Bungie invited me to test out Final Shape exotic armor.

Hello everyone, I went to Bungie a couple of weeks  ago, where I was invited to check out some stuff  

from The Final Shape a little bit early. Today,  we're gonna be taking a look at the exotic armor  

from the event that I got to play with. We did a  little preview of the teasers a little while ago,  

this is actual gameplay of them. Yes, this  means that any preview videos that I made,  

I FAKED IT. I LIED. I KNEW THE WHOLE TIME. Titans, you're up first. In the teaser, we  

saw Hazardous Propulsion, an exotic that gives you  class ability rockets. It actually works like so:  

weapon precision hits or final blows have  a chance to load a kinetic exodus rocket,  

the chance is relatively high. Class  ability fires the rockets. Then,  

depending on how many rockets hit targets,  you will get a damage boost to rocket damage  

for a short duration. I didn't get to test many  variations, but hitting with all rockets gave me,  

I believe, a 35% boost in my rocket damage for the  duration. The text description is a little weird,  

it'll say Enhanced Rockets x6, I thought initially  this meant like... you know how Explosive Light  

has x6 and then it ticks down based on the  rockets you used? x5, x4, etc? This doesn't,  

which tells me that x6 is the strength of the buff  you receive? I'm not 100% on it, maybe someone  

else was able to get that exact data point. The main data point I was trying to hunt down was:  

is this effect even good? Are the rockets  doing ANY damage at all? Let's find out. 

I step into an expert Nightfall, 15 levels  under, I stack up my exodus rockets to the max,  

I stun the Overload and fire the rockets.  And its damage is... not too bad. It's not  

one shotting a champ at this level, but it's  doing slightly more than half damage. I've  

comboed this with Drengr's Lash to provide a  suspend on the target as well for more control,  

even though the target is already stunned. Where I see this faltering a bit more is  

outside of solo play, where you aren't able to  charge up your rockets as often as you can by  

yourself. That being said, you're probably gonna  try to use this in specific situations: either  

taking down 1 big dude or a lot of smaller ones  and that's not a constant occurrence in the game,  

giving it some more viability. I used Abeyant  Leap for the good part of a year and all that  

did was suspend a few more enemies, this isn't  exactly too far off from that, so we'll see. 

With this boosting your rocket damage by 35%, this  also has some room to shine in the raiding scene,  

once we determine what stacks with what and  does this stack with this and this and all that,  

but 35% rocket damage for 10 seconds  is quite a long time if it does end  

up stacking with a lot of other things. In PvP, it wasn't possible to kill someone with  

6 rockets outright, so don't think you're gonna go  around instagibbing people with your wall. For me,  

it was a bit of a challenge to even get to  6 stacks and ALSO use the rockets in a way  

that won me the fight, I got it to happen  a couple of times, but that was about it. 

The OTHER exotic, as IF Banner Titans didn't have  it good already, is a Strand based exotic called  

Wishful Ignorance. You gain an additional Frenzied  Blade charge, now that's 4 charges, AND Frenzied  

Blade and Flechette Storm briefly increase their  damage with each strike. AND pulses from Banner  

of War feed you melee energy based on the number  of allies healed. Synthoceps got nerfed, Banner of  

War got nerfed, and now I'm starting to see why. I really don't have a ton to say on this exotic  

because I think we know how good Banner Titan is,  even with its upcoming nerfs, and all this exotic  

does is juice up Banner Titan. Unfortunately, I  didn't get exact damage values for Frenzied Blade  

as I played this in patrol and there were NOT many  patrol enemies that could survive 4 Frenzied Blade  

attacks or a huge batch of Storm attacks, but for  what it's worth, my swings on this boss enemy go  

from the mid 20,000s to the mid 50,000s. I think  that's incomplete data, I don't think that's the  

best representation of the numbers because my  Flechette Storm example shows a much smaller  

increase in damage, going from around 9,500  to 13,000 per hit, which is more in line with  

what I was expecting. The bump in melee energy  isn't anything insane when you're by yourself,  

unfortunately I didn't get to test any sort of  group content or higher difficulty content with  

these gloves, but like... we all know what's up.  These gloves have a pretty high chance of being  

stapled to your hands if you're a Banner Titan. Warlocks, you're up next, let's talk Mataiodoxia.  

This is the Arcane Needle exotic where people  were a little apprehensive because it seemed  

like you needed to use a lot of charges  to get the suspend, so let's clarify that. 

