That seems like a slippery slope. HC are too dominant already.
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Hand cannons are not as dominant as say season 13 currently as you can basically take whatever you want into crucible right now. And in pve nobody uses hand cannons other than for lucky pants. Buffing a hand cannon that falls behind the rest of its archetype and demands an exotic slot to be used isn’t going to ruin the sandbox any further. The tiniest bump in range just to make it more viable would suffice.
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I have to disagree. I think that HC's have too much range to begin with. They should be toned down to balance out the other weapons.
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I've tested the 3 tap range and it's not that great imo. The highest is 35 meters and I'm pretty sure D1 hand cannons 3 tapped at longer distance so if anything I think they need bigger maps and to scale the AA down some on the dominant ones cause as much as I love Hawkmoon and Pali having -blam!- like 78, 83 and 85 precision ratio says a lot
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If you think about it. I will assume you’re talking from a crucible perspective since that’s the only place where range increments this small are going to matter. If all hand cannons were brought to 29 metres say. The entire weapon type would essentially see zero usage and everybody would swap to pulses which are the next best weapon for peak shooting and utilising cover. You’re then essentially within the same problem as with hand cannons. Additionally at 29 metres hand cannons are outraged by essentially every primary other than sidearms and the majority of SMG’s other than Shayuras. Nerfing HC range won’t fix the issue of Lumina’s underperformance.
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Pulses arent as great as hand cannons at peek shooting, because you have to shoot multiple bullets before you can take cover again. Handcannons are snappier, great for dueling, pulses arent.
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You should see the way some people can peak shot with messenger. If hand cannons were nerfed in range to not go past what lumina could hit pulses would be the meta.
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At long range yeah sure. But HC would still dominate at mid range
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hc id say is more dominant this season than any