Wicked Implement

[superfudge]

Anti barrier artifact perk doesn't work on this gun? I have it activated. it doesnt have the anti barrier icon and unable to stun barrier champions. hopefully it's just a bug

[Mez Koo]

It technically has intrinsic overload so I wouldn't be surprised if Bungie blocked it from using anti barrier.

[EckyThump]

Lots of people are asking about it on Bungie's forum so hopefully there'll be an answer. The reasoning I have seen is that as a weapon that inflicts slow, it is inherently Anti-Overload, and since it can slow, it can freeze/shatter, so is also Anti-Unstoppable. Because it already has an anti-champion effect, it can't get the benefit of Anti-Barrier Scout.

But I don't believe anything like that applies to weapons with Destabilizing Rounds or Voltshot, etc. Maybe they treat Slow differently?

[superfudge]

I get they dont want weapons to double or triple dip into covering multiple champions, but it seems like they hard coded it into not being able to work with the anti barrier perk. If it had intrinsic capability to stun it would make more sense, but it relies on you landing consecutive precision shots. sure its possible to stun overloads, but reliably stunning them is kinda tough with how much they teleport

[Mastodon_2]

Interestingly it doesn't have intrinsic anti-overload or anti-unstoppable (though it can be used for both) so Bungie must have deliberately stopped it from working with the anti-barrier scout artefact perk. That, or it's a bug. Who knows, really.

[Blackheart6004]

Same with Conditional Finality.

Doesn't get affected by the artifact because both the Stasis/Solar pellets freeze/ignite Unstopps respectively.