Idk, I feel like if this came out a year ago in lightfall, bungie woulda nerfed it almost immediately, but considering this is the final expansion, and I don't know what comes after, so if they continue d2, it might get nerfed but if d3 or something like that comes out, then I don't think they'll nerf it, depends on how much fun bungie is willing to let us have
The other thing to consider is that to do this massive dmg on still hunt it requires TWO exotics. Celestial and Still Hunt itself, so while it still may be busted, it isnt quite as busted as its being made out to be
Especially when you consider loadout swapping is not an intentional feature and will most likely be patched out/nerfed in some way. While the build has great boss dps it falls out a cliff for everything else. It’s the ultimate 1 trick pony
NGL I got still hunt and immediately vaulted it as a titan, 0 kills on that bad boy, maybe I'll have to pull it out but it's pretty depressing that one class doesn't have a weapon synergy 🙃
Aight, we know this will get nerfed sooner or later. Bungie has said MANY times they don't want any specials doing more damage than heavies. There's a couple ways it could go down. I'm betting that they will remove the ammo generation as well as nerfing the damage of the golden gun shots. Hell, they may even remove the interaction with Nighthawk, though I think they'll just reduce the damage.
Agree with the ammo econ and damage even compared to other exotic snipers. The free 3 ammo is golden it also lends itself to better spread among more diverse roles, taking on orange bars all the way up to bosses as you have the capability to both charge its and get ammo back which feels greatly rewarded.
Still hunt gaming Also the gun is so good I saw a video of the GoTD boss getting duo 1 phased. 1 person with Still Hunt and the other with Div. Also later saw the GoTD WR record being broken with still hunts and Div
I treat Still Hunt as Izanagi with its niche or straight up power creep, and power creep is fine. I think bungie wouldn’t nerf the numbers but instead bring things up to be close contenders of Still Hunt. But that wouldn’t be any soon.
IMO I think this is poor design, I think other classes should have this, like a mini nova bomb or something similar Also is anyone else tired of solar being the main character in destiny 2? Its already the best element and they just keep giving it more buffs, more artifacts etc
dude i totally get what u mean with solar, after season of the wish i’m completely tired of using it and i wish they’d put more artifact mods in the game that focus on other subclasses
The thing as to the reason i dont use snipers: i don't like them in pve. More often then not they feel like a chore to use with little payoff personally. Why you might ask? Other special weapons, the drawbacks of a sniper: ads, aoe, single target damage, aimming, awkwardness of distance/general usage, ammo, flinch. Ads: to get the most benefit, and to usually hit crits you need to ads, as thats the only thing that allows you to see cross hairs and to hit crits. Aoe: just the drawback of it being a sniper, it's meant for single targets in most cases, ofc you can argue most special weapons are, however the fluidity other special weapons have i feel trumps snipers, usually in the form of handling, or acquiring target for Max damage/effectiveness. Aimming: The amount of effort feels like it is more compared to other types of special weapons with similar reward. Which is tied to it's intended role long range -- the things is most encounters or design space throw so much at you every second ur feels more practical to go with another weapon, unless of course you need the range, or distance for safety/other reasons, like time, mechanics, using precision where it makes sense, possibly flying enemies. In most cases tho i don't like sitting in the back trying to hit something while my teammates are progressing in the activity, and I shot a couple of shots which doesn't feel as rewarding, just more like it's support. Same with the ammo, most likely it's far away, so you have to go far to pick it up unless of course using another specialized weapon. And one of the biggest pain points with snipers, flinch, compared to almost every other weapons paired with the fact snippets have the highest multipler for headshot and vs body and missed shots it's just extremely punishing comparatively. All these factors also affects your loadout-decisions of your 2nd and 3rd weapon so you can be well balanced. In the sandbox the synergy just seems not geared towards snipers and the relative buffs/nerfs over the years also contribute to that factor as well. With all that said i still use snipers where in pve fun/ applicable, and in pvp. Because it's a satisfying feeling. Still about 90% of the time I don't use a sniper.
