Damage Deep Dive: Why Ergo Sum is the Highest* DPS Sword

*non-Surrounded, at least for now
Definitely the most surprising exotic testing I've done so far.

Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
03:46 Tested Rolls
04:54 Essential Info
06:22 Blade + Guard
07:45 Frames
12:50 Perks
20:53 General Summary
22:55 Damage Testing
26:13 Outro

[TheAegisRelic]

Corrections:

- Lightweight light attacks do the same damage as adaptive light attacks, my own data shows this but I thought otherwise for some reason
- Apparently some archetypes of Ergo Sum are buffed differently by Transcendence, I will test soon and leave results here
- More options like Telesto aggressive and Polaris vortex will be added soon as well

[Galaxyk]

I know that this was hell for you to grind, but if there was ANYTHING in TFS that we needed rigorous testing on, it was Ergo Sum. There's just too many combinations to get straight answers on "what is best" for players that only have access to like a handful of rolls each. So your sacrifice is much much appreciated here

[lucienmoolman]

I don't know what ungodly spaghetti code allows wolfpack rounds to work with relentless strikes but I enjoy that interaction very much

[siberianhusky]

Thanks for taking the time to do this. No one would have believed me if I said Ergo Sum caster frame is the highest DPS sword in the game.

[Alucitary]

Every Pale Heart weapon is a banger. Even the legendary sword is really good for what it is.

[jakubbercik]

Perfect, my opinion has revealed itself.

[Carbah]

Kept 50 in my vault in preparation for this video

[FestiveSnydley]

Something I found during my own testing is that Song of Flame allows a Perfect Fifth ignition on every heavy due to the innate scorch stacks on Solar hits. This lets you effectively have Ember of Ashes while Transcendant. Might be something worth testing in terms of overall DPS with it.

[rat]

Hey, I was waiting for you to talk about Ergo Sum but I wasn't expecting a full 28min video about it. Can't wait to finish this one.

[Sacred__]

No clue if this is relevant but I'm pretty sure the new arc hunter aspect counts as sword damage. It inherits the perks that you have on your equipped swords while you're holding them. If you have demo on your sword it will give grenade energy back if you kill enemies with the spin. It inherits chain reaction from swords. It grants a stack to whirlwind blade on hit. It inherits Ergo Sum's stormbringer and insectoid robot grenades. If you're holding a sword and spin it will work for bait and switch.

It doesn't spawn wolfpack rounds though.

[kursedkat]

You are Invaluable to the destiny community man, I thank you for all the time you spent testing everything and crunching numbers

[Bawsten]

Thank you! We'd all be so clueless without you.

[BasedBass]

watching this video going through the 10 ergo sums i have. hearing you say the 2 best swords at the end of the video and having those exact same rolls maade me insanely relieved. thank you aegis for another insightful video!

[asphyxxia]

When I found out Perfect Fifth procs with multihits I was expecting caster or vortex frames to be on top immediately, caster's ammo efficiency and being able to proc it from a significant distance gives it a good bit of flexibility over other frames as well.

[snail]

100% convinced bungie gave us the 100 vault slots because of ergo sum and the class items

[SpyroThunder]

Arc conductor wave is super fun to use in anything legend or lower. Fast clearing and crazy ability spam through transcendence. But in master or GM you’ll just die.

[ach]

Glad I deleted the godroll Ergo Sum on the assumption that caster-frames were still bad :) back to Overthrow!

[dontdoitdan]

thank you for your service and the ludicrous amount of time invested to tell us this. Seriously, this is huge info dump and you have to test it to find it.

[UX]

just watched bro rizz up chloe for 28
mins

[anything_but_this]

She ergo on my sum till my arc conducts