Yea first announcement for the buffs was on september 25th in the Dev notes, and the quote "we're still working on a larger patch to address under performing exotics" has been recycled at least twice that I can find, I'm not going to go through all of their posts but I know for a fact they said some shit like that for patch 1.0.2.3 and patch 1.0.2.2. But the main point is these buffs have been "in the works" for well over a month now. And I'm no coder but considering it took less than a week for VMC to get a nerf i find it pretty -blam!-ing hard to believe that a buff takes any longer to implement. The second PVP kids call for a buff on those weapons is when we'll actually get one. PVE takes a backseat for some -blam!-ing reason I just can't fathom.