You can absolutely make it work for Titan, instead of hazardous with cloud I’ve been using this and apex. I haven’t put the two side by side but still hunt gets the job done of loading rockets for hazardous. Either that or I’ve been opting to do ghally/tractor duty and pairing that with double specials
I just hope they keep going with these weapons and give titans and warlocks their own synergy weapons. Remind me of the old class specific weapons like Tlaloc in d1
What if we got a new melee weapon as a fist/gauntlet that could make stasis crystals on heavily slam and insta shatter like behemoth from zavala. Comparable to still hunt
I've never really understood why nighthawk both makes it deal more damage and be one shot, because like making do one shot, even if it does the same total damage is a huge benefit because then you can fire rockets and such when you would normally still be firing the sniper.
I like Still Hunt on Prismatic Hunter, but even as a Hunter, when I'm on Solar I like Whisper more for DPS. On solar, my issue w still hunt is that it takes up the Energy slot, and I like to keep Empyrean up on Solar using a solar primary/special addclear.
FYI, Cloudstrike Hazardous Crux does like 75% of what a still hunt rotation does and is your go-to if you're not a Hunter I don't get the outcry about all of this. Destiny is an MMO as its core, and that means that classes have upsides and downsides. Titans have unmatched add clear and survivability, Warlocks have the best support and CC while Hunters are the DPS specialists. Even with the combination blow build it's hard to survive in GMs while Titans spam down their consecrations and controed demo or spam hammers without a drop of blood on them and Warlocks freeze and heal everything. It's fine for the damage specialists to do the highest damage in a sltuation thats perfect for them. Reminder that Titans, who are survivability and add clear focused, still out-DPSed the damage specialist in melee situations for years, and can *still compete*. You shouldn't be upset that your class that can do better than hunters in every aspect that isn't damage cannot also do better damage. I'm also not biased as a Warlock main at heart that plays all three classes equally. I'm hopping on Hunter for damage carrying, I'm using my Titans in 3 fireteam size content or when survivability and frontlining is very important and I'm hopping on my Warlock when we need lots of heals and crowd control.
Brother this thing is getting buffed next week lol. So I’m pretty sure it ain’t being nerfed until episode two. Incendiary rounds, ignition damage increase, and snipers meditation will send this thing into the stratosphere.
This doesn’t tell the entire story tho, sure you can use base stillhunt but you dps goes way down due to it taking longer and nighthawk just doing more damage. Base still hunt isn’t that good when you put it through the full cycle, better off using cloud strike or something tbh
it might be decent for other classes but its still op on hunter and its only going to get more op for hunters when the snipers get the artifact buffs. this just sounds like telling the other classes to be happy with breadcrumbs while hunters have a sandwich lol
I'll be OK if warlock became the actual magic class, shorter abilities cooldowns, let hunters have busted dmg, and let titan have op survivability, make all 3 classes busted and call it a day
Imo still hunt is mid at best outside of raid encounters (in which its probably too good). Izi does the same thing except it can be primed so you don’t have to shoot and hit 6 regular sniper precision shots.
See, this is not an answer though. Continuously nerfing every class through the floor and allowing this interaction on Hunter only - you can't tell me they didn't purposely keep Spirit of the Nighthawk out of the exotic class items just to spite everyone - is not equal treatment. Titans don't even HAVE a super they can use during DPS phases on ranged bosses aside from Twilight Arsenal - which is very difficult to actually hit on Witness(you have to aim at his head and time it so you can still dodge the attacks), and it does...1/4 of the damage of a single Celestial Goldie shot? Warlocks throw Nova Bomb and get just over half of - again - what a Hunter is able to achieve with a single Celestial Goldie? You cannot seriously tell me this isn't class favoritism. Remove the interaction with Nighthawk or give it to everyone. Hunters are literally just more ammo efficient on Witness too - they get to pop off the Still Hunt's full damage in one shot vs. three without Nighthawk. The game is not balanced right now. When Titans had HOIL spam, Bungie wasted no time putting that exotic through the floor. When Shadebinder was freezing people out of their supers, Bungie wasted zero minutes nerfing it after Beyond Light came out(literally the fastest subclass nerf in the West). You also can't convince me that this particular interaction with Nighthawk wasn't crafted so six Hunters have to run it in the raid instead of using 6x Star Eater Scales and just firing normal Goldie endlessly(which they nerfed - massively). The only thing that even comes close is Strand Locks running Euphony and running an extremely niche build to generate as many threadlings as possible to maximize the damage on that weapon. Bungie's answer to this with the most current livestream was to....make it even more busted with artifact perks in Act II? Good luck to everyone thinking Whisper is the answer on Witness. You cannot stay scoped in long enough to proc Whispered breathing and stay there DPSing long enough to be effective without dying to the Witness attacks. Listen, I love playing all three classes. But the Witness encounter was specifically crafted for Hunters spamming this weapon with Nighthawk. Try doing the encounter without it. You need at least one Hunter running Celestial Goldie + Still Hunt to pass the encounter. You just don't have the damage otherwise. And it's bullshit. Bad encounter design. The Witness needs to be damageable with ALL Supers. If Warlocks had Chaos Reach in Prismatic(and if Chaos Reach was actually any good lmao) or if Titans could realistically use TCrash on him, it'd be less of a problem. Revert the nerfs to Geomags in PvE. Bump Chaos Reach Damage back up to Season of the Chosen numbers. Increase Thundercrash damage. Give the other classes stuff that can compete. If I want to run the raid with my clan on multiple characters, we shouldn't be locked to needing a Hunter to spam this weapon during Witness.
