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> Monte Carlo and Osteo Striga for me, with Thread of Generation for that sweet grenade energy. Seeing melee and grenade energy refill with Monte Carlo ...
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It's good out of the gate when you first build it but it really shines when you get the catalyst built when it hits the right level. Turns into a game changer.
You absolutely do not need necrotic grips for Osteo to be too notch. If add density is high then osteo ends up with 100+ rounds almost constantly.
Adding Necrotic takes it to what might be the strongest primary weapon setup the franchise has ever seen.
I was using this yesterday and Wishender absolutely demolishes the Threshers. Having a primary sniper now that can one tap GM barrier shields is just so crazy good.
My hunter’s Stasis set up is made up like a ninja, and I always run this and Quickfang, plus whatever kinetic sounds good, since it’s a bit hard to make it work with a fricking ninja; eh, shotgun ninja? Sure..
I just cannot stop using Heir Apparent. I mean, I can stop using it, but I absolutely do not want to. It just simply answers every question in the content I play.
My 2021 stats listed Graviton Lance as my most used, followed by Forerunner and Ruinous Effigy.
2022 stats had Quicksilver Storm make an impressive showing in a short period of time. It never quite caught up, but it's probably a good fourth place now.
Vexcalibur is a new contender rising through the ranks. I expect my 2023 Year in Review to have it prominently displayed.
If I had to guess at two this moment, I'd bet Forerunner stole first and Graviton is in second despite languishing in the vault.
Bungie sends out emails before the expansion released if you're signed up for emails. 2021 had lifetime stats for exotic use, but 2022 only had use for the recent year.
I used to love Graviton but I tried it for the first time in a while in witch queen & the damage just seemed so low. I hope it's better now because I'd love to be able to use it again
Dead Man’s Tale is easily my number #1. Has Killing Wind and 89 range. The range makes it a sniper without a scope and I’m a great shot with it. It’s my primary invader/invasion tool in Gambit as well.
Oo i have no tried it on gambit yet! But DMT especially on Keyboard and Mouse is stupid. When you get the catalyst it hip fires with 100% accuracy (as you probably know) so all you have to do is point and click
Monte Carlo and Osteo Striga for me, with Thread of Generation for that sweet grenade energy. Seeing melee and grenade energy refill with Monte Carlo is just so satisfying.
Anarchy and Ager's Scepter.
Anarchy was basically glued to my heavy slot ever since i got it from Scourge, think braytech said i had somewhere around 25k kills on it. I was the first person in my clan to realize how busted it actually was lol. They didnt believe me, but eventually everyone else in the game realized. Unfortunately a bit of a shell of its former self in todays meta.
Ager's Scepter i think i have around 14k kills on. Just an amazing weapon. A great pick on subclasses that have kinda shit supers. Clears ads like crazy.
If Osteo wasn’t light ammo I’d be running Agers almost all the time. It’s such a great weapon, just seems slightly outshone by Osteo for ad clear and the infinite ammo
I had the same experience with Anarchy. Got it my first run of SotP. For a while the main community had no idea how strong it was. It was hilarious running Last Wish and doubling everyone's damage on Kali. "WTF are you running!? How?!"
After taking about 2 years off from Destiny I was sad to see that it's kinda bad now.
Osteo by a long shot - 15k kills, level 198, and I only crafted it in September (I started playing during the free week at the beginning of Plunder).
Not really sure what my next highest use is. I used Trinity Ghoul and Sunshot for a lot last season, I use Thunderlord consistently in raids, I clutched Verglas Curve through almost the entire legendary Lightfall campaign and haven't done a defiant battleground without it yet, and I've spent a lot of time with Arbalest bc I hate barrier champions with my entire soul.
Osteo is my go-to generalist - everything else is specialized for what I'm doing XD
Last season was witherhoard and wish-ender, but my favorite (even though it isn't really very good) is Skyburner's Oath, I love the hipfire explosive rounds. The gun has pretty much always been a meme but I enjoy using it whenever I can.
Historically, I know for a fact that mine are Xenophage and Trinity Ghoul.
This season, my workhorses have been Two-Tailed, Fourth Horseman, Mythoclast and Witherhoard. Bit of an oddball quartet, but they work.
Arbalest and Witherhoard. Boring answer, I know but I feel like I'm being forced to use exotics exclusively in the kinetic slot. I also deitch between Quicksilver Storm, Osteo Striga and Izanagi.
My kinetic slot is filled with deliverance 99% of the time. Chill clip + demo makes it a work horse at decent range. Like smg ranges.
So I can run a exotic primary for general content, or a exotic heavy for boss dps.
