I would like to talk about playlists first. Trials: I would say for the most part trials is in an okay spot. The only 2 complaints I have with this playlist is that solo que is a nightmare especially if you are among the upper skill bracket. Being a top 1% player myself, I find myself getting the worst 2 players in the lobby on my team because the lobby balancing thinks 1 really good player with 2 extremely bad players is equivalent to 3 decent players which is not the case at all and almost makes the player feel punished for being good at the game. I really wish that teams were completely random in solo ques so it felt more fair but usually I can pick out the 2 worst kids in the lobby and predict that they are on my team with a 75% success rate which makes me feel like its not random at all. The other change I will talk about in the balance changes section. Iron Banner: Fortress is not a terrible game mode but not having a kill count makes it feel insanely boring since most people assess their performance by how many kills they got in the game. I think something as simple as a kills column in the stat board would go a long way for pvp enjoyers. Also we need new rewards that incentivize people to play. Of course make sure the new rewards are actually good for either pve or pvp. It would make sense that some of the best gear in the game comes from limited time events like Iron Banner same as Trials. Casual playlists: When I say casual playlists I mean normal control, survival, crucible labs, etc. There should not be SBMM in these game modes whatsoever. There is already a competitive game mode where you are supposed to sweat like crazy and play people at your own skill level. There is no need to put that same experience in control as well. When I que into control as a high skill player it is an absolute nightmare and I feel like I cant even enjoy myself anymore because I am once again being punished for being good at the game. Since it is casual playlist I would like to sit back and relax and maybe use some off meta loadouts for fun. But because I am in a high skill bracket everybody is playing hard meta trying their hearts out and I feel forced to do the same. Metas are obviously unavoidable as a whole but I dont want to feel like I'm playing comp or trials when I load into a control match. My suggestion would be to make control completely random matchmaking and only take connections into consideration with your new CBMM system. Competitive: I would say Comp is in a pretty good spot. It can be sweaty and frustrating with the metas at times but nothing directly cause by the way the gamemode itself is designed. Comp is also supposed to feel sweaty so that makes sense. Good job on this one Bungo! Now lets talk about balance changes. This is always a brutal topic to go over because everybody has their own opinions on things and I'm sure everthing in this game gets complained about by someone. But as someone who is a very high level player and is involved with the pvp community heavily, I would like to address problems that are recognized by the vast majority of the playerbase. Anteus Wards: Lets talk about the elephant in the room. These boots have been ruining the crucible for far too long. This should be priority #1. I dont really know how you bring these in line honestly. I think the identity of the exotic giving you pure immunity for a short moment is insanely powerful and has little to no counter (besides conditional finality freeze). The only thing I think you guys could do is completely rework the exotic to not give you immunity at all or somehow drastically nerf the ability to proc it. That could be a cooldown or making the mechanics behind procing the shield much more difficult to pull off. Regardless something needs to be done about these boots ASAP. Supers: I dont necessarily have any major issues with any supers except for 2 supers. I am sure you know what I'm going to mention but it is BUBBLE and WELL. I know bubble just got a nerf but there is still very little counters to it unless you have a super yourself, conditional finality, or witherhoard. And even then using anything but a super to counter a bubble is very difficult to pull off if the player is somewhat aware of whats going on. I also know you guys are working on a nerf to well. But well suffers from the same issues as bubble. There is one big problem with the both of these supers that needs to be addressed and thats its uptime specifically because trials is now a cap zone game mode. These supers alone completely run trials now and you are at an insane disadvantage if you dont use them. Roaming supers were nerfed a while ago on their uptime because of their ability to completely wipe a team and win rounds in trials. This was a sensible change because really strong supers should be harder to get. But now that trials is cap zone, bubble and well do essentially the same thing as a roaming super does now. They give you free win in trials. Allow me to explain a scenario. The enemy team has 3 wells all with 100 intellect. You win round 1 and 2 and they win round 3. Regardless of how well they performed they will have a well by round 4 before any of us even tho we have shutdown supers and we performed better so far during the game. Now they pop well and win round 4 for free making it 2-2. The orbs from the first well just gave the other 2 warlocks their well as well and we havent gotten a single super yet despite having more kills. Now we get a shutdown super for round 5 to counter the first well then the other well just slams again and wins the round making it 2-3. Now their first well is really close to getting their well again because of all the orbs from their teammates. And the cycle continues and your arent fighting against guns anymore its a battle of constant supers that you cant keep up with because your super charges significantly slower and you dont create a bunch of orbs for free. You should not be able to have 6 wells in a single trials match for a team it is unbeatable. Guns: A lot of people complain about snipers but tbh I think its a skill issue and they dont have good enough movement to slide out and flinch people. Lightweight shottys could REALLY use some love. They are almost useless now. I dont really care about other shotguns being meta but I would like to see other frames be able to complete to mix things up and give players new options to have fun with. SMG's are still really oppressive and auto rifles are just taking their place as king with their recent buff. So it doesnt really feel like the original issue has been solved. Automatic weapons have been running the crucible now since Ikelos was made craftable. Handcannons (being the most unforgiving of all the primary weapons) should have the highest reward since they have the biggest risk. You essentially guarantee losing a gunfight if you miss a headshot against any other type of primary but still can lose a TTK battle even though you hit all of your headshots to automatic primaries. The logic just doesn't add up for me personally. My biggest complaint would be fusion rifles. The main downside to them is their charge time. However that downside can be easily negated by just spamming your pre charge until you see someone which will almost always allow you to fire as soon as you see a guardian. The main counter to a fusion is to bait out their shots around cover. However, you cant do that if they can cancel the charge if you go into cover. So I think as soon as you charge your fusion rifle shot you should have to commit to the shot. That way they can affectively be countered and they cant cheese their way out of the only downside they have. I know this was long but I wanted to explain my reasonings and logic behind all of the existing problems and changes that I suggested. Hopefully someone takes the time to at least read this. Hopefully everybodys suggestions make some positive changes to crucible in the future as well!