Legendary hand cannons in yr 1 were fine honestly HoW in particular. The only thing that needed nerfing were exotic hand cannons and arguably only hawkmoon and thorn. Auto rifles needed a buff bad which they got and everything else was good. The classes were balanced and there was only real complaining about thorn. That is why I feel like that was the best time to use anything but autos and you felt powerful. High impact pulses could 2 burst. Hand cannons filled their roll at the close to mid range and scouts could compete at long range they could have seen a slight damage buff but that is my opinion. Bungie has ruined pvp patch after patch after patch. Now nothing works pve is screwed pvp is gruelingly slow paced and it may feel balanced but that is because we are shooting at each other with nerf guns and throwing water balloons at each other.