The Payback

The Payback
Production overview
Rarity class:	Legendary
Weapon type:	Hand cannon
Impact:	68
Stability:	26-90
Handling:	66-116
Magazine:	8-11
Specifications
Ammunition type:	Primary ammo
Rate of fire:	32
Damage:	Kinetic
Range:	13-51
Hidden stats
Zoom:	15
Recoil:	88
Service history
Affiliation:	AJ, the Relentless ; The Five-Faced Clovers ; Guardians

"Eye for Eye, Tooth for Tooth, 'til they all fall."

The Payback is a Legendary Hand cannon first introduced in The Lions' Armistice expansion. It can be obtained by completing the Invasive Garden Strike.

Lore[edit]

(TBA)

Intrinsic
- Firefly: Precision kills with this weapon cause the target to explode.
Sights
- SteadyHand IS: Stable sight. Optimized for excellent recoil control.
- QuickDraw IS: Agile sight. Lightning-fast handling.
- SureShot IS: Snapshot sight. Excellent handling. Superb target acquisition.

1st Perks
- Rangefinder: Aiming this weapon increases its effective range.

Stat modifiers
- Explosive Rounds: Volatile payload explodes on impact, dealing a portion of the weapon's damage in an area.
- Rifled Barrel: Increased Range. Slower Reload.
- Extended Mag: A larger magazine.

2nd Perks
- Triple Tap: Rapidly landing precision hits will return one round to the magazine.

Hollowed Whispers: Equip this Weapon Ornament to change the appearance of Payback. Drop from killing Apithalos, Thane of Quria.

The Payback's appearance in Destiny bears a similarity to the Iron Banner Hand Cannons, Timur's Lash and Finnala's Peril. However the gun is entirely red with a painted five-leaf clover on it.
- In Destiny 2, the gun remains almost the same but with several graffiti markings across the barrel along with the drawn five leaf clover on it.
- Interestingly, in Destiny, The Payback was a Low Impact Hand Cannon that was fast firing. Meanwhile Timur's Lash was a High Impact Hand cannon but fired slower while Finnala's Peril was a balanced Mid-Impact Hand Cannon. In Destiny 2, The Payback had taken the Adaptive Frame archetype, becoming more moderate and balanced compared to its previous iteration.
The Payback originally belonged to AJ, the Relentless before he used The First Curse and is implied the gun originally came from Cassoid that he used during his time in the Praxic Order due to the dialogue between AJ and Aunor Mahal in its lore tab.