So far I love it (got it from the nightfall).

It FEELS great. I FEEL like a gunslinger. I'll have to see how it compares to Devil you Know after I get all the perks and get it to 300, but right now it seems great and the perks will make it even better.

I have both fully upgraded. The Devil You Know has the Send It perk, which gives it a lot more range than Last Word. In fact, TDYK outperforms the scout rifles I have. Also, it feels easier to get headshots with TDYK than with Last Word. The accuracy is better. Plus the extra 4 rounds is good when yiu have a bunch of enemies charging you.

Where Last Word shines is with bosses and shielded enemies. Being able to unleash 8 rounds very fast is great when ducking in and out of cover. I can drop dregs faster with precision shots from TDYK, but I would rather have Last Word when a minotaur is charging me.

Last Word is definitely my go to weapon for crucible with my hunter. The hip fire bonus destroys people in close to mid range, which is a vast majority of crucible combat.

Also, The Last Word is just cool and fun. Even if I could get kills faster with other weapons, they're just not as fun to shoot.

It FEELS great. I FEEL like a gunslinger. I'll have to see how it compares to Devil you Know after I get all the perks and get it to 300, but right now it seems great and the perks will make it even better.

It's odd though because I haven't had my exotic slot used up with a primary in a long time.

This thing is basically if the Halo 1 pistol and ODST's Automag had a baby, and that baby went to Harvard.

I had 77 Wizard but dropped it like a sack of potatoes when I got Light/Beware. Reasonable fire rate and fantastic range really make it appealing.

This guy knows what's up.

I've never really found the recoil to be that bad. I mean sure, it's going to kick up to the ceiling with all four shots, but I usually get a kill within one or two shots which leaves the gun pointing about at someone's head. I found it trivial to re-aim at the next person's gut and fire off another two shots for the double down.

The Devil You Know. Huge damage, range and accuracy boosts, and a 12-shot mag. This is the gun Scout Rifles want to be when they grow up.

Scout Rifle

I didn't use them for a long time, but I recently got A.1F19X-Ryl in a drop. Mine also has firefly and final round. Firefly's fun. Doesn't get me a lot of kills when fighting leveled enemies, but it's useful for staggering and just a bit of extra damage.

I actually use Field Scout on mine, which doesn't make a lot of sense given the final round perk, but I think I get more use out of those extra bullets than I do out of one boosted bullet.

Auto Rifle

I have a Shadow Price now, I was using Grim Citizen before that. Both are slower-firing and stable. They're practically identical rifles but the Shadow Price I got has grenadier, which is super useful for both of my Warlock setups.

Pulse Rifle

Again, I didn't use these much for a long time, but recently got Fair & Square from an engram. Seems decent if you can speed up the reload.

I also have Bad Juju, but bluerunner's right - it needs a bigger magazine. The perk is fun when it happens, but as the gun is right now, it just doesn't reliably get kills before the mag runs out. You spend more time reloading than shooting.

Shotgun

Found Verdict. I like the way it handles and the fact that it actually resembles a plain old present-day pump shotgun. Makes it seem like something that's probably been around since the collapse, or longer.

I get more use out of my Comedian because it's void and I use it in the raid, but if I had a void version of Found Verdict I'd be using it.

Runner-up: Universal Remote. It's not as strong per shot as the special-slot shotguns, but the abundance of primary ammo makes up for that, and the change in playstyle that it allows is a lot of fun.

Sniper Rifle

I have an Ice Breaker because of the utility it offers, but beyond that I just don't use sniper rifles.

Fusion Rifle

Light/BEWARE. This was my original anti-wizard gun before Gjallarhorn. Its excellent range and stability lets it hit them from a safe distance. Last night I played the nightfall strike almost exclusively using this gun (used A.1F19X-Ryl to wear down the bigger enemies from a distance) to get kills for the Pocket Infinity bounty, and ended up soloing it. It's fairly easy to knock enemies out from beyond their firing range with this.

Rocket Launcher

Gjallarhorn. Standard generic answer, but true. The destruction that thing can cause is comical.

HMG

Deviant Gravity. Very slow-firing, heavy-hitting, and stable. This is the sort of HMG that you can point at a boss's crit spot and reliably keep it there while firing. Maybe more importantly, you can keep it pointed at oracles. Mine's void, so it always comes with me in the Vault anyway. No anti-oracle bonus of course, but it's so accurate that it really doesn't need any.

POW, POW, POW! Instant reload, POW POW POW POW!!

Unfortunately, it didn't grow up with me, so I had to dump it. I now own a Fair and Square that treats me real well. Just fully upgraded it yesterday--perfect 300. Reload speed is pretty nice. Here's where the Fair and Square part shows up--it is insanely powerful, but it is slow as fuck. Which is why I still lose every single Crucible battle I get--they have Auto Rifles and Scattershots and Binary Rifles.

I always switch between a Hieracon LR5 and a Light/Beware depending on the battle I now face ahead. Both serve me well. No complaints there.

For heavy, I always keep a constant rotation between the Painted Camelot SA/4(3 shells), the Sultan SA/5(homing, always the best option), the Super Good Advice(great for Strike Bosses), and of course...the Unfriendly Giant.

