Because they're exotic... (Destiny)

by Cody Miller , Music of the Spheres - Never Forgot, Friday, February 20, 2015, 01:00 (3376 days ago) @ Korny
edited by Cody Miller, Friday, February 20, 2015, 01:05

They have quirks that affect your player in ways that other weapons don't, and provide advantages in certain scenarios that no "normal" weapon can.

If you could equip multiple, here's how it would look:

Hawkmoon
Ice Breaker
Gjallarhorn.

All day every day. Every non-exotic (save for Raid weapons) is now obsolete. Useless. There goes the sandbox.

NOBODY would use anything other than a full Exotic loadout.

Picking and choosing influences variety. Trade-offs are king.

Why would I use hawkmoon in the Crota raid? Or the nightfall? Or icebreaker for that matter? You'd use fatebringer. Or Vex. Or a scout rifle with firefly. Or Black Hammer / LDR. Which are legendary.

Also notice, that I said that Destiny 2 would have to be designed just like Bungie described exotics for it to work: not actually being any better than legendaries. Just different.

There aren't any meaningful trade offs now is what I'm saying. Look at all the exotics that get unused by the majority of players simply because the tradeoff of not having Gjallarhorn is so high compared to their actual utility. Crucible is much more interesting in terms of which exotics are viable precisely because none completely dominate the way a select few do in PvE.