[b][i][u]WARNING: HEAVY RANT INBOUND![/u][/i][/b] Is this patch real? Seriously, it has to be a joke, right? No joke, this is honestly the worst balance patch that I have ever had the misfortune of playing. First things first, the primary balance is actually pretty good, my only massive problem so far is that focused fire is still godawful. For what's going to dominate, I'm saying pulses for a year and a quarter now are still reigning supreme, not saying nerf them (albeit the high impacts didn't need to shoot faster, they just needed a little less recoil and maybe a point or two of extra damage). For specials, you might as well have removed shotguns, snipers that aren't Ice Breaker or NLB, and fusions, removing almost any aggressive play style at all. No shit, I can probably count on one hand how many people I saw who weren't using something you lose ammo for on Death. Sidearms dominate sixes, basically replacing a now pretty bad Last Word and it just isn't fun because I'm not playing a variety of special weapons. I think more than half of sixes players are using sidearms, no exaggeration. [b]Solution:[/b] Reverse the special change. The subclass changes are awful. Warlock now doesn't have a subclass that's competitive in my opinion because of how they've been butchered. Voidwalker has had Life Steal and Embrace the Void effectively removed (more on that later), Sunsinger is only good for spamming stickies, and Stormcaller has had its only truly powerful thing gimped (I don't think Stormtrance is very good). Blink might as well not be in the game anymore. [b]Solution:[/b] Buff Sunsinger, reverse the bullshit health regeneration nerf The regen perk nerf is complete bullshit, either reverse the nerf or replace the regen perks with something useful. I'm going to end this with a quote from me replying to Orpheus' post: [quote]For reference, I got this game week 1 or 2, before the first balance patch essentially. This game has gone nowhere but downhill since House of Wolves. Let me go down the list; -Class items and Ghosts are no longer cosmetic -The sandbox team is trying rotating metas without standardized loadouts and/or monthly balance patches -Having to endure 3+ layers of RNG for almost every piece of loot without the option for retolling -Many gamemodes flat out don't work on these PvP maps, there hasn't been an effort to make better maps or take the bad ones out of the rotation. -The game still runs at 30 FPS on current gen, with no shown effort of upgrading it to 60 (granted I don't know how easy that would be) -No dedicated servers, which is a fail even in 2014-2015 -No punishment for laggers, invincible people and people who are skipping like Qbert shouldn't be allowed in PvP. -Most PvP nerfs have negatively affected PvE -Sandbox team is incompitent, often nerfing things which are either fine as-is or needed buffing (Bladedancer and Blink) -The dev team only listens to streamers -The PvE is just watered down Borderlands -Extreme lack of transparency when a situation calls for it -Cocky and condescending PR people (Luke Smith and Deej) -Catering to the lowest common denominator for most design choices (removal of elemental primaries as a prime example) -Blatant ignorance of mass cries for change (remember the remove SBMM post spam a while back?) -Making other game developers afraid of putting powerful shotguns and snipers in their games (see CoD and Battlefield) -Bungie ditching Microsoft for Activi$ion, with Activi$ion forcing Bungie to milk microtransactions. I can go on and on but this list is just what's pushing me away from this game[/quote] Edit: I -blam!-ing called it https://opponents.destinytrialsreport.com/