On Destinylfg I kerp seeing all thes posts about "looking to cheese Crota" or whatever, already. Took me a while to even figure out what the hell they are talking about.
This obsession with cheesing for the sake of it gets on my nerves. From what I can tell the "cheese" is just the warlock res thing where you dont have to use the chalice. It's really not that much help, and it wastes so much time on every wipe, that as far as I can tell it's not worth doing at all.
I'm tired of people's single minded obsession with wasting time with "cheeses". Sometimes people get similarly annoyingly obsessed with chests too, finding every chest or looking for new chests or wasting a lot of time going back for a chest. As if a single chest that's gonna give a couple shards is more important to them than the actual raid. It makes no sense.
Cheeses are only cool when they make sense. The templar cheese in VoG for example, or the bridge cheese in CE. Those are very helpful.
My vendor scout is maxed and it does noticeably more damage in CE.
Do you have any numbers, say for crit hits, on that?
As I said, if it's something like 10% more damage to me that's probably offset by the magazine size deficiency vs VoC.
I dont see much else worth buying from the vendor though so I probably will. I cant recall though but I think he may have a arc LMG. As much insane time as I've spent playing this game, two things I've still never gotten are a void Fusion (I suppose not as wanted now that VoG is less useful) and a arc LMG. Or it may be an arc sniper the Quartermaster sells, I cant remember.
The Hand Cannon the vendor sells seems worthless with it's 5 clip. No more Field Scout at the vendor was clearly Bungie's attempt to nerf vendor weapons.
BTW, I do think they handled keeping VoG somewhat relevant poorly. The fact that it only drops 300 weapons for example. Maybe eventually I will need to start running it again for shards. Then again I guess there's not really time in the week to have two relevant raids concurrently.
I'm actually rather enjoying the 331 Pulse I got from a drop (it's the SGZYS or whatever), I've been playing with it since it's still the only 331 primary I yet have, (still tend to use 300 VoC and Fatebringer a lot as well) and it's actually been pretty fun. Not sure how good it will be even at 331 (I think I have it up to 306 currently). I'm not sure still whether it's a good weapon, it seems like it actually could be decent though.
It's a testament to this game that I end up enjoying most weapons. For example I used to really hate playing with Hand Cannons, but I forced myself to use them since I think along with scouts they are the most effective weapon. Anyways I found myself eventually at least somewhat enjoying them.
Probably the primary weapon I enjoy the least now is the Vex Mythoclast, and it's weird feedback (no satisfying crit hit feedback, etc). If history is any indication though I could probably grow to like it too.