Alright,, made a mistake, I get it. Took a shot in the dark out of my comfort zone and it backfired. Lesson learned. hopefully the main idea at least still gets across and discussed because the weapon still needs help any way you look at it. Genuinely annoyed at myself. Sorry for the screw up.

The jolt is applied automatically. It's not voltshot. It definitely needs help, but having jolt isn't an issue.

You don’t need to reload and shoot another target. That’s specific to Voltshot

Personal Assistant: Aim at an enemy to reveal important information in its scope and mark its weak points. Marked weak points take additional precision damage. So an effect like the scanner buff from dsc but only for the spots that take precision damage. The mark will take ~2 seconds to activate and linger for 6 seconds after descoping. You would deal 25% increased precision damage when hitting this mark. Target Acquired: While personal assistant is active gain significantly increased target acquisition, precision damage, and an improved rate of fire. Remove hipfire and airborne penalties while its active. Decrease the precision damage increase to 25% but it would be 50% when combined with the intrinsic perk. Slightly increase rate of fire to 160 RPM. Catalyst - Support Fire: Information from Personal Assistant is shared with nearby allies. Allies see the weak point mark and also deal 25% more precision damage when hitting it. Basically make DARCI the Gjallarhorn of linears and snipers, and encourage using precision weapons without a Divinity. While also slightly increasing the DPS of DARCI. It shouldnt need to be the best weapon fir damage, but it should give linears and snipers a spot in a meta dominated by rockets and gls.

Doesnt darcy just jolt when the exotic perk aka Box breathing with another name procs? No need for kill+reload like voltshot

Queenbreaker, Prospector, Symmetry, Colony, & Worldline Zero fall under this same umbrella of forgotten exotics that Bungie doesn't care to buff. In an ideal world every exotic would have a use case somewhere in the game, but powercreep is so blatant with these weapons that something needs to be done. Great video

Have you seen Skull of Dire Ahamkara dog 💀

Cerberus is more relevant than Darci now

I thought the jolt from DARCI was applied on hit as soon as the target is highlighted.

Darci Rework idea: > keep its identity as a targeting system/weapons ai but bring it more in line. Functions similarly to whisper with a gimmick that can lead to higher damage. > personal assistant stays > exotic perk: when personal assistant is active, rapid precision hits reveals weakspots on the target. Hits on weakspots deal significantly more damage and can partially reload the magazine. - think nezzy/tormentor weakspots show up as you deal damage. 7 round mag so every 3 precision hits reveals a weakspot, weakspots take 2 rounds to destroy. If you destroy a weakspot target takes even more damage and adds two rounds to the mag. 2 weakspots per mag basically. > Weakspots only visible by Darci scopes so allies using Darci can also see them when scoped in. So multiple people can be generating weakspots while others shoot and destroy them. > idea is to have Darci be able to chunk health as great burst dps, but balanced by not having such deep reserves.

it's not voltshot lmao it just jolts through it's perk. that being said everything else you said is correct, holy shit it needs some serious attention.

I could see them giving DARCI even more synergy with Arc, namely “Being Amplified continuously reloads this weapon from reserves”. Having not used DARCI in years, I’d think all it needs is something that doesn’t require you to reload in order for it to compete in DPS, as rapid fire frames have historically been superior in DPS, but not great in total damage.

I'd like them to change it to a Kinetic Heavy Sniper. Whilst Personal Assistant is active, shots against champions will stun them or break their shields. Deals full damage against elemental shields. Grants huge aim assist bonuses to bend with a large margin to crit.

*looks inside weapon vault* The dust is thick on this one.

Bungie said 'we know you all want DARCI to be a special weapon, and we hear you. We're not going to do that but add Jolt to it because we feel it isn't playing into subclass buffs well enough'

Bungie are legitimately awful at the rpg elements (leveling, stats, light level systems) of this game. Buffs, how they proc and how long they last for different weapon archetypes are also incredibly poorly executed. It’s a such a shame when considered alongside how amazing the gunplay and moment to moment firefights play out. I genuinely think they have never known what they want the game to be, too many chefs not enough cooks type of dilemma.

The perks LITERALLY tell you that you apply jolt while the intrinsic active. This gun has been so much worse in your hands because you’re going out of your way to do something that you don’t have to at all.

