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1/11/2025 10:28:21 PM
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Idk what you’re talking about, for a special weapon its damage is pretty good. It doesn’t have to excel at anything other than being a fun gimmicky exotic 🤷🏽♂️
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It's not like the damage is bad, it just doesn't do anything well enough to make me feel like I'm not holding myself back by using it instead of a stronger exotic. I can easily do what it does with some weakening from other sources in my subclass, and a repulsor brace shotgun, and then use my exotic slot for something with more damage or utility. That's why it's disappointing to me.
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I don't know what you're one about slayers fang with no backup plan is absurd and hunter with foetracer/ gyrfalcons -blam!- beyond absurd. Look up a build or something because that shotgun is uber strong. I've been using in since it released in gms and 2065 onslaught averaging about 1k kills per onslaught with it.
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The reason slayers fang makes nbp good in pve is because of the submunitions, volatile, and controlled demo. The subminitions weaken then set off volatile explosions and daisy chain thanks to controlled demo. If other shotguns were as good then nbps would have been used prior to this.
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I mean 1 person using them doesn't make them useless but they were not meta nor were they as good as they are with slayers outside of a very niche group of people they were largely unused. And doomfangs were pretty good when roaming supers got buffed but since they downed the damage of sent shield they aren't nearly as good anymore, hence another niche situation.
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My point is that you don't need to use sentinel shield to make the exotic useful. You could run twilight arsenal and just use the exotic to buff weapon damage and get your super back quickly. Of the void specific exotics for titan it is the best.
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So you are calling it niche in respect to a way to do an activity so few actually do, that less than a tenth of players? Do you understand that the requirements needed for such activities vary drastically purely based on the mechanics of the raids? That's actually a foolish margin of a standard to hold a load out in this game to.
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I've never thought it was weak, it's just that for all those builds you mentioned, even though Fang CAN work, there are better options in every slot. It's definitely a viable weapon, no doubt about that, but there's nothing that makes it truly great. There's nothing it can do that you couldn't do better with a different weapon and a different setup. We have better shotguns in the game, we have access to weaken that doesn't require your exotic slot, we have better void exotics, we have plenty of repulsor brace weapons, etc. Slayer's Fang just doesn't have a niche that it's truly exceptional at. That's why I find it disappointing.
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Yeah, cascade makes it kind of decent, but it still requires some setup to proc, compared with other options that do similar damage with much less setup required. It just doesn't stand out to me as an exotic that can really shine in any one role or another, compared to all the other good options we already have.
