The Wardcliff Coil

"Ingenuity. Desperation. A haphazard prototype of terrible power. Such were the factors at play in the Wardcliff Incident."

- Weapon description

The Wardcliff Coil is an Exotic Arc Rocket Launcher in Destiny 2. It fires a massive volley of microrockets that will home in on targets at short range for a wide area of effect. It has a chance to drop from Exotic Engrams.

Gameplay
The Wardcliff Coil fires a volley of rockets, making it useful for clearing multiple adds in PVE. It is also commonly used in many boss damage phases, including Calus in the Leviathan raid, and Ir Anûk, Deathsinger and Ir Halak, Deathsinger in the King's Fall raid. It also is effective at killing Guardians in PVP, due to the rockets tracking.

Perks

 * Mad Scientist: This weapon fires a volley of rockets.
 * Volatile Launch: This weapon is optimized for an especially explosive payload. Greatly increases blast radius. Slightly decreases handling speed. Slightly decreases projectile speed.
 * Extended Mag: This weapon has a greatly increased magazine size, but reloads much slower. Greatly increases magazine size. Greatly decreases reload speed. Increases airborne effectiveness.
 * Mechanized Autoloader: This weapon automatically reloads on ammo pickup.
 * Composite Stock: This weapon has a versatile dual-purpose stock. Slightly increases stability. Slightly increases handling speed.

Catalyst
The quest to obtain the catalyst for The Wardcliff Coil has a chance to drop from challenging enemies in Strikes once the weapon has been acquired.

The catalyst, once completed, will grant an additional perk:
 * Pinpoint Guidance Module: Improved tracking on projectiles.

Lore
'''INGENUITY. DESPERATION. A HAPHAZARD PROTOTYPE OF TERRIBLE POWER. SUCH WERE THE FACTORS AT PLAY IN THE WARDCLIFF INCIDENT.'''

HAMIT'S LOG. The lead is good, but so are the Fallen tracking me. I swear on my Ghost there's a hundred camped outside. I'm cornered in the lab and they're using Shanks to run me out of ammunition. War cultist, arm thyself; at least it's a weapons lab. This, er, rustic device was once an experimental axion emitter, which sprays weird particles to light up the basement of the universe. Right here I've coupled the emitter to some catacaustic quark-gluon coils, which will not, due to my scrupulous safety checking, create a strangelet that devours the Earth. I cook up some pain in there, the microverse decays, and the result comes out here. If it doesn't work, well, please name the crater after me.

Trivia

 * The Wardcliff Coil was originally called A Dubious Volley, and it originally dealt Void damage. This was discovered while datamining, embedded in the data files of Destiny, but was never released until Destiny 2.
 * The Wardcliff Coil have been named for one of Serbian-American inventor Nikola Tesla's most infamous inventions- Wardenclyffe Tower. It was the housing for Tesla's largest electricity coil and could shoot a bolt of lightning 300 feet outward. The ornament, Tesla's Revenge, is likely a homage to the inventor.

List of appearances

 * Destiny 2