Destiny: The worst exotic weapon can do everything, but nothing right

In Destiny , the Guardians seem to have agreed on the worst exotic weapon.

There can be a lively debate about the best exotic weapons in Destiny. In the past, before all the DLCs and expansions, there was a survey among the Guardians: The Gjallarhorn was ranked 1, Icebreaker 2, followed by the Vex Mythoclast, Hawkmoon, and Suros Regime. Those were the “big 5” during Vanilla times, at least in PvE.

Later, there was a Dorn phase in PvP, the Zhalo Supercell was a big deal in PvE, and the Malicious Obliteration was a star in its time. But let’s leave those heroes behind and take a look at the Cinderella, the losers, the weapons that are rarely kissed by the spotlight.

A brief history of the worst exotic weapons in Destiny

For a long time, the “No Land Beyond” was considered the “worst exotic weapon” – a sniper rifle that was based on a Russian sniper rifle from World War II. Only the best players back then could make anything out of the “No Land Beyond” – like “TheLegendHimself”, sc SlayerAge, who is regarded as the best player in Destiny (excluding attending readers).

But times changed, with “The Taken King” it became “The Fabian Strategy“, an automatic rifle solely for Titans, which was considered broken and shamefully held the red lantern as the weakest exotic in Destiny.

With Rise of Iron, there’s a new miserable weapon

With “Rise of Iron”, there’s a new strong contender for the title. It is the Khvostov 7G-0X: an automatic rifle that is modeled after the first weapon players can find in Destiny.

The joke about the weapon: It can be “individually tailored to your needs”, has multiple modes and nodes. You can adjust everything. 450 rounds per minute or maybe 900? Should it fire semi-automatic, fully automatic, or in bursts? How should the individual perks be designed?

Khvostov 7G-0X – does everything, but not well

On reddit, a Guardian summarized their opinion and garnered much attention: The Khvostov is an automatic rifle, a pulse rifle, and a scout rifle. Three weapons in one, and they’re all terrible.

The experts at Planetdestiny come to the same conclusion in their review with much more professional wording. There is no real reason to use the exotic slot for the Khvostov. An exotic should provide some advantage in PvE or PvP: The Khvostov does not deliver. Essentially, you can only set the weapon to correspond with a certain weapon archetype and play it as such.

But you can simply acquire a legendary weapon of exactly this archetype yourself – and then pull a “real” exotic weapon into another slot.

What do you think? Is the Khvostov currently the worst exotic in Destiny? Are there worse ones? Or do you shine with the beast and take down everything that comes your way?

If you still want to get the Khvostov – here we reveal how it works:

Destiny Guide: Khvostov 7G-0X – How to get the exotic automatic rifle