History of New Malpais

New Malpais is an Exotic Strand Pulse Rifle with the Anti-Unstoppable property. It comes from the Ash & Iron Rewards Pass.

Overview

Its intrinsic perk, "Atomizing Rounds", embeds rounds in targets, which you can detonate for extra damage by holding reload. The perk "Suspending Blast" suspends enemies when a large number of embedded rounds are detonated on one target. Per Destinypedia it fires at 320 RPM with a 36-round magazine. The lore is a Spider entry about lost experimental pulse rifle prototypes on Mars.

Acquisition

• Ash & Iron Rewards Pass premium track: available instantly at Rank 1.
• Free track: Season Rank 70.
• Extra copies cost 3,000 Glimmer and 2 Enhancement Cores.

Catalyst

The catalyst is claimed from the Ash & Iron Rewards Pass at Rank 90. Once applied, the weapon's explosions Unravel nearby enemies (called "Unraveling Blast").