1 needle hitting an enemy will cause that enemy  to provide a suspending detonation when killed.  

Landing multiple will immediately trigger  that suspend detonation and it'll be bigger.  

Killing suspended targets gives melee energy AND  your arcane needles are effective vs. Barrier  

Champion shields. It'll also mark targets  that you've hit with arcane needle so you  

can keep track, which I thought was nice. So, a bit better than I originally was  

anticipating and to reiterate: while  this will be good for Strand purists,  

I think a big part of this exotic is  to give suspend to Prismatic Warlocks,  

which they don't have access to otherwise. The melee energy from killing a suspended  

target isn't anything too insane per kill, it's  your ability to rack up a LOT of suspend kills  

that's gonna make your break your experience  with this exotic. Given how good Prismatic  

felt to me during gameplay, both in the legend  campaign and outside of it, I could see this  

getting some use if you build into it with your  fragments. On Strand on its own, Warlock already  

has very good suspend potential, but further  increasing your potential never hurt anyone. 

Also, Prismatic has fragments that boost your  ability to gain Transcendence energy and one of  

them will boost your Light Transcendence when you  kill targets that have stasis or strand debuffs,  

so there is some buildcrafting to be done. I talk  a bit more about Prismatic in an upcoming video. 

Otherwise, not too many numbers or percentages to  really discuss here, so we'll move to the next. 

Speaker's Sight is a support exotic, where your  healing grenades spawn a healing turret and  

healing allies sometimes spawns an orb of power.  You'll get a total of 5 healing turret shots which  

provide Cure and Restoration x2, so that's not  too bad. One thing that I didn't test was whether  

or not you can use it like a regular healing  grenade and still have the turret be around. Like,  

normally, you Lonely Island that thing and then  you land on it or run into it and it consumes  

it. I didn't check to see if you could do that AND  still have the turret part. My guess would be yes  

because otherwise any sort of accidental touching  of the grenade just entirely defeats the purpose,  

but the point of the exotic is to maybe throw  the grenade somewhere and just let it do its  

thing and you not have to worry about it, so  I dunno. I also dunno if I'm fully investing  

my exotic into a healing turret, maybe there  will be situations where it's super helpful,  

I'm not sure, but I remain skeptical for now. Hunters, we have your exotics, let's  

look at Gifted Conviction first. Your  uppercut Arc aspects, so the new one,  

Ascension, and Tempest Strike throw bouncing  explosives that jolt and damage AND jolting  

nearby enemies gives you damage resistance. I hopped into a Legend Onslaught to really give  

this thing a spin and I was very underwhelmed. The  damage on those explosives is basically only there  

to apply joly to targets and you should think  of this thing as an AOE jolt more than anything  

else. The explosives feel like they do nothing,  although this first wave is servitors which  

have a lot of health, against dregs it's a bit  more noticeable. I could see a world where mass  

applying jolt is good and you're just chaining  damage everywhere, especially in a group setting,  

but I'm not the most enticed by this option right  now. I didn't do any sort of double stacking of  

Tempest Strike AND the new aspect though, which  is where you could get more potency out of this  

exotic. The new aspect also auto gives you  amplified and there are a couple of fragments  

of prismatic that give you bonuses based on  having a light element buff like Amplified,  

so synergy is possible. I'll have a bit more to  say in another video about Prismatic, but just  

looking at this exotic purely in a vacuum, it does  feel a bit underwhelming without a significant  

amount of buildcrafting put into it. Once you  do that though, it might have more to offer. 

Balance of Power is our final exotic, based  on Threaded Specter. I didn't do too much  

theorycrafting on this one simply because all it  does is buff Threaded Specter. Increased duration,  

durability, more Threadlings when damaged. There's  a PvP part built in too: while near the specter,  

you do not appear on the radar, so it'll just  be the specter on the radar, not both of you.  

Threaded Specter is actually not the worst PvE  option in the world, but considering the tools  

Hunters have available to them right now,  putting my entire exotic into this does not  

seem worth it. PvP on the other hand, I know  that we had that time period of triple strand  

Hunter threadling spam. It's not around as much  anymore; do I see it making any kind of a comeback  

because of these? To be determined, I suppose. That's your breakdown of exotic armor coming  

in Final Shape. I also have a video on the  weapons that's live right now if you wanna  

go check it out, it's linked here and the  description. I'll have another pre-release  

video coming out very soon too. Thanks for  watching and I'll see you at the other video.