*Edit: Just a quick note here to highlight the Roadborn perk is broken. Please up vote for attention.* Ah Dear Chaperone, One of my favourite exotics, you've inspired my first Reddit thread. You look good, feel good, sound good, and you were hard work to get a hold of! You've been through some changes recently and I understand they were to prevent an OP situation where everyone runs around with you à la TLW. But some changes have made me sad, need retuning. Here's what I think... 1a. What Changed? - Hit Box I don't have evidence, but pretty sure that you were hit with the nerf to the precision hit box, which is fine. Still rewarding for for skilled usage. 1b. What Changed? - Effective Range You were also impacted by the effective range nerf applied to your family of shotguns. That means damage drop off starts sooner. In essence this too is perfectly ok, EXCEPT that without any buffs or perks, your headshot OHK should have a longer range than the body OHK of your high impact cousins. As it is, a CTD or PC+1 with both Rifled Barrel and Rangefinder achieve an easier OHK with a similar range and from any angle. Not cool. 1c. What Changed? - Damage "By reducing base damage but enhancing precision damage we are ensuring this exotic remains good at what it does when playing to the weapon’s intended role..." As per notes, the precision damage scalar has changed from 1.1x to 1.75x. (The scalar doesn't matter, only thing that matters are actual damage values. E.g. if base damage was 100 and scalar was this new 1.75x, a headshot would only be 175... it wouldn't kill, so who cares?). -REAL NUMBERS: Base damage, pre-patch - 183 Base damage, post-patch - 128 Roadborn perk does not effect base damage. Precision damage, pre-patch - 201 Precision damage with Roadborn, pre-patch - 274 Precision damage, post-patch - 224 Precision damage with Roadborn, post-patch - 224?? Broken?? Something had to be done to base damage to prevent consistently ranged body shot kills. Shorter range and harsher damage drop-off achieved this goal. BUT the base damage nerf has broken the sweet Defender-Chaperone relationship described below. Also I've checked video footage on YouTube, and with Roadborn procd, precision damage is still the base precision damage of 224. There's supposed to be a bonus applied. It even glitches sometimes such that the number changes between frames.** 2. Defender Titan/ Chaperone Relationship (Immobius, Go Away & Hide) Titan exclusive weapons (Fabian Strategy & Immobius) have been underwhelming when compared to those for the Hunter and Warlock. You, the Chaperone, make it fun to use my Defender. The intrinsic agility bonus and then further boost with Roadborn is like a rush of adrenaline. You are the only reason that I have a build that maximises Intellect & Strength to over 300 each and gave purpose to my bubble (Weapons of Light) in solo PvP games, more than Immobius ever did. Bungie has unnecessarily hit this relationship hard. -REAL NUMBERS Base damage, pre-patch - 183 Base damage with WoL, pre-patch - 228 Base damage with WoL (Illuminated), pre-patch - 247 Base damage, post-patch - 128 Base damage with WoL, post-patch - 160 Base damage with WoL (Illuminated), post-patch - 172 172?! After the maximum WoL buff, this post-patch base maximum is still less than your former unbuffed base damage value. Base damage should have been decreased to 163. The goal of preventing ranged body shot kills was already achieved with the effective range nerf, and a partial damage reduction supports this. But 128 is too far. 163 is just high enough that WoL can maintain the meaningful difference it made. One of the rare instances the bubble proved useful at all in solo play. Still not easy to play with, it means staying near the bubble and searching aggressively for the kill before running back to reapply the buff. ******* TL:DR; -Chaperone needed adjustments to prevent becoming OP. -A headshot OHK should have a longer range than any shotgun's body OHK. -Fix this with shotguns having Rangefinder or Rifled Barrel. Not both. -Base damage nerf to 128 has gone too far. It has crippled a synergy with Defender Titan's WoL bubble. -The reduced base damage would be fine as 163. -BROKEN? Is the Roadborn perk is broken, no multiplier is applied to the base precision damage. Fair? Unfair? Is the perk broken?