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11/10/2014 11:11:56 AM
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Let's talk about Thorn
Thorn is a handgun that has a "damage over time" (dot) effect. It is an exotic weapon which can be aquired via a relatively hard exotic bounty.
Generally I am satisfied with the damage Thorn has. But it is not the damage that makes me think that Thorn should not be an exotic weapon. It has 6 bullets in a magazine and a reload time out of hell.
The general situation in pvp for me is the following:
There is an enemy. I shoot at him, I miss once but the enemy is dead. I now have 2 bullets left. Too few shots to kill a second enemy. I cannot reload because it almost takes 3 seconds to do so. So I have to switch weapons while going into cover.
Even if I manage to survive that I can only switch back to my Thorn when there is absolutely nothing arround me. Now I have to switch weapons AND have to reload. This is arround 4 seconds now where I am cursed to wait..
If I compare Thorn to Lord High Fixer, I cannot say that Thorn is better. It should be. It is exotic and takes much more effort to get it than any other exotic I know.
In PvE I think the weapon lacks of DPS.
What are your opinions about that weapon?
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I was just gonna make a thread about thorn lol. I've used alot of other HC and use Last Word primarily on my titan for pvp. I can shoot heads and thats not the issue. My issue is with the goofy sights on thorn. The bright green with the squiggly rear sight just makes it harder than it has to be for target acquisition. Another idea is to make the DoT stack and increase with every hit. This would only affect body shots in pvp (thus fixing the exotic quality and low round mag) so theoretically if you cant hit heads you could still kill someone with a full stack DoT in best case scenario. This would also fix the gun in pve and you stack the DoT and when it falls your reload is done and ready to apply DoT to max again. I've play sunslinger with it and definitely like the solar grenades and ignite with the thorn DoT though.. it makes for interesting pvp and you tend to get most kills from DoT. Just my thoughts.
