At some point they may allow it. But all the abilities may be too much power.
I hope they don't. being forced into a build by choosing your two exotics is one of the most interesting aspects of endgame at the moment IMO. as your collections grow, you have more options but it doesn't just out and out make you more powerful to have exotic gear that can go in every slot. you have to decide which slots to "spend" on your exotic.
i had this 5 Clash matches bounty, so I decided to do a little experiment.
there's been lots of discussion about balance in pvp, even more recently than in the first days. at various points I have heard arc blade, auto rifles in general, sunsingers, the Suros Regime in particular called "obviously OP." the vex mythoclast, "disgustingly" OP.
well pocket infinity gets to join the OP club too.
the idea was this: I'd commit to the all pocket infinity strategy. I would not use arc blade at all, even a single time, and just let my super bar sit there full for all the matches. I would not swap to my hand cannon no matter how badly the distance called for it, unless I was completely out of secondary ammo. I would focus entirely on creating and taking advantage of situations that are good for fusion rifles.
Because I would not be using the
clearly most OP super in the game, I would be at an individual disadvantage against any other player. Because I would also not be generating orbs of light to reinforce my team's super use, I would also have to struggle not to be a liability overall with such a handicap.
Results: 4W-1L, in the top 3 scoring in all 5 matches.
During the first match on Blind Watch, a bladedancer ran out and killed a teammate, then I killed him with the triple blast from Pocket Infinity. I sought to capture this moment:
you can see the icons of one arc blade kill, then my fusion rifle kill. shut down.
In the one loss, which was on First Light (ugh), I kind of predicted how it was gonna go. An all fusion rifle strategy on that map was just not ideal and we got largely picked apart by snipers including myself, over and over again, while I won any close-quarters encounter I could create. I hate snipers. I did carry my team to some extent, but one of ours left and it was never really close.
Mr. Badness there with the 14.0 k/d was using the sniper rifle from the raid and he was untouchable. so annoying.
But, justice- I got to end the following match with a fusion blast to the back of his head.
Also in that First Light match, I caught a blade dancer with part of a fusion rifle blast and then traded deaths with him from my melee attack. again shut down during arc blade.
On Exodus Blue, as expected, the all PI strategy paid off completely.
This match comes with a PSA:
if you are killed in a chokepoint and notice the gun that killed you is called Pocket Infinity, do not continue rushing back to that chokepoint over and over when you spawn. Go somewhere else entirely, force the fusion rifle holder into the open where you can land some shots from heavy cover. It turned into a goddamn fusion meat grinder there on Earth for a while. I certainly became a target (you can see the higher deaths than anyone else on the team), but I am sad to say no hate mail raging at me for using OP guns
After my Clash matches I went into Rumble for fun. I immediately had an incredible, razor-thin match on the Shores of Time. The top three players each had the lead at least 4 or 5 times throughout. I was getting consistently outplayed by the guy who finished second, using a Galahad-E. With the clock winding down I got a lucky drop on two players and then extended to a 5-kill streak. I looked at the score and I knew one more kill would do it. then I heard the indistinguishable sound of a bladedancer activating arc blade in a tunnel nearby. I knew his exact location.
I don't know what came over me. I had plenty of ammo for pocket infinity. I should have stared him down and blasted him with fusion before he came anywhere close.
but I decided it was time to go back to my bread and butter. pocket infinity was fun and
certainly viable but I love my hand cannons. lacking the ability to have hawkmoon equipped at the same time I swapped to my trust Regulator, a rare.
bladedancer peeked out. started to run at me.
remember your training hawk. stand your ground. headshot. headshot. body shot. melee.
bungie pls nerf everything