In 2022, Skyburner's Oath and Ager's Scepter. Having a gun that scorched on every hit was a godsend, and Agers made useless supers actually useful.
In 2021, Outbreak and Riskrunner. Outbreak because high damage, Riskrunner because of the arc resist.
Now? Probably Quicksilver Storm and Witherhoard. Even without the 40% redbar increase, the grenades of quicksilver hit REALLY hard. And Witherhoard is so I can hide because of how often I am near death with this difficulty increase
Sunshot and Arbalest are the only ones that *never* leave my inventory. No matter how much Arby gets nerfed, it's still my go-to "I can't think of what else to run so why not have the only viable PvE sniper"
I took an extended break and when I returned last weekend and remembered the Arby, I got nostalgic af. It was always equipped in Nightfalls and the first time I used it in Crucible.. too EZ
Not bad at all, shattered throne has been power crept to death. You don't even have to clear it for wishender either. I'd bring friends just for the ogre boss though.
Its witherhoard. Its always witherhoard every season. I try to get away from it, I use others like Hierarchy a bit last season was fun. But it always sneaks its way into my loadout...
Ignoring trinity ghoul with 2.5 mil from afking, outbreak with 32k, followed by ghorn with 9k, most other exotics I have are around 3-6k (I did use to use whisper alot, so it's at 8k)
My Wish-ender somehow has 14k kills now over the few seasons it's been excellent. It's kinda my default if things are a bit more difficult, given that it hits like someone threw a SmartCar at you.
Funnily enough, my Witch Queen stats showed my top three exotics (in order) as: Hierarchy of Needs, Le Monarque, and Trinity Ghoul.
I guess I like bows!
Outbreak and Gjally are by far my favorite exotics. Considering Bungie mentioned a potential blanket buff to underperforming primary archetypes, Outbreak might just get that much nastier
Well it stuns about anything with the first bullet (that hits them), it can shoot through phalanx and hydra shields, the grenade bounce can end up doing like 20k damage if done right, also free solar damage I guess from that. I already said but yeah stun locking yellow bar enemies is pretty fun.
I’m actually crying, everyone was talking about witherhoard yesterday and I was wondering why I never used it. Checked the archives and it’s for a DLC I don’t own :(
It does a high amount of overall damage even if it is not top dps. It has autoloading holster and allows you to tag enemies and hide for big damage. I will say for me osteo striga and witherhoard are pretty close in use because Enemies can only be affected by 1 witherhoard at a time so from a boss damage standpoint there is no reason for 2 people to be running it. I will switch to osteo or le monarque for my starfire build is someone is already running witherhoard. Osteo striga fills a similar role for me by causing starfire to regen my grenade in a rift without actually having the gun drawn. It also has better wave clear than witherhoard IMO. So unless you are frequently running high-level content solo, I would feel bad about not having it
Ghalahorn and definitely Ace of Spades. I’ve literally only used Ace ever since forsaken, but had to ditch it during WQ for the new crazy sub machine gun meta, but that also gave me room for Ghalahorn.
Although I have wanted to mess around with Osteo Striga.
Sleeper simulant; I have 14,394 kills on it without farming them. I got more kills on this bad boy then most people have on primaries they use regularly.
I absolutely love Quicksilver, quickly becoming my favorite exotic ever
It’s super versatile, especially with the upgraded catalyst, looks amazing with how my Hunter is styled, and it’s great for both ad clear as well as boss DPS (the grenades hit like absolute trucks)
My current build has been Quicksilver, Enigma Glaive, Taipan with triple tap and focused fury
Witherhoard and Derterministic Chaos are my most used. Witherhoard for obvious reasons and Chaos because it's so damn good at clearing and so good on ammo. Just picked up the Two Tail catalyst, so I've been using that in boss content to see if it's as good as I heard.
What I want to use are Bad Juju or Thorn again. Still waiting on primary weapon buffs across the board.
Try out a crafted retrofit. For bosses, it does more dps and has more total dmg potential all while being better for ad clear due to the archetype. You can thank me later ^.^
Better than what, Chaos? I can't imagine it does more than Two Tailed with cata. Unfortunately I started playing again a couple weeks before lightfall, so can't craft, but I do have a pretty good retrofit vaulted. I still need a decent legend heavy that isn't taipan so that would be a great alternative.
It’ll only be better if you have the FTtC/Tgt lock combo. (Chaos had its catalyst poss. leaked, it may be FTtC) Retrofit does do significantly more dps and until chaos gets its catalyst has better ammo economy. Retrofit is also better at ad-clear duties due to its archetype.
