I've had the most fun with Wavesplitter. Genuinely hated trace rifles with every fiber of my being but damn it's some really good shit, catalyst makes it even more fun.
You should try it with the artifact that has the triple wombo combo of void perks (I think Tablet of Ruin?), giving you an easy way to apply volatile and weaken in groups, overshields, and more explosions. Pair that with the orbs and explosions from the catalyst, and I'll bet it's an add-clearing monster.
In other news,
next week's update has been delayed because some of the fixes were being worked on by devs that got canned, so whoever's left is going to have to finish it up. Gotta swing that hatchet before the quarter ends, I guess, no matter what else is going on.
I know this won't get fixed now, but it's bothered me ever since the end of season 8 that there are two guardrails next to Ikora in the Tower that never got put back in place. There was a big gateway that got built up over time behind her which was what we used to defeat the Undying Mind that season, and the guardrails were moved slightly to allow you to get on the walkway attached to it without jumping over them. When season 9 started, the gateway was removed, but the guardrails were never put back. Surely someone at Bungie had to have noticed this at some point, especially in this latest update where they did a fair amount of Tower renovations, yet nobody ever stopped to move those two objects back to where they were. I guess not many people care, I only found
one post from a few years ago asking about it, but dammit, I care.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Kiw6xpfQ5t8
I hope to God this is true. But I know that even if it is, it isn't anywhere near enough for the buttfucking this piece of shit deserves. He'll still be wealthy enough to keep fucking around indefinitely. I'll take whatever victories we can get over the fucker.
It seems the sentiment of "Jason Jones was a major contributing factor to Bungie's fucktarded behavior" isn't getting dismissed out of hand anymore. I've noticed comments pointing out his hatred of sequels and desire to always be doing something else that aren't getting downvooted like they might have, and while most of the blame continues getting lobbed at Pete and his cars, it's not like Jason's getting nothing but ballwashing like he used to. This whole clusterfuck has gotten a lot more people to look back at Bungie's history and realize that these problems have been there for decades, and they finally reached a point where it all came crashing down.
Look, I at least have to give Jason credit where credit's due. I think he's a very creative guy, and without him, the spark behind a lot of my favorite games wouldn't be there. But I don't think he has ever had the capacity to truly be a manager, a position that he only really had because of seniority (it doesn't get much more senior than co-founding the damn company). When it was a small team of a few guys jamming on a game together, it wasn't that big of a deal, but when the company grew to dozens, hundreds, over a thousand people, he was no longer the right guy to be calling the shots. They needed someone who understood that you can't just say "I'm bored" to get out of a contract, someone who wouldn't waste countless resources just trying to find something that would interest them to work on. And yes, eventually he stepped aside to be "Chief Visionary Officer" while some other randos took the management jobs, but let's be honest, they were just there to rubber-stamp whatever Jason wanted to do.
Really, Jason should have bounced off of Bungie years ago, hired a small group of devs, and just worked on whatever he wanted, leaving Bungie to keep working on Destiny as long as they saw fit. Or hell, just left with his fuck you money to do whatever he pleased, even if it wasn't related to gaming (Marty related how it was a dream of Jason's to have fuck you money in an interview). But I don't think he could ever bring himself to leave the company he co-founded; that, and he liked having a massive group of devs to work on whatever he felt like. Unfortunately, we see how well that worked out.