But yet it makes a return in this title. Frankly I don’t really care about the story but it’s abundantly evident that no play testing was performed on this weapon. As someone who got [rightly] burned out of last season, and did not obtain this community weapon, I feel like I am at a disadvantage in every close quarters fight as a result of this weapon. What was the rationale behind readding it into the sandbox? Mindbenders is difficult to obtain so level the playing field? Why? I don’t understand that sentiment. Now every game of survival and trials has at least one of these and it’s just as polarizing as it was in the original title. The only gun with a choke perk as potent as this is mindbenders, which is getting sunset. Even with opening shot and slideshot, which most of the time are not run together due to quickdraw, mindbenders only scratches the 9m ranges Felwinter’s Lie regularly kills from. Please release weapons with understanding of the crucible implications. Bungie you must have known what adding this weapon would do. Rectify. This meta is honestly approaching warmind levels of bad.