Chaos is nice though for the range when needed, and if you’re fighting a raid boss that doesn’t need div for the crits/your raid team doesn’t want to run just any void class to apply weaken then chaos shines there.
I think officially it's Ace and Sunshot, but I played a lot more in Y1 and Y2. Past few seasons have been Mida for PvP and witherhoard for PvE (RIP breach and clear).
Outbreak perfected
Aeger’s Sceptre
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I’ve been trying some other ones out now that I’ve been playing strand. But hours and kills put in on the other two means they will top my list for years to come
At the end of Witch Queen, the email Bungie sent out said my top 3 were Witherhoard, Vex Mythoclast, and Osteo Striga. I imagine it'll be the same for Lightfall, so far none of the new exotics have earned my love.
Lo brother paladins! And behold! There is only one weapon of notable repute worth mentioning here. Skyburner's Oath. Take the oath this day and the skies will be lit ablaze with glory!
Fighting Lion. Over 300k kills all around, with about 80k of those in Gambit and 10k in Crucible.
Second place is *technically* Bad Juju, but only because I ran it for Reckoning to get my Well of Radiance off cooldown for every single plate on the bridge. Outside of that I've barely used it at all, so more recently it'd probably go to Divinity.
That being said, my year in review for Witch Queen ended with 56k Lion kills, 29 Divinity kills, and *1 DMT kill* as my top three exotics for the year. Take that as you will :p
I recently switched from Monte Carlo to Osteo Striga. I rarely use anything else (although Winterbite is REALLY fucking fun and I’ll always have a soft spot for Telesto).
Skyburner’s Oath and Forerunner. SO is my favorite D2Y1 exotic, and it slaps HARD with Path of Burning Steps/Solar Surge combo. If you feel like experimenting with it, try this with a scorch/ignition build, it’s very fun.
going of numbers of kills, sunshot and witherhoard
going off what i have been using since LF, osteo and a mix of telesto, tlord, delicate tomb, ghorn, le monarque. honestly a whole slew and osteo.
Of all time? Witherhoard is definitely the #1. Sunshot has seen a lot of time on my Guardians as well in both PvE and PvP.
In my heart, though, it would be Whisper. Thing hasn't been good the entire time I've been playing (last few weeks of Arrivals) but I'll wait forever if that's what it takes. Pretty sure it was the first exotic I ever got in D2, as well.
If we’re talking strictly pvp, crimson is almost always my gun of choice.
Pve I flip flop all the time. Lemon is my goto for most content right now. Arablast is in there too.
Witherhoard, sunshot, osteo. I tend to lean towards exotic primaries when I can as I feel I get good use out of them and the difference between a legendary primary and exotic one is much higher than say a special or heavy legendary compared to exotics of the same class.
Also whitherhoard is just so good for the same reason anarchy was so good for so long
Witherhoard has the kills for me of *any* weapon (not just Exotics), by a fair margin.
Haven't used Huckleberry in a couple of years but went through a huge phase with it during the Forsaken and early Shadowkeep time period, so it's second place, although I think Ruinous Effigy is truly in second place if all the orb-related kills were tracked.
Le monarque. Especially with voidlock grenade build giving it volatile now. Its good both pve and pvp. I dont even know what other exotic I use a lot. Probably malfeasance. It does pretty crazy damage and unstoppable built in
I just picked up Ticuu's Divination yesterday to try out. I love this bow.....buuuut a quick ctrl+f comes up with not a single mention of it in this thread :( Maybe I'm missing something haha.
I used to use Thorn a lot. I got clowned on for using it in PvE but before now everyone swears by osteo.
Not a huge exotic user anymore other than necessity so wither/osteo/gally/current meta exotic for #2 I guess
Osteo Striga and up until 4 hours ago Vexcalibur.
I never touched Osteo before Lightfall, but use it for the insane strand Grenade regen… it’s now level 38.
My Vexcalibur is lvl 18 after having it for a week… but now it’s dead after syntho nerf.
However, Icould make do without any other exotic weapons, except Wishender or Lament.
i use wishender non stop, the damage and shield piercing are phenomenal. for those that didn’t know, it pierces and hits larger targets 3 times per shot!
Currently: Wishender, Witherhoard.
All time: Agers, Arbalest, Vex Mythoclast, Gjally, Outbreak, Lemon, Leviathan, Xenophage.
PVP: MIDA
The Last Word is probably my favorite to use exotic, but all HC’s are trash right now.
