So I've had mine leveled up (though didn't waste energy on it yet) and I was thinking about the incoming buff after playing around with it the other day.
The gun isn't good for high level PvE content, but it's DoT is a ridiculous perk in PvP. In fact as a user of it and someone who's also been killed with it (sorta rare not many people seen to know it's good in pvp once leveled) DoT on a gun is the most broken perk in PvP. lt's effect is much greater and way less skill oriented than red death, suros etc and their health/damage perks. I'm worried that since the only major drawbacks are clip size/reload, if they buff those plus more, this gun is going to become an insane powerhouse in PvP.
This gun in PvP is a really an odd combo due to the fact it takes some skill (it's a HC) but also none to get kills.
I feel this is a legit concern and also a great reason why there needs to be separate figures for PvE and PvP.
I really hope they took PvP into major consideration when buffing Thorn, because even pre-buff it's a good weapon in PvP thanks to DoT. I could easily see post buff a lot of people dominating/using Thorn in PvP if they don't handle it perfectly (again only due to current DoT and the way PvP is handled armor/health wise).
Oh and you know they are probably going to screw this up then nerf it again. Just funny because they killed the Vex period (much better PvP guns and it's useless in PvE) but they've left Suros OP even though they acknowledged it's to OP in PvP.
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necrobump because Trials has rreturned without thorn
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nah dude thorn will never be good like have u even used it m8?
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Wow. I know this was bumped and all, BUT this dude is a legend, now. He called it. We didn't listen :(.
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This was posted in 2014 and the buff and Nerf already past
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Edited by chattingmyth: 10/27/2015 10:00:33 PMUseless post... ..Thorn was always a monster, pre-handling buff, post-HC buff and then the [b]overall HC nerf[/b] almost killed it (skilled hands grant many kills). Also if you want to talk about "lack of skill" please refer back to Hawkmoon (the most luck based gun and skillless gun in the game). Thorn will never get buffed, individually, again because all the Year I whiners would snap their disks. Still Thorn is [b]a true blue exotic, with an ACTUAL exotic perk and ACTUALLY looks exotic with an ACTUAL lore behind it[/b] (along with TLW). Thus, the fact that it has a DoT shouldn't be something to call OP. In that sense, Bad JuJu is OP because Chain of Curses or Boolean Gemini because This One or The Other One....actual unique perks that make an exotic just that aside from design.
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Well...
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Bump. Illuminati confirmed
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Damn you predicted this shit and it was almost a year ago and no one commented before.
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You nailed it on the spot lol
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Why has nobody ever commented on this?
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I'm from the future and Bungie should hire you.