Still hunt doesnt have the highest dps in the game For exmaple wolfpack swords Rockets (with auto loading stuff) or gls all uave higher dps Its just witnesses dps is built with still hunt basiaclly in mind because he is far away Theres lots of movment and he has a easy to hit crit
You realize you can use rockets and hgls with still hunt? One copy of solar holster and you can fire the celestial shot, get 5 more crits, swap to heavy dps for one holster proc, swap back and celestial again without reloading? Hunter dodge to reload and repeat.
@@lnsatiabie4364 yea you can and still rockets / gls do more It's just still hunt is easy But if you want the best dps in the entire game is cascade bait n switch edge transit
Still Hunt is 100% gonna get nerfer sooner or later, it's just the cycle bungie has chosen for this game. Release broken gun > let people who paid for it enjoy it > nerf it > weather the outrage > release a new broken thing behind a paywall. Boring as fuck, not gonna lie
Do you have a video? A perfect rotation and shoot to loot hunter vs witness solo can do almost 8 mil, so this claim of 6 is wild I wanna see it on titan n warlock any guns or build
@@MICROKNIGHT3000 ua-cam.com/video/ua5D9b3U1Rw/v-deo.html This guy did it on titan, obviously haz prop gives him a significant advantage over warlock. Warlock can hit roughly 6 mil with needlestorm + SH + Apex, with good rotation timing. Most often I hit around 5.8 mil with warlock.
What's been your go-to DPS weapons?
Still Hunt hunter
My fists
Thunderlord 😅
Levi Breath
Euphony
FYI cloudstrike does slighly more total damage and dps then a regular sill hunt.
if you are not on a hunter cloudstrike is the better alternative in most cases. give it a try, its great.
Cayde just casually throwing together the most powerful weapon in the galaxy since Gjallarhorn as a "I didn't want you to feel left out" gift:
Idk, I feel like if this came out a year ago in lightfall, bungie woulda nerfed it almost immediately, but considering this is the final expansion, and I don't know what comes after, so if they continue d2, it might get nerfed but if d3 or something like that comes out, then I don't think they'll nerf it, depends on how much fun bungie is willing to let us have
You’re looking so far ahead brotha and they just doubled down with artifact perks to help it so chillllll for now
I mean, nothings really changed 😂 Hunters having things on easy mode since vanilla, we non hunter mains are kinda used to it by now
The other thing to consider is that to do this massive dmg on still hunt it requires TWO exotics. Celestial and Still Hunt itself, so while it still may be busted, it isnt quite as busted as its being made out to be
Especially when you consider loadout swapping is not an intentional feature and will most likely be patched out/nerfed in some way. While the build has great boss dps it falls out a cliff for everything else. It’s the ultimate 1 trick pony
NGL I got still hunt and immediately vaulted it as a titan, 0 kills on that bad boy, maybe I'll have to pull it out but it's pretty depressing that one class doesn't have a weapon synergy 🙃
I shot like 6 thrall with my Warlock then vaulted it
You literally have an exotic chest that boosts rockets a crazy amount
The hottest weapon type around right now are rocket sidearms and those get the boost too
Harzadous propulsion crying in the corner
Meanwhile necrotic grips with thorn and osteo
Aight, we know this will get nerfed sooner or later. Bungie has said MANY times they don't want any specials doing more damage than heavies. There's a couple ways it could go down. I'm betting that they will remove the ammo generation as well as nerfing the damage of the golden gun shots. Hell, they may even remove the interaction with Nighthawk, though I think they'll just reduce the damage.