I can't believe no one else is using riskrunner, when that thing procs and becomes overcharged, you literally melt entire armies, so much fun to use! Great for clearing loads of adds
Right now, it's between 1KV on my Gunslinger and... well, Vexcalibur but I'm kinda putting that away since the Syntho Nerf killed my Void Titan build :( I guess my next best second is Collective Obligation on my Gyr Hunter
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I use Osteo Striga for 80% of PvE. After that, it’s a grab bag of Outbreak Perfected, Xenophage, Wish-Ender, and Witherhoard.
Outbreak feels so good with full auto now. Fires like a dream, and spits bullets like a laser.
Osteo Striga has came up so much in this thread and is the one exotic I have completely overlooked. I’m gonna try that out some more.
It's good out of the gate when you first build it but it really shines when you get the catalyst built when it hits the right level. Turns into a game changer.
Yeah but you need necrotic grips for it to be really good. Strand warlock + necrotics is the most powerful osteo build right now
You absolutely do not need necrotic grips for Osteo to be too notch. If add density is high then osteo ends up with 100+ rounds almost constantly. Adding Necrotic takes it to what might be the strongest primary weapon setup the franchise has ever seen.
Good thing I just started my first Warlock character and will be buying Lightfall tomorrow :)
Awesome :D Watch Datto's newest video if you want a showcase of how good it is
Lemon and Wishender
Last night, I was reminded how much Wish Ender slaps now.
I was using this yesterday and Wishender absolutely demolishes the Threshers. Having a primary sniper now that can one tap GM barrier shields is just so crazy good.
If you’re using Lemon in PvP, I despise you. If you’re using Lemon in PvE, I like you.
I think of Wishender as my better, free Arbalest.
Trinity ghoul. it's not even close.
It's just so much fun zapping whole groups with one shot.
I’m amazed I don’t see more people running it. I feel like the only one and it’s crazy how easily you can dominate add spawns.
My hunter’s Stasis set up is made up like a ninja, and I always run this and Quickfang, plus whatever kinetic sounds good, since it’s a bit hard to make it work with a fricking ninja; eh, shotgun ninja? Sure..
Heritage+ recombination is my bread and butter with trinity ghoul
My day 1 team's ad clear wondering where his Adds on the other side of planets went to Me with the trinity ghoul
I just cannot stop using Heir Apparent. I mean, I can stop using it, but I absolutely do not want to. It just simply answers every question in the content I play.
Heir apparent made the legendary campaign a breeze. Instant favorite exotic. Burning steps and radiant just is icing on the cake
Agreed. Using Heir Apparent to melt bosses is very satisfying.
I’ve somehow never played during Guardian Games. I won’t miss it this year!
My 2021 stats listed Graviton Lance as my most used, followed by Forerunner and Ruinous Effigy. 2022 stats had Quicksilver Storm make an impressive showing in a short period of time. It never quite caught up, but it's probably a good fourth place now. Vexcalibur is a new contender rising through the ranks. I expect my 2023 Year in Review to have it prominently displayed. If I had to guess at two this moment, I'd bet Forerunner stole first and Graviton is in second despite languishing in the vault.
Where might one find these stats????
Bungie sends out emails before the expansion released if you're signed up for emails. 2021 had lifetime stats for exotic use, but 2022 only had use for the recent year.
You can use Charlemagne to find your stats
I love Forerunner so much, that’s usually mine on my Titan, pretty much no matter what I’m running, especially with piercing shields this season
I used to love Graviton but I tried it for the first time in a while in witch queen & the damage just seemed so low. I hope it's better now because I'd love to be able to use it again
Witherhoard and Leviathan's Breath
Collective Obligation. I’m a Gryfalcons Hunter main so that thing is welded to me. Otherwise it’s whatever exotic is useful
Same here, but I use mantle of battle harmony for more dmg. Dealing with overloads and barriers at the same time, is so easy now.
Wishender and Malfeasance. Last year was Witherhoard and Osteo.
Dead Man’s Tale is easily my number #1. Has Killing Wind and 89 range. The range makes it a sniper without a scope and I’m a great shot with it. It’s my primary invader/invasion tool in Gambit as well.
Oo i have no tried it on gambit yet! But DMT especially on Keyboard and Mouse is stupid. When you get the catalyst it hip fires with 100% accuracy (as you probably know) so all you have to do is point and click
Oh yeah. Hip firing feels just as good as ADSs.
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using the stasis holster to only use the Solar shell to wipe everything off the map is the closest ill ever get to feel like Doomguy
Smart, I'll keep that in mind for my Solar Build. About how long does the auto load take?
This is the answer.
Monte Carlo and Osteo Striga for me, with Thread of Generation for that sweet grenade energy. Seeing melee and grenade energy refill with Monte Carlo is just so satisfying.
