I got mine long ago in an engram. I laughed when I saw it available for upgrade. I'm sure there are a lot of raging warlocks.

I'm hoping for Starfire Protocol soon. It looKS good and I like the perks.

I am curious if starfire protocol stacks with gift of the sun, giving you 3 fusion grenades? That said, having flame shield twice as often with the double melee makes the Claws of Amhamkara better, IMO.

I'm with you Claude, except I don't have all the glimmer you do! I always seem to have something to spend it on. (steekin' iron banner & upgrading exotics has made me poor).

This is weird to me - do you really have more strange coins than glimmer?

I just get my heavy ammo synth from the gunsmith - I usually buy 10 or so every time I hit 25000 and can't redeem more goodies at the Cryptarch. I never have enough coins - I currently have 5, up from 3 last week, so wasting them on something I can buy for less than 1000 glimmer seems... well, extravagant.

Honestly, glimmer wasn't really an issue for me until the expansion.

I stocked up on heavy ammo for my newly leveled Gjallarhorn in preparation for Crota's End. I spent roughly 45 of the 60 heavy ammo synths I had in that first 6-7 hour session. (I now know that that was in large part the fault of the Vault of Glass boots I had that "give extra heavy ammo" but really have a major bug that takes it away from you instead).

Additionally, leveling the new gear to up to 31+, and leveling new weapons takes a lot of glimmer. On top of that, Xur's upgrades all cost between 7,000-8,000 glimmer each!!?!! Since I want to at least have the option of purchasing 2-3 of those upgrades on Fridays, I can't afford to spend my glimmer on copious amounts of heavy ammo, which made last Friday extra sad since I was pretty much out of heavy ammo and Xur didn't give me a chance.

I'm really hoping that now that I bought (and leveled) some Sojourn boots from Dead Orbit last night, my heavy ammo won't be hemhorraging so rapidly anymore.

This is weird to me - do you really have more strange coins than glimmer?

Yes.

I just get my heavy ammo synth from the gunsmith - I usually buy 10 or so every time I hit 25000 and can't redeem more goodies at the Cryptarch. I never have enough coins - I currently have 5, up from 3 last week, so wasting them on something I can buy for less than 1000 glimmer seems... well, extravagant.

When you are upgrading exotics, and spending glimmer on other weapon and armor upgrades, you run out quickly. I have more strange coins than I will need, so 5 synth for 1 coin is a great deal. Doing the Heroic Strikes every week nets you 27 coins minimum. More come from engrams (and sometimes nightfall!), so I get around 30-35 per week on average.

This is weird to me - do you really have more strange coins than glimmer?

I just get my heavy ammo synth from the gunsmith - I usually buy 10 or so every time I hit 25000 and can't redeem more goodies at the Cryptarch. I never have enough coins - I currently have 5, up from 3 last week, so wasting them on something I can buy for less than 1000 glimmer seems... well, extravagant.

Running a 15-minute Weekly nets you nine coins. If you use them all for Heavy ammo Synths, you can buy 42,750 glimmer's worth. Saves a ton of time, especially if Xur's not selling something you're interested in.

At this point, Glimmer is a commodity, since the whole upgrade fiasco is pricey. I do buy a handful of Heavy Synths once I reach about 23,000 glimmer, but otherwise, I'm now constantly on the low thousands when it comes to Glimmer...

P&T is my Go-To sniper, unless I have a really good reason to replace the Exotic slot with something else.

When fully upgraded it's ROCK solid, has 6 rounds in the mag, and hits like a train. Plus I love the sound of it. ;)

I find the radar-when scoped feature to be useful in both PvE and PvP; I don't like getting snuck up on.

The invis-ability is very situational, it's not an all-round feature, but Sniper Rifles aren't "all-round" guns anyway (to me). I've used the invis to sneak up and revive teammates in PvE, and it's actually really handy when sniping from the high-turret on Bastion (just one example).

And it WRECKS in Arc Burn strikes.

If I only had enough coins for one I'd buy P&T again, hands down.

If you really need an arc sniper for arc burn weeklies, it's alright, but other than that, unless you're a collector... probably don't bother.

There are many better Legendary snipers for PvE, and in Crucible the invisibility is largely useless. It only really has utility on large maps like Skyshock, First Light, and Bastion, but since none of them are in a regularly available playlist...

I bought it because Cody told us not to, and I never regretted it, despite already having two amazing snipers (Epitaph and Boss). It's a gem of a weapon; beautiful sound, six-rounds, and high impact... Completely unleveled, it wrecked that nightfall, and I leveled it up more since. I've never taken it into Crucible, but I've gone up against a large number of them. Even with the glare, they're tough to fight, because you have to calculate the head's position. I often end up hitting the chest, giving them time to return fire or duck behind cover.

In PvE, the high impact and mag is invaluable, the whole invisibility is a neat perk, but not the selling point.
In PvP, it's got six rounds and decent stability, with the invis being a neat gimmick that can actually save your life against other snipers (also, people flanking you might not spot you right away).

Solid gun, get it.