The Ultimate Question: Instant Grenades or CC Grenades? (Destiny)

by Dan de Board , Sunday, July 27, 2014, 22:25 (3569 days ago)

Now that the Beta is over, I'd like to discuss one of my favorite abilities across all classes, the grenades!

I felt like the grenade system was very well done and very strategic in it's implementation. The cooldown timer meant you couldn't spam grenades and had to think carefully about how to use them. Too often did I accidentally use my grenade and found I needed it when it was on cooldown.

In the Beta there were two types of grenades:

Instant Grenades: Flashbang, Incendiary, Scatter. Any grenade whose explosion doesn't last more than a second.

CC Grenades: Pulse, Swarm, Vortex. Any grenade whose explosion lasts more than a second.

I found the CC grenades better to use, especially in multiplayer. Many times I'd cover a door with a pulse grenade (especially useful with Aftershocks) or have to lose valuable capture progress because of a vortex grenade. I tried fussing with the flashbang grenade but found that it's effect wasn't all that helpful, and the scattef grenade was almost useless in multiplayer.

What are your thoughts on the grenades in Destiny?