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    Why are exotics kinda crap?

    Just got the chameleon havn't used it yet as its 42k dps lower than the gun I have the rolls are meh. Even my lvl 40 diamond back with good rolls the damage sucks.

    What's the point in these other than having a little flavour and different color maybe I'm not seeing how a gun with -42k DPS is better?
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    mrwtw's Avatar Senior Member
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    Most have been poor since day 1. The original Eagle Bearer was good but quickly nerfed to average. The Merciless had great holstered talents that were removed last week. The nemesis was awesome. I don't have a level 40 one so I can't judge if it still is.
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    The nemesis does good damage if you got the right rolls, Sweet dreams is awesome when running with shield since you can bash enemies that are purple and below and they die and also take armor of enemies.

    Liberty is liberty not much to say about that pistol it hits like a fridge and activates weakpoints.

    Chameleon with shield build is also a good option and switching the buff you get by shooting head chest legs.

    Pestilence is awesome to use because of the 25m range spread of the plague

    Acosta go bag a good item to use for skill build

    Nano chest not sure if it is working as intended or not but on paper it seems good.

    So it comes down to finding out the strenght and weaknesses of the exotics, i have not had a problem with any of my exotics in the sense they would feel weak

    Have not gotten diamond back or merciless rifle yet so no idea what talents they have atm looking forward to finding those and figuring it out.
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    Yes. They were nerfed pretty hard. ESPECIALLY the armors.
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    Because they want you to farm the new ones. lol If I had my liberty,chatterbox, and Dodge city holster as they were, I would be further along. Being weaker equals more content if you want to reclaim your glory. They were smart enough to do this with new content. Because if they didn't, I would have been OUT!!!!!! but lets face it, NYC and even DC with the modifiers is a nice touch.

    But they are scared. The big horn which looks really good should have 40 rounds instead of 30. Its an exotic.IT shoul be over the top. But they know what min maxers will do. This whole gear redesign seems as it was to slow down min maxers. Now with youtube everyone is a min maxer trivializing the content
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    Used to be the Exotics had 3 talents on them - now only 1. IMHO this makes some of them really awful and others not much better than a regular.

    They also used to have passive talents - so if you had it equipped, it would activate while using another gun - so the liberty pistol had a thing where if you shot an enemy weakpoint with a different gun, the pistol passive would give you 25% of your magazine back. It was really useful for gunning down elites as you could spray the weakspots and get ammo back and down them in less time due to less reloads.

    Sadly this was considered "op" and made the game too easy - as said by the unspoken elite minority XD

    Personally, i never felt "godly" with an exotic - but i play on console more than pc.

    The pestilence is the only exotic that still feels like it has a special effect from using it - which is a shame - if you consider Division against things like Diablo, it would make sense for Exotics to have either an effect unobtainable from other gear, or a special feature - and frankly the Chameleons talents dont really feel like the offer much advantage?

    As a solo player, ive never been able to get the exotic armor pieces anyway - so ive no idea if they were even great or not! Be interesting to see an exotic armor piece that does something unusual - like, if you get shocked, it reverses the shock back on whoever sent it your way - and for pvp something different it that made it OP.
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    I miss old Dodge City Holster. Running a viable pistol build was a lot of fun. Now it's literally garbage.
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    Originally Posted by TerminusVicis Go to original post
    I miss old Dodge City Holster. Running a viable pistol build was a lot of fun. Now it's literally garbage.
    You're telling me. I loved that holster amd the kneepads. The kneepads were SO much gd fun, now they're just vomit.
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    Because reading was hard, and people were having hard time actually understand how talents work, i **** you not that was the reason. i miss my cowboy build
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    Originally Posted by xcel30 Go to original post
    Because reading was hard, and people were having hard time actually understand how talents work, i **** you not that was the reason
    Yep they could not see a high % roll drop so they dumb it down to a coloured bar. 😂
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