Lingering Dread - Legendary Grenade Launcher

Lingering Dread is a Grenade Launcher Stasis Special in Destiny 2. Review its base stats, perk pool, and masterwork options.

Weapon overview

Grenade Launcher - Stasis - Special - Lightweight Frame

Source: Dungeon "Duality"

We are all burdened by the chains of our past.

One-shot handheld Grenade Launcher with remote detonation.
[Shoot] : Fire; release to detonate.

Volatile Launch
This weapon is optimized for an especially explosive payload.
• Greatly increases blast radius
• Slightly decreases handling speed
• Slightly decreases projectile speed
Confined Launch
This weapon's launch parameters are particularly stable.
• Greatly increases stability
• Increases blast radius
• Decreases projectile speed
Countermass
This weapon is weighted for vertical recoil.
• Greatly controls recoil
• Increases stability
• Increases handling speed
Hard Launch
This weapon's launch barrel is optimized for projectile speed.
• Greatly increases projectile speed
• Decreases stability
• Slightly decreases blast radius
Linear Compensator
This weapon's launch barrel is well-balanced.
• Slightly increases projectile speed
• Slightly increases blast radius
• Slightly increases stability
Quick Launch
This weapon's barrel provides faster projectiles and much faster aiming.
• Greatly increases handling speed
• Increases projectile speed
Smart Drift Control
This barrel is broadly optimized for firing control.
• Moderately controls recoil
• Increases stability
• Increases handling speed
• Slightly increases projectile speed

Disorienting Grenades
Detonation has a brief disorienting effect.
• Greatly decreases blast radius
Proximity Grenades
Grenades fired from this weapon have increased proximity detection but a decreased blast radius.
Spike Grenades
Grenades fired from this weapon do increased damage on direct hits.
• Increases stability
High-Velocity Rounds
This weapon's projectiles are particularly light and quick.
• Increases projectile speed
• Increases reload speed
Implosion Rounds
This weapon's projectiles travel faster and have a controlled explosion.
• Increases projectile speed
• Greatly increases stability
• Decreases blast radius

Subsistence
Defeating targets partially reloads the magazine from reserves.
Auto-Loading Holster
The holstered weapon is automatically reloaded after a short period of time.
Ambitious Assassin
Overflows the magazine based on the number of rapid kills before reloading.
Demolitionist
Kills with this weapon generate grenade energy. Activating your grenade ability reloads this weapon from reserves.
Discord
Final blows with another weapon grant this weapon increased speed for aiming down sights, accuracy, and airborne effectiveness for a short time. When Discord is active, final blows refund ammo.
Feeding Frenzy
Each rapid kill with this weapon progressively increases reload speed for a short time.

Blast Distributor
Dealing splash damage grants a bonus to Grenade stat.
Bipod
Increases ammo and reserves but reduces damage, blast radius, and reload speed.
Chill Clip
Direct hits with the top half of the magazine cause a detonation that slows nearby targets.
Collective Demolition
Collecting an Elemental pickup or destroying a Tangle grants this weapon a stacking period of grenade energy generation on hit. Throwing a Tangle provides additional time.

Elemental pickups include [Solar]Firesprites, [Void]Void Breaches, [Arc]Ionic Traces, [Stasis]Stasis Shards, and [Strand]Strand Tangles.
Chain Reaction
Each final blow with this weapon creates an elemental damage explosion.
Rampage
Kills with this weapon temporarily grant increased damage. Stacks 3x.

Bitterspite
While this weapon is equipped, taking damage accelerates its next reload.

Taking more damage increases the effect.