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Edited by Imbecile:
6/29/2015 3:07:05 AM
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The ramblings of an old Thorn user.
Ever since before the release of Destiny Thorn has been my favorite gun. The backstory was cool, it looked cool, and after I saw the final perks I knew it was going to be one of my favorite weapons.
I got it around the first couple weeks after release, and anyone who knows original Thorn knows it wasn't that good. Best weapons at the time were the Vex and the Suros, and even though I had the latter I still chose to use thorn ( I secretly thought it had become my friend 😉). I got thousands of kills with it, and then I hit that point that many Destiny players go through. I got bored. I played until a week before TDB and didn't pick up Destiny again until around a week after HoW dropped.
When I came back I was hurt. A man shouldn't love 1's and 0's on a screen, deep down I know I shouldn't care about code on a disk; but I had become...attached to the gun. So much so, that what became of Thorn was painful to witness. A gun that used to require some amount of skill had become a monster. A way to easily distinguish n00bs from everybody else. With thousands of kills with this gun, I've become branded as a n00b. My favorite gun has become a sin to use, and I can no longer use it without being branded. I'm not angry, and I'm not looking for nerfs or buffs. I just wanted to get this off my chest.
PS. Sorry about format, I'm on mobile.
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nice post. I have the thorn but haven't used it at all. I got it as a collectors piece. I never played Pvp until 2 IB's ago and I did so for the thorn bounty. Turns out I like it, IB that is. I still play crucible but god its def worse than the glorious IB. Regardless of the mode of PvP Im in, I murder guardians with one of my many scout rifles and stay away from using Thorn, Vex, TLW, Suros, Red Death and such because personally I don't think Ill hone my skills using the "training wheels" guns. Its funny how most of the players in the community, even the guys who use the Thorn are annoyed at the very least when going against 1 or more of them, yet I still get hate mail from dildos who are pissed that I killed them with my gally! I spent the entire round wrecking their face with my legendary scout rifle as they desperately try to get the kill with their Thorn/Crutch, and then get mad cause my heavy slot was open for an exotic, and I filled the slot with gally. Personally, I rather face a team that all has gally's equipped and is using more respectable primaries than the other way around.
