Winter's Guile took a nerf, but it's still strong. Vesper of Radius is niche but it has functionality.
Dawn Chorus was also nerfed but is phenomenal with the right set up.
Wings of Sacred Dawn is just so much fun.
Lunafaction Boots are incredibly useful and absolutely amazing in many some circumstances in PvP.
Anything else? Something doesn't have to be meta to be good.
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None of those things are good, they're just usable. Winters guile will never be very useful because unlike titan, warlock melee aren't the focus of the class. It has very little utility to chain melees like winters guile. Dawn chorus is a shadow of what it should be and is actually still pretty trash. Again, just because you can use it in strikes doesn't mean it's good, starfire blows stuff up and burns just as good. Lunas again, they have a use but it's not that good lol don't over exaggerate. Wings Is a one trick pony and only really good with a linear or a sniper, anything else takes too long to kill and you get smacked out of the sky by anyone competent enough to look at their radar and up.
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Yes, if you get the stacks going, but even then, beyond content like strikes and open world play, they're subpar because they're clunky af to use. Dawn chorus cant do anything starfire protocol doesn't do better lol. .......okay? A grenade will automatically force them out of the rift lol easy pickings with dmt.
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I hardly ever use the meta, especially in pvp. I know what I'm talking about because I HAVE tried to use these exotics in higher content and different cenarious lol. One of my favorite exotics in the game is felwinters Helm, and I have to bend over backwards to make it work but I do it anyway. Unlike most people I'm just honest about the state of the exotics.