Shotguns and Snipers are fine. For the most part, weapons are balanced in Destiny. There are some outliers like Last Word and Mida Multi Tool. Right now, Pulse a Rifles are a train wreck. Here's what needs to happen. High Impact Pulse Rifles need a buff to be able to kill in two bursts of Headshots, but have slightly reduced ROF to compensate. Low Impact Pulse Rifles need a impact reduction to make them kill in 4 bursts of Headshots. They have very fast TTK's and are way too effective. They need to be brought to a four burst to match TTK values of other primary weapons. Last Word is a High ROF Hand Cannon with the Impact of a Medium ROF. It can kill in 3 Headshots but fires bullets about 2x faster than Medium RoF Hand Cannons. It needs to either be brought to a Medium RoF, or the Impact needs to be reduced to High ROF standards with 3 Headshots and 1 body or 5 body. If this is in effect, the mag size needs to be increased to 10 or 11 rounds to compensate. This would put Last Word back into its archetype. I just balanced Destiny for you.

Watch coolguys video on pulse rifle range. You will be shocked at what you will see. Fast RoF pulses are broken and his video proves it.

Make "small arms" the default damage.

Everyone can have the said guns. Why don't you use it if you think they are OP. I have all those guns..but I don't use them. You will get killed in PvP anyway...stop complaining every gun that killed you when You don't like to use it. Every nerf will effect PVE...!!

You've named 3 whole categories of weapons - hardly surprising you get killed a lot as that's almost half the weapon type

No doubt. I've been saying for over a year that primaries in the game are underpowered, but I got a lesson last night in just HOW underpowered they are. Was doing this weeks Shaxx bounty, and part of it requires you to get 50 primary kills in Clash. But for some reason I kept getting dropped (despite an K/D of 1.08) in the Tryhard Division. Trials Emblems. Weapons and armor everywhere. ..and let me tell you. When you go up against players that good, is when you really start to see how inadequate the game's primaries are. ...and how difficult it can be in this game to kill a good player with a primary weapon. They can close on you so fast, that you're primary is absolutely not up to the task of taking them down. If you successfully flank someone, half the time the prolonged TTK gives them plenty of time to simply run away. So what happens is that people just basically use their primaries to team shoot opponents....but use snipers, shotties and other special weapons and abilities for the 1v1s. In one match I went 2-and-13 (and just barely managed to avoid going full-tilt).....and I think I died to a primary weapon TWICE the entire match. Everything was shotguns, snipers, and supers. Half of the damn deaths were to supers alone. Yeah, lots of opportunity to for "interesting counterplay" there.

I can deal with titan juggernaut, but the stormcaller melee definitely needs to be looked at. It's the cheapest melee in the game as of right now. In my opinion I think the stormcaller melee should have a damage falloff depending on high far away the enemy is. I feel it's too easy to get a kill with it from 10-15 feet away. Right when you think you can turn the corner and live and "BAM!!!" melee to the back from 10 feet away.

Bump. Autos need to do 1.5x the damage they do on a headshot instead of the 1.25x they do now. That is, if an auto did 10 damage to the body, it would do 12.5 damage on a headshot currently. All other primaries in the game do 15 on a headshot if they do 10 on a body. This needs fixing. Autos will forever be bad weapons like this, because they cannot buff the optimal TTK without making it very easy to hit near it- because you are punished less for hitting bodies with an auto than all other weapons. So they aren't worth using for anyone except those without thumbs. If you buff them like I said (and nerf the doctrine bodyshot damage by 1-2 points, and probably spinning up), then: This makes them kill just a tiny bit faster than a HC if you hit all crit, which is where they should be- an auto user has to expose themselves to do good DPS, but a HC user can dip in and out of cover. We can then buff HC accuracy because they wouldn't automatically be the best ptrimary, but they'd feel fun again! By making HCs harder to use, but actually mkaing them good again, we will have a diverse meta at every point except for 1% min maxer players. That's the best you can do for an FPS. When you buff autos and give HC accuracy back, pulses except the grasp/clever dragon should be buffed to 2.0 levels of damage. Then primaries will actually kill people, but it won't actually be much faster at all in theory. Like 0.05s faster than a HC user can kill you in now. Give Thorn its crispiness back but take away its impact increasing barrel mods, so it's really hard to use (you would need 2-3 headshots instead of 1-2). Give TLW its hip fire crispiness back but completely remove fan fire while you ADS, so it fires only as fast as thorn can while ADS but with shit range. Then the gun is unique again but it will be MUCH easier to outposition them. Right now, fan fire, that gives it crazy ROF AND full auto, works while aiming. And that's why they are scared to buff HCs, along with hawkmoon. This is the baseline we need to keep up with the mobility and abilities and specials in this game., Primaries should be a strict MAJORITY, not PLURALITY, of kills, in all playlists except supremacy.

They cant buff damage on anything unless they rework every weapon class. I personally think that scouts are fine ,pulses need a flinch reduction and a slight damage buff(1 or 2), autos need an extra 1 or 2 damage per shot and a slight flinch reduction while using high caliber rounds, and hand cannons need to have 100% accuracy at all times. No more bloom, no no more rng accuracy. Feel free to disagree with me but I've played enough crucible to know whats up. #yearonemetaisthebestmeta

Thank you! Primaries have been nerfed in to ground slowly over past year. High rof pulses are useless, autos are still a joke. Only weapons i think are just fine are scout rifles. Im so tired of people calling for shotty nerf. Shottys are everywhere in supremecy because its close quarters game mode. I see more fusions and sidearms in other playlists. Sniping and camping till cows come home is still a thing in trials.