Firstly, let me preface this by saying that I play a hell of a lot of PvP. I've seen it all: from the auto rifle meta through the hand cannon meta, the pulse meta and the shotgun meta. I believe I am therefore in a reasonably good spot to discuss changes I'd like. 1.1 - Hand Cannons These guns really don't need very much adjustment. Removing Bloom completely would make them far too accurate and allow potential cleanup kills from an extreme distance. Therefore, I propose that bloom be reduced to an auto rifle level: it can consistently hit to mid range but then becomes less accurate. EDIT: Hand cannons' max possible range for full damage is 38.5m (the vendor Palindrome has the best range roll possible, and this is the distance at which it hits for max,) but ghost-bullet range is around 18-20m (hard to measure, as their nature makes them inconsistent.) Simplified, the accuracy measurement on a gun is the cone of the bullets: on the Palindrome with Rangefinder and Rifled, the diameter of the range cone at approx. 20m is approximately 115% the size of a Guardian's head. Given that this is purely algebraic, we can give the cross-sectional width of the guardian's head as, arbitrarily, 40cm. We can then work out the cross-sectional area (pi*r*r) and this gives an area of 1260cm squared (to 3sf.) Given the accuracy cone at 20m is approximately 1.3x the size of a guardian's head, d=1.15*40=46 and pi*r*r gives us an area of 1660 (3sf as before.) Therefore, each bullet has a 1260/1660, or approximately 2/3 chance of hitting. This is pretty appalling. The accuracy cone here should be more like 1320cm squared, or 93% chance of hitting. Just thought it wise to put a mathematical explanation up. The accuracy curve should also be simple, increasing the cross-sectional area of the cone by 10% for each 10m more. - Reduce bloom to give a 90% chance of hitting at 20m - Increase damage to max-impact hand cannons by 1% (to 96 crits.) 1.2 - Scout Rifles As before, these guns have never been completely dominant but have always been solid and dependable. At the moment, MIDA is overused (but DEFINITELY not overpowered) because of its huge aim assist value of 95, so that could be pegged back slightly to provide more variety. Boolean Gemini needs a buff as well, as it is very underused. - Reduce aim assist of MIDA Multi-Tool to 85 - Increase base scout rifle aim assist by 10% - Combine the two exotic perks of the Gemini into one 1.3 - Pulse Rifles The Clever Dragon is currently touted as the best weapon in the game, with cries of Bungo Plz Nerf coming from certain quarters. Instead, this should be the benchmark for pulse rifle TTK. However, this archetype is a bit strong at very long range, so range dropoff should be decreased slightly. - Reduce range falloff of max- and Hawksaw archetype- pulse rifles by 5% - Increase damage of Hawksaw-archetype pulse rifles by 4% (to 26 crits) - Increase damage of mid-RoF pulse rifles by 3% (to 31 crits) - Increase base aim assist of mid-RoF pulse rifles by 10% - Increase damage of low-RoF pulse rifles by 9% (to 37 crits) 1.4 - Auto Rifles The worst Primary class at the moment, undeniably. Mid- and low- RoF auto rifles are simply punishing to use because of their low TTKs. Low-RoF auto rifles kill in 8 crits minimum, 5 frames above high-RoF auto rifles. Mid-RoF auto rifles kill in 10 crits minimum, 3 frames above high-RoF auto rifles. Therefore, I suggest the following: - Increase critical multiplier to 1.4x (from 1.25x) - Increase base damage of low-RoF auto rifles by 7% (to 27 crits) - Increase base damage of mid-RoF auto rifles by 10% (to 22 crits) - Increase base stability of mid- and low-RoF auto rifles by 5% 2.0 - Shotguns No changes needed. They were balanced post-April Update, primaries were nerfed, they are now overused. 2.1 - Sniper Rifles These are not great right now: the Telesto currently has more total kills than the top sniper rifle (1KYS.) Some changes must be reversed. - Increase scope-in speed by 1 frame - Buff Quickdraw and Snapshot to Year 1 status - Decrease flinch value by 10% - Unflinching should grant a 25% flinch reduction, up from 15% 2.2 - Fusion Rifles Simple changes: these are careful buffs that are needed, to ensure that they are not stupid-OP like the Vanilla meta. - Decrease maximum recoil spread by 10% 2.3 - Sidearms They are fine as they are, except the unreasonable Queen's Choice nerf. - Revert max-impact sidearm damage to pre-September levels 3.0 - Heavy Grenades and Horseshoes continues to be nerfed, please stop it. - Increase Grenades and Horseshoes blast radius by 0.75 metres Any feedback on these prospective changes would be much appreciated.