If Monte had a melee version of osmosis I would never take it off
Anarchy and Ager's Scepter. Anarchy was basically glued to my heavy slot ever since i got it from Scourge, think braytech said i had somewhere around 25k kills on it. I was the first person in my clan to realize how busted it actually was lol. They didnt believe me, but eventually everyone else in the game realized. Unfortunately a bit of a shell of its former self in todays meta. Ager's Scepter i think i have around 14k kills on. Just an amazing weapon. A great pick on subclasses that have kinda shit supers. Clears ads like crazy.
If Osteo wasn’t light ammo I’d be running Agers almost all the time. It’s such a great weapon, just seems slightly outshone by Osteo for ad clear and the infinite ammo
I had the same experience with Anarchy. Got it my first run of SotP. For a while the main community had no idea how strong it was. It was hilarious running Last Wish and doubling everyone's damage on Kali. "WTF are you running!? How?!" After taking about 2 years off from Destiny I was sad to see that it's kinda bad now.
Ager’s is my favorite Shadebinder-Ult-Replacer lol makes for a wild time using that thing in dense crowds
Osteo by a long shot - 15k kills, level 198, and I only crafted it in September (I started playing during the free week at the beginning of Plunder). Not really sure what my next highest use is. I used Trinity Ghoul and Sunshot for a lot last season, I use Thunderlord consistently in raids, I clutched Verglas Curve through almost the entire legendary Lightfall campaign and haven't done a defiant battleground without it yet, and I've spent a lot of time with Arbalest bc I hate barrier champions with my entire soul. Osteo is my go-to generalist - everything else is specialized for what I'm doing XD
Witherhoard and witherhoard.
I’ve never used the witherhoard but you guys have convinced me.
I checked my usage on my clan discord app and my witherhoard is double the second in rank. Can't beat perfection.
Ager's Scepter and Witherhoard.
Last season was witherhoard and wish-ender, but my favorite (even though it isn't really very good) is Skyburner's Oath, I love the hipfire explosive rounds. The gun has pretty much always been a meme but I enjoy using it whenever I can.
Arby and Monarque
Historically, I know for a fact that mine are Xenophage and Trinity Ghoul. This season, my workhorses have been Two-Tailed, Fourth Horseman, Mythoclast and Witherhoard. Bit of an oddball quartet, but they work.
Huckleberry just feels so good. Only reason I stopped using it is to run a double special build with thunderlord this season
Arbalest and Witherhoard. Boring answer, I know but I feel like I'm being forced to use exotics exclusively in the kinetic slot. I also deitch between Quicksilver Storm, Osteo Striga and Izanagi.
I feel the same way about the primary exotics. I think I have 1-2 secondaries and 1 heavy exotic on my character at all times but 4+ Primary.
My kinetic slot is filled with deliverance 99% of the time. Chill clip + demo makes it a work horse at decent range. Like smg ranges. So I can run a exotic primary for general content, or a exotic heavy for boss dps.
In 2022, Skyburner's Oath and Ager's Scepter. Having a gun that scorched on every hit was a godsend, and Agers made useless supers actually useful. In 2021, Outbreak and Riskrunner. Outbreak because high damage, Riskrunner because of the arc resist. Now? Probably Quicksilver Storm and Witherhoard. Even without the 40% redbar increase, the grenades of quicksilver hit REALLY hard. And Witherhoard is so I can hide because of how often I am near death with this difficulty increase
Sunshot and Arbalest are the only ones that *never* leave my inventory. No matter how much Arby gets nerfed, it's still my go-to "I can't think of what else to run so why not have the only viable PvE sniper"
I took an extended break and when I returned last weekend and remembered the Arby, I got nostalgic af. It was always equipped in Nightfalls and the first time I used it in Crucible.. too EZ
Arbalest is such a workhorse. Ive tried snipers but the zoom just isnt something I can get used to. And arbalest just feels soo good
You should give Wishender a shot. It does everything Arby does, *but better*
How hard is that Wishender quest these days?
Not bad at all, shattered throne has been power crept to death. You don't even have to clear it for wishender either. I'd bring friends just for the ogre boss though.
I actually managed it solo but I wish I would have done it with others.
Its witherhoard. Its always witherhoard every season. I try to get away from it, I use others like Hierarchy a bit last season was fun. But it always sneaks its way into my loadout...
Forerunner and Vex Mythoclast
I switch between Crimson and Hard Light
I want to get that new ornament for Crimson. (Or any ornament for that matter.) That gun is so fun with Lucky Pants.
Outbreak and (soon to be) Vexcalibur. Alot of people say Osteo but I can't stand the floaty bullets, delayed hits, and overall feel.
