Bungie's philosophy, according to their own claims, is "play the way you want to play", and that is a great philosophy and I truly stand behind it. However, by nerfing Orpheus you effectively severly limit what a hunter can be in mid to high end pve activites, which is what I mostly play. At higher tiers of Reckoning, as a hunter, you can effectively only play celestial nighthawk solar bottom tree or void orpheus toptree. Any other class would be underperforming in comparison and is a burden to your team. Simple as that. Now that doesnt mean you cant complete reckoning with other hunter classes, but if you do, it's probably because bubble titans, well warlocks and izanami's carried you through. This, as is, is already heavily limiting and directly conflicts with Bungie's Philosophy. To be effective, we already have to choose between 2 out of the 9 subclass trees, both of them even requiring an exotic, which ofc not everybody has. Now luckily for me, I truly enjoy one of these two subclass-trees, void top, and therefore had the ability to actually *enjoy* playing reckoning or menagerie or dungeons or altars of sorrow or whatever. By nerfing Orpheus, you are butchering the pve Hunter, which is already vastly inferior to warlocks (although titans are bad too ngl) and efffectively reducing our viable subclass trees for pve mid- to endgame to one. ONE. And unfortunately for me, I just dont enjoy the solar bottom tree hunter. I dont like the knife (although I heard its quite good in pvp), I dont like the solar nades and I definitely dont like the playstyle celestial forces me to play. I like the roaming nightstalker, not the solar dude who presses one button and is over with his super. This isnt the "way I want to play" and this goes directly against your own philosophy. As of now, this will most likely kill off any motivation I had going into Season of the Worthy, which is really sad because I really like destiny and was all hype just two days ago, when the trailer dropped. This is in no way meant to be the complaint of a toxic hunter main crying over a nerf (although I might have worded it like that, sorry, english isnt my first language) but more of a notice of discontent if you know what I mean. Thanks for reading. EDIT: It has additionally come to my attention that you are nerfing the only subclass specific exotic tether hunters ever had. If you run tether, you run orpheus. By nerfing orpheus, you are essentially nerfing the entire subclass if you dont want to go for a neutral exotic instead, which, again, is just another limiting factor