Agree with the ammo econ and damage even compared to other exotic snipers. The free 3 ammo is golden it also lends itself to better spread among more diverse roles, taking on orange bars all the way up to bosses as you have the capability to both charge its and get ammo back which feels greatly rewarded.
Still hunt gaming
Also the gun is so good I saw a video of the GoTD boss getting duo 1 phased. 1 person with Still Hunt and the other with Div. Also later saw the GoTD WR record being broken with still hunts and Div
Meanwhile... Prismatic Titan...
I treat Still Hunt as Izanagi with its niche or straight up power creep, and power creep is fine. I think bungie wouldn’t nerf the numbers but instead bring things up to be close contenders of Still Hunt. But that wouldn’t be any soon.
IMO I think this is poor design, I think other classes should have this, like a mini nova bomb or something similar
Also is anyone else tired of solar being the main character in destiny 2? Its already the best element and they just keep giving it more buffs, more artifacts etc
dude i totally get what u mean with solar, after season of the wish i’m completely tired of using it and i wish they’d put more artifact mods in the game that focus on other subclasses
deathbringer is the mini nova bomb, just wish that it got a huge buff for it to be viable and this is coming from a hunter main
It’s the first of its kind is it not?
Who’s to say that there wouldn’t be other similar things in the future?
Warlock void bl.grenade launcher that charges a mini nova bomb. Titan glaive that charges a bootleg thunderstrike.
If bungie is going to give a hunter super to the other classes for free, then I don’t see the problem with it being better on hunter
The thing as to the reason i dont use snipers: i don't like them in pve.
More often then not they feel like a chore to use with little payoff personally. Why you might ask? Other special weapons, the drawbacks of a sniper: ads, aoe, single target damage, aimming, awkwardness of distance/general usage, ammo, flinch.
Ads: to get the most benefit, and to usually hit crits you need to ads, as thats the only thing that allows you to see cross hairs and to hit crits.
Aoe: just the drawback of it being a sniper, it's meant for single targets in most cases, ofc you can argue most special weapons are, however the fluidity other special weapons have i feel trumps snipers, usually in the form of handling, or acquiring target for Max damage/effectiveness.
Aimming: The amount of effort feels like it is more compared to other types of special weapons with similar reward. Which is tied to it's intended role long range -- the things is most encounters or design space throw so much at you every second ur feels more practical to go with another weapon, unless of course you need the range, or distance for safety/other reasons, like time, mechanics, using precision where it makes sense, possibly flying enemies.
In most cases tho i don't like sitting in the back trying to hit something while my teammates are progressing in the activity, and I shot a couple of shots which doesn't feel as rewarding, just more like it's support. Same with the ammo, most likely it's far away, so you have to go far to pick it up unless of course using another specialized weapon. And one of the biggest pain points with snipers, flinch, compared to almost every other weapons paired with the fact snippets have the highest multipler for headshot and vs body and missed shots it's just extremely punishing comparatively. All these factors also affects your loadout-decisions of your 2nd and 3rd weapon so you can be well balanced.
In the sandbox the synergy just seems not geared towards snipers and the relative buffs/nerfs over the years also contribute to that factor as well.
With all that said i still use snipers where in pve fun/ applicable, and in pvp. Because it's a satisfying feeling.
Still about 90% of the time I don't use a sniper.
Thank you for telling me the discord ping was from the video
You can absolutely make it work for Titan, instead of hazardous with cloud I’ve been using this and apex. I haven’t put the two side by side but still hunt gets the job done of loading rockets for hazardous. Either that or I’ve been opting to do ghally/tractor duty and pairing that with double specials
I just hope they keep going with these weapons and give titans and warlocks their own synergy weapons. Remind me of the old class specific weapons like Tlaloc in d1
What if we got a new melee weapon as a fist/gauntlet that could make stasis crystals on heavily slam and insta shatter like behemoth from zavala. Comparable to still hunt
Cloudstrike is better dps than still hunt without nighthawk.
