Why Don't the Weapon Balancing Team @ Bungie Just Admit They are Clueless and Call it a Day
So I read over the weapon balancing that is coming in December and what a shocker PvE will suffer once again. We are back to exactly where we were last year this time. Let me save all the people who are going to create nerf threads come December some time. Nerf Auto Rifles, Nerf Fusion Rifles. Same time last year, the AR/FR combo was the meta in Crucible, Shotguns and Pulse Rifles were useless in PvP and PvE, and scout and snipers were the same place as they are today (unchanged)
I have no clue what are all these tests Bungie conducts, but obviously they do not know what they are doing. Is it me, or are they just reversing the nerf that they did to A/R the last time they broke them. And they are reversing the Pulse Rifle buff back to when they were broken.
I have no idea why Bungie insists on nerfing a weapon type into the ground so it becomes unusable. They need to start buffing just the weapons that lag behind. Buffing one class while nerfing another has not worked to date, it has always lead to one weapon type being severely broken. They are not balancing anything, we are just switching from one weapon type to another with every update.
They have gone a bit overboard
Shotguns I agree with as there are still way too many people who don't even use their primary and just shotgun from a silly range
Pulses need the range nerf but not a damage nerf
Autos and scouts are ok as they are
Hand cannons need the buff and I think snipers should be nerfed so that aiming is much harder under fire. Yes you can slightly stagger a sniper but their reticule drops back to the exact same place which needs to change. If you get staggered you should have to rescope