Since you threw your $.02, heres mine. This is the bed we as a community made for ourselves. everyone is complaining that special ammo got taken away, but what do you expect when all you complain about is special weapon ussage... Lets look at the last few metas and the communites responce to them: Taken king: 1k stare/longbow meta: The common complaint seen during this meta was "i cant flinch snipers enough, snipers op!" Bungies solution? They increased the flinch on snipers to satisfy the masses. The most common communities responce to the nerf? "Bungie doesnt listen" "the bungie staff are idiots" "rip snipers" and "destiny is ruined" Now lets fast forward, pre-RoI (about a month before launch) there was a big patch released. Alot of things were effected: shoulder charge, side arms and shotguns. Mainly, The matador 64 family. Rise of iron: Matador64/clever dragon meta The common complaint was range on the matador, the lack of damage fall off and the flinch. "Mapador64: crossmapping shotgun" was so common it was nearpy a meme. Bungie, looking at the feedback given sees that (since theyve been nerfing specials with every patch anyways..) theyll fix the problem at the source. If players have problems with the over use of specials then theyll take specials out of the equation. Lets look at the responce to this: "Rip special weapons" "bungies staff are idiots" "destiny is dead" "no one asked for this" "bungie never listens" Now lets look at this current meta. NLB/sidearm Common complaints? Side arms spawn with ammo, NLB has no flinch. First, it should be stated that prior to the nerf, NLB & a sidearm was considered a "Rogue" sort of anti-meta load out. You didnt see it much because it took time to get adjusted to. NLB was considered, for the longest time to be one of, if not the [b]worst[/b] exotics and prior to the last patch, side arms were the most under appreciated weapon classes used mainly to stop bum rushing shotgunners. Now for the complaints: side arms spawn with ammo, thats not fair: well theyve always spawned with ammo... the community never had a problem with it in the past its only an issue now that senseless nerfing left it as the only viable option left. Another complaint is "side arms are to fast (ttk) or have to much range which is... silly honestly. Side arms have serious damage drop off, depending on the archtype, theyre only viable at a slightly longer range then shotguns. As for their TTK it really boils down to an ability to trace your shots. If you can consistantly land head shots you got yourself an insanely fast time to kill, but thats only IF your target is range, and dumb enough to run in a straight line... As for NLB, the main complaint is that it has little to no flinch and its only viable due to a glitch. Let me ask the community this: do you want another useless exotic? Is the current meta really so bad that instead of adapting to play [i]around[/i] the NLB, it should just be added to the long line of useless exotics. Now: looking at these trend here is the common pattern "(Insert weapon) is Op" says the feedback community Bungie nerfs in accordance to demands "Bungie never listens, their staff is stupid and they ruined destiny for the 100th time." Slowly but surely, a new meta gets established "(Insert weapon) is op!" Says the feedback community And it goes on and on and on.