[b]LBD = LUCKY BULLET DAMAGE![/b] [b]LBD = LUCKY BULLET DAMAGE![/b] [b](I will be talking about the hawkmoon from a [u]PvP[/u] standpoint.)[/b] [b]Please read the entire post in order to more understand the poll answers.[/b] Ohh the hawkmoon. The relic of year 1. Today it is a shadow of its former self. Sitting in your inventory/vault never to be used again. Well it should not be that way. It is still an amazing weapon. It just desperately needs to be buffed. I will explain why the hawkmoon [u]desperately[/u] needs to be buffed. [b]The Lucky Bullets:[/b] In one of the more recent destiny patches they have nerfed the LBD from 1.3x down to 1.2x. This has changed the hawkmoon from being 126 damage headshots to 106 damage headshots. Players running max armor can survive a luckybullet headshot and a normal headshot. It is very annoying to see a player survive that and have to waste an extra bullet on him in order to kill him. It dramatically increases the time to kill on the Hawkmoon. What needs to happen is the LBD needs to be brought up to 1.25x bonus damage. It seemed like it wouldn't of been that big of a deal but it actually is. Please buff the LBD to 1.25x bonus damage at minimum. The Hawkmoon should be able to have all 3 lucky bullets stack up onto each other. They nerfed the LBD anyway so it was very unnecessary to remove that ability. You also have to take note that the chance for all 3 bullets to stack is 0.4%. [b]The Range:[/b] The Hawkmoon is a close range handcannon ever since they nerfed the range by 20. It just has not been able to do damage at mid range. I find myself getting outgunned by the last word at mid range which is a serious problem. The range on the Hawkmoon makes it a close range handcannon and if you try to shoot someone who is mid range you will most likely fail. The damage falloff would be too great even if you do hit your enemy. When I was shooting my Hawkmoon at mid range I was seeing about a minus 10 to 12 damage decrease. That is a pretty significant damage decrease and just tells you how bad the damage falloff is. What mainly needs to happen is the range needs to be increased by about 10-12. [b]The Ghost Bullets:[/b] So this is a serious problem with all handcannons currently but it is most noticeable and happens a lot more on the hawkmoon. The Ghost Bullet glitch, as we will call it, is basically bullets that hit your enemy and do no damage. It is easy to tell when it happens when you are using the hawkmoon and happens 60% of the time when shooting the gun. It really only shoots these Ghost Bullets on 3 shots out of the magazine of 13. It can happen on more of the shots but normally doesn't. [b]The Stability:[/b] I want to keep this section of the thread short. The stability on the Hawkmoon is still really good. It just could have a slight improvement. The stability on the hawkmoon pulls more up and to the right. It would be nice to have 3-6 more stability to slightly prevent the pull to the right. [b]The Reserve Ammo:[/b] It is very underwhelming with a total ammo capacity of 63. It can be boosted by using a chestplate with Increased HC Ammo but it doesn't boost it by much. Plus you are screwed over if you do not have a chestplate with "Increased HC Ammo Hopefully the buff coming to handcannons will help the ammo capacity. (View Do handcannons need a fix? thread. Cozmo confirms this buff.) [b]End of Thread/Closing Words:[/b] That is really all I have to say about the hawkmoon. I really hope you all agree with me on this. Especially you PlayStation users. You will agree on this thread about the hawkmoon needing a buff. It got hit way to hard way to many times. It is sitting on the border of being completely useless in PvP and PvE. It needs to be buffed and soon. If it gets too OP again we'll let Bungie know and they will nerf it fast. (Hopefully.) [b]I would like to thank you for reading this if you have read the entire post. I really hope you agree with me about the hawkmoon needing a buff. Have a good day/night. Take it easy everyone.[/b] [b]- ALTAIR98745[/b]