Banshee-44

"There are few weapons that Banshee-44 has not seen, and fewer still that he cannot fix."

- In-game description

Banshee-44 is an Exo Gunsmith, located within the Tower. He sells weapons and ammo synthesis items for Guardians. He can also reforge certain legendary weapons, resetting their stats while offering new perks and modifiers.

Biography
As with all Exos, Banshee-44 has no recollection of his former functional purpose. In fact, he may have had his memory wiped multiple times, more than forty by his own reckoning. Still, he has some faint recollections of his past. Following reactivation, Banshee-44 made his way to the Last City, setting up a shop selling guns and ammo synthesis packs to Tower Guardians. At some point he was an active duty soldier, and saw action in the Twilight Gap.

Banshee-44 exhibits a somewhat depressed mood, likely lamenting about his wiped memory banks, but also shows a dry sense of humor. Like every other NPC, he regards players depending on their class.

Inventory
Banshee-44 has a rotating stock of weapons available, from Common to Rare in quality. He also sells consumables for players to give them some much-needed help in firefights, such as ammo synthesis, which refills ammo for a weapon, or weapon telemetries, which speeds up upgrade progression.

Armsday
Players can gain reputation with Banshee by accepting weapon challenges. Banshee will give the player an experimental weapon to test in the field. These weapons act as their own bounties, requiring use under a specific set of conditions (i.e. use in the crucible, use against majors, etc). Upon completing the bounty the weapon will automatically grant reputation and can be dismantled or kept for future use. At a high enough reputation level, Banshee will allow players to purchase with glimmer (as opposed to Legendary Marks) a legendary weapon that will arrive on the next Wednesday with randomized perks.

Reforging
Any weapon with the "Reforge Ready" perk (mostly House of Wolves and Iron Banner weapons) can be taken to Banshee-44 to have its perks and elemental modifier (if any) randomized, at the cost of resetting upgrade progress. This costs one Mote of Light, 3 Weapon Parts, and 250 Glimmer.

Quotes

 * "Looks like you had a rough night." (if approached by a Guardian during the night)


 * "That got the range you need, Hunter?" (if selling a sniper rifle to a Hunter)


 * "That gun belongs in an Exo's hands." (if selling a weapon to an Exo guardian)


 * "Had these with us at Twilight Gap. Went pretty badly. Not the gun's fault." (after purchasing a weapon)


 * "I'll remember you...maybe." (after completing transactions)


 * "Reef work, alright not bad. Too fancy. I can fix that."


 * "Shotty, as if I wouldn't notice. All my wipes, seen all the tricks."


 * "Late shipment again. Strikes, shortages, always some excuse."


 * "What was the name of that officer? Only I remember her, and so little. How her rifle jammed, then gone."


 * "The fires below us as we dropped on the coast."


 * "Are those teeth marks? Nasty."


 * "Wolk Howling, on the field where he fell. Never gets better for some."


 * "Told him it wouldn't stop Cabal. Some men never listen."


 * "What was her name. Fierce eyes, full of light. The hell was it."


 * "Nadir aren't what they used to be. I remember the new guy's grandfather."


 * "Exos don't dream, he said. But what's dream, and what's memory?" *grumbles* "Just fix the gun, Banshee."


 * "Very good. Must let Cassoid know this is adequate. But don't let it get to their heads."


 * "Of course I can. Forgotten more about guns than she's ever known."


 * "How many times has my system been wiped. 41, 42, 43?"


 * "All these lives on the line, and Daito wants more Glimmer. What goes through their heads down there?"


 * "Best Exo I ever served under up and vanished one night. That's war."


 * "First time was incompetence, this time it's sabotage. Get to the bottom of this."


 * "Say what you like about the Cabal. They know guns."


 * "Nice marks on your armor. Never seen them before. What made them?"

Trivia
Banshee-44 is voiced by John DiMaggio.

List of appearances

 * Destiny