The damage was “nerfed” by moving a majority of the damage to the explosion. In PvP this means that blocking Supers will not be damaged unless the knives are near and behind them. Usually that means the strategy with the blocking supers is to block and backpedal. In the case of Sentinel it is to jump and block to avoid explosions. Outside of that it is still theoretically possible to survive BB if you only get hit by 1-2 knives but any more than that and you won’t survive the explosion. It can still kill bubbles. Other than that I’d say it was probably latency on the good old P2P system Bungie uses. In PvE it is laughable because the damage change. Unless the target is large enough what often happens is the hits from the knives shoot the enemy in the air where the explosions don’t hurt them making it mostly a meme damage wise.

What game have you been playing?

Titans are literally the best class for super oem with bottom tree striker is broken. I think hunters bb should be a 1 shot shutdown super. If not what would be the point of using the sub class. Also hunters subclasses don’t compare to the lvl that warlocks and titans are on right now so I see it as a fair trade.

The only thing BB needs is a damage resistance nerf, a nova bomb can be shit down with a shotgun melee, BB literally requires you to drop a nuclear weapon on their forehead, and there’s still only a 50/50 chance they die.

It’s been nerfed multiple times. Can’t understand how people can even complain about it anymore, it’s eh. Glad to see you tested it out and appreciate the honesty. Thank you.

You still have to aim it, sometimes if people run directly under you they can dodge it like running under a wardcliff coil shot. OR and a BIG OR! It's due to lag. It depends what region the players are from. Im from Ireland so UK is crispy for me never any lag. But when I match against american teams oh dear god. Point blank shotgun hits doing less than half damage, blade barrage missing pretty much everything. Sorry had to rant. I'd put it down to lag. Peer to peer is cancer.

The last few times I played Mayhem, BB seemed off. I would have clear line of sight to someone, throw it, and not hit a thing. Could have been lag though. Most PvP problems are. As far as it shutting down Ward of Dawn, in that same Mayhem week, people were casting Ward of Dawn inside a Well of Radiance, and I was wiping out the whole thing with one Barrage. It's a shutdown super, but the twirling Arc Staff can stop it as well as the Sentinel that had the shield teammates can shoot through. Maybe even the others, I dont get much play time on my Titan anymore.