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8/31/2015 3:23:18 AM
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The Glasshouse problem
Its safe to say this exotic is on the list of exotics that are never used. One could say that it's almost completely useless. If you are using blessing... Once the shield goes down you run back to the bubble and with weapons, it's usually used in a boss fight for example when against atheon you pop the bubble in the back move up shoot till weapons are gone and then back up again. I think the upgrade on it should be changed to one of the two. Grants weapons of light and blessing of light when helmet is equipped Or Double the effects of blessing of light or weapons of light.
These changes could be made to a year 2 version of the glasshouse for when the taken king comes out
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Edited by HELP1NG HAND: 9/9/2015 4:11:49 PM[WARNING: Long post!] I agree. In its current state, it is next to entirely useless. Its intellect boost is sensible and I'm glad that it at least changes color with shaders now. But that's about where the positives stop. The helmet is just a bad, confused exotic. The exotic perk lends to working outside of the ward, but the other perks are all over the place and don't really lend any synergy to this approach. Plus, an extended perk time with WoL or BoL is in itself incredibly situational at best. With Blessing of Light, it doesn't matter how long it lasts, as the perk is often utilized in areas where there is significant incoming fire. The shield buys you time out in that fire, and rarely expires anyway -but is instead destroyed. You then retreat into the ward, reload, heal, and come back out with a new shield. Weapons of light is better, but is in a similar boat, as with most weapons your not going to be firing for 15 seconds straight anyway. Instead you will trade fire with the enemy, and reload. While you do so, it makes sense to step back into the Ward to reload without being shot full of holes, and come back out swinging with a full mag and a renewed buff. As a support oriented player, and someone who mains a defender titan, I find the idea behind the Glasshouse very attractive. Its the only exotic that increases the Defender's performance-boosting support aspects. However its just a bad exotic. It does have one good use: Atheon. But that's really it. In order for the glasshouse to be improved adequately, it would need a serious overhaul. It would really have to allow a defender to equip both Weapons AND blessing of light, and it would have to sport secondary perks that synergized with working outside of the ward. The pure focus on intellect is good, and quintessence transfer is okay, but rain blows is out of place. Better options would be melee hits reduce grenade cooldown, Inverse Shadow, or doing something to increase the strength of the buffs. With a refocus, the Glasshouse could be a feasible option for a support oriented Defender. But as it stands now, it is too scattered and ineffective to really merit its exotic slot, and arguably its helmet slot as well.