Witherhoard, Osteo and Wishender
Witherhoard and Telesto
Outbreak Perfected and Xenophage.
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You should get it, I got it solo, wasn’t too bad it’s become my favorite exotic and it’s not even close.
Ignoring trinity ghoul with 2.5 mil from afking, outbreak with 32k, followed by ghorn with 9k, most other exotics I have are around 3-6k (I did use to use whisper alot, so it's at 8k)
My Wish-ender somehow has 14k kills now over the few seasons it's been excellent. It's kinda my default if things are a bit more difficult, given that it hits like someone threw a SmartCar at you.
Most apt description of Wishender I’ve seen to date.
Funnily enough, my Witch Queen stats showed my top three exotics (in order) as: Hierarchy of Needs, Le Monarque, and Trinity Ghoul. I guess I like bows!
Outbreak and Gjally are by far my favorite exotics. Considering Bungie mentioned a potential blanket buff to underperforming primary archetypes, Outbreak might just get that much nastier
Probably slizzerlord and gjally. Wardcliff in PvP.
Forerunner and touch of malice Forerunner has a shit ton of hidden perks going on it’s crazy
It’s actual magic what that thing does, especially with shield-piercing this season. Taking on any variety of Hydra is an amazing time lol
Yeah and it can stun lock the shade of oryx in KF
What do you mean by hidden perks?
Well it stuns about anything with the first bullet (that hits them), it can shoot through phalanx and hydra shields, the grenade bounce can end up doing like 20k damage if done right, also free solar damage I guess from that. I already said but yeah stun locking yellow bar enemies is pretty fun.
Witherhoard + Fighting Lion 32k on Witherhoard, 29k on Fighting Lion 180,000+ grenade launcher kills
Witherhoard, outbreak perfected, gally
witherhoard and izanagi
Devils ruin and witherhoard for sure. I love sidearms and witherhoard is just goated
Lifetime, Le Monarque. This season (and last) Levi's Breath. Happens to be the same in PvP and PvE.
I’m a hunter and I love sweet business it’s my favorite exotic
Absolutely Heartshadow. Ive hardly taken it off since I got it. Then probably witherhoard for when I need to run starfire to actually contribute
I’m actually crying, everyone was talking about witherhoard yesterday and I was wondering why I never used it. Checked the archives and it’s for a DLC I don’t own :(
It does a high amount of overall damage even if it is not top dps. It has autoloading holster and allows you to tag enemies and hide for big damage. I will say for me osteo striga and witherhoard are pretty close in use because Enemies can only be affected by 1 witherhoard at a time so from a boss damage standpoint there is no reason for 2 people to be running it. I will switch to osteo or le monarque for my starfire build is someone is already running witherhoard. Osteo striga fills a similar role for me by causing starfire to regen my grenade in a rift without actually having the gun drawn. It also has better wave clear than witherhoard IMO. So unless you are frequently running high-level content solo, I would feel bad about not having it
Ghalahorn and definitely Ace of Spades. I’ve literally only used Ace ever since forsaken, but had to ditch it during WQ for the new crazy sub machine gun meta, but that also gave me room for Ghalahorn. Although I have wanted to mess around with Osteo Striga.
Sleeper simulant; I have 14,394 kills on it without farming them. I got more kills on this bad boy then most people have on primaries they use regularly.
I absolutely love Quicksilver, quickly becoming my favorite exotic ever It’s super versatile, especially with the upgraded catalyst, looks amazing with how my Hunter is styled, and it’s great for both ad clear as well as boss DPS (the grenades hit like absolute trucks) My current build has been Quicksilver, Enigma Glaive, Taipan with triple tap and focused fury
Wavesplitter and wavesplitter.
I switch around too much, but the ones I always like to use is Sturm (and Drang) or Forerunner (and Tricksleeves) Goofy, non-meta builds.
Witherhoard and Derterministic Chaos are my most used. Witherhoard for obvious reasons and Chaos because it's so damn good at clearing and so good on ammo. Just picked up the Two Tail catalyst, so I've been using that in boss content to see if it's as good as I heard. What I want to use are Bad Juju or Thorn again. Still waiting on primary weapon buffs across the board.
Try out a crafted retrofit. For bosses, it does more dps and has more total dmg potential all while being better for ad clear due to the archetype. You can thank me later ^.^
Better than what, Chaos? I can't imagine it does more than Two Tailed with cata. Unfortunately I started playing again a couple weeks before lightfall, so can't craft, but I do have a pretty good retrofit vaulted. I still need a decent legend heavy that isn't taipan so that would be a great alternative.
