I completely agree with this though from a general viewpoint I also see a lot of the younger audience being swayed to the warlock perspective. Younger kids are quite impatient so self revive is very tempting and the idea of a nova bomb is enough to get any kid excited. I've played since week one, yes I began as a hunter, yes I was bad at crucible, no I don't care about KD or anything. I chose hunter as it suited my play style. I'm now a Titan and a warlock. The Titan is great as a team player and I feel like it was unfairly advertised by bungie. I remember when I first chose my character I couldn't decide what I wanted to be. The Titan was tempting, a shockwave attack on the ground that could kill groups of enemies? Hell yeah! A bubble that provides buffs? Sweet! Oh but then there was the hunter, the promise of a flaming gun of immense power. Very tempting indeed. And the ability to go invisible? Cool. And the cloak the hunter was wearing really got me excited. Then there was the warlock... The fancy robed character that looked cool, seemed balanced for armour and recovery. Not a tank yet not squishy. Had a "nuke" that was great for shutting down enemies and the ability to burst into flames, self revive and have fast recharge rates. The choice came between the hunter and the warlock. I felt like the hunter suited my play style better from past experiments with games such as skyrim. (I played mainly as a rogue/ thief character, utilising stealth to my advantage with items such as the ebony mail and the nightingale set) I went with the hunter. I've always hated crucible. Mainly cause I'm bad with the hunter. Throwing knives at people isn't the easiest, activating a golden gun usually gets wasted during the short space of time to use it or the fact that hunters are squishy. Blade dancer was op yet I couldn't use it most the time. (I live in New Zealand so my ping is pretty bad. A kill usually involved multiple arc blade attacks) In my experiences of year one I found myself to be a squishy yet agile player. Usually getting shut down immediately by a FoH or a Nova Bomb. Even shotguns and thorn. Not to mention that damn shoulder charge. Warlocks and Titans were a lot tankier. They could fire a devastating super and survive the initial activation. Once they activated it, if they did die before they either hit the ground or released it they would keep it. Hunters lost it. Trying to actually utilise the hunter in crucible wasn't my thing. So I stuck with raids and strikes. Then came the dlc's... I made a Titan and a warlock to get achievements and the exotics I was missing. I liked my Titan even though he wasn't used much. He became my trials and PoE character. Tanky, capable of devastating damage, shoulder charge was nice for trials with all the shotguns. My pvp really picked up. (Yes I was a scrub and no I will not "git gud") Then the changes came. Warlocks became meh. Hunters became blergh. Titans became the next big thing. Once again hunters had a super that was shut down with ease, required accuracy and didn't always kill (Probably just my latency) Tether suits my PvE play style. I no longer use y hunter in PvP. My Titan is my PvP and PvE character now as I can actually get teams. "Need one lvl 34 Titan for skolas cp w/ Gally and black hammer" Yeah..nah I don't like the way the classes have been portrayed nor the way bungie claims to have "balanced" them. Yes I'm a hunter, but I'm also a warlock and Titan. No I don't use my warlock often. I don't like my warlock. The jump is the selling point in my opinion. Hunter jump is nice and Titan jump is too. Warlock is just meh. I wish the flood would just accept the classes as one another. This hate towards hunters is stupid. I was there for the hunter v warlock era and the hunter v Titan era. Personally I think the majority of the younger audience are just lurking on the forums looking for reasons to make stupid or crude comments or trying to be as OP as possible. Consider it. Blade dancer caused lots of arguments. Sun singer caused much dispute and an odd amount of cheese to be sprayed everywhere. Sun breaker caused an uproar. Shoulder charge caused raging. Fist of havoc caused rage. Nova bomb caused hate. Golden gun caused a society that hates hunters. Bungie should've just kept this game in beta and released everything when they wanted to. Screw activision and their money grabbing ways. Let's name the things tainted by activision! Spyro! Bungie! COD? (I never liked cod but I'm sure some of you probably have your opinions to share) Activision are holding bungie back They are the reason destiny is rushed and unbalanced. They are the reason destiny was released slightly early with more bugs unfixed. Don't hate hunters or warlocks or Titans. Hate activision for screwing all of us over. They're the real problem