I personally like your thought process that better players have more credible opinions on the matter. I'll offer my opinion though, not on whether the shotgun is balanced or not, but on the fact that it worked exactly the same way in the beta and any balancing issues would've been corrected already if Bungie thought it was a problem.
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Very good point... This has me worried though
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I have an overall 2.04 K/D within the Crucible; not sure if that's high or low by anyone's standards but I consider it "eh, decent," and I don't generally have a problem with the shotgunners. Though, that may be because I tend to just out-maneuver them and double melee for the kill.
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Worried how? I'm more baffled than anything, to be honest. I simply don't comprehend how people are so convinced that a shotgun killing them at close range is a problem.
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I guess they don't think they should be killed by anything.