IB Weapons thoughts (Destiny)

by slycrel , Sunday, November 22, 2015, 17:19 (3384 days ago)

Hey, so, I'm a hand cannon / high impact scout fan. I had written off hand cannons pretty much after I hit "end game" TTK, and have not been disappointed. They just don't get the job done anymore like other guns.

However, I've been using a Finnala's Peril that I picked up via IB this week. It's a pretty amazing 3-shot kill HC in the crucible and surprisingly effective. I think it's big draw is the stock roll has good range/stability and it's aim assist is high, so you'll more often than not hit what you're aiming at. It feels a bit faster than timur's lash but still hits pretty hard.

If you like hand cannons it's worth consideration.

Nirwen's Mercy I had a rough time with for a while. I couldn't hit anything, it seemed almost too stable to me, with less benefit from aim assist. Braced frame is an ideal perk and third eye and outlaw are great. I nearly ditched it last go around, but tried it again the past couple of days because I kept getting killed with it.

Then I started pretending it was a scout rifle, and that changed everything, and made it much much better.

Close range it's rough to use. Medium to med-long range it's insane, especially when holding choke points. I was out-sniping people left and right in medium-long range sniper areas.

I may have just gotten a bunch of lower skill groups in a row in the wee early hours of the morning... but it seemed to just click last night and worked very well.

https://www.bungie.net/en/Legend/PGCR?instanceId=4237514573&characterId=2305843009221009308
https://www.bungie.net/en/Legend/PGCR?instanceId=4237494082&characterId=2305843009221009308
https://www.bungie.net/en/Legend/PGCR?instanceId=4237439125&characterId=2305843009221009308

as an all-around pulse rifle, I think red death still beats it out, but for med-long sight ranges (i.e. the right map) nirwen's works wonders.