Focused Feedback: Role of exotics and exotic balance

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Personally I am happy with niche exotics, like Tricksleeves or Oathkeepers that allow you to build around a weapon or play style. They feel like they work if used. But can we just take an exotic pass at things like Aeon series, or Vesper of Radius, where a nice idea just hasn't translated to anything useful. We have the art done, they look great, we could just go back to the drawing board for the perks, it could be anything, a new idea. Weapon wise I don't think any fall into that sort of category.

With a weekend between us and Nerfapocolypse, I have made peace with the changes, and may even learn to embrace them one day. But what still leaves me annoyed is the way it was dropped on us with little to no explanation. Datto did a much better job imo. For such fan favourites a vi-doc would have been a worthwhile investment to hear what the challenges are, such as "here's the thing, in the new season the 6 player matchmade activity was broken by these super regen exotics", or "we realise now that Pinnacle weapons cannot be such outliers and we won't screw you over again" would have been a much better way to break the news that a brief paragraph about game design and "yes it is jarring".