I lold at the title cause you guys seem to forget how D1 exotics feel at this exact moment. Nostalgia is a bit of a -blam!- ain't it

Most legendarys are better than exotics.

I mean I think its cause Bungie has ran out of ideas. There are three hunter exotics that practically all do similar things (Assassins Cowl, Omnioculous, and Graveton Forfiet), all of which arent worth using besides Omni. A lot of titan and warlock exotics do the same thing, or for warlocks at least do something miniscule to rift. Like Boots of the Assembler and Sanguine Alchemy should not be doing practically similar things to rift.

Remember when exotics were still.... really lame and underwhelming 90% of the time? I do. I don’t pretend that D1 did it better, because D1 did it a LOT worse.

Icebreaker made you feel powerful? Because I remember just sitting really far away from any actual encounter or mechanics and just doing mild damage to bosses.

No, I remember the majority of exotics in destiny 1 to be extremely bad and unoriginal. “Oh look I generate ammo out of thin air I’m cool down” Wow such a unique exotic. Destiny 2 has done a lot better with exotics, take sunshot for example or the newer trace rifle we got that turned our foes into purple spheres of death

There are most definitely some items that don't feel Exotic - Jade Rabbit and Leviathan's Breath come to mind - but it's not as if every Exotic in the game is that way. Just look at Ruinous Effigy, if that doesn't [i]feel[/i] Exotic to you then I can't imagine what possibly could. It's balanced, it's surprisingly strong and, most importantly, it's fun. I think the same could be said for Ticuu's Divination, Black Talon, Cryosthesia, Hawkmoon, Trinity Ghoul and others.

I don't know what you're on about Lament is pretty powerful. Erianas vow is pretty unique every god damn exotic fusion rifle is busted one way or another. They're are plenty of good exotics that feel pretty darn good

Posts like these make me feel like I've been playing a different game than other people. I've been playing since damn near the start of Destiny (October 2014). At this point, I'm convinced you and many others have "powerful" confused with "easy mode."

I like that you used Icebreaker as an example, an "exotic" where the only real perk is that it regenerated ammo very slowly. Such exotic. Much wow.

Depends what you mean by "Exotics feel exotic" because as far as I'm concered most exotics don't do anything special and usually end up just killing things slightly faster than regular guns and that covers your "feel powerful" requirement. Icebreaker wasn't much better than any other sniper, it was had infinite ammo. Sleeper just took over because they nerfed Gjallarhorn to death before Taken King. Jade Rabbit isn't exotic. It's a 150 scout with a useless perk and really high stability. Mida is just a basic scout rifle that lets you keep your radar on while ads. Ace of Spades is just a God rolled Handcannon with on demand kill clip. The guns in D2 that feel exotic to me (do things that nothing else can do) are few and far between. Here's a few. - Polaris Lance. Has infinite ammo,.triple tap and explosive payload. - Deathbringer. A unquie firing RL that's essentially a shatter Nova bomb. - Anarchy/Witherhoard. DoT grenade launchers that reward placement ober blowing the entire mag out in 2 seconds. - Sunshot. Literally D1 Fatebringer with chain reaction, explosive rounds and firefly. Two Tailed Fox. Fires 2 rockets that suppress and burn targeta over time on top of deal really good damage. Sturm/Drang: A 120 Handcannon that can hold 99 bullets in a magazine and deal over 120dmg for a crit. All the Trace Rifles. Whether it be Coldheart, Divinity, Promethean, Wave Splitter or Ruinous Effigy. I mean, cold heart and Wavesplitter essentially do the same thing though. 1k Voices was the first exotic in D2 where I thought, "hmm this is pretty neat." Granted the first time (and only time) I had an exotic where I had multiple people send me a message asking me where I got it was Husk of the Pit in D1 which was a pre-build Necrochasm.

This community is prone to hyperbolic exaggeration; yet treats the outbursts like fact. As if that makes their point more valid or something. Calm down. They are still tuning exotics that are under-whelming/under-used.

Imho, Exotics are still Exotics. Those who think that Exotics should be OP because "Exotics" don't understand what Exotics are. Exotics were never meant to be [i]"the most powerful s*it around"[/i], but just unique.