imho, there are two scenarios:
A: the Gun is not that good everyone thinks -> no need to have it, it will never become meta or is as good as any other meta-pump
B: the Gun is really awesome and meta-changing -> it will again screw PvP at some point as everyone is running it and Bungie has to nerf it finally...
Neither A nor B is worth doing that awful Tower-Event.
Having said this, I again realize, that Bungie took that game to a point, where introducing new weapons has become nearly pointless. Either it is only decent, then nobody cares except for the collection, or it is outstanding and the next nerf-candidate because it breaks balancing... Curious, how Bungie will solve that in future... ah, silly me, of course: just taking away our old weapons! ;)
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This weapon that is such a grind to get will be outdated in six months along with the Strike exclusive weapon whose place it is taking and the Trials shotgun ruling the kinetic slot. Think on that. Think on how much player time is and has been spent on those weapons and getting a proper version of each and know that they will all be out of date in six months. Now back to the hamster wheel all of you.