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Destiny 2 Touch of Malice: Oryx Exotic Scout Rifle Guide

Touch of Malice trades your health for infinite bonus-damage rounds. Here is how it drops from Oryx and how to survive the drain

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Touch of Malice is an exotic kinetic scout rifle that turns your health bar into ammo. The final round in the magazine deals bonus damage and then regenerates itself, so you can keep firing without reloading. Every shot drains your life force. Rapidly defeating three targets restores health, which keeps the loop alive.

How to get Touch of Malice

Touch of Malice is a random drop from Oryx, the final boss of the King’s Fall raid. There is no quest. You get one looted chance per character per week, so running the raid on all three characters triples your weekly odds. Expect to farm several weeks.

How to play Touch of Malice

Empty the magazine, then hold the damage window as long as your health allows. Precision hits also charge a Darkness orb with the Charged with Blight perk. Fire that orb to poison and blind enemies, which makes them take more weapon damage. Pair the weapon with healing: a Warlock rift, Devour, or high Recovery keeps you alive during long damage phases.

The Touch of Malice catalyst

The catalyst improves the weapon with Rapid Hit-style handling and a final-round damage buff. After the Monument of Triumph update, the catalyst scales with sustained precision hits instead of reload speed. Chase it once you own the rifle.

Touch of Malice mistakes with the bonus round

  • Firing the bonus round with low health and no healing plan.
  • Reloading and throwing away the infinite-round window.
  • Chasing it solo without a fireteam. King’s Fall is a full raid.

FAQ

Is Touch of Malice the best primary DPS? It has one of the highest sustained numbers, but only if you can manage the health drain.

Does it work in PvP? The drain makes it risky, but the bonus round two-taps.

How long is the farm? Most players get it within 10 to 20 clears, but the drop is pure RNG.

Touch of Malice checklist, Oryx farming to orbs

  • Farm Oryx on all three characters weekly.
  • Build a healing loadout before you start.
  • Hold the bonus round during damage phases.
  • Use the Darkness orb on grouped enemies.

The drop comes from King’s Fall, and the bonus-round catalyst is covered on the catalyst page.

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Sources & References

This guide is verified against the game's own data and official communications. For patch notes, current balance, and authoritative specifics, consult the references below. Where a precise number cannot be verified, we explain the mechanic rather than invent a figure.