It was broken against Hive majors and it really sucked since the weapon is great due to the White Nail perk. Even though it doesn't do extra damage against Hive majors, you will find me rocking it in CE....it's a beast and will hopefully get even better when the Disruptor perk is ironed out.
Mine as well! The Abyss Defiant is better than I thought it would be with the Hive Disruptor and Focused Fire perks, but I think the Hammer is the gem of CE like Fatebringer was the gem of the VoG.
Gottcha, good luck once you are all up to the task! Just do yourselves a favor and roll into the hard Raid with weapons that you have already been given on the character that you are playing. You will be less likely to be rewarded with a duplicate weapon (or shader...looking at you Glowhoo) if you do. I picked up both copies of my AD at the second bridge.
So if you do two runs with different characters, bring all CE primaries with you on the second + runs. It has worked for me and now I have all but the Word (which I have only seen dropped from Scrota himself).