If you had thorn you loved it
If you got killed with thorn you hated it.
How about instead of keeping the thorn nerfed to the point life support wont help it, change up its perk it's exotic burn effect like you changed the Dragon's Breath.
How or what do you mean you may ask???
Well how about we make it go back to being an Exotic that's including the number of "tics" damage be increase to its original time and damage, keep it's main perks like final round and have a special exotic perk that instead of every round producing the burning effect, have one or two random bullets in the mag produce that burn effect. Change its stats like buffing it up a bit aswell.
This makes it go back to its ways of being useful and fair to the community. just an idea though.....
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How about make thorn suppress a guardian for a very short time (1 second) like tether, on every hit. No DoT. This would make thorn a defensive weapon, preventing panic fists and the like, while keeping the flavor of a weapon that suppresses guardian light.