This is a bit of a long one. If you want the quick understanding of one of the bugs regarding Viking funeral, just check the video.
Now for those curious, this isn't complaining about what nerfs or buffs should be undone because of personal opinion. This is about the Viking funeral and how it MAY be bugged, but I am not totally sure. Now I'm actually happy with the changes to everything. It doesn't really seem to be as bad as everyone thinks it is, or at least in my opinion. The real problem I've noticed was my sunsinger grenades.
Now before the update, I stuck with solar grenades and Viking funeral mostly for pve bosses and control types on Pvp. The grenades usually didn't kill enemies too often unless they stood in it or I was using super, but the burn usually did kill them or bring their health low enough. Even without Viking funeral, they did pretty good damage and burning. But after the update, I've been using them with the new Viking funeral and felt my grenades were lacking a bit in crucible. I thought maybe it was because the burn wasn't as long, but the numbers just didn't seem to add up right when they were hit by the grenade and when they were burning. My burns were only doing damage randomly between 2-4 damage when they used to do at most 7 I think.
I thought it off as compensation for the extra damage enemy players took from the perk, but it seemed like almost half my damage was cut from my solar grenades after some more playing. I got a bit more conformation when I used a fusion grenade and it hit with critical damage thanks to the perk, but the damage numbers were still the same even before the patch.
Finally I did play testing in pve and I was doing about 500 with my solar grenades constant pulses, but when the Viking funeral wore off, the numbers jumped to 1000. Even bosses seemed to take less and less damage when I tossed a whole bunch in my super. I still got extra damage from using my gun, but the perk seems to make my solar grenades completely unusable. I don't know too much about the other grenades yet.
If anyone else is having similar issues, please give some details about what's been going wrong with your sunsinger grenades or burn. Hopefully bungie will fix this soon because I like the choice they made, but the bug really does hurt the perk more.
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Solar grenade in the crucible match I just played did 2-4 damage. Guy ran straight through and I saw like 6 ticks of 2-4 dmg each. This makes the grenade completely useless, utterly useless in crucible. It used to do much more and I am running Viking funeral on.