Let's be honest here (Destiny)

by Korny , Dalton, Ga. US. Earth, Sol System, Monday, May 09, 2016, 19:22 (3062 days ago) @ ZackDark

"But it was good for bosses!" Yeah, no. I'm not going to carry an exotic rocket launcher around just to put a couple of extra seconds of low-damage DPS on a boss.

That's exactly what everyone said about Gjallarhorn when Xûr first sold it. Also, exactly what everyone did with Gjallarhorn except for the "low-damage" part. Or did you frequently use it against mobs too?

Gjallarhorn was/is great against everything. Groups of enemies, Majors, bosses, Guardians. Not only did you have a fast-flying rocket launcher with tracking and Horseshoes, but after the initial blast, you'd have a whole slew of mini-rockets hunting down/stacking damage on enemies. There was a time where Gjallarhorn saw more use than most other weapons in a single mission/match.

Nah, more like it was using up an exotic slot to leave you with a two-second solar grenade in the middle of where a rocket already killed/pushed away the enemies.
Bungie was clearly not happy with it, since they overhauled it completely.

Well, it still kind of does that, doesn't it? What's new? Trigger hold-trigger is pretty cool, but the napalm is arguably worse.

Nope, Napalm covers a far greater area, lasts three times as long, and can be used over cover. Pair it with a Defender or Skyburner's Annex, and you're spewing orbs left and right.