What's the Worst Exotic in Destiny 2?

What's the single worst Exotic Weapon in Destiny 2? Let's find out. Today I'm reviewing some of the most underperforming PvE Weapons in the entire game - in short, these Exotics REALLY need to get buffed
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[declanmurray]

Queenbreaker is so forgotten he forgot it in the vid 😂

[brandondennis]

The colony rework proposal:
1. Change the gun to strand.
2. Give it a boosted version of Hatchling, where each kill spawns a threading.
3. After a moderate duration, insectoid grenades who don't find targets return to you, returning to your reserves.
4. Slightly boost the AoE, proximity detection, and PvE damage.

Reasons:
1. The whole identity of the colony has little to nothing to do with void, nor do any builds use it as a void option, since it has no subclass synergy effects. Strand fits the weapon's fantasy far better, and this would help fill out the lack of exotic heavy strand options.
2. This lets it chain kills to a greater capacity than before, without quite having infinite chains.
3. This both fits the fantasy of sending out robot minions, and ties well into the 'Serve the Colony' perk.
4. This is more quality of life than anything else, letting it target things like harpies and shanks, as well as being able to actually kill something stronger than a red bar without requiring the whole mag.

[Forcer]

We need a Last Word catalyst that makes it top tier DPS for PvE, any excuse to go wild west on the Witness is welcomed.

[thankfulyouu]

The fact that DARCI isn't on this list is crazy. That thing is LITERALLY just a tape measure😭

[XxHUNTRNTRxX]

I believe Bungie is purposely ignoring DARCI in hopes of people forgetting about it forever for some reason.

[HoldenAGrenade]

I cant believe nobody has mentioned that Coldheart has a secret perk - While holding coldheart Ionic Trace cooldown goes from 4 seconds to 2.5 seconds. This is why the fallen sunstar build is so good and why it's still amazing on Prismatic with Getaway artist or any other Ionic trace focused build.

[KhvostovG-AR]

The worst exotic has to be the one that removes players’ names when it lands 3 headshots.

[houseflygames]

GIVE LORD OF WOLVES A PURPOSE IN PVE TOO. Make it to where you shoot like the fallen captains in its default mode, giving more purpose for the secondary mode, and make it cause ignitions and weapon buffs to all other shotgun users.

[Darkhouse]

Prospector is an interesting option for Bungie to lean into a Prismatic Heavy. One of the overlooked parts of the GL is that it lights targets on fire, so change that to Scorch, and now suddenly we have an arc weapon that has a solar interaction. Build into that Bungie. It has a chance to be truly unique.

[ForeverLaxx]

The problem with building non-Primary exotics for "add clear" is that Primaries just do this more economically and Specials do this more efficiently. No matter how great a heavy exotic is for add clear, it won't be picked because it eats your exotic slot. They need to do something else or have a playpattern worth building around or they just won't be used.

[BreadBreaker]

I am SO surprised not to see Truth on here since everyone forgot it was in the game for like a year

[KIRITO_that_guy_with__swords]

Mom can we have threadlings at home?
No son, we already have threadlings at home
Threadlings at home: COLONY

[dinckelman]

Colony does less damage than the new rocket sidearms. That says enough about the state of both of these weapon types

[wumbology]

i am genuinely offended coldheart was even mentioned on this list. I can easily bring this gun into a gm on arc warlock and do perfectly fine, which cannot be said for pretty much anything else in this video. I firmly believe if prismatic had chaos reach instead of stormtrance that coldheart geomags is a contender for top tier.

[goatgoatgoat]

FYI - I still have a Chain Reaction/Voltshot Hullabaloo. Somehow I have 500 kills on it. To be fair, it was a LONG season before Final Shape.

[thatguyliam]

For the Prospector, an incredibly easy fix for it is to change it so it intrinsically has chain reaction (same way Tessellation does it), then add mulligan alongside full auto trigger system, then change the catalyst to give it target lock, but in a way that it affects ALL of the grenades on a target (as well as making the grenades explode at the same time). Should fix it so that it's useful for ad clear and boss damage at the same time, justifying its placement as both an exotic and a heavy weapon.

[Cqntemplate]

You got it wrong, prospector is S tier because you can yeet banners

[hablasetacobell]

Offhand, I can see one problem with the proposed buff to prospector - rubber banding.

You ever noticed when Izanagi would do way less damage than you expected when the health bar shot down and then bugged out and gave health back? Or when something takes a bajillion impacts from a weapon and it doesn't know what to do with itself? Or when the Consecrated Mind literally would fall over out of nowhere from having too many Witherhoards on it? I think the prospector proposed changes would have networking issues with that much damage, instanced explosions, and projectiles going on, especially if you had a whole raid team doing it to a boss.

[sylokthedefiled]

You know what I want for coldheart?

Change the catalyst.
Picking up ionic traces fills an energy meter. When the meter is full, hold reload to overcharge this weapon and fire a chaos reach at no ammo cost.

Could synergize with geomags to make it last longer and while we're at it, make geomags cause increasing chaos reach (and coldheart alt fire) damage when focused on 1 enemy.

[VinceMouse]

Give Worldline Zero its own version of Eager Edge with added Arc damage... and call it The Electric Slide.