Ok the Fabian Strategy is pretty underwhelming as far as an Exotic goes. Yes the quest is silly easy,requiring very little effort and it shows in your reward.
Starting with the weapon design,well it's just plain generic. It's nothing more than a stock Hakke AR with two silly and useless little shields mounted on each side of the barrel.
The stats are nothing to write home about either. Lousy range and worse stability.
The perks are equally underwhelming. Life Support has always been useless.literally a perk that allows your weapon to shine just a mere hit or two away from "Guardian down". I could imagine a perk like Counter Balance or Perfect Balance or even Hammer Forged or Persistance would be a much better option. The rest of the perks I find offer little to improve its lackluster stats.
The Fabian Strategy is in all honesty a legendary AR ( a low tier one at that ) that somehow found its self misplaced in the exotic category. Saddled with a starting value of 280
further pushes it down into the range of mediocrity.
For a starter exotic,for a beginner Titan and new to the game it's a good albeit ordinary weapon. Unfortunately or fortunately depending on your point of view,several vendor legendary AR including the Suros AR package from the Gunsmith all offer a better alternative to the Fabian with better starting stats.
Interesting enough that even though the Fabian is an exotic it still shares the below average stats found with legendary Hakke AR. One would think that at the very least the exotic version of a Hakke would get a slight bump to its starting stats or at the very least some perks that would offset its average performance.
All in all the Fabian Strategy is a fail in both design and function and bears all the earmarks of something the Bungie weapon design team threw together in the last 15 minutes before the end of work on a Friday.
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I have a stock Hakke AR for comparison. Base stats is same but the stability offered is a real bonus. Got it as a reward from Gunsmith upon reaching rank 3.
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That's a big difference yeah
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You are absolutly right
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