At this point I'd say just scrap the Day Break super as a whole and replace it with the Harvester Scythe. It basically does everything the sword should be doing right now. It makes targets explode on kill, spreads scorch and causes ignitions. The projectile has the same animation and sound effect as the swords and it has crazy good tracking. It's excellent at mob control, single target dps and it can heal the user on kills. And it does all that without the need of a fragment, aspect or exotic. It also pairs very very well with Dawn Chorus, and the fragments that boost scorch and Ignitions. Harvester Scythe is everything Solar 3.0 Daybreak should have been.

BUNGIE: NO, NO DAMAGE. ONLY FLOAT IN AIR AND HEAL

I agree, the super is extremely lackluster and needs help; the sword projectile itself doesn't even cause scorch, which is hilarious to me -- it should ALWAYS cause scorch/ignitions, with Dawn Chorus buffing/adding onto the effect of such. Bottom tree got pretty slaughtered in general with 3.0, and middle tree got neutered to a good extent as well with them giving the healing grenade to everyone-- that's all I see 85-90% of people use now in PvP. Off the top of my head, here's what got nerfed / completely removed from Dawnblade's super as a whole in 3.0: [b]• Everlasting Flames Removal[/b]-- Dawnblade's super is the only roaming solar super now that can't be extended with kills / other means and has the lowest uptime and borderline weakest damage (without Dawn Chorus); Titans can still throw more hammers, and Gunslingers are refunded shots and can keep firing their golden gun far more (in PvP atleast) than should be within reason. [b]• Icarus Dash[/b]-- Cooldown used to be removed during the super at the cost of expending super energy per dash on an already low uptime super-- now it has a cooldown even when the super is active that won't usually be done until the super is over, and can hardly be used in a versatile manner to counteract the slow projectile travel time while being shot at. [b]• Phoenix Dive[/b]-- So, funny enough, not a lot of people knew this because a lot of people ran top-tree, but on bottom tree, when you had Dawnblade's super active, Phoenix Dive was replaced with a sword-slam attack into the ground, causing AoE damage + burn; it was just weak enough to where you had to slam right next to someone to 1-hit them, otherwise it would leave you vulnerable to being shotgunned. Now with the new Phoenix Dive (which has a laughably long cooldown and replaces your Rift), you can only sword-slam ONE TIME PER SUPER, [u][i]AND[/i][/u] it consumes the class ability energy. [b]• Touch of Flame (Original)[/b]-- The original touch of flame ability that was on bottom tree was pretty straightforward; if a target was taking burn (now scorch) damage from either your grenade, melee, or super, and died while burning, they would [i]always[/i] explode. This could synergize nicely above with the Dawnblade sword-slam, as it caused burn damage-- got a group of 10-enemies under you? Slam that sword down, cause them all to burn, and whatever died, exploded and finished the rest AND extended your super with Everlasting Flames. Now Scorch has to reach a specific threshold to cause an ignition, as Warlock don't have an 'instant ignition on kill' ability like Titans/Hunters, making it so we can basically never proc ignitions on anything but high-health enemies unless we sacrifice out seasonal mod on the class item that causes ignitions with solar headshot kills (only) on scorched enemies, which every class has access too anyways. [b]BONUS:[/b] Most people also don't realize that with middle-tree's healing grenade getting put into it's own catagory for everyone, Warlock's lost their ability to stay airborne / 'float' in the sky while charging their healing grenade. To add fuel on the fire (no pun intended), the inconsistency bug with Dawnblade's projectile either hardly doing damage / not doing damage at all while hitting an enemy/player that is airborne is still in the game almost 5 years later and hasn't been addressed.

Idk about dmg but the two aspects do need to be merged And hunters need a way to get restoration

not every super needs to be a top tier DPS monster in PVE, sometimes a super is just designed with PVP in mind. Dawnblade is still one of the best roaming supers in PVP as an example look at the other classes. Spectral blade super sucks in PVE Striker titan super sucks in PVE arc staff is meh in PVE Dawnblade just happen to be that one Strong PVP super but lactluster PVE super also well of radiance is a thing, which is prob on of the most broken supers in the game. also hard time getting radiant? - the melee fragment? and when using heat rising, getting the melee back should be no issue, also every heard of the "heavy handed" mod? - rain of fire? just slap on vex or something. aka same amount of ways to proc it at the hunter class.

Yall are crazy I main solar warlock and they're power houses when built right. Stop trying to float in the air all the time and use your healing rift/well of radiance , sunbracer solar nades or starfire double fusion grenades that explode twice etc. Run max resilience/recovery or discipline etc, I run lost sectors np anytime with out a sweat for the one comment saying forget doing lost sectors on them. Legend/master NF can mostly solo and solo dungeons. Excellent in raid groups, yall just whack at warlocks.

Yeah, dawnblade was so useful and helping in serious pve content, every single master/gm and raid should have had at least 1 dawnblade.