No, HoW weapons turned out to be garbage due to poor design perks. Shank Burn? Disciplinarian? LOL... those narrowly specific perks just couldn't compare with the gear from Vanilla and TDB when all things were equal. Solution? Don't make weapons with Shank Burn! I mean, really - when was the last time that a Shank frightened you to death?
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That only applies to PoE weapons though, and even then there are some decent perks in there. Besides that only proves my point further though. Ascension ruined these guns. I would choose a 365 rocket with shank burn that dealt 4000 damage over a 331 rocket that only deals 3400. One wasted perk slot is not that big of a deal, the majority of the weapon lies within the base stats. HoW perks as a whole were actually kind of good considering Bungie already admitted that creating those OP vanilla perks was a mistake.
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You are overestimating the power behind attack values. The difference between 331 and 365 is not so big that I would pick a RL with shank burn over a hunger of crota.
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No I'm not, it's [i]exactly[/i] that big. The difference in damage value from 331 to 365 against level 21-35 enemy is 15%.