Well the explanation bungie gave for the nerf was that people without it basically whined about being excluded. I only got mine about a month ago but I was never excluded from anything just because I didn't have one however having a ghorn does help. It's not a cheese. Most of the time I prefer using my ice breaker anyway. All the people who bitched about it enough to get it nerfed deserve to excluded even more now for ruining other people's fun.