Objection: Hearsay... (Destiny)

by Korny , Dalton, Ga. US. Earth, Sol System, Tuesday, September 22, 2015, 15:31 (3446 days ago) @ Cody Miller

I completely disagree with you here. Right now, if you have level 300 gear everywhere, you can equip a 170 weapon from year 1 and still come out as a 290 guardian. Which means your Fatebringer isn't dead; just sayin'. With your proposed solution, you're actually making things worse. Your complaint is that equipping a lower power gun makes you slightly less powerful, but if you split the light level into two, equipping that same lower power gun lowers your attack twice as much as in the current system, while not affecting your defense at all. That's not better.

Attack value factors most heavily into the calculation for weapons damage with the current system, or so I am told. I think if you tried using a 170 Fatebringer in the raid, you'd do little damage even if your overall light were high.

I dunno. I swapped to Gjallarhorn, and found it to be as murderous as the 30% nerf allows it to be. That said, I did find my Messenger to be doing poorly against Cabal Majors, but I think pretty much all weapons are weak against Cabal Majors. Their Tanks drop quickly to it, though...

I think that, given the fact that a significant portion of the population is capped at 170 Light, Bungie couldn't make gear insta-obsolete, so there are still major portions of the game where I'll happily run around with my old 4th Horseman and not feel held back at all. Despite being 293 Light, I'm often running as a ~275 without any issue.

Maybe it's just high-level things like the Nightfall/Raid that need the top-tier stuff, which makes total sense, and was more or less what it was before...