I've never really understood why nighthawk both makes it deal more damage and be one shot, because like making do one shot, even if it does the same total damage is a huge benefit because then you can fire rockets and such when you would normally still be firing the sniper.
Warlock with Mantle of Battle Harmony is good with Still Hunt
I like Still Hunt on Prismatic Hunter, but even as a Hunter, when I'm on Solar I like Whisper more for DPS. On solar, my issue w still hunt is that it takes up the Energy slot, and I like to keep Empyrean up on Solar using a solar primary/special addclear.
FYI, Cloudstrike Hazardous Crux does like 75% of what a still hunt rotation does and is your go-to if you're not a Hunter
I don't get the outcry about all of this. Destiny is an MMO as its core, and that means that classes have upsides and downsides. Titans have unmatched add clear and survivability, Warlocks have the best support and CC while Hunters are the DPS specialists. Even with the combination blow build it's hard to survive in GMs while Titans spam down their consecrations and controed demo or spam hammers without a drop of blood on them and Warlocks freeze and heal everything. It's fine for the damage specialists to do the highest damage in a sltuation thats perfect for them. Reminder that Titans, who are survivability and add clear focused, still out-DPSed the damage specialist in melee situations for years, and can *still compete*.
You shouldn't be upset that your class that can do better than hunters in every aspect that isn't damage cannot also do better damage. I'm also not biased as a Warlock main at heart that plays all three classes equally. I'm hopping on Hunter for damage carrying, I'm using my Titans in 3 fireteam size content or when survivability and frontlining is very important and I'm hopping on my Warlock when we need lots of heals and crowd control.
Brother this thing is getting buffed next week lol. So I’m pretty sure it ain’t being nerfed until episode two. Incendiary rounds, ignition damage increase, and snipers meditation will send this thing into the stratosphere.
This doesn’t tell the entire story tho, sure you can use base stillhunt but you dps goes way down due to it taking longer and nighthawk just doing more damage. Base still hunt isn’t that good when you put it through the full cycle, better off using cloud strike or something tbh
It absolutely is for hunters. Other weapons outclass it on the other classes, watch the aegis video
I hope Bungie doesnt pull a Bungie and nerf the good weapon because people are using it. We all know one Saltsgreppo tweet is all it takes tho smh /j
it might be decent for other classes but its still op on hunter and its only going to get more op for hunters when the snipers get the artifact buffs. this just sounds like telling the other classes to be happy with breadcrumbs while hunters have a sandwich lol
I'll be OK if warlock became the actual magic class, shorter abilities cooldowns, let hunters have busted dmg, and let titan have op survivability, make all 3 classes busted and call it a day
Imo still hunt is mid at best outside of raid encounters (in which its probably too good). Izi does the same thing except it can be primed so you don’t have to shoot and hit 6 regular sniper precision shots.
Good Still Hunting.
See, this is not an answer though. Continuously nerfing every class through the floor and allowing this interaction on Hunter only - you can't tell me they didn't purposely keep Spirit of the Nighthawk out of the exotic class items just to spite everyone - is not equal treatment. Titans don't even HAVE a super they can use during DPS phases on ranged bosses aside from Twilight Arsenal - which is very difficult to actually hit on Witness(you have to aim at his head and time it so you can still dodge the attacks), and it does...1/4 of the damage of a single Celestial Goldie shot? Warlocks throw Nova Bomb and get just over half of - again - what a Hunter is able to achieve with a single Celestial Goldie?
