We don't need kinetic tremors as the catalyst for every kinetic exotic. I'd rather something like: All hits now generate charged with blight, Kills and precision hits generate additional charges. Taken blight projectile pierces enemies. (Not Anti barrier since it already stuns unstoppables)

I think being given the option to not damage yourself simply makes the gun more flexible. You can easily dispose the first 10 shots on spawn if you want and keep it like that until you die: that is the most obvious way to use the weapon. But you lose nothing by having that option available to you. In PvE? Likely if you’re using the weapon, you’re using a healing spam build that lets you bypass that weakness. Even if you weren’t I think in PvE there’s very little reason to ever consider not using the self-damaging shot, but still the option being there doesn’t hurt anyone. I have used Touch of Malice quite extensively in both D1 and D2 in PvP for fun, having gone to the lighthouse with it once in D1, and depending on maps, opponent loadouts, game state, etc. there were some moments where I’d prefer the safe and fair 1v1 without damaging myself (for example, the self damaging shot is great when team shotting, less so when 1v1ing another scout and the self damage makes you trade or lose because you started shooting second). Perhaps in your experience, you prefer to always just full send the bonus damage shots, which is fair, but in mine, I did find myself using the weapon more creatively: sometimes full mag, sometimes priming all the way to the bottom, sometimes priming it so that during a fight my first shot wouldn’t damage me but later ones would so I’d know I got the first shot in before committing.

I thought the first ten shots were to charge up, “charged with blight” then fire secondary shot to weaken enemy and dps with infinite shot.

My problem with it is that i don't have it!! :(

Agreed but touch is one one the most broken gun in the game never reload and increased damage for forever until death but touch would be a hard to play around with kinetic tremors is a good idea or maybe like Leech affect like thorn poison damage over time cause its is a sorrow weapon Like bad ju Ju would that to be able to get unraveling rounds instead of string of curses

Every kill when it’s on final round should heal… that’s good power right there

Rapid Hit is fine for the catalyst, the added stability keeps it on target. Not to mention it helps with the comical screenshake.