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@ll_exile_ll: No, all they need is a stability patch. The issue everyone has with ARs is that most everyone has one of those two exotic ones. A standard AR is not that powerful from long range. Medium, yes, as it should be. I should be able to empty a clip of 24 bullets into your head and kill you from medium range if you are dumb enough to just run at me in a straight line. The real issues with ARs are the two exotic ones. Nerf those. Regular ones are not overpowered at all. Nerfing things in wide sweeps is not the answer to any of the problems. It just creates more. Like now Scout rifles will be "too powerful" and everyone will bitch about those because they will be one shot killed by them. And everyone will be using them at all ranges. Plus they have yet to nerf the range on fusion rifles. Which everyone has an issue with. They are by far the most powerful special weapon. And taken advantage of the most.

This patch is a joke. AR being nerfed is terrible. Shotguns range being nerfed even more than they already is pathetic. Why are hand cannons getting an accuracy increase? That makes no sense, they are the easiest head shot kill already. Stupid. Why no fusion rifle nerf? Most over powered weapon there is.

Bungie has no idea what they are doing with this game.

I thought they were going to fix Bad-JuJu. :(

@ll_exile_ll: And by crazy you probably mean like 3 feet? Yeah, not really. The best range shotgun in the game still needs 2-3 shots to kill someone at medium distance. It takes twice as long as an Auto Rifle. Shotguns are not overpowered. It's just people not being able to handle the fact that some things one shot you.

Go make a list of everything that can one shot you and I guarantee you there are a lot of people that will say all of it is overpowered. If you got one shot by a shotgunner, you messed up. It's really that simple.

The precision damage nerf on auto rifles is insane. I agree that Auto Rifles were too powerful, but you would expect a stability nerf to be enough. Also not happy about the shotgun nerf. Those things are already useless beyond 2 feet from your target.

Also, I was under the impression that Thorn would receive a buff? Guess I read it wrong.

I'm generally in the Jeff Gerstmann school of balancing: When possible, boost the other stuff to the level of what's overpowered instead of nerfing the stuff you regard as overpowered.

If I had to choose one thing about this game that is absolutely inexcusable, it would be how you have to have "special" legendary gear to get to level 30. That is so incredibly stupid, it almost puts me at a loss for words, but I'll try to find some anyway. Forcing everyone to funnel into the vault of glass to get the same gear just to get to level 30 is lazy design. On top of that, you're still at the mercy of the almighty RNG trolls when it comes to the Raid gear actually dropping, as it is not a guaranteed reward.

I can forgive a lot about this game, since it is just so fun to play (by which I mean shoot stuff), but mechanics like this are just idiotic. It already takes enough time to just get enough ascendant shards to upgrade the regular legendary gear. There's no reason to force people to do the vault of glass, especially when it requires 6 people, and there's no matchmaking. I'll never be able to do this unless they add matchmaking. Thanks Bungie, for locking 90% of the player base out of content that is needed to advance in a game with already limited content.

This is a good post, though, with a lot of good information. I just needed to vent for a second. I really hate how you have to get raid gear, and it's still just legendary. They should have made it a different color like in other games that shows it's a set. Anyway, good post.