Lets face it, the name of the game is range. With guns like lance, vigilance, mida, nameless running rampant, you have to go long range to compete. Every ability of titans requires close combat to be effective and you are either running the gauntlet to close the distance or you step into the hornets nest to try to unleash the ability. Soften up a titan from range and you've temporarily taken him out of the fight or gotten a kill. He has no means to boost himself or recover. Titans are close range though right? Right! But so is every other class. The difference is that titans are ONLY close range efficient. You come to me, or ill go to you, thats how titan abilities and exotic geat work. Titans abilities are the equivalent of bringing two SMGs into crucible. We arent more effective up close, simply only effective up close with respect to gear and abilities. Warlocks can boost their damage, heal themselves and teammates, and recover their health with a melee (no kill required). They have ridiculous ranged melee. Grenades agressively seek enemies. All of these tools boost allow the warlock to force multiply at any range and without the requirement of an enemy in your face, but can also be devestating up close. Running up on a warlock with full shield in a healing well defending a point is way more potent than a simple barrier. Hunters can heal, go invisible, auto reload, disorient, have aggressively seeking grenades, and have access to the longest melee in the game. Again, all utities that can be utilized to increase hunter effectiveness up close or at a distance. How obnoxious is it to almost have a hunter dead and he dodges to safety then comes back at you with full health. Nothing like that in effectiveness within the titan arsenal. With all that being said, what am I suggesting? Not that you turn titans into a ranged class, but that you beef titans in the arena of close quarters. Since that's all we have, it makes sense to make thise abilities distinguashably effective. Example, have each melee provide burn, blind, or suppression according to the subclass, regardless of build. Enhance solar titans burn melee since it already burns. Shield should provide the health bonus that the crest of alpha lupi provides and crest then provide additional health, perhaps throw in a clense of burn, blind, etc. Reduce the damage that penetrates through from rockets etc. Provide exotic gear that boosts auto rifle performance like stability, opening shot accuracy etc. Have a nonexotic elemental scout or pulse rifle worth a damn sonwe can rock things things like surose or the huckleberry without being chopped by those OP guns mentioned above. Enable titans to not just be put on the melee leashe but to operate peerlessly from that arena of combat. If you think any of that is too over powered, just remember, you have to be in proximity to a titan for him to be devestating. We have to adjust our play to combat dual range classes and close the distance, yall just havent had to adjust yours to have to keep a titan out of your face. That is all.