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Edited by Cayde:
2/13/2016 9:51:54 PM
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Thorn is op or not
Edit: I made a normal poll to see opinion of community. Totally forgot about how many 12 year old salty turds exist here. Without reading anything, they are telling me go to year 1 and other crap.
I am year 1. I have 2300+ hours in game. Have 7000 kills with thorn in year 1.
All of you turds who are telling me how it was op, this poll is not saying what was op year 1 or year 2.
Compare thorn in year 2 with other exotic weapons like red death, suros, boolean gemini.
Why I think thorn is op.
3 shot body shot with fastest fire rate hand cannon. Which usually is 4-5
Tracks enemy.
Stop recovery for 7 effing seconds
All of you who are telling me you can counter it, for sure you can counter it. Problem is, most probably it will still kill you if other person is even half decent.
Please post your honest opinion. Now by honest I mean honest.
If you use it and like it, it's good but that won't change the fact that it's not op.
Thanks
Happy hunting guardians
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6 RepliesI want everyone who doesn't think it's op to pay attention for just a second. I'm going to lay this out, if you still don't think it op then feel free to argue with me. All I ask is that you remain respectful and use logic to support your answer. To start this off: I have been playing since Beta. I love this game, and have spent way to much time in it. I have started character spent a couple hundred hours on them, just to delete them and start the process over again. I also have a love affair with Thorn. Ever since the September 9, 2014 I was looking for an exotic handcannon. Now remember this was the time when we didn't know what exotics were out there. Most of it was word to mouth. So when my friends got this thorn I was pumped. I wanted one too. Thankfully I got my wish rather quickly. Now for those of you who don't remember vanilla thorn, it was rather mediocre. Decent damage, decent fire rate, but a reload that took so long I would watch Netflix episodes between reloads. Now entering into the HoW era, Thorn was Op. It was a two shot head shot that sent shivers down people's spine. And it was nerfed into what we had now. The problem with it, is that it is intrinsically better than any other hand cannon. Now you have probably heard or know that it is a three shot body shot. Which you might argue is not OP. Let's factor this in, right now the first curse, one of the highest impact weapons is a four shot body shot. Now can be brought down to 3 shot kill, but only with one head shot. The first curse also has a slow fire rate. Right now, there is no point in using another handcannon than thorn. Which was highlighted recently during the mega tournament we had about a month back. Where the primary of choice was thorn. The ability to only have to worry about hitting a shot on the target whether it be head shot or body shot takes away part of the skill that this game is built around. The burn is also a problem. Because it procs on a hit you can casually hit one player with it, and keep him from regenerating their shields for several seconds while you make a tactical push on them. So let me ask you something, purely from a numbers standpoint. If you had one destiny life, and you were given the choice between the handcannons we have now. Can you honestly say that you wouldn't pick thorn as your best chance to survive? The only gun capable of three shot body shot, keep an enemy shields down for several seconds, with a good firerate? If you can honestly say no, and think it is not Op, please explain. Because honestly this is so cut and dry for me.
