Let me start by saying this:
In every activity that doesn't require any form of dedication to a specific role (Nightfall, Raid, ST, etc.) i use the Way of the Outlaw because i enjoy that Revolver fanning western style.
The problem is, it's pretty bad in PvE as you might know. It's bad against bosses, it's bad for crowd control, it's bad for generating orbs as a support and it's pretty bad in general lol.
I do realize that the priority should be to balance sub classes in PvP but give the ol' outlaw some PvE love. It doesn't need much to actually buff the top tree gunslinger, something like D1s Combustion perk (Killing enemies with Golden Gun causes them to explode after about one second) Would make the class actually viable for crowd control at least.
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It is viable for crowd clearing. The original 3 shot gunslinger bullets spilt into 6 shots isnt supposed to be a dealing damage sort of super, if you want to do lots of damage run the exotic, but 6 shot is pretty good right now. Each kill you get gives you more bullets, in any average big group of enemies I've gotten 12 kills with 6 shot, I've seen someone get 16 or 17 in a huge group. Regardless 12 kills or 17 both situations spawned the same amount of orbs, 7. It's not as consistent in spawning orbs or crowd clearing as nightstalker is but that is just because it doesn't come up as often it's still pretty good at both of those things