Auto Rifles were ruined for a full year due to the first incarnation of Iron Banner being saturated by a single weapon. Not an entire class but a single weapon. That was a great while before Trials. The problem isn't game modes when your developer is swinging the nerfbat like they're Teddy Roosevelt. However responding in kind doesn't put you on even ground. I don't participate in Trials, but by petitioning to remove it and blatantly pointing the finger and labelling players who enjoy Trials as "the problem" does not a solution make. That's not even a work-around. Trials in itself is far from a failure and to truncate that experience would be just another damning nail in Bungie's coffin. Really tried not to notice but.. Your ideas are getting a lot more radical, and a lot less feesable. I'm genuinely sorry the game frustrates you that much, and has done so for over a year. The weapon tuning needs a lot of work in the crucible, especially when new weapons roll out. I'm in no way saying that Bungie has it right. But at one point, in ONE update ages ago Bungie addressed shotguns as they pertain to the crucible and the PvE environment and made separate value changes. Why is that not an option that people consider any more?