The Star-Eater Scales especially make the high damage sipers even more damning. What I'm currious about is how Bungie thought it was a good idea to include in the class exotic if they thought Star-Eaters were such a problem as to nerf it into the ground.

The problem is the exotics that buff supers in a simplistic way. They balance supers around their maximum potential and not their base potential. Exotics that buff super damage with no effort just shouldn’t exist (barring maybe things like Celestial or Pyrogale which completely alter the functionality of the super and can feasibly coexist with the base super or things that require some activation criteria such as Synthos), and all super’s base damage should be brought up to compensate. They definitely need to do a balance pass of many of the old supers in general, as many of them are pitiful. Take power away from exotics that simply buff the super, rework them with new and/or additional functionality, and return power to the base supers. [spoiler]Since I know people will ask me to elaborate on why I think something like Celestial is okay, but something like, for example, Cuirass is not: Celestial introduces a tradeoff: less orbs generated, more risk of losing your damage for greater damage and faster output. It can feasibly be balanced with the base three shot. We’ve seen situations where you’d rather use Star-eater three shot for orb spam, and while those situations were a bit ridiculous, I can still imagine the orb gen being valuable. Similarly, Pyrogale introduces a similar trade off. Better single target damage at the cost of the roaming super. Currently Burning Maul is quite mediocre, but you could imagine a situation where this is a meaningful tradeoff with some simple number changes.[/spoiler]