Are Fatebringer's days numbered? (Destiny)

by Cody Miller , Music of the Spheres - Never Forgot, Thursday, April 02, 2015, 20:01 (3329 days ago) @ CruelLEGACEY

Not just Fatebringer... but with House of Wolves on the horizon, are we finally approaching the day when our level 300 weapons just won't cut it anymore?

If so, what 300 weapons will you miss using the most? Fatebringer is certainly the one I'll have the toughest time parting with... it will be a sad day when it stops being the force of nature it currently is.

On that note, do you think you might end up deleting any of your current weapons? Does this change your view on vault space at all?

Maybe maybe not.

When you step up an archetype, you end up doing about 200 more damage to regular enemies. For 331 attack, it's 1500 / 1700 / 1900 approximately.

When you step from 27x to 300 to 331, the jump is about the same.

Right now fatebringer does about as much damage as a low impact 331 hand cannon, so in House of Wolves it will deal about 400 less damage than a new medium impact legendary.

So this is only a problem if you are fighting an enemy whose HP falls in that magic range of between 1500 and 1900 HP. If it's under, it'll still die in one shot. You'll probably be able to one shot thralls still. If it's over, then it will take 2 shots with whatever hand cannon you use. Also remember you get damage buffs on certain enemies using explosive rounds.

Right now, you can pretty much use any hand cannon on Cabal, since at higher levels nothing can one shot them. Except maybe a triple stacked hawkmoon. This is also why I tend to use Scout Rifles vs the Cabal, since the instakill advantage of the hand cannon is gone.

The firefly perk and arc damage will be very good.

Go do an activity with a Word of Crota that is not fully leveled. That will simulate Fatebringer on House of Wolves enemies. Then just remember fatebringer will be better.

You get a lot of milage with hand cannons in PvE.