This thing either needs 100 ammo or a upgrade in the damage department. I barely was able to tolerate the catalyst grind for Darci

The thumbnail is too accurate

The back the boss is hit bars were actually hittable had me 💀

Darci, borealis, nd the queenbreaker are my favorite exotics that I still use. queenbreaker kinda got a buff but all of these exotics are just so bad I feel bad for using them

I used to gave so much use to D.A.R.C.I., Crimson and Hard Light, they were my favorites :D

They gave us a special Darci in the form of Cloudstrike

Watching that calus clip, with 100+ skulls and not one phasing is crazy to me

11:50 *slams hammer* “it shall only be used for gun range testing” *looks at cross fallout and everyone else using it for that*

The way I've always imagined reviving Darci would be allowing it's existing exotic ability (to provide info of a target) to generate a weak point on bosses similar to Divinity. Shooting said weak point without Darci grants a Crit while shooting that point with Darci stacks a buff which grows in damage until you reload. This would make it a REAL support weapon while not sacrificing a DPS user

"like where darcis damage went" lmaooo gold

There's the idea going around for D.A.R.C.I that the sniper rifle could be reworked into a omni-Champion buster, via the Personal Assistant loading in specialized rounds after a brief analysis of the target. Heck even I had the idea, too. I did get another idea for a modest adjustment to DARCI, though: take off its Voltshot ability, and replace it with modified versions Zen Moment and Target Lock. The way this new DARCI has the same design philosophy as Merciless. The more shots you fire, the more damage you deal, and the easier DARCI is to control. Eventually, through the power of its sophisticated artificial intelligence, the sniper rifle becomes a recoilless high damage boss buster.

i would change the trait with adding the perk onto it and making a new perk for it or making the catalyst actually do something besides stat bumps

I think making use of the assistant like creating a mini div weak spot on the enemy when you scan him and it would deal increased precision dmg would be a good upgrade for the weapon..... the div spot thing is only applied to the darci user to keep divinity relevant

I specifically remember DARCI being bad even in year 1. Ikelos sniper with box breathing used to have the SAME dps as DARCI because of how OG box breathing worked.

the jolt isn't like voltshot, when you are adsing on lets say a boss and you can see its health percentage that's when D.A.R.C.I. applies the jolt

I won't comment on the Jolt since it looks like that point was already hit. But something I thought up was something along the lines of "This weapon deals increased dmg to arc debuffed targets. This increased in dmg scales with the number stacks on the target." basically turning it into another one of those team exotics. Most of the dmg increase should be front loaded tho, so that way it's still relevant on it's own, but obv better with people for a balancing factor.

I've got this. It should synergize with my other assistant. Once activated turn all active turrents into prismatic grenade spam on a single target

Locking onto an enemy and hitting that enemy causes constant jolt damage over time as long as you ads. After the first target, you can target more enemies by shooting them. The jolt will bounce from target to target. After every 3 jolt procs DARCI will reload 1 round from reserves. Damage ramps up with every extra target.

I really wish that they look into it cause like we got only two heavy snipers in the it feels kinda off to have one of them be utter shit

I'd make it so the cascade point idea is applied 10x, meaning it turns into a 7-burst pulse rifle sniper. and if you hit 4 of the shots, it jolts. maybe if you hit all 7 it does something more as well, perhaps loops into the next magazine?

Wow played bunch of Levi in vanila. Pretty cool to hear new stuff. Never heard of DARCI being good dps back then. IFG I been in used Sins of the part / curtain call / Cold Heart.

They are not going to nerf still hunt. They just sold an ornament for it. Bungie knows people will buy those ornaments for OP weapons and nerfing it is a bad business decision

Darci but you get enough precision shots it becomes a trace rifle and shoots a mega laser

Ive had uses for darci for a mixed playstyle for primarily onslaught for doing damage on big targets while jolt takes out ads. I do wish it was on par with wisper but with more burst DPS instead of total damage, probably with a perk like cascade point but for hitting marked targets it activates. Would love to see more Heavy snipers with the other elements though.

