OK, so I'm pretty decent at "regular" math. But, when it comes to the math that Destiny uses in the crucible, I'm just completely lost. So, I'm told that a full-health guardian has about 200 hit-points, give or take a few, based on build. I know that, at optimal range, a round from a Hawksaw does 17 damage to the body and 25, I think, to the head. But, it shoots 3 rounds per burst. This would be 51 per burst to the body and 75 per burst to the head. So, in regular math, this would mean that 4 body shots or 3 head shots would kill most full health guardians, who aren't in super or have an over-shield. Anyway, here's my conundrum... I'm playing in Iron Banner (Imagine that! Something seems f@cked in IB? Weird, right?). OK, so I'm in a match. I'm about 8 to 10 feet away from this guy. He's directly in front of me. I start shooting him. But, I'm hitting body shots. I didn't change my aim, because I started shooting first and figured he's going to be dead in 4 shots anyway. Well, by the time my 5th shot hit him, he was still alive, with only his shield down. Now in regular math, that means that 5 body shots from my Hawksaw would have been 255 damage points. That's well beyond what it should have taken to kill him, even if he would've had a full armor build. Yet, it didn't. But, by then, he'd charged up his fusion and hit me with it and it killed me just fine. Now, I feel like I've got to say this, because I'm sure many will suggest we were different light levels and that caused it. And, yes we were. But, I was a 333 light level and he was a 334. That's almost negligible. Also, he didn't have an over-shield while this happened. So, what am I missing here? Did a few of my rounds forget to carry the 1 or something, because I can't figure it out. And this is just one example. There were several more situations that were very similar to the one I explained. They happened all night long. I'm just wondering; can somebody please explain this Destiny math to me? Because, it sure isn't anywhere close to the same as the regular math I was taught in school.