Many of these sound really fun, and it's obvious you've out some thought into this.
Some of the talents you suggest would fit well enough into existing builds that it would be a shame to have them as the fourth bubble on the existing columns. I'd almost rather have them added on additional columns of three talents appended to the end of our existing grids.
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I did put quite a bit of thought into making these abilities, took me around 5 months to get it all together. The reason why I didn't make it it's own column was because I wanted more diversity in builds. I was sick of the nerfs on things like Flame Shield because there was no other option. Brimstone sucks since it doesn't activate if the target dies from its burn and Solar Wind doesn't even work on teammates now. I thought adding in a new row of abilities would add more options and play styles into the game.
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I completely agree with you about nerfing talents that aren't overpowered just because they've failed to provide decent alternatives. However, restricting the growth of our subclasses in order to compensate for that would just be compounding the failure. They need to be more proactive about addressing talents that are terrible, regardless of whatever else they do. Congratulations, by the way. It looks like between the first two options of your poll you're at 75% approval. I hope someone at Bungie takes notice of that.