History of Adrenaline Junkie

Overview

Adrenaline Junkie is a Season 14 trait, added in 3.2.0. It builds stacks up to 5. Each kill with the weapon either adds a stack or extends the current stacks. A grenade final blow grants 5 stacks at once. Each stack increases damage: +6.7% at one stack, rising to +33.3% at five. Active stacks also add +20 handling (a wiki estimate). The stacks last 4.5 seconds and are refreshed by each kill.

It is a Grenade and kill-chain trait, so it pairs with weapons that get frequent kills. Multiple older community posts give different damage numbers (a 2021 Steam post cites 10%/20%/35%), so the figures above are the wiki's and may not match the current game.

History

• 3.2.0: Added to the game.
• 3.4.0: Kills either add a single stack or extend the existing stacks. Grenade kills push the stack count to 5 immediately. The duration was lowered to offset the weapon's activation.
• A German news article (mein-mmo.de) reports that Bungie announced a rework of the perk, but gives no date and no details. This has not been confirmed.