You cannot seriously tell me this isn't class favoritism. Remove the interaction with Nighthawk or give it to everyone. Hunters are literally just more ammo efficient on Witness too - they get to pop off the Still Hunt's full damage in one shot vs. three without Nighthawk. The game is not balanced right now. When Titans had HOIL spam, Bungie wasted no time putting that exotic through the floor. When Shadebinder was freezing people out of their supers, Bungie wasted zero minutes nerfing it after Beyond Light came out(literally the fastest subclass nerf in the West). You also can't convince me that this particular interaction with Nighthawk wasn't crafted so six Hunters have to run it in the raid instead of using 6x Star Eater Scales and just firing normal Goldie endlessly(which they nerfed - massively). The only thing that even comes close is Strand Locks running Euphony and running an extremely niche build to generate as many threadlings as possible to maximize the damage on that weapon. Bungie's answer to this with the most current livestream was to....make it even more busted with artifact perks in Act II? Good luck to everyone thinking Whisper is the answer on Witness. You cannot stay scoped in long enough to proc Whispered breathing and stay there DPSing long enough to be effective without dying to the Witness attacks.
Listen, I love playing all three classes. But the Witness encounter was specifically crafted for Hunters spamming this weapon with Nighthawk. Try doing the encounter without it. You need at least one Hunter running Celestial Goldie + Still Hunt to pass the encounter. You just don't have the damage otherwise. And it's bullshit. Bad encounter design. The Witness needs to be damageable with ALL Supers. If Warlocks had Chaos Reach in Prismatic(and if Chaos Reach was actually any good lmao) or if Titans could realistically use TCrash on him, it'd be less of a problem. Revert the nerfs to Geomags in PvE. Bump Chaos Reach Damage back up to Season of the Chosen numbers. Increase Thundercrash damage. Give the other classes stuff that can compete. If I want to run the raid with my clan on multiple characters, we shouldn't be locked to needing a Hunter to spam this weapon during Witness.
but is it FASHION?!
Still hunt doesnt have the highest dps in the game
For exmaple wolfpack swords
Rockets (with auto loading stuff) or gls all uave higher dps
Its just witnesses dps is built with still hunt basiaclly in mind because he is far away Theres lots of movment and he has a easy to hit crit
You realize you can use rockets and hgls with still hunt?
One copy of solar holster and you can fire the celestial shot, get 5 more crits, swap to heavy dps for one holster proc, swap back and celestial again without reloading? Hunter dodge to reload and repeat.
@@lnsatiabie4364 yea you can and still rockets / gls do more
It's just still hunt is easy
But if you want the best dps in the entire game is cascade bait n switch edge transit
It’s like saying smgs aren’t only for Titian .pointless take.
This didnt age well. Solar snipers gettin some changes so its gonna be interesting.
All the changes are buffs so anything he says here is just going to get better
@@kaleb_salinasThis didn't age well because he said they were probably going to nerf it soon, but obviously that's not the case.
They are nerfing celestial shot of still hunt by 25% if you read the TWID.
@@Zed-1213 thats what i was referring to.
Still Hunt is 100% gonna get nerfer sooner or later, it's just the cycle bungie has chosen for this game.
Release broken gun > let people who paid for it enjoy it > nerf it > weather the outrage > release a new broken thing behind a paywall.
Boring as fuck, not gonna lie
like any other game...
@@Daniel-eyeso? does that make it less boring?
No still hunt is not only for hunters but it’s just better on hunters
Jokes on u its getting indirectly buffed :D
Bungie is such a great developer
Grand overture bud?
I came here hoping for some other synergy’s or tips or sth…
Rip
Hunt still
Salty titan players in the comments
The first half of the video sounds like hunter propaganda 😂😂😂
Hi can I date your Warlock?
Still hunt should be balanced by NOT ALLOWED GOLDEN GUN NIGHTHAWK HUNTERS to equip it.
It literally gives away a free hunter super to the other classes, I think its fair if its better on Hunter
@@vanta9608 delusional. Where’s my double nova bomb gun then? Hunter simp.
Sorry dawg. But just play hunter. 🤡
Literally any class can hit 6mil+ dmg with a still hunt + apex rotation. On witness, I mean.
No more excuses for doing sub 3 mil boys.
Do you have a video? A perfect rotation and shoot to loot hunter vs witness solo can do almost 8 mil, so this claim of 6 is wild I wanna see it on titan n warlock any guns or build
@@MICROKNIGHT3000 ua-cam.com/video/ua5D9b3U1Rw/v-deo.html
This guy did it on titan, obviously haz prop gives him a significant advantage over warlock. Warlock can hit roughly 6 mil with needlestorm + SH + Apex, with good rotation timing. Most often I hit around 5.8 mil with warlock.
Hi can I date your Warlock?