I have a 27 hunter, 22 warlock and 17 titan.
Over time I've come to notice that almost every perk in a column down a skill tree has a trade-off and it fun to try them all in different situations.
However my feedback is that the gunslinger has a few perks that make the decision to shy away from them very easy.
Those perks are:
Deadeye: increases accuracy of golden gun
Circle of Life: kills with throwing knife while golden gun is active increases the duration of golden gun
Over the Horizon: increases range of golden gun
I believe these perks should be tweaked/modified/or changed because they seem to be so much worse than their alternatives.
Accuracy - Golden gun already seems perfectly accurate to the point where you point at something shoot and its gone, maybe replace this with a perk thats allows golden gun to crit so that it rewards precision shots and does more damage than a sniper to a boss.
Duration - Increasing the duration of golden gun seems useless to me since it can only be fired 3 times anyway. Your not likely going kill a player in the crucible with your throwing knife while its active and thats about the only situation I can think of where extending the duration would be useful. Maybe a throwing knife kill would grant you an extra shot or reduce the cool-down of golden gun.
Range - There is no stat list for golden gun so I don't know what the inherent range is and how much boosting it will help but I always assumed it had an inherently long range so this skill seems like a wasted spot. Just give golden gun great range and make a perk that can compete with and extra throwing knife or faster reloads.
Thanks for reading my thoughts on the gunslinger class, I realize there is probably no way to change these. I hope I'm not the only one who feels this way! If you don't think these perks are underpowered feel free to tell me why and how you use them I would love to find new ways to play.
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Edited by ZachTackSki: 9/26/2014 1:39:15 AMhttp://destiny.wikia.com/wiki/Gunslinger link to the wiki entry for the class perks