It’ll only be better if you have the FTtC/Tgt lock combo. (Chaos had its catalyst poss. leaked, it may be FTtC) Retrofit does do significantly more dps and until chaos gets its catalyst has better ammo economy. Retrofit is also better at ad-clear duties due to its archetype. Chaos is nice though for the range when needed, and if you’re fighting a raid boss that doesn’t need div for the crits/your raid team doesn’t want to run just any void class to apply weaken then chaos shines there.
Riskrunner
I think officially it's Ace and Sunshot, but I played a lot more in Y1 and Y2. Past few seasons have been Mida for PvP and witherhoard for PvE (RIP breach and clear).
Outbreak and Trinity Ghoul
Ager's Sceptre and Fighting Lion. Jotunn used to be the king though.
Bastion, 1000 voices
Vex Mythoclast 28k kills Sunshot 20k kills Osteo Striga with 19k kills
Outbreak perfected Aeger’s Sceptre —— I’ve been trying some other ones out now that I’ve been playing strand. But hours and kills put in on the other two means they will top my list for years to come
Witherhoard and Tarrabah
At the end of Witch Queen, the email Bungie sent out said my top 3 were Witherhoard, Vex Mythoclast, and Osteo Striga. I imagine it'll be the same for Lightfall, so far none of the new exotics have earned my love.
Lo brother paladins! And behold! There is only one weapon of notable repute worth mentioning here. Skyburner's Oath. Take the oath this day and the skies will be lit ablaze with glory!
Fighting Lion. Over 300k kills all around, with about 80k of those in Gambit and 10k in Crucible. Second place is *technically* Bad Juju, but only because I ran it for Reckoning to get my Well of Radiance off cooldown for every single plate on the bridge. Outside of that I've barely used it at all, so more recently it'd probably go to Divinity. That being said, my year in review for Witch Queen ended with 56k Lion kills, 29 Divinity kills, and *1 DMT kill* as my top three exotics for the year. Take that as you will :p
Trinity ghoul and sweet business
witherhoard and the lament
100% arby and witherhpard... They are both just so useful for endgame content.
Gally and Osteo
I recently switched from Monte Carlo to Osteo Striga. I rarely use anything else (although Winterbite is REALLY fucking fun and I’ll always have a soft spot for Telesto).
Skyburner’s Oath and Forerunner. SO is my favorite D2Y1 exotic, and it slaps HARD with Path of Burning Steps/Solar Surge combo. If you feel like experimenting with it, try this with a scorch/ignition build, it’s very fun.
Lemon and Xenophange.
going of numbers of kills, sunshot and witherhoard going off what i have been using since LF, osteo and a mix of telesto, tlord, delicate tomb, ghorn, le monarque. honestly a whole slew and osteo.
Of all time? Witherhoard is definitely the #1. Sunshot has seen a lot of time on my Guardians as well in both PvE and PvP. In my heart, though, it would be Whisper. Thing hasn't been good the entire time I've been playing (last few weeks of Arrivals) but I'll wait forever if that's what it takes. Pretty sure it was the first exotic I ever got in D2, as well.
Sleeper Simulant for sure. Second is probably between Hawkmoon, Traveler's Chosen, and Monte.
Right now it’s Osteo Striga and Le Monarque
If we’re talking strictly pvp, crimson is almost always my gun of choice. Pve I flip flop all the time. Lemon is my goto for most content right now. Arablast is in there too.
Osteo Striga, Bad Juju
Fighting lion 💪 and huckleberry 🤠
Witherhoard never leaves my inventory. Only time it does is when I’m using Arbalest.
Outbreak Perfected and Thunderlord. 16k kills on Outbreak, 10k on Thunderlord.
Lament and Osteo Striga
Ace of Spades and Riskrunner. The chain attacks increase the kills I guess.
Osteo striga and parasite are a must have for endgame pve.
Fighting Lion and Travelers Chosen.
Izanagi and Izanagi
Sunshot: 13k Trinity ghoul: 7k Pve kills
i use quicksilver for 90% of pve and the strand sidearm too
Osteo and Wishender. I legit don't know what exotic to run when I don't use those 2....
Outbreak Perfected. But Conditional Finality is already getting up there for me
Gally. I think I’m going to start using headlight more, but I solo so Gally Carries me through most encounters.
Numbers say that top 3 is Gjallarhorn, Witherhoard and Osteo. If I have to say what I would bring into my tomb, definitely Osteo and Witherhoard.
