My first exotic was Thorn... I got it 3 weeks after destiny' came out. i used it everywhere it got me through my first VoG run... when i was level 25... without mark of the devourer. I couldn't see how crap the gun was and i just told people that i didn't want to change it. i took it into my first iron banner. Thorn made me a better player because it use to be bad it made me accurate because i had 6 shots and i couldn't afford to miss with the long reload times i used send it cause i wanted the ability to use this accuracy at long ranges it made using other weapons harder cause the recoil was to low and id over compensate, and it taught me to work around fights instead of just plowing through with an auto rifle. Only now did i realize that my Rose was no longer blooming it has become jagged and crooked each pull of the trigger cuts through my foes but also through my own hand my accuracy diminished, my reflexes sloppy, This thing isn't my Thorn anymore wheres the unmanageable recoil forcing me to correct myself? wheres that tense feeling when i pull the trigger knowing i cant miss or I'm dead? where is the pride i felt in taming this beast taking 2 people on at once just using thorn and some well executed maneuvers? I still use it sometimes but each pull of the trigger just depresses me. Once i was thorns master it was only made powerful because i could use it right, using thorn not as just a weapon but as an extension of myself, back then thorns Poison wasn't their to kill it was their to track targets, cut them off and ambush them when they were weak, Final round was the last ditch attempt when things didn't go to plan. Now thorn is my master i don't need any of that i just need two or three little pulls not even well placed. I prefer it the way it was to what it has become... Thorn is still my weapon and it use to give me pride using it; even now it has found one way to give me pride... To not use it. And ill never use it against another guardian from now on unless its fixed. My bragging right? I'm one of the few people that can say Thorn is my gun without sounding like some brain dead try-hard. [spoiler]jusr a regular try-hard thank you very much[/spoiler]