rotating weapon for the playlist too, so farming on those days with the attunement set to Blast Furnace will be your most efficient path towards getting the exact roll you want in the quickest amount of time.

I’ll continue adding new God Roll guides as I work my way through the Arena Ops weapons, so check back regularly for more recommendations to help you find the perfect roll for your playstyle.