Anyone remember factions like fwc and dead orbit in the game? or did I hallucinate that?

darci has some cool lore id love to use it again

I would change the exotic perk or catalyst to give it precision instrument. If Bungie insists on keeping it in the exotic slot they should also increase its base damage by a decent amount to distance it from special ammo snipers.

They just need to turn this into an Arc still hunt, instead of a golden gun shot it shoots a chaos reach laser beam

My friends called me stupid in 2021 when I said they should give gjallarhorn rockets to swords. Now we have ergo sum. Give darci Wolfpack rounds and a veist stinger and kinetic tremors effect

A special sniper does more damage than a heavy sniper. Let that sink in

How I would buff it would be to give the catalyst "Firing Line" but then again. That be way too crazy for a six stack team in any raid. It would completely overshadow whisper lol

i was thinkin about darci like 2 days ago lol

Here is the 2 ideas ive thought of for Darci. I wish it was better since it was my first exotic for my lost account. For DPS Hitting a precision hit amplifies the next shot up to 6 stacks at 25% and reloads 1 bullet from reserve(basically Precision Instrument with an amped up Rewind Rounds) For ad clear/utility Dealing precision damage to an enemy grants 1 stack of Data Collection(name is just a place holder but feels fitting) up to 7 stacks. Upon killing an enemy with a precision hit, grants 1 bullet for each stack of Data Collection into the magazine(can overfill). Both ideas ive given is an idea. But it is a choice of 1 or another. These ideas does have a difference. If the DPS route is taken, it would be like the Whisper while in the other route, it is there to have the workings like a precision Eyes of Tomorrow. I do think the ad clear/utility idea makes it have a very unique identity though. Even though they can add both together, it does make for some infinite ammo boss fights as you can just shoot the boss 7 times in the crit spot and just kill a random add just to overflow the magazine to 14. But a better approach to mix both together is having the autoloading part from the 1st idea only activate on non lethal precision hits. But i do want to see what could be changed to the ideas which ive given.

Since they gave it jolt, they should go further into that identity and also give it eddy current and a unique trait with amplified. While amplified, it does more damage and has a faster fire rate.

I feel like for champions, personal assistant can become the stun type for that champion for a short period and severely more damage. Increased the base damage against all bosses by 70% If this weapon does have a catalyst I'll add something to it. Getting final blows or rapid precision hits heal the user and grants an additional 10% damage bonus. And increased stats when personal assistant is active by 10, ignoring impact, this buff will remains active momentarily, so, unscoping and rescoping will keep the PA still active and allows the user to reload musch faster as this stat is tripled by 30.

I would love for Darci to make other arc weapons do more damage, especially since there are very few meta arc weapons for dps. Similar to old tractor that made void weapons specifically do more dmg than other elements.

Other critical information, like where Darci’s damage went …. 😂😂😂

GTA 6 might drop before Bungie changes DARCI from Heavy Weapon to Special Weapon 💀

I pulled it out recently, to complete the catalyst 😂😂 Pls bungo do something with this gun. It has no place currently.

I wouldn't be surprised if there were tons of players who don't even really know what Darci is or what it does. Letalone ever used it.

It doesn't have voltshot, it jolts on any hit after a second of ads

DARCI's exotic perk: let's you see where DARCI's damage went. I'm ded posting this from the great beyond

my idea for a darci rework would be to make it the best anti champion weapon. give it double or even triple damage against champs and make it so when personal assistant scans a champion, darci gets innate anti champion for that type of champion. so if darci scans a barrier champ, it gets anti barrier but if u scan overload right after it changes to overload. its balanced by the fact it is a heavy weapon so it would be good for boss dps, but would be the best anti champion weapon in the game.

Darci is simply just another way to do sniper bounties but why bother when you got crafted whisper that can gain level. I think shifting it out of heavy alone will help it imnmensely. But if they want Darci to remain a 50 sniper it needs to do waaaay more.

