Not Quite (Destiny)

by iconicbanana, C2-H5-OH + NAD, Portland, OR, Wednesday, February 18, 2015, 10:23 (3820 days ago) @ Kahzgul

Shouldn't a level 32 take basically zero damage from a level 27? At level 15 there was no chance in hell that I could fight a level 20 enemy in PvE. Skill really shouldn't matter at that point; the guy who hits me twice with Thorn should kill me well before I can blast him down with Suros. Instead, he's dead and I'm able to (barely) survive the damage ticks.

The multiplier isn't the same as PvE. If you both had the same gun and landed the same shots then yeah, the 32 beats the 27. But by a shot, not by half his health.

And the guy with his thorn is probably not maximizing his stability. He probably doesn't know how to land head shots on a moving human target. He isn't ducking for cover because he assumes he can steam roll a 27 and he hasn't accounted for the fact that everyone else is using a stagger-chaining auto cannon like Suros. He's probably not familiar with the maps/loadouts and doesn't realize that Thorn isn't the best choice on, say, Anomaly. He may not even know which control points are the best. And so he dies. A lot.