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by kidtsunami , Atlanta, GA, Friday, October 30, 2015, 20:34 (3407 days ago) @ CruelLEGACEY

http://planetdestiny.com/trials-of-osiris/

As you may remember, all Year 1 Trials of Osiris weapons came with the "3rd Eye" perk. Didn't seem flashy on paper, but it is actually an extremely useful PvP perk.

Reports are now coming in that all Year 2 Trials Adept weapons come with the "Last Resort" perk (This weapon handles and reloads faster when the player is the last living member of the fireteam).

Note that this perk only comes standard on "adept" weapons... I think the standard versions come with a random perk in that slot? Anyone know for sure?

Is it just me, or is this a complete waste of a perk? I'm not going to say it is "useless", but I would rather have just about any other perk in its place. If I'm the last living player on my fireteam, how useful is a slight boost to weapon handling and reload speed? Not much, if you ask me. Not to mention the fact that it's a perk that will be completely useless if you're playing solo (since you're not even in a fireteam). During standard 6v6 matches, chances are you will never be the only player left standing on your team, and if you are it will only be for 1 or 2 seconds. To me, it is clearly a perk designed for the elimination gametype. But in my experience, if you're the last player on your team standing in a Trials match, it is going to take more than faster weapon handling to save you.

More to the point, the Trials adept weapons are supposed to be the top rewards in the game, right up there with the adept Raid weapons. And who knows, the weapons could still be great. I'm just a touch disappointed by the news that the Trials adept weapons come fitted with at least 1 waste of a perk slot. The lack of elemental damage was already a blow, now this too.

Say what you will about the loot problems with Destiny year 1, I wanted those raid and trials weapons. Even the Iron Banner weapons were more desirable before, since you didn't need to pour higher-level guns and parts into infusing them. As it stands now, I've scrapped every raid weapon I've found, and the Trials weapons are looking to be a fair bit less exciting this time around. And with Iron Banner, the excitement of getting a new weapon is hampered by the chore of upgrading them to get them up to endgame level.

What do you all think? Am I totally off on Last Resort?

What I think is I'm leaving my friends behind and playing Halo 5 instead of Destiny because I find the loot crawl to be complete and utter bullshit. As someone who has done really well with Trials in the past I'm just absolutely tired of min-maxing finding loot. I'm growing more and more frustrated with the fact that no matter how good I am, I can't play/compete in all of the content I want to because I simply having sunk the hours in. Look, this game is quite un-fun when you're getting stomped on because you aren't geared up like people who simply spend more time than you do. The idea that Trials gear would give the people who dedicate the most time, the best gear, is infuriating. Even as someone who had adept everything else, I thought it was extremely unfair and awful. I like playing Halo Arena where when you spawn, you can breath a sigh of relief knowing that there are no hammer bros or someone with some (Adept) nonsense on the other side.

So yeah, I'm not buying any stupid emotes, and not entertaining this nonsense any further. I want to play games because they're fun, not because of some dangling carrot.