Braytech Werewolf

Halloween Events in general are my favorite in games, in spite of never actually getting the Headless Horseman mount in World of Warcraft. In Destiny we have always had the Festival of the Lost which arrives and decorates the tower in a spoopy theme. The festival has become a bunch of things over the years but traditionally it has focused on two objectives… wearing paper masks of various critters from Destiny lore and swapping candy. Starting last year Bungie introduced the Haunted Forest and with it a weapon to chase that would spawn in with maximum power level and fully masterworked.

This year that chase weapon is the Braytech Werewolf and I managed to finish mine last night. This is a reskinned version of the Braytech Winterwolf and comes with a curated roll of Armor-Piercing Rounds, Zen Moment, Multi-Kill Clip and a mastery stat of Range. All in all it is a pretty solid Auto Rifle and I spent a little bit last night running around with it. The only negative is that it has a goofy recoil direction of 74 making it impossible to easily correct for its deviation unless you push it well past 100. There is an excellent video that explains the recoil direction stat that I would check out. The short of it is that recoil direction is a wave that decreases in amplitude as you approach 100. Even intervals of 10 are going to skew up and to the right, Odd intervals of 10 are going to skew up and to the left and intervals of 5 or pushing the number all the way to 100 will produce recoil that is more or less straight up. So having 74 makes it CLOSE to vertical but just slightly to the left.

Getting this mask is locked behind the Master of Disguise triumph that asks you to get all 5 of the masks from Eva Levante during the 2019 Festival of the Lost. These masks are all gained through spending Chocolate Strange Coins. The most expensive and the creepiest of these masks has to be The Drifter pictured above. The humanoid masks always end up feeling the weirdest, but then again Michael Myers in the Halloween series is supposedly wearing a low budget William Shatner mask so I guess that is part of it as well. In order to get all of the masks you are going to get a total of 150 Chocolate Strange Coins. The prices are as follows:

• Hive Hidden Swarm Mask – 10 Chocolate Strange Coins
• Vex Goblin Mask – 20 Chocolate Strange Coins
• Fallen Mithrax Mask – 30 Chocolate Strange Coins
• Cabal Opulent Calus Mask – 40 Chocolate Strange Coins
• The Drifter Mask – 50 Chocolate Strange Coins

Once you have earned this Triumph you have to actually go into your triumphs screen and click on it in order for the game to register it successfully. Eva Levante will then allow you to purchase your own Braytech Werewolf for 1000 candy. After getting your first Werewolf you can pick up random rolls from that point forward for 250 Candy, 5000 Glimmer and 5 Legendary Shards.

There is a sixth free mask available but it is tied behind the Days of the Dead triumph that asks you to complete seven other triumphs during the season. Doing so will get you the paper mache visage of Eris Morn. These achievements range from collecting candy and chocolate strange coins to completing the candy trading quest that I talked about yesterday. There is a secret triumph that I am betting is requiring you to hit at least the 9th branch of the Haunted Forest. Last year there was a similar Triumph associated with the 7th branch.

With a number of the achievements and bounties each day associated with the Haunted Forest, you are going to be spending a lot of time in there. I ran around over the last two nights with my friends Thalen and x1101 and without really pushing it we were pretty easily capable of getting seven branches each time. Were we to focus a little more and get x1101 a little more light, we could probably start doing nine clears. The thing about the Haunted Forest is that thanks to your masks that you have equipped… Heavy Ammo drops like candy. I plan on infusing up a Thunderlord and trying to see how far I can make it without using any other weapons. I have a feeling that will greatly speed up our clear times.