Couldn't agree more with the OP. There was absolutely nothing wrong with it being able to 2-shot regardless of armor, [b]that's why it was a goddamn exotic.[/b] Now it's inaccurate as all hell and almost never 2-shots. All they had to do was maybe tweak the range or something every so slightly so that it can't 2-shot high armor people from very long range - so a minimal adjustment to the damage drop off. THAT'S IT. Otherwise it was a fine gun that rewarded skill and sometimes you got lucky. All the exotic hand cannons are iffy now, wtf. Last Word is better than it was but still too unreliable I find - the hipfire accuracy just isn't enough and I swear the ADS does nothing. It's weird too because in the last control Iron Banner, the gun felt on-point for me and I was dropping people easily but since it ended it's seemingly gone back to being trash wtf? ADS accuracy is all over the map and even in close range, ADS or Hipfire doesn't matter you absolutely can not full-auto the gun which really, really sucks since that's kinda the point of it - it's supposed to be a CQB monster yet so many of the shots tend to go wild even when pacing my shots. Not exactly an amateur here either, was rank 300 in the world in year 1 and for a long time used TLW and Hawkmoon almost exclusively (and Thorn pre-buff. Used it a fair bit after the buff but I personally prefer it's pre-buff stats and would have rather they left it as it was and just buffed the poison)