Destiny 2's Cuirass of the Falling Star is One of the Biggest Issues With Hunter DPS

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With Destiny 2 being a looter-shooter, every piece of gear can make quite the difference in a build or loadout. When the game launched, Hunters proved to have one of the best sets of Exotic armor pieces and abilities to make even hard PvE content almost trivial, especially thanks to items like Celestial Nighthawk and Orpheus Rig that benefit DPS and crowd control. Forsaken was a solid expansion for Hunters, providing them with Blade Barrage and Shards of Galanor, a very powerful combination that allowed players to deal impressive damage and quickly regenerate their Super.

However, Destiny 2 goes through many iterations, and this means that items are changed, abilities and weapons are reworked, and new elements rise in popularity. In the current meta, Blade Barrage is one of the worst Supers due to many nerfs and changes over time, same with the Shards of Galanor Exotic gauntlets, leaving Hunters short of good options for damage. Orpheus Rig was also nerfed, and the Hunters' Tether Weaken debuff was made available to every class through artifact mods. Eventually, Destiny 2's Cuirass of the Falling Star acted as a better DPS option than Celestial Nighthawk, leaving Hunters as the worst PvE class in the game.

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One of the issues with Hunters is that they were meant to be a great PvP class, and while that still stands, the sheer power Hunters brought to PvE activities has dwindled. There are many reasons for this fall from grace, and it's undeniable that artifact mods played a huge part in how things went, but one of the biggest issues with Hunters' PvE viability was the introduction of the Titan Exotic Cuirass of the Falling Star. This item