I know a lot of you dearly love your new Word of Crota hand cannon you rightfully earned by killing Crota on Hard, but hear me out. THIS WEAPON IS BROKEN. The Word's unique perk, Phantom Gift (3 rapid head shots return 1 round to mag), is not only a mediocre perk at best but it is also broken by both Hive Disruptor (Increased damage to Majors) and the Explosive a Rounds perk. This a bug that Bungie saw coming due to the White Nail bug and made no effort to fix it preemptively.
I think the best solution would be to scrap the Phantom gift perk completely rather than rework the other 2 perks that break it.
Bump, like, or reply this post if you want your hard-earned handcannon to be the monster it should be.
TL;DR
Word of Crota is broken, let's make Bungie get rid of the broken perk on it that is bad even when it does work.
EDIT: IF YOU DISAGREE, ALL MEANS EXPLAIN WHY YOU BELIEVE SO; I ONLY ASK THAT YOU DO NOT REPLY WITH OVERSIMPLIFIED OR DOWNRIGHT STUPID REBUTTALS.
Edit 2: I'm saying Bungie should remove Phantom Gift and replace it with a fully functional perk.
Edit 3: thanks for the support guys. Hopefully together we can make this weapon better.
[b]Replacement perk idea[/b]
[b]Shrieker Blast[/b]
-[b]precision kills with this weapon activate a mini shrieker death blast that tracks nearby enemies. [/b]
it would function similar to firefly, but would do less damage and have increased range in addition to a brief stagger animation when it connects on nearby enemies.
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Edited by Raider TCK: 4/25/2015 11:35:21 PMPhantom gift is a horrible perk, even if it worked. Switch it out for crowd control. Or kills call the 'bloom' effect. Love the shrieker blast idea.
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Edited by HederaFox: 4/26/2015 12:31:01 AMI'd like the shrieker blast perk, though WOC would be similar to Fatebringer. What about instead of a firefly [i]damaging[/i] effect, it disoriented/blinded hive instead? We have lichbane, and perks that shoot through shields, so a hive only perk wouldn't be out of the question. I got WoC last night, and I'm really digging it, but I agree, the phantom gift perk seems lacking.
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Edited by Ianferno: 4/18/2015 10:15:00 PMThe Shrieker Blast perk idea is by far the best idea I've ever seen on the forum.
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Replace White Nail with LITC, Final Round, or even Crowd Control. Either one of those eperks would turn this average HC in an A+ weapon
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Smart
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Bump replace it with something useful
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1.1.2 fix this ?
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That's not the only thing broke on it the black hammer suffers the same problem. Any damage caused inbetweem shots cancels the effect
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I can get on board with this.
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I knew before this gun came out that it was gonna be crap. Whatever, half the guns from the raid are good and half are bad, just like VoG
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Mini. Shrieker. Awesome, but sounds more like an exotic perk than a legendary (better that the cursedbringer?)
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That shrieker blast perk would be good on the necrochasm as a replacement for its current second perk.
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The outlaw firefly perk both firefly and outlaw in one make it happen bungie
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Replace with firefly. Nuff said.
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I like it
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Edited by Lieu: 3/3/2015 8:44:21 AMI don't even have to hit all my headshots in a row with phantom gift.. I just have to hit them within a certain amount of time lol, so phantom gift is not broken
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I have not been impressed by any of the new raid weapons.... black hammer is the most useful in PvE anyway, but aside from that I can always seem to find a better replacement for the others.... I do like the new scout rifle just wish it had full auto instead of the marker perk that is pretty useless. Only thing nice about the new raid primaries is the damaged modifiers Void/Arc/Solar but other than that they are not really that special and are kind of a let down IMO.
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All they have to do is replace explosive rounds with field scout, and phantom gift with firefly... If ya know what I mean...
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-blam!- WoC Fatebringer for days!
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4-5 extra bullets increase each mags damage by 6160-7700. -blam!- firefly lol. Get good and stop bitching. And stop the complaining about the explosive rounds because it was the same with fb, messed up firefly more often then not. So again, quit bitching and learn how to hit targets in the head.
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Still waiting for them to fix the black hammer... Any day now...... Still waiting.... Don't tell me they forgot..... Ahh F*K it. They forgot or don't care because we're not complaining enough. If it was a nerf, you'd better bet your ass they'd implement the shit pronto!
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Edited by AJIc3CoLd: 3/3/2015 6:19:52 AMHoly shit, I enjoy this gun, but you are right, PG is an awful perk. If they came with this perk you're suggesting (they won't) , lol, it would definitely challenge FB for the throne. For the record, I've had no issues with the perk but it's a lame perk and terribly underwhelming.
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Shrieker Blast sounds awesome !