Swaye here with a Destiny video! Today we are going to talk about the new high impact exotic Sniper rifle the Zen Meteor and compare this with the famous Black Spindle.
I was lucky enough to have some spare Special Exotics in my vault which I saved for the April Update and Rahool was so friendly to decrypt the Zen Meteor for me!
First of all how can you obtain the Zen Meteor? Well unlike the Black Spindle which is only attainable by the completing a special side mission when the Lost To Light daily mission is active, the Zen Meteor can be obtained by completing any activities that has a chance to reward an exotic item like raids, nightfalls and Trials. Most likely you will get this by decrypting Special Exotic Engrams like me.
Lets take a closer look at the Zen Meteor, the description says: Complete awareness, complete focus. A mind sharpened by diligence to a single deadly point.
The signature perk is Dynamite where the gun gains an extra higher damaged round when you rapidly kills with every round in the clip.
This sniper comes with CQB ballistics, soft ballistics and smart drift control.
Underdog: This weapon gains a boost to range and handling when health is low
Fitted stock to increase the stability
Field Scout which lets you spawn with 12 rounds
Injection mold, increased stability at expense of range
With a Laser beam, the extra round from Dynamite causes a massive explosian
I recommend to use Smart Drift Control to up the stability because you will notice that this gun will kick a lot and Field Scout which will let you spawn with 12 rounds, this is especially useful in Pvp where special ammo is scarce nowadays.
When using the Zen Meteor you want to take your time with your shots so you can utilize the Dynamite round which is 3 times as effective a normal round. See my testing in the cosmodrone where I crit a dreg with 1657 , and later the Dynamite round crits at 4971 which is exactly a multiplier of 3.
Now lets have a look at Black Spindle
It comes with Smooth ballistics, Field Choke and CQB Ballistics.
The signature perk white nail which will refill the magazine when you rapidly land three precision shots.
Snapshot aiming this weapon is incredibly fast
Flared Magwell, to increase the reload of this weapon
Perfect Balance, this weapon has extremely low recoil
And Mulligun , missing a shot has a chance to return the ammo.
I recommend to use Field Choke and perfect balance. This weapon relies on you to hit those precision shots and get those endless shots without reloading and perfect balance will help you with that by lowering the recoil and Field Choke makes sure that you put out as much dps as possible.
Lets now put these snipers together and compare the base stats. You will notice that the rate of fire is higher for the Zen meteor and the impact are the same. Range and reload speed are quite similar and the Black Spindle has a bit more stability.
Although the impact shows the same stat the actual damage numbers are different for these guns. To test this I have both guns at light attack level 320 on the same character. Lets look at the damage numbers... the Black Spindle crits at around 24 thousand and when we use the Zen Meteor with the same light attack level we see that it crits at almost 18 thousand.
Pure DPS wise per bullet the Black Spindle will still be king.
So does that ends the comparison now? No , even though both snipers are both in the high impact category both excel in different situations.
Black Spindle will be very useful for situation where you can constantly damage a boss over time. For example The Warpriest and Golgoroth encounters are perfect for Black Spindle where you have a limited amount of time to put as much damage into the boss as possible and the Black Spindle White Nail perk makes that happen so you can shoot without ever reloading the gun, provided you hit precision shots.
The Zen Meteor even though it does not hit as hard as Black Spindle excels in situations where you have a lot of enemies. The Dynamite Round if used correctly can wipe out a group of enemies if they are grouped together, see it as one ULTRA firefly perk. However you do need to hit all of your 3 shots in your magazine for it to proc though. This weapon is great as a supporter role in raids, strikes or nightfall where the other team mates can be on the frontline and you can hang in the back which allows you to focus on proccing the Dynamite round to help your teammates.
But all in all I would say that the Zen Meteor is very situational, I found myself needing to slow down my pace so I would be able to proc the Dynamite round. Also I found the 5 second limit on the Dynamite round not enough in most of the situations. I found myself looking for a target to use my precious dynamite round on and once I found it the 5 seconds has already passed.
I really hope they would buff the time limit to around 8 seconds, which will give the player enough time to find the target they want to use this Dynamite round on.
In the end, The Black Spindle will still be King in PVE, as for PvP we might see more of Zen Meteor due to the fact that for one it has the highest Aim assist of 80 topping Weyloran March aim assistance of 79 and the Field Scout Perk lets you spawn with 12 Special Ammo rounds at the beginning of the match. This will be super useful in competitive matches like Trials of Osiris.
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