Okay, but, it still doesn't have a face (Destiny)

by Cody Miller , Music of the Spheres - Never Forgot, Sunday, February 08, 2015, 03:34 (3581 days ago) @ RaichuKFM
edited by Cody Miller, Sunday, February 08, 2015, 03:39

"Not as good as <other gun in same niche>" =/= "Bad". Especially when said other gun is what is probably the second most lauded gun in the game.

It's a bad gun if you would never use it. It's a bad gun when it offers no benefit over any other exotic rocket launcher. Even a legendary with cluster bombs or early detonation is better given its low velocity. When you equip an exotic, you have an opportunity cost in the form of other exotics you can no longer equip. This means that when Bungie designs and exotic, it needs to compete with every other exotic weapon essentially.

You could have the most amazing exotic shotgun, literally the best PvE shotgun imaginable, but it would still suck because shotguns suck in PvE, and now you've wasted your exotic slot and can't equip Gjallarhorn, Icebreaker, MIDA, or Vex.

On the flip side, making an exotic TOO good ruins other exotics, because now their opportunity cost becomes too high.