Speaking as someone who has all 3 classes at least to level 26 I definitely cannot see any discernible difference between the 3 classes in PvE in terms of overall effectiveness. It was the same while I was leveling as well. Each class has its strengths and weaknesses and its up to the player to realize them and play accordingly. If you play the your class correctly you will always be successful. To come out and say that an entire class is useless regardless of the skill level of the player playing said class is just ignorant. The hunter is weaker health wise, but if played correctly they have the best chance to do the most damage. They are not meant to be the in your face running and gunning class that some people try to play them as. I have had bad hunters in strikes before, but I have had just as many bad titans or warlocks. It all depends on the skill of the player holding the controller. As for the idiots barring hunters from their raid groups that is just one of the stupidest things I have heard when it comes to this game. Just because you have a couple of hunters does not mean the raid is a guaranteed failure and there is NO possible way to complete it. It all depends on the players not the class. There is no reason to act like an elitist ass and ban all hunters from your raid groups. All you are doing is taking away other peoples chances to do the raid and making it harder on yourself to find a raid group. To me personally the partial reason for all this hunter hate is just an overflow of hate from PvP because people are tired of getting killed by Arcblade or golden gun.