It's been said before but I'll say it again: pulse rifles need some love. It's not that they're terrible, exactly, it's just that there's no real reason to use them over any of the other weapon types. I've even tried out the high impact Three Little Words, and while it's good, my B-Line Trauma is better, as is my Vanquisher. I'd say that pulse rifles could use a slight damage buff, but I'm not sure that's quite enough to give a real reason to use them. I would suggest a tighter shot grouping for legendary pulse rifles and above. I'd also suggest that quite a few of the pulse rifle perks are rather underwhelming (secret round and headseeker, I'm looking at you), and, for some reason, some of the best perks, such as outlaw and zen moment (not usually my taste but it would synergize well with burst fire) , are mysteriously absent from legendary pulse rifles. These are my suggestions. Take them, or leave them, it's still hard to deny that pulse rifles could use a buff.
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The problem with your standard Pulse Rifles is they hold a similar stat paradigm to AR's: shit impact with decent to awesome rate of fire. Sure they can have a better range (usually), but look at Praedyth's Timepiece: a raid PR that blows donkeys. Sure it has arc, and a great rate of fire, but it has practically no impact whatsoever. That mixed with the fact it has no where near the the number of rounds on a clip makes it garbage to your standard AR, which is stupid. If you want a decent PR, you can find them - but they are commons, uncommons and rares for PvP only. Red Death has some balls, but that is few and fare between for PvE. Give us some damn PR's with bite (i.e. IMPACT!). That BR was a beast for Halo 3 and Halo 4 - why it is such a shit weapon type now is beyond me...