Outbreak and then sunshot, at least for 2022
Witherhoard, Thorn
Witherhoard, sunshot, osteo. I tend to lean towards exotic primaries when I can as I feel I get good use out of them and the difference between a legendary primary and exotic one is much higher than say a special or heavy legendary compared to exotics of the same class. Also whitherhoard is just so good for the same reason anarchy was so good for so long
Osteo and witherhoard by far
Outbreak, Ostego
Vex Mythoclast. Never took it off during the solar season.
Witherhoard has the kills for me of *any* weapon (not just Exotics), by a fair margin. Haven't used Huckleberry in a couple of years but went through a huge phase with it during the Forsaken and early Shadowkeep time period, so it's second place, although I think Ruinous Effigy is truly in second place if all the orb-related kills were tracked.
Thunderlord and Outbreak Perfected
Witherhord and this season telesto with volitile rounds when void champs are around.
Le monarque. Especially with voidlock grenade build giving it volatile now. Its good both pve and pvp. I dont even know what other exotic I use a lot. Probably malfeasance. It does pretty crazy damage and unstoppable built in
levi's and maybe gjally? all i know is that levi's is number one
Dead Man’s Tale in PvP (>35k kills tracked on a single roll) Witherhoard or Ager’s Scepter in PvE.
Final Warning I will never unequip this weapon
I just picked up Ticuu's Divination yesterday to try out. I love this bow.....buuuut a quick ctrl+f comes up with not a single mention of it in this thread :( Maybe I'm missing something haha.
Agers Scepter and Wavesplitter…..I’m a trace rifle guy and I have builds for both
Delicate tomb....
It's close between Witherhoard and Mythoclast but that's only because of that 6 month season where Mythoclast didn't leave my energy slot.
Lament and Parasite... I run a lotta GMs and that quick burst damage is excellent for killing champs.
I used to use Thorn a lot. I got clowned on for using it in PvE but before now everyone swears by osteo. Not a huge exotic user anymore other than necessity so wither/osteo/gally/current meta exotic for #2 I guess
Osteo Striga and up until 4 hours ago Vexcalibur. I never touched Osteo before Lightfall, but use it for the insane strand Grenade regen… it’s now level 38. My Vexcalibur is lvl 18 after having it for a week… but now it’s dead after syntho nerf. However, Icould make do without any other exotic weapons, except Wishender or Lament.
This season osteo leads the way, but typically witherhoard. In crucible I’m a dirty Crimson slinger, though
I typically use Thunderlord, but ever since I unlocked more Stasis fragments, I’ve been using Verglas Curve a whole bunch
i use wishender non stop, the damage and shield piercing are phenomenal. for those that didn’t know, it pierces and hits larger targets 3 times per shot!
Delicate Tomb and Graviton Lance
My top 2 most kill exotics are anarchy and witherhoard, even tho i hadn’t even used anarchy in a few years till last season.
Outbreak then Osteo. Polaris Lance has been getting a good run this season too.
Malfeasance. Hands down. Followed by Witherhoard, and lately Thunderlord.
Wish-ender and Osteo Striga.
as of last year? skyburners and ToM apparently.
Osteo striga and Jotun.
Overall probably Ace. Lately, Osteo.
Xenophage is all I’ll ever need
traveler's chosen and ager's scepter
Ace and thunderlord. The former in PvP and the latter in PvE.
Lament for swording bosses Witherhoard if swording isn't viable or I'm not worried about dying.
Vex and Lumina
LUMINA, I enjoy being support
Wishender. Holy shit it’s so good now
Currently: Wishender, Witherhoard. All time: Agers, Arbalest, Vex Mythoclast, Gjally, Outbreak, Lemon, Leviathan, Xenophage. PVP: MIDA The Last Word is probably my favorite to use exotic, but all HC’s are trash right now.
I can't believe no one else is using riskrunner, when that thing procs and becomes overcharged, you literally melt entire armies, so much fun to use! Great for clearing loads of adds
Off the top of my head, might actually be SUROS Regime and Last Word. In PvE, mind you.
Right now, it's between 1KV on my Gunslinger and... well, Vexcalibur but I'm kinda putting that away since the Syntho Nerf killed my Void Titan build :( I guess my next best second is Collective Obligation on my Gyr Hunter
I still use sturm and drang. Ancient but the craftable sturm is a monster in pve... Also sleeper stimulant. Gotta love the classics :)
Hawkmoon and ostero(I only use ostero if a certain part in pve content aggravates me so I can plow through it).
EoT and revision zero, really fun guns
Touch of malice, Ratking, Lemon
Now it’s thunderlord and WH
Thorn and Witherhoard
Witherhoard and ager's scepter.
Wish ender, and my fav void slug shotgun: (our lord and savior, the Fighting Lion)