There has been a lot of controversy on this topic. I know that the number of games I've played before the update is nowhere even remotely close the total number of games the community has played, but I would still really like to see the raw data that bungie was looking at when they made these decisions. I've watched multiple videos on other people's opinions, some of which I agree with, other I do not. Here is my current opinion on the subject. The tripmine has taken a bit of a blow to it's grandeur, and will no longer one hit kill a guardian unless that guardian has the lowest possible armor in their skill tree. This doesn't mean that tripmines are completely useless now, but you're gonna have to work a whole lot harder to use them. There are other useable options besides the tripmine (incendiary and scatter) that do work relatively well, granted you use them in the right situation. It would have been nice if the red light had been dulled down, and arm time increased, but so is life. The throwing knife is talked about a lot less then the tripmine, however, it's the one I feel needed a nerf least of all. The pre-nerf throwing knife was one of those "high risk, high rewards" kinda things. Gunslingers had the option to either keep firing their primaries to do damage on their target, or to take the chance of throwing a knife and risk losing a couple valuable seconds in the firefight. If you didn't land your throwing knife, you'd die. You were taking a very high risk, with the chance you score big and do a good chunk of damage to you enemy. Now however, the reward for taking that risk has been significantly lowered. There's less reason for you to try to hit your target with a knife, than just hosing them with your primary. Overall, I feel like the equipment (which was really the only thing Gunslingers had going for them) has been brought down to the point of being pretty much useless. It takes a lot more work to try to use it, than just using your primary and special weapons. But it can still be rewarding if you put the work into it. The Gunslinger will come back! (Edit: Someone mentioned in the feed that what I talked about is almost identical to what the youtuber Truevanguard had to say on this topic. I apologize for the similarities between the video and my post, I honestly didn't mean to copy what Truevanguard said. Since my post and the video are so similar, I thought I might as well link the video in the description.)