It's baffling that we've had several special weapons that absolutely smash everything when it comes to DPS, but they're so stingy with buffing heavy DPS exotics. Acrius, Whisper, Leviathan's Breath, and Thunderlord got excellent catalysts and small changes that made them incredibly viable for the last 2-ish years. Meanwhile, DARCI, Prospector, Queenbreaker, Wardcliff, 1k Voices, and even Xenophage have been borderline useless for a few years, outside of a few very specific uses like Deep Stone Security, oracles in VoG, and being a tape measure in private matches. All of them have excellent meta shaking potential, but they refuse to do anything of value to them, except Queenbreaker which they keep saying is getting a rework at some point in the next decade. Pretty much all of them boil down to either give it something to auto load the gun, or give it a bit better damage and instantly it's at least decently viable. For prospector, it's literally just give it slightly more damage, and make it so grenades dont instantly explode on contact so you can stack the burn. For Darci, make it a special weapon, or buff the hell out of it. It shouldn't be a heavy weapon that could shoot half it's reserves and barely match the damage of a single use of Cayde's Retribution. It's genuinely a gun that could get a ton of buffs, and not even be that OP in the current landscape. Heavy slot is gradually losing it's purpose, and that goes against the entire point of heavy weapons.

Honestly for me id completely rework the weapon, if they still want it to function similar though I'd: - Merge its secondary trait into Personal Assistant Intrinsic - Create an entirely knew meaninful trait for the weapon (could be something akin to Fourth times, or something entirely new) - Buff the Damage from its Custom Box Breathing significantly, so its focused on single target damage.

Это, конечно, из грани фантастики, но представьте, если он получит возможность накладывать рандомное стихийное состояние за 3 попаданий без кулдауна? К примеру, попал 3 раза подряд в голову - наложил ослабление, еще 3 раза - ожог, еще 3 раза - отсечение, еще 3 раза - наэлектризованность, и т.д.

They should just move it to the energy slot it only does damage comparable to energy exotic snipers

Looking back, darci just looks like a fun gun to shoot bosses with. I mean that fire rate just makes it nice! But it's sad to see how power crept it got

Make DARCI a Charge Trace Rifle that charges for 500 charge time, shoots for 3 seconds at 900RPM, and let it apply constant jolt and volatile, in addition to its Personal Assistant functionality. i guess

I have an idea for a buff. Give it somthing i call the Tremendous Individual Targeting System, or T.I.T.S. Basically it gives Darcy a pair of huge buffs, inflicting blind on foes, but T.I.T.S also buffs all guardians as well.

I really want to understand why bungie pretends its worth wasting your exotic and heavy slot on a sniper that is completely outclassed by legendary special snipers. Even if Darci was a legendary special sniper with the exact same perks it would still be a bad weapon.

regardless of the jolt taking effect on hits or after kills ( similar to voltshot ), looking at ur opinion actually made me think about these things too and im actually wondering why the hell were getting special weapons that outclass heavy weapons in every possible way it literally makes no sense and i feel like some special weapons overall need changes, still hunt being the most superior one ofc, but also some other things that are substantly better than some old gems from way back in the day. to me it just feels like they wanted to bring new, powerful stuff into the final shape, WHICH IS FINE, but atleast dont let old weapons, specifically exotics suffer for years and years being useless in every single way

I Forgot that draci was in the game.

Imo I think letting it load an anti-champion round (specific to whatever champion you target or last damaged) would be awesome. It could be an alternate reload by izanagis and could be enabled by killing enemies or smth

I miss one tapping nokris with celestial Also this vid can be titled "Fool doesnt know the difference between voltshot and darci and didn't even pickup the weapon to test how it works"

But it jolts

Darci Buff Move to Kinetic Slot while Personally Assistant is affecting a champion Darci can stun them. Change the catalyst to Analysis Unmovable: When Personally Assistant scans a boss or Mini Boss the rounds are changed to tracer rounds that linger for 5 Seconds and buff Darci's Damage

Still Hunt and DARCI should switch slots. Everything else would work itself out. Still Hunt could keep its high damage profile and be justified, and DARCI would have an excuse to be as bad as it is

Anybody that says darci is bad doesnt know how to use it. This video is proof. Once she locks on the first shot applies jolt for free. Stunning champions and clearing nearby ads. Then every shot after has increased damage while setting off jolt for even more damage and ad clear.

Instead of jolt it should be weaken, one which can be overridden by a better version of weaken like tether, increase damage by 20 percent, make it so personal assistant is active immediately upon scoping in on an enemy. Or keep jolt and add some of this shit to the catalyst, and change the catalyst to just kills rather than precision kills. Oh and the mandatory increase in reserves ofc.

