Yeah, I am really worried about HCs - by far my most favorite weapon class in the game.
Does anyone think that they needed a nerf in PvE? I use Fatebringer a lot, not unique there, but with the last nerf to range I had to be deliberate to crit anything beyond 30 feet away. The snipers on the far platform in the first room of the Omnigul strike are a good example. I could crit them, but I had to take my time, line them up. They feel good to me where they're at since by and large encounter distances in PvE are much larger than PvP.
On another note, were *Legendary *hand cannons a problem in Crucible? Or was it just the exotic 3?
I would also *love* to hear that Bungie is committed to balancing more quickly. An 8 month gap, and basically being told that they know Crucible's broke, but they're going to just ignore the problem for 2 months really, really sucks.
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And let's talk about the other issue here with all these nerfs. Guns are only half of the picture. Encounters are the other half. Crucible didn't become HC-pa-looza just because more people got the exotics. It became it because the playlists took the bigger maps out.
Similarly, Black Hammer is OP to the point of being broken, but that's just because the bosses don't move that much, especially PoE Hive bosses, and are vulnerable to stunlock. I never use BH on agile bosses like the Archon Priest or Skolas, or close range bosses like Valus.
Weapons are much easier to change than encounters or maps, obviously. I just hope internally, they're seeing that encounter designs are contributing to these bad sandbox situations.
