Any new Gear Worth using? (Destiny)

by stabbim , Des Moines, IA, USA, Sunday, May 31, 2015, 17:42 (3705 days ago) @ Cody Miller

The Give/Take equation fusion rifle has been working really well for me. The impact is fairly high, not far off my old Trolley Problem. But the stability is what really makes it great - I can land the whole burst on small enemies at what I would consider pulse rifle range. I haven't seen a fusion rifle work so well at range since the old Light/BEWARE.

Judgement is a New Monarchy shotgun I really like. Great impact/range, and it looks like a blunderbuss. I repeat, it looks like a blunderbuss. I rolled mine with Shot Package and Army of One.

I also like the Admonisher Rocket launcher. Most of the stats are pretty meh but the blast radius is huge, and that works well for what I was trying to do with my Hunter's heavy weapons. I reforged a couple of them to have tracking+reload perks.

Some of the new weapons' perks can work well together with the right roll. Her Right Hand is, as far as base stats go, just a wannabe Shadow Price. But I rolled Focused Fire, Rangefinder, and Injection Mold together with a high-zoom scope, and wound up with something that works at MUCH longer range than any other AR I've ever seen. Technically Suros Regime still has a better range stat, but it's limited by its sights.

All that being said, there's no denying some of the old weapons, with the right perks, can achieve things the new ones can't. Just yesterday I brought my old Shadow Price out of the vault. It has Outlaw, Field Scout, and Grenadier. This is a gun I have not used since TDB came out. I took it on patrol mode against low-level Cosmodrome enemies initially and it took me all of 5 seconds to remember why I kept it. Having such a high-impact, stable AR with 42 rounds in the mag gets a lot done between reloads, and then the reloads are super quick. Then I took it to fight one of the "wanted Wolves" groups, and it murdered them pretty good, too. I can't wait to ascend that thing. And my TDYK (which, I recently realized, actually beats Fatebringer on base stats - it's only the Firefly ability that makes Fatebringer what it is).