Please go about your business if you are on PC this does not concern you. Everything I have read says that HC are balanced very well for you Master Race people. Anyone that plays on console knows that the only truly viable HC's are the 180s. I know the lunatic fringe will say otherwise, but for the vast majority of players on console bloom is too much on anything but a 180. I seriously cannot remember the last time I was killed by an Ace of Spades, and that is arguably the best non 180. LW is a close combat weapon and it is good for its intended purpose but unless you are inside 20 meters LH will win, skill being equal, and if you are inside 10 meters here comes Dusk Rock Blues. So you have about 10 meters where you may have an advantage over a LH/DRB user. And there is nothing preventing a NF/LH person from slapping on a LW as well. NF/LH gives you more options I think most will agree. There seems to be 3 solutions available to bungie to correct the LH/NF scourge in quick play. 1. Re balance bloom for HC's on console. They were fine in D1 (well in the very beginning they had no damage drop) so after they fixed that...they were fine. The PC peeps don't seem to have that much of a problem with LH/NF. I have no idea why this has not been done, or why people don't complain about it more. This in my opinion is the best and only real solution. 2. As many others have suggested make a long grind-able LH, like they did with the Redrix. No grind-able NF. 3. Introduce an exotic that is obtainable like the LW, have it be a 180 and have range in between a LH and a NF, maybe add a poison/burn effect that allows it to 3 tap to the head only. Here is the real long term problem on console. Because Bungie chose the only viable HC archetype to be the pinnacle reward in PvP we are currently locked in to a Meta until the nerf bat comes out on the LH/NF. The only way you can change the meta and not nerf LH/NF is to introduce weapons that can kill even faster at the same ranges that the LH/NF covers. I am almost positive most people do not want the TTK faster than the LH/NF can achieve. So the nerf bat will either come out or the Meta never changes. Or they could fix the bloom.