So . . . what's up the the game balance now? (Destiny)

by Malagate , Sea of Tranquility, Tuesday, January 13, 2026, 09:48 (2 hours, 35 minutes ago) @ cheapLEY

Are we just in a complete ability meta right now? I ended up just using the Praxic Blade because it felt like it was the only thing that was doing any damage to enemies, and even that wasn't coming close to my throwing hammer with Wormgod Caress and Roaring Flames.

More or less. Praxic Blade and abilities for just about everything. Maybe Tier 4/5 weapons with the right combo of perks. I'm running Prismatic with a suppression grenade with the weakening fragment on, just to make sure my weapons do enough damage; but running a tight build that maximizes uptime for abilities and spits out elemental pickups means you can chain together effects like suspend/freeze/blind and almost always close to melee distance, so...

Praxic Blade may have broken the overall meta.

Not just exotic/legendary or swords/guns, but the entire weapon meta, because it will always be more advantageous to have the option to deflect shots over really any other exotic weapon benefits. Survivability alone kind of obviates most other things. Most seasons I'll settle on a couple choice weapons to play the seasonal artifact game with, and cycle through armors until I find something that synergizes just right; but this season it's been Stronghold/Praxic Blade always. Everything else makes me feel squishy, and with that combo, I'm nearly unkillable. I've died more to missteps and missed jumps than anything else. YMMV.

~m