This season is going to be a very strange season. The auto rifles are not taking over the crucible and it is looking really grim. Loading up into any crucible playlist was already a headache due to the fusions being overpowered with backup plans and mapping players across the map. It was such a carry weapon and anyone could easily pick up the weapon and do good with it, no real time at all. Now being in crucible I have a issue, not a auto rifle is OP issue but the fact that the weapons I took hours to grind, hours to get the perfect roll, grinded to 5500 to get my Lunas and NF is now being beaten by a weapon be given away for free with twitch prime. I don’t understand the sandbox, I don’t know who is coming up with these ideas but they need to stop. We’ve seen the Bungie streams and we know they do not play crucible or pve a lot either. I have been 5500 over 20+ times last season alone on different accounts that I personally made 100% Solo Queuing because I wanted to understand how matchmaking works but in my understanding with sandbox changes, Bungie is giving casuals a better way to keep up in PvP. I do agree that casuals do need a way to keep up because not everyone has the time to grind or just aren’t into the game that deep to do what a small fraction of Destiny players actually do. I do believe in SBMM and casuals shouldn’t be hard stomped because good players wanna have a good time, but what I don’t understand is why am I being punished for being good at the game? Let me further explain without me sounding like a true PvP elitist. The recent changes to PvP made a lot of players weapons they grinded for obsolete. Having 3 players shooting me with a Hardlight is an extremely hard counter unless you counter back, that was also a thing I had to deal with in the fusion meta as well. There is only so much you can do against a weapon that shoots 600RPM and does double damage off ricocheted. Now I get PvP is perfect but with this game, it is very hard to get an understanding of what this is really is. It lacks personality and with D1 we all knew the game was broken but you felt that you could use anything and do damage but with this game it feels as if you either use this or lose with this current meta. Any other wanna top player percentiles want to chime into this conversation?