Quicksilver Storm is my favorite Destiny 2 Exotic in years, but it’s locked behind an expensive pre-order

polygon.com:

Would you pay $100 for early access to a Destiny 2 Exotic? Surely not! But eight years spent in Destiny — after shooting every Dreg, boss, and god that Bungie has thrown at me, using every weapon I’ve been offered — Quicksilver Storm is already one of my favorite Exotics of all time after only two days. Does that sentiment change your mind?

That’s been the question raging inside my brain since Destiny2: Season of Plunder launched on Tuesday: Is the Quicksilver Storm Exotic really worth pre-ordering a $100 edition of an expansion? Even as someone who doesn’t recommend pre-ordering games, it’s harder to answer than you might think.

It’s been a big week for Destiny 2. At the 2022 Destiny 2 Showcase, Bungie revealed the game’s 2023 expansion, Lightfall, Season of Plunder, the return of the beloved King’s Fall raid, in-game loadouts and group-finder, the end of sunsetting expansions, and more.

But no level of Destiny expansion hype compares to the excitement of instantly connecting to a new Exotic weapon. And I experienced just that when I logged into my Titan on Tuesday and picked up Quicksilver Storm, the new Lightfall Exotic auto rifle that is also a rocket launcher… and a grenade launcher.

Holding down the trigger, Quicksilver Storm fires like a normal auto rifle. But every couple of bullets that connect with enemies cause the gun to also launch a micro-missile, which homes in on targets and explodes. That’s already pretty sweet, but each rocket that connects also loads a grenade into my Quicksilver Storm for later use. When I have at least one grenade available, I can hold down the reload button to transform the gun into a grenade launcher, which does some pretty excellent damage considering Quicksilver Storm is a