- Scout Rifle,

- The Calling (FWC): With the Firefly & Last Round perks. I team this with either Field Scout or High Caliber rounds depending on the situation. This thing is amazing.

- I also really like the MIDA Multi-Tool. I'm still leveling this up. but for PvP it's been great.

- Hoping to get Vision of Confluence someday........

- Auto Rifle,

- Suros Regime is my go to. It's just a beast in PvP and does a great job in PvE. I just prefer to have an exotic in either the Secondary or Heavy slots.

- Atheon's Epilogue. I hated this until I got it fully leveled. but once you get the stabilization on it this turns into an awesome PvE weapon.

- Hard Light: It's blast to use but I'm still leveling it up. Should be great once I get it upgraded.

- Khvostov 7G-01: a Level 1 - 20 Attack auto rifle that can wreck face in PvP. I use this more for amusement then anything when playing crucible.

- Pulse Rifle,

- Strangers Rifle (Why can't this be a legendary weapon?!?!?!). A lot of fun in PvP.

- Red Death was fun for a week. But once I got into scout rifles I haven't seen a use for pulse rifles.

- Hand Cannons,

- The Devil You Know: With the speed reload perk and field scout I absolutely love playing with that.

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- Shotgun,

- Are these a thing? I haven't been a big fan of them so I don't even know what's good or bad. I have 3 legendary Shotguns that I level when turning in bounties but I've never really used them.

- Sniper Rifle,

- Ice Breaker: unlimited ammo..... enough said.

- Preadyth's Revenge: Super low recoil sniper with a 6 round magazine. That's hard to beat for both PvE & PvP

- Fusion Rifle,

- I love them... but I can't tell you the difference in them at all.

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- Rocket Launcher

- Unfriendly Giant (Engram Versions). The Unfriendly Giant when it has the tracking perk is my go to rocket launcher (coupled with Ice Breaker). The two round magazine and fire and forget capability is hard to stop.

- Gjallarhorn: When you need massive amounts of damage....

- Heavy Machine Gun

- The Swarm: The best PvP machine gun around. If you tap the trigger you can almost use this as a scout rifle in PvP & PvE.

Vision of Confluence. I preferred scout rifles over all else during the beta, but have gravitated more to hand cannons in the final release. This gun is making me fall in love with scout rifles all over again though.

Icebreaker. No explanation necessary. No other gun is as essential to have at your ready, especially if you want to solo the high-level strikes.

Praedyth's Revenge. Holy crap this gun is stable! Non-existent recoil on a fast-firing sniper rifle. Oh, and it has "firefly" too! The only reason this isn't always in my primary slot is because Icebreaker's regenerating ammo is so damn handy.

Thunderlord. This beast feels and sounds amazing, and the slow but precise rate of fire almost make it like a powerful scout rifle. I can usually one-shot enemies in the head and everybody around can hear and immediately know what gun I'm using. Unfortunately, I almost always have an exotic equipped in my primary or secondary slot so I rarely take the opportunity to take it out for playtime.

If/when I get a Hawkmoon, you can probably disregard all of the above.. :-)

I really enjoy Invective. It fires its four rounds extremely quickly on full auto. You just point at their torso, hold down the trigger, and let the recoil worry about silly things like headshots. Ammo regen is just icing on the cake.

Does the ammo regen pull the 3rd and 4th shells out of the ceiling and put them back in the gun?

Red Death:

I like Read Death on Mars fighting the Cabal. Great in crucible too.

I'm hoping this one comes back to Xur sometime...

Devil You Know:

Really nice hand canon. Great impact and light. This is my most used primary.

Yes. I have a random drop version that has fast reload when it's empty. With so many powerful shots I don't normally need to reload at all, but it's nice and quick when I do.

Fair and Square:

A decent alternative to Red Death if you want to use a different exotic. Less recoil too.

And very yes. I bought the Crucible variant for Third Eye, but I'd love this rifle no matter what. It can fire 7 bursts before needing to reload, mine has a quick reload perk, and it has both a nice dot sight and a very decent zoom scope letting me use the gun with ease on any map or in any situation.

For my heavy I'm pretty much using one of my two Thunderlords at this point. Still trying to get my first one to its named upgrade... can't wait to see what that's like.

Destiny's investment system has killed it for me to the point of not really caring what guns I get or find or unlock or anything else. Whatever I have that works is what I'll use. I don't really go out of my way looking for things to level up at this point.

Neither do I. The last time I had to grind was to get to 26 to do that raid.

For PvP
Shadow Price is very nice, but having the small clip version sucks
Comedian with xtra large clip 6 or 7 rounds?
Truth RL proximity explosions

Anybody have a recommendation for a fast firing shotty? I usually keep mine for a backup so I don't really need the large clip. I just like to whip it out when I see my radar go red up close. I usually stay away from folks in PvP.

/jelly

That's actually about it right now.

INSANEdrive want make Big Boom. :D

For the sake of particulars:

• A.1F19X-Ryl Scout Rifle with Firefly.
  
• Icebreaker Exotic Sniper.
  
• Sir Isaac with Explosive Rounds.

...ect.

Also any gun with Specialized Animations for that weapon (Such as Last Word ...which I have yet to get), and Fusion Rifles because its like explosions.