Are you sure? (Destiny)

by Xenos , Shores of Time, Friday, October 09, 2015, 13:58 (3429 days ago) @ Monochron

My memory could be fuzzy but I am fairly certain that a Nova Bomb cannot one-shot Majors either. Maybe if I get a direct hit on him, which is much harder to do than GG, it kills him, but I'm not even sure of that. I think we need hard numbers but my general experience is feeling that GG or Striker outclass Nova in nearly every situation.

I was talking about this with Beorn last night. Nova Bomb has perks that can help you kill Majors (Vortex and Bloom for example), so for example if there is a group of trash adds and a major bloom can kill all the trash which does additional damage to the Major and can kill it. In comparison no (non-exotic) perk can increase the amount of damage that it does, only the area in which it does that damage (with Combustion), which is a tiny area.

But even if that's not true, how does GG outclass Nova without Nighthawk? You do at least a comparable amount of damage to a large area that GG gets in 3 shots on a single target.