No its not, the gun itself isn't the problem, just the burn ability, they should at least make it to where if you kill the user the burn effect stops instead of it continuing to do damage.
I didn't miss the point.
Without the burn that quantity of shots won't kill someone.
Red death two burst to head or three burst body kills someone and it's exotic perk isn't damage based.
Thorn is fine. Just easy to get compared to RNG exotics.
Yeah, but red death is also a pulse rifle, not a hand cannon, red death also doesnt continue to damage you after you've killed the user.
Without burn a fully upgraded thorn still has a higher attack stat than a legendary hand cannon. You'd still be able to get quick kills with it no matter what, just not as fast as you would with burn active.
It would take another shot.
Slight modifications usually don't mean much. My point is that thorn and red death are comparable for damage then they both have their exotic perks.
Red death will two shot kill someone instantly plus give life back.
Thorn will two shot then burn someone down in a few seconds.
It isn't unfair.