Sidearms are in a good spot for the most part. They can't get too powerful or else they'll become a problem like a lot of people consider fusions to be. Buffing them until they're overly dominant and annoying just isn't the answer to the special ammo issue. Also don't think pellet shotguns are a problem anymore and a lot of sidearms can definitely contend with them currently. So if anything fusions probably need to somehow get the same overall treatment that shotguns got in terms of decreasing their effectiveness and the way they make it so the only non fusion thing that competes with them is a shotgun. I don't use fusions or shotguns and only use sidearms as my secondary weapon and, not that anything in Destiny is super skillful, but I definitely don't want to see them become a "show up and spam it weapon" just because some of the specials are so powerful. Some of them might be a little on the weaker side but all archetypes have weapons like that and the way that you have to go about using them is pretty much perfect right now. Its just that a ranged ohk is a ranged ohk so there's not much you can do about that outside of buffing them to the point where they don't really feel all that unique in terms of the way people are required to use them. The icarus thing sounds like it could be a good idea but that could also start to get on peoples' nerves since its something hunters would excel at and there's more overall people playing hunters most of the time.