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Edited by Bot8305: 7/18/2015 1:16:43 PM
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Nerfing Gjallarhorn will lead to extreme elitism

Bungie nerfs Gjally, Gjally still reigns supreme. Gjally does less DPS, so it'll become more relevant, since everyone in your fireteam will need one to output as much DPS as possible. More and more posts with Gjally only will emerge on LFG. JOB WELL DONE BUNGIE! Or am I missing something? @Deej or @Cozmo : you're reading this? Elitism will prevail unfortunately. Go report that back to your game designers ;-) Credits to Skyguy: [quote]Let me make it easy for you, lets say we need 225k damage to kill a boss. Gjally does 9k while other rockets do 6k. Everyone has 5 rockets, so a gjally user would do 45k damage, while a non gjally user will do 30k damage. Right now we need 3 gjally users and 3 different rockets to kill him. Now if we make ghorn do 40k per 5 shots, we'll need 4 gjally users and 2 regular rocket launchers and some extra shots from primary to kill it. Most people would go for the easy way where they don't need to shoot extra shots with primaries, that would mean people would require 5 gjallys to do what could've been done with 3 gjallys in the past.[[/quote] https://www.bungie.net/en/Forum/Post/139323167/0/0/1 Important note: the patch hasn't come out yet, we're discussing different outcomes. Who knows what will happen next. Credits to Draconalu for this Forbes article: [url=http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidthier/2015/07/17/nerfing-gjallarhorn-and-thorn-is-the-exact-wrong-move-for-destiny/]link[/url]

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  • Edited by fets81: 7/18/2015 10:29:36 AM
    Imo the reason why elitism will get worse after the nerf is simply because rather than people asking for gally they will instead be asking for "must have completed "X" on hard mode" Gally would allow players with lesser ability to get into raids and also allowed other to carry people through and now people are going to be less inclined to do so and therefore it could push raids more in the direction that to0 is now Personally I don't think the nerf is that bad but I do think that this could backfire and exacerbate the issue rather than solve it, at the end of the day the more you try to balance a op pve weapon the more you risk isolating those players who for whatever reason lack certain skills, so the end result will be a slight reduction in the "must have gally" and a increase in the "git gud scrub" and I don't see how that's better, your just replacing one form of elitism with another

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