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.
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Great to see I'm not alone in this. They don't have to nerf. All they have to do is slight buffs on other types till everyone can choose any type that suits them because they're all equal in power. But only if they hire real gun experts first. A shotgun shouldn't be a sniper. All gun types should have proper real life range with the exception of SF guns like the fusion. For pvp, they could just disallow the use of Fusion as one option take the pvp experience more real and more fair. Supers are another matter.