The Destiny 2 designer responsible for the once game-breaking, still game-changing Titan ability Banner of War was also leading the charge on the game's newly minted Exotic shotgun, Slayer's Fang, which is noticeably less game-breaking but still mighty cool.
That developer is associate designer Danny Nanni, who normally handles abilities but jumped at the chance to work on his first Exotic weapon.
Other members of Bungie contributed to its design and creation, of course, but Nanni was at the forefront. "I definitely took a lot of the inspiration and sensibilities that we have on abilities," Nanni tells GamesRadar+, "and when there was an opportunity for me to work on the weapons team for this release, they were like, 'we need somebody who wants to make a vampire shotgun.' And I'm like, yes please.
I don't know anything else. Please let me make that." The result was Slayer's Fang, an oddball, magazine-fed shotgun that specializes in precision damage but triggers scattershot, target-seeking Void crystals that can apply the Weaken debuff.
It's also packing innate anti-Overload Champion tech (which sadly can't stack with this season's anti-Barrier shotgun Artifact perk).