*What started as a petition has turned into a simple discussion with level headed individuals about the weapon and its relevance to Year 1 content. I like discussing things like this and welcome anyone else that wishes to discuss this weapon. ------------------------------------------------------------- This discussion* is all around keeping the Black Hammer relevant, but not the "keep legendaries relevant" way. And I'm gonna put this up here because people are misunderstanding this. [b]I don't want it to compete with Year 2 items[/b]. I want it to still be useful for the content that it was built around and for. The nerf takes it from godly to useless as a Spear overpowers it now. Why can't there be a middle ground? [b][u]Make it an exotic.[/u][/b] Now there are 2 ways this could be done to make it worth an exotic slot (I can add more if people suggest options for Bungie to consider).... - Keep its perk the same with the OG White Nail perk. Just making it exotic takes away many options, like Gjallarhorn or other new exotic heavies that people will gravitate towards. - Change the magazine size to 4 and change white nail to "2 rapid precision shots returns 1 round to the magazine". This effectively makes it a 7 round sniper for those with good aim and nearly doubles the reserve ammo with constant procs. Good snipers will gravitate towards this with its reward of increasing the possible ammo count to beyond max ammo capacities for any other sniper. PLUS this will still keep at least the FEEL of the OG White Nail perk while still allowing Bungie to nerf it. C'mon Bungie, you said yourself that it was an exotic level item. Make it so. [spoiler]Let's here your guys thoughts on what we could change for it to make it exotic worthy[/spoiler] Edit: Must make it clear here, I am not petitioning* (now discussing) for it to be brought to Year 2 values as that's another petition for another day. Just petitioning (again, now discussing) a way for it to be good without them nerfing it like this.