Closing Time, an Exotic weapon makes you invisible when zooming in and you can snipe ammo drops, as to allow you to stay in the safety of your area. Now, imagine if you could equip 2 other exotic weapons that had amazing bonuses like that? Red Death that gives you increased health regeneration, and the wolf rocket launcher, which deploys sentries. We don't even know what exotic armour would do for you, but imagine the possibilities. Boots that increase your movement speed or give you infinitie sprint. Chest that gives you more health. A helmet that gives you resistance to headshots. Arms that increase your damage. The possibilities are endless. You'd have a freaking beast of a character if you had all these exotics. I think exotics won't be as rare as some people think they are, but they'll offer great bonuses. As to make your character not overpowered as -blam!-, Bungie is limiting the amount of exotics you can equip. So instead of increased health, speed, damage, you can only choose one of those things, and then you pick an exotic weapon that fits your playstyle, rather than having a weapon to use in every situation you'll ever be in to safeguard yourself from ever being killed.

Limitations on things like that is stupid. I have a feeling that competitive multiplayer for Destiny will not work and will not be fun if Bungie has to force players all on a "level playing field" while giving them constantly better weapons and content. If I find a bunch of rare weapons and armor, I want to equip it and take down a bunch of hard enemies and fight in dangerous locations. Dumbing it down is really lame and defeats the purpose of finding a bunch of cool stuff.

Exotic armor pieces could possibly give EXTREMELY overpowered abilities to your guardian. Not just high protection. Thy don't want the game to be TO easy...

I think you may be underestimating the value/power of exotics. [b]Exotic:[/b]"Strikingly, excitingly, or mysteriously different or unusual" OR; "Of or relating to striptease." I'm personally hoping for the latter. In a world as large as Bungie's shooting for, an "excitingly unusual" piece should be truly rare and [i]just[/i] overpowered enough to make you grin like a child. Thoughts?

It could be that we're borrowing trouble over something that may be little more than a poor choice of words. From a purely aesthetic standpoint, it makes no sense to me that they would make an entire set of exotic armor, then allow you to wear only one piece of it at a time. If I had to guess, I'd say this could mean one of several possibilities. Perhaps each piece from the same set has the same bonus & the effects aren't cumulative so, while you can wear the whole set together, you get no added bonus for doing so. Or, perhaps each piece has its own bonus/effect, which is what you get when it's equipped first. That way, if you have the set & you put the boots on first, you get the boots' bonus, or you can equip the helmet first and get its bonus. Both of these options would allow one to wear a whole set without min-maxing. Another possibility is that only one of the pieces in the set is actually considered exotic & the rest are of superior quality. Another possibility that I could come up with on such short notice is that exotic armor pieces are [b]not[/b], in fact, part of a set, but are truly unique. In any event, if the wording in the article is correct, I'm pretty sure Bungie has worked out the details in such a way where you can wear more than one piece of the same exotic set at one time. To do otherwise just for the sake of balance shows a glaring lack of foresight and is, quite frankly, a cop-out... I have a hard time believing that Bungie would expend all this time and effort on polishing this game and leave such a huge loose end dangling like that.

thats because the guns will have special abilities like the gjallahorn will deploy turrets

Doesn't exotic armour grant some bonus? Of is that just weaponry?

This is actually a good thing. Think about if you ran through the story with exotic everything. It wouldn't be fun or challenging. This way will force you to think tactfully about what piece of armor you decide and what weapon. This also stops people from being too far superior in PvP. Someone geared with all top tier armor an weapons versus someone geared all exotic would get completely destroyed. Everytime.