"Exceptionally bad" huh? It can three tap in Crucible and it personally saw me through the Whisper quest. Polaris is everything players wanted in Jade Rabbit- reward precision shots rather than body shots. It's an amazing scout for sustained DPS and after they buff damage in the next update, we're going to see its effectiveness again in pve.

Can't understand where you are coming to claim that Polaris Lance is "exceptionally bad". All of my experience with it, even with the scout-rifle damage reduction, has been exceptionally well received. Perhaps you just never enjoyed it to begin with? Do you even like scout-rifles or high-impact ones at all? The weapon itself is not bad. It may be that it just isn't for you.

It’s damage is similar per shot to a legendary of course, but few legendaries have the rediculous pinpoint accuracy and stability that polaris has, it isn’t currently useful for anything but it will be

The Polaris lance is what go me through the whisper mission.

The Polaris lance is what go me through the whisper mission.

I actually liked it for the matches i played with it but its zoom is just too high and all the matches i play it seems to be pointless shooting at enemies now as i die instantly to teamshots, shotguns, panic barrage and bygones.. over and over and over..

[quote]Like, most Scout Rifles are kinda bad at the moment, but I decided to pull Polaris Lance out of the vault for a bit and give it a go and I am just... flabbergasted. I have never seen an exotic with such a pitiful damage output, even in its perfect circumstance. Getting precision hits loads another shot, but that shot is just as useless as the first so why bother? And then there's the Masterworking process. Good grief, don't get me started on that. Get fifty kills with a burn that does, what, a TENTH of the damage of a bodyshot? Are you high? That was some tedious nonsense. And now I have Dragonfly, which would be good... if this could actually get kills in a reasonable time frame. But it can't. Because the damage was gimped to players would HAVE to get five chain headshots to do anything. Why is this exotic chained to its perks so tightly? You got things like Vigilance Wing, which were for a time the best guns in the game even if you removed both of their exotic perks, or Sleeper Simulant, which takes the core focus of its weapon type (Charged precision hits) and throws it out the window in favor of truly ludicrous damage. But poor Polaris Lance is stuck being just... unrelentingly terrible, even for a Scout Rifle, the class of weapon saved from being "the absolute worst" only by the existence of Sidearms. What the hell, Bungie?[/quote] Can't wait for Red and Fallout...getting tired of unnecessary nerfs and game changes...not even a month yet