When in nearly all the games of Iron banner I have played recently (this IB and the last one), what stands out is the lack of variety of weapons that people are using.
75% of people are using TLW, Thorn, Matador 64, Party Crasher +1, Felwinter's Lie
Now these are all powerful guns in regular crucible, but when these are pretty much the only guns you see in IB, then there's a problem. Why?
Referring back to the Start of Destiny when everybody was using auto rifles, and they were OP, then it was the vex, then it was hand cannons, lately there was a resurgence of the vex when the patch 1.20 I think didn't implement the updates correctly.
My point is generally when such a large percentage of people are using such a select few weapons its usually because they are overpowered compared to other weapons. Let's be honest you can pretty much snipe with the above mentioned shotguns, the Thorn DOT is half the reason people use it, and TLW, well that's just ridiculous.
You look at all the other guns in the game and their stats reflect how they perform, what I mean in Felwinter's has a massive range, and the gameplay reflects that. But TLW? Has next to no range on its stats, yet can rapid fire cross map? One or the other, you can't have both. And the other point is that it is so inconsistent, I cannot understand how I rapid fire TLW at close-mid range and cannot get a kill, yet other people can rapid fire at long range and get the perfect three shot. Consistency please...?
Anyway it'd be nice if we can get some tweaks for the above guns, that'd be nice and make the game, especially IB, more fairer and competitive...
Post your thoughts below!
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1) Tweak Thorn DoT 2) Increase range drop-off on TLW 3) Reduce range CAP on shotguns (not an across the board percentage nerf which would hurt shotguns with low base range) 4) Buff auto rifles before TTK so that brand-new players can have a chance in Crucible with Destiny's higher skill gap. I think TTK will bring a breath of fresh air to PvP. Most players at this point are veterans with at least one "Teir 1" PvP weapon. Many of these weapons (excluding Thorn at it's current state) require practice to use to their maximum efficiency, and are deadly when used as such. Of course people are going to use them.