Why is everyone running Graviton Lance this season?

[Savathûn, the Bitch Queen]

Seems to be an unusual amount of people using it, or is it just me?

[robruckus65]

People were running it a lot last season too. It is a really good ad clear gun though and with the seasons activity being onslaught its a good choice. Plus they kind of buffed it and fixed an issue with it recently so it's in top form. So it's usage rate may have gone up a bit seems about the same to me though.

[Comissar person[FIN]]

need the biggest broom to mop up the trash :3

[Savathûn, the Bitch Queen]

Ah good to know thank you! I haven't played in over a year so a lot has changed. I'll be sure to try it out.

[Comissar person[FIN]]

Originally posted by Savathûn, the ♥♥♥♥♥ Queen:

Ah good to know thank you! I haven't played in over a year so a lot has changed. I'll be sure to try it out.

if you need help to get up to speed, all ye need is to ask, i got time to help around

[Mastodon_2]

It is, and has always been one of the strongest primary exotics in the game. I'd say for lower-level content where things die easily, it's perhaps the best exotic primary. It can clear a room from a single kill, in some cases. Plus it has no damage drop-off on the second round of the burst which makes it good for plinking at range, if you need to do that.

I feel like it drops off in harder content and Outbreak Perfected is the better choice, as far as exotic primaries go.

[Fearagen]

I have noticed a surge as well. I use it all the time for void related builds especially warlock w/ Nezarec's sin for grenade regen.

[ShatteredPumpkin]

its a good gun itself and has good AoE damage to quickly kill tons of enemies at once especially in the season arena mode

[DCR]

deterministic chaos in heavy slot for exotic is a better utilitarian deal in gm due to barrier + weaken effect which helps on all things.
Graviton lance is great, but you can forge a good legendary pulse with decent range, and thus you have barrier + unstoppable as both ranged options, and you can keep lost signal or other grenade launcher in kinetic slot, or fav shotgun/sniper/smg etc.
DC also breaks horror shields in festival of the lost btw. So its not just barrier champs.

[The Milk Daddy]

No idea, probably because it's feeling and doing the best it ever did right about now. I'm just here to say that I've been a fan and been using It ever since I got it way back sometime when the game came to steam. As of posting this I have 44,437 kills on it and have never dismantled or reacquired it.

[Percello]

Originally posted by Savathûn, the ♥♥♥♥♥ Queen:

Seems to be an unusual amount of people using it, or is it just me?

For a few simple reasons: On kills, the baddie explodes. If the explosion kills other baddies, they will also explode. The chain reaction is great. It's also an unlimited ammo kinetic weapon with no bullet damage drop; Any range, same damage. It's also extremely accurate with its 2-round burst.

I'm one of those that use it as my main weapon.