Honestly, I think you're totally right about why everything seems OP, and I think your solution is sound enough, but I think there's another issue at play that's a major issue... The meta itself. Think about it. Every time Bungie patches the game, the meta changes completely. Now, an EVOLVING meta is great. A CHANGING meta? Well, honestly, how much are you going to invest yourself in a game that you know is going to change in a few months? Probably not at all. So when a player doesn't invest themselves, you know what they find for their trouble? No new techniques. No new strategies. There's a huge genre difference between this game and Super Smash Bros. Melee, but it's worth looking at as a good example of an evolving meta. Once the game's tournament scene started to take off, Jigglypuff and Yoshi were considered trash. Jigglypuff in particular was a floaty character in what was otherwise a fairly fast-paced game. It seemed like she wasn't very compatible with the game's mechanics. And that thought process continued for YEARS. What finally changed opinions on those two characters was when people who mained them arrived on the scene and mopped up the competition using techniques with those characters that nobody even thought possible. Before long, everything that everyone even know about the game was taken back into serious consideration. Jigglypuff and Yoshi are currently sitting at high tier. And how many balance patches did it take for Jigglypuff and Yoshi to get good? Well, it was a Gamecube game. There were no patches. Their rise through tier lists was simply because they had techniques that took time to discover by dedicated players. In a similar vein, at the beginning of Smash 4's meta, we all thought that Little Mac and Greninja were OP, and they ended up getting nerfed. Well, when everyone got better at the game, we realized that even unnerfed, Little Mac is actually crap and Greninja's mediocre at best. Thankfully, Little Mac's been buffed since then so now he's even better than launch (and people are getting notable tourney results with him), and Greninja's about even with launch. Now, that last example is especially notable. I mean, what does that sound like? It sounds a hell of a lot like Destiny, doesn't it? Except Destiny got patched out of ever getting that happy ending. It's very possible that at one point, Destiny's PvP actually was balanced, it's just that we never figured it out because we never had the time to. It doesn't help that Bungie patches out all of the clever/advanced techniques we discover, either. I honestly think it's safe to say they don't WANT an advanced PvP meta, which makes me highly doubt they're at all receptive to this. But as far as a meta goes, this would be nice, so I'll okay it anyway.