Here's my feedback now that I've finished the Ticuu's Divination catalyst quest. In general, it is very worth doing because it makes an already powerful weapon into something nearly completely overpowered...in PvE.
That's the catch. It's a great PvE weapon but one almost completely unsuited to PvP, yet you have to get 50 PvP kills with it to get the raw catalyst. If you have ranked up the season pass high enough if you bought it, then this can fall to 13, which isn't so bad except for a few key things:
1) A good number of people are terrible with bows in the Crucible to start with, and Ticuu's Divination is not the most powerful bow unless you use its unique 2-step attack (shoot once to prime the target, shoot again to blow them up). But in the Crucible, you CANNOT do this. You can only use it as a normal bow, but now neutered from its best attack. So kills, even 13, might be hard to get quickly, especially when you consider...
2) There are so many sweaty players in the Crucible all the time now that a slow, mediocre attack from the bow when you can't use the priming attack means you probably lose every fight unless you fight sneaky.
So I spent matches ignoring every objective or any semblance of team play hoping to position myself to get mop-up kills when other players damaged an enemy, or by quickly attacking with the bow when I did some other sort of damage. But in a straight-up shootout, BAM! I was dead. However, tricky as it was, I did it.
But why on Earth force a Crucible step when there's not much chance the bow will see much use there since it is obviously intended as a PvE weapon? All that it does is force players to use adopt a playing style that distorts the intended purpose of PvP, which is team play. Instead, people will merrily ignore all that just to get their kills. It's like a different version of the heavy ammo step of the recent Iron Banner quest, where everyone ignored the game just to cluster around the heavy ammo spawn points.
I am glad I got the catalyst, and then the hundreds of more PvE kills you need to finish it. It's a beast, even in Gambit where it really shines (but not against invaders, which I attack in other ways), and also it is great for the Legendary Lost Sectors.
But the random and unwarranted PvP step is just bizarre. This sort of nonsense has to stop. If Bungie wants to make Crucible good again, they need to stop making people go into it intending to play in a manner that wrecks the team aspect of it just to pursue a quest of catalyst.
Having said all this, do try to get the catalyst. It's worth it.
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Did it in 5 gambit invasions. You get 4 points for every kill 2 for a assist.