I think it's fine. TLW and MIDA are stupid, but it's nothing a good plan can't fix.

It's pretty close Would 1. tighten fusions spread by 6%. 2. Add slight sway to snipers 3. Drop range on thorn by 3% 4. Drop range on TLW by 5 % 5. Up impact on slow fire autos by 2% 6. Add 2 hard to get non archetypes greens and 1 in blues in every weapon type to reward those who hunt for the weird "power doesn't matter" crucible guns. PS : some good advice below to the effect keep range on TLW and drop the auto fire rate slightly suggest TTK of approx 1sec

I think it's the best it's ever been

Primaries Hand cannons need an accuracy buff and extra ammo in reserves. High impact auto rifles need a stability boost and slight range buff. Low impact auto rifles could use a slight stability nerf and range nerf. Medium impact autos could use some stability and maybe a slight AA buff Scout rifles are perfectly balanced. If anything a 1-3 bullet mag reduction for large mag scouts High ROF pulses are all good Low ROF pulses should kill in 2 bursts of the guardian does not have max armor. Slight stability buff Red death type pulses should gain some stability Secondaries Fusion rifles. Make them hitscan weapons. The projectile thing is kind of redundant and makes them less viable. Stability nerf to high impact fusions. Stability buffs to low impact fusions. Slight range increase Shotguns. Right now I think they're in a good spot as far as the high impact low ROF goes (i.e. Conspiracy theory D). Low impact High ROF needs a mag boost, stability increase, reload speed increase and reserve ammo increase to make them more viable Snipers. (Let the controversy begin). Place snipers into two archetypes: high impact low ROF. Low impact high ROF. High impact snipers should have about 1.5 to 2 seconds in between shots to compensate for the damage and ability to one shot revived enemies. Low impact should have .3 to .5 seconds between shots and be able to 2 tap to the body. In exchange for this the sniper should not be able to res snipe. Lower mag ammo for high impact snipers and lower AA slightly. Smaller hit boxes on guardian heads. Slow movement speed with all snipers (they did it to shotguns allowing snipers to reign supreme). Longer ADS time on all snipers. Remove snapshot as a perk (like they did with shot package) as well as hidden hand. Sidearms. They're good. They fill that niche between shotgun and snipers though if the fusions get buffed they may be slightly less viable. Heavies Rockets. All rockets get 3 rockets from a heavy pickup. No more no less. Increase rocket damage to be able to one shot everything but a radiant skin warlock and a striker Titan mid fist of havoc. Fix grenades and horseshoes causing rockets to explode early without dealing damage Machine guns. Lower amount of heavy ammo received from crates. Mag and a fourth would be good. Increase stability and mag size of high ROF machine guns but lower range. Increase range and lower stability of low ROF machine guns Swords. They're good. Pretty fun weapon to use with some tricks up their sleeve that a good sword weirder can take advantage of.

If people have to use the word "meta" to describe how gun or ability loadouts are set up, then there isn't any balance to be found.

Snipers should never be more effective them primaries [b][u]UNLESS THEY ARE A PRIMARY AS WELL![/u][/b] No. Right now there is no balance. Secondaries should never be more effective than primaries. Until primaries get a buff there will be an unbalanced meta.

If there's a "meta" there is no balance...

For the most part. Primaries: Fix handcannon accuracy Buff pulse riffles slightly Secondaries Lower draw time and aim time of snipers to prevent quickscoping. Increase flinch for snipers just enough to allow people to challenge snipers with their primaries. Lower recoil for sidearms Nerf the fusion riffles because they are op Heavy Buff swords by increasing lounge distance. I realize the consensus is that swords are a build mainly for PvE, but they fail significantly even in that regard. Swords have two main purposes in this game: 1) to climb the wall in kings fall and 2) to kill the vessel. That's all they do.

Buff pulses again, buff fusions to have more range and accuracy, buff hand cannons ammo so you can hold more than 30 like wtf, buff blade dancer, nerf the burn on warlocks to three damage over time for a bit shorter of time, make it so the blast radius of hammers is the same as the proxy so you don't get the moments where you hit them and they don't die, slightly nerf the range of the doctrine, nerf the last words range... Again, buff slower rof auto rifles so they can compete but not to much to where they are to op, did I mention fusion rifles because i dont know if bungie knows they are a gun please buff, make it so the tether activates instantly, that would make the pvp side of the game more fun now to pve, buff golden gun and blade-dancer a living crap ton, buff striker to do more damage to mobs, make fusion rifles higher damage and more range and accuracy, make bea (gally) come back and remove the nerf, bring bea 2 back (icebreaker) and remove its cool down time nerf, hand cannons NEED MORE AMMO IN THE Reserves, make it so us and the mods get 3 times damage on burns and that should be all I believe