Uploaded July 2015 | Updated September 2026, 7 hours ago
Takeaways: If they go through with the white nail supernerf, just about any other sniper with surplus will be better than black hammer. Her Benevolence or Efrideet's Spear would currently be the best options, but certainly not as exciting as infinite unloading.
Black Hammer should instead be changed to an exotic that has less reserve ammo because its design is great for an exotic and it would simply be wasteful to trash an excellent and situational perk as they plan to. The satisfaction of killing three enemies with a headshot and getting to keep your ammo should still be a thing.
Ice Breaker would be pitiful with a 160% nerf to recharge rate. It's already average DPS the instant it hits 0 ammo and 6 bullets is a very low cap considering it's a third of comparable impact snipers. If they want to nerf the recharge rate, they need to buff total reserve ammo dramatically. Granted, you can use it to supplement a scout rifle for long range fights, but this change would effectively make Ice Breaker feel like it gets 8 bullets a minute... not very fun.
Surplus snipers will drive Ice Breaker into the ground.
But just about every other change coming in 2.0.0 is going to rock. Props to bungie for doing just about all of this extremely well!
Takeaways: If they go through with the white nail supernerf, just about any other sniper with surplus will be better than black hammer. Her Benevolence or Efrideet's Spear would currently be the best options, but certainly not as exciting as infinite unloading.
Black Hammer should instead be changed to an exotic that has less reserve ammo because its design is great for an exotic and it would simply be wasteful to trash an excellent and situational perk as they plan to. The satisfaction of killing three enemies with a headshot and getting to keep your ammo should still be a thing.
Ice Breaker would be pitiful with a 160% nerf to recharge rate. It's already average DPS the instant it hits 0 ammo and 6 bullets is a very low cap considering it's a third of comparable impact snipers. If they want to nerf the recharge rate, they need to buff total reserve ammo dramatically. Granted, you can use it to supplement a scout rifle for long range fights, but this change would effectively make Ice Breaker feel like it gets 8 bullets a minute... not very fun.
Surplus snipers will drive Ice Breaker into the ground.
But just about every other change coming in 2.0.0 is going to rock. Props to bungie for doing just about all of this extremely well!