Well I wont say the mistake since you know that already. But I do agree Darci needs help. I love the feeling of the gun, and normally i hate snipers except a few. I feel like it should get more damage, but also more utility as well. Personal assistant should just gain the effects of target aquired, then target aquired lets you pass all the personal assistant buffs to your nearby allies. Giving them all more target acquision and precision damage, then perhaps the catalyst adds that dealing sustained damage to a target marked increases damage over time(built in target lock basically, but doesnt end instantly upon reload as long as you are locked onto a target). this would make DARCI become a mix of support and personal damage with I feel fits its identity, and give some more options for team set ups. You got Gally, you got tracktor, you got Div, You got determanistic chaos, and now you got Darci. all have different use cases and helps out the team Also, I would love it if DARCI had a Failsafe ornament where failsafe talks to you while you use it.

I’d like a complete rework about its functionality, because its old form never had an identity in my opinion, other than dealing big damage, I kinda want it to be either “bait and switch” but as an exotic, or maybe its damage is used to fuel supers or abilities, so a warlock could use this as a grenade spam weapon, but those are very lack luster ideas, but are things that I would hope to see redefine the weapon rather than it just being able to deal damage because “it need deal better damage”

It doesn't need a kill to proc the jolt though, still bad but it does apply jolt pretty easily

Still Hunt should be moved to the Heavy slot and use Power ammo; no other nerfs required. DARCI should shoot faster, have deeper ammo reserves, and have every shot on any part of a scouted target do precision damage, on top of jolting with every shot that hits a scouted target. There, I fixed it. Now they're both unique and also uniquely useful.

Meanwhile whisper was able to instant ignite enemies last season on every shot

I hate nerfs so much. I quit Overwatch because I got sick of having to relearn how much damage my guns do. Bungie should just give DARCI ricochet shots like the Khovostov, since it's a 'smart' gun. They won't do it though because it's an idea they could use for a future exotic.

Make it so it leaves an arc trip grenade on impact

Darci and Queenbreaker need some love

You're right that darci is in the dumbster, honestly i didn't even know that it was good as some point so ty for that information. Honestly tho i don't think it will get buffed at least a little bit to it's former glory, probably because darci is free, it's base game but sill hunt it's the new shinny thing with the new dlc and for izanagi you have to buy the forsaken pack.... I'm just giving my 2 cens here but i think i understand what you're getting at.

Thank you someone remembers my good old girl darci, I hope they buff her plz we need to get this shit trending or something

Honestly the biggest thing they could do for darci is make it a special ammo weapon instead of heavy.

DARCI should have an enhanced crit modifier that reveals a weak spot on enemies at random that deals more crit damage than your typical headshot, that stacks up. Only way I see them using the "info" darci gives when scoped in a power fantasy. More difficult and more rewarding sign some mains up.

Darci does still feel good to use, you will also feel like you are doing good damage while firing them you see your damage and it's just sad.

Homie literally never used Darci before this video apparently, how do you read the perk and figure out “oh this sniper has volt shot” when it clearly just says it jolts targets

I really don't think they'll nerf still hunt because bungie has been pushing snipers so hard.

Not every heavy needs to be a dps weapon. The jolt on hit is CRAZY add clear and ez overload. Perfect on hyper current sniper champs. Darcy isn't bad. It has its place and it doesn't need to be dps.

Bro didn't use the gun before the review 😂🤡😂🤡😂🤡😂

Make Darci an arc still hunt with chaos reach. Would make geomags decent again

darci needs to be a special weapon

something else that could be done is playing into the "smart gun" fantasy by making darci reveal special extra damage weakspots on enemies you aim it at, similar to a div bubble, that could be shot for big bonus damage and to reveal them to the team. It could give it an interesting role as a sidegrade to div in a way, while still playing into its fantasy and ensuring eternal relevance through "make other gun hit harder" I do feel like the debuff tools we have at our disposal atm are a little too limited, being basically just weaken, tether, and div, and while its not easy to make new support weapons that can exist in a healthy state (the eternal problem is the bigger number will always just be better) I would quite like to see bungie at least try.

Add Target lock and envious assasin

The marked target takes like 150k damage