The one good thing about Erentil and why it isnt already slaughtering everyone is two holdback reasons.
1. Its basically impossible to farm. This is a more irrelevant case than the months prior, with menagerie, but since that is dead, its not commonplace. Due to it being so hard to obtain before, ie gunsmith packages, only the few who managed a god roll from the gunsmith - myself.
2. Its a good gun. A great gun. But you must stack one very important meta caused problem. Almost all other fusions are terrible in pvp. Few exceptions, but Erentil hangs as the best. Shotguns are king, followed by snipes. Shotguns in specific are the most similar to fusions, with erentil being a more ranged weapon. But when you stack on the multiple things going against getting an erentil, you must stack on the unnatural nature of the fusion. Generally, a shotty ape has probably never taken a fusion into pvp, and will possibly become instantly disgusted with the the weapon and go back to their comfort zone, the shotgun or sniper. Only people who see the gun for what it can be see that it can be more. Youtubers do assist with this, and definitely increase the number of people wanting erentils, the aspects fighting it will never make the erentil king of crucible, unless a major change happens.
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You know you can get it in the menagerie right?
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Personally, I'd like to see pellet spread RNG to go away and precision frame shotguns to become aggressive frame shotguns to make shotguns more consistent in terms of effectiveness and their drawbacks (precision frames are just aggressive frames with all the benefits and none of the drawbacks), while at the same time buffing the underused fusion archetypes to actually get a broader understanding of the position of Fusion rifles in PvP. Maybe then we'll see if Erentil really is a problem or not.