Not bad, but, 2) The venom can easily compensate for the damage lost if you miss the headshot. Not to mention, if any other enemy player is even near, a second poisoing may occur (it has happened dozens of times now since everyone and their mother uses Thorn now). 2) You shouldn´t require a set of Exotics available only through drops or Xur-mas (and class-specific, in the case of the Radiants) to counter a weapon that everyone has access to, since it´s an open bounty. 3) Because until that happens, PVP is a clusterf**k. Almost all of my matches now happen this way: go out to seek a target, get shot by Thorn, hide and wait until venom fades and regen triggers, go out again, get shot again, repeat.... yes, it[i] can [/i]be countered but it slows the whole game down and it´s just boring as hell. 4) Again, a "beat this weapon" strategy cannot be solely based on "get this other rare piece", because only a few will have access to it. On a side note, at least you have made your posts very well constructed and polite. Kudos for that.