So as the title says, I main warlock. I've been a warlock since the Beta. If you look at my profile, you'll notice I haven't even bothered leveling up my other two characters. (The hunter is actually my roommate's, and he doesn't play anymore.) Anyway, I love my warlock, and I haven't had any reason to level up my titan, until now. After the June update, Sunsinger does not feel as good. The grenades just don't have the punch that they used to, and the class is pretty lacking without that advantage. This change unfortunately came after I had spent a few months trying to teach myself how to use the subclass effectively. As you can imagine, I was a bit upset. But after the salt had left my system, I was faced with the choice between returning to my beloved Voidwalker, with whom I had spent the entirety of year 1, or finally level up my titan to shake things up. I chose to try the titan. I will admit, part of my choice was due to an apparent bump in titan performance in the crucible. At least that's what I saw. Titans appeared to be doing better, at the very least when fighting [i]me[/i]. So I decided to try it out. Now another significant factor in my decision was what the title hints at: Shoulder Charge. As I said before, I wanted to shake things up, but I also wanted to see how easy (or difficult) this ability is to use. Full disclosure: I've been getting pretty salty lately after getting charged. I think we all have. It's pretty clear that every subclass aside from Striker has a healthy frustration with the ability, just as we all do with pretty much every one-hit-kill. It's frustrating to get sniped, or one-banged with a shotty, or shoulder charged, or stickied. However when we fall victim to this mechanics, it's easy to see them as "broken" or "OP." I wanted to see if Shoulder Charge was as simple and easy to use as I thought it was -- if it was OP. Now my titan is under-leveled, and I don't have any really good exotics for the titan class (as far as I know). My rationale was that if the ability is OP, an under-leveled and inexperienced guardian should be able to pick up the ability in just a game or two. If I wrecked with Shoulder-Charge after almost literally never using it, it must be broken. My first game with my titan (at least in months) went surprisingly well. It wasn't a slaughter, but I finished positive with 13 and 12. I enjoyed the lightning grenade, the strong melee base damage, and the quick titan skating. However, I absolutely loved using Shoulder Charge. It was incredibly satisfying. I got a few charge kills and it was starting to look like this ability really was broken. The next game absolutely shattered this notion. The next few rounds, in fact, were nothing short of devastating -- especially for Shoulder charge. I stopped short in front of enemies and got shot in the mouth. I sailed past them and got an ass full of buckshot. Sometimes I would realize I hadn't been sprinting long enough, and would end up gently patting a hunter on his cheek -- staring longingly into his perfect hazel eyes as he filled me with his lead. The point is I did not realize what it takes to use Shoulder Charge as well as I thought. My first game must have been against the Blueberry Brigade or something, or perhaps I just got cocky in my second, but it just wasn't the awesome death-bringing weapon that it seemed. Now I'm not saying that Shoulder charge isn't frustrating to come up against. It is. Every one-banger is frustrating. I'm not saying the ability is perfectly balanced, maybe with the right gear and perks it turns into a pretty filthy mechanic. However, I can say that the Charge doesn't feel as OP as it used to, at least not to me. I think now I'm a bit less salty when I die. You can still be frustrated when a titan charges you. I know I am. But if you've read this far, I hope you at least realize that it's not an ability that any old blueberry can just pick up and dominate with. It's not on that level of OP. I don't really think it's that OP at all. Frustrating? Perhaps. OP? I'm not really convinced.