Ok in the recent events that transpired it seems the community is upset. But what are you upset about? Well quite a few things; the Warlock "nerf", the weapon rebalancing and Crucible changes. But lets talk about the issue everyone is upset about, the Warlocks. Now before I begin this discussion, I just want you to know I am not calling anyone stupid. It seems there is a tendency in this community to not look at all the facts and simply jump to conclusions. Let us discuss both sides of the claim. Warlocks. We all know them as the magic users or the intellectuals of the game. They are said to be OP, but are they really? If anything they are the most well rounded class out of the 3. They were designed to use their abilities to defeat opponents. They have power coursing through them. Weapons are completely meaningless to them. But the thing everyone can't stand is the Sunsinger. Now before you jump to conclusions, lets look at the big picture here. Let's take a normal player for example and this player is upset about the "nerf" to the Warlocks. He may say something like: "Where is the Warlock nerf? Why is Bungie siding with the Warlocks? F*ck Bungie!! Destiny is dead!!" well sorry normal player, Bungie isn't siding with the Warlocks. That may seen hard to believe but look at the facts. Bungie has charts, graphs, numbers and data on everything that happens in the game. All that data concluded that Warlocks are not OP. If anything they balanced. Now the purpose of Sunsingers is team support and denial of enemy shield recovery, hence the DoT. The whole subclass is based upon the DoT. If you take the DoT away, the subclass loses its purpose. What does the class have to work with after that? And I am going to agree with Bungie in saying that is true. The Sunsinger relys on the DoT effect. Without it, the subclass is nothing. Now lets look at this from a designers perspective. A designer may be approached about the Warlock issue. They will then go into a test lab, in a controlled environment and test to see how everyone's complaints add up. The designer may say: "Hm. Some of these people are right. The DoT effect is really annoying" but as a designer, he has to keep in mind how the subclass was designed to play. He will likely say "Well the Sunsinger was built around the DoT effect. If people want the DoT effect to go away, that completely destroys the purpose of the subclass. And we can't fix it without completely redoing the subclass. But lets see how we can facilitate this and see what another problem is so we can keep the balance here." That is the perspective of a designer. They know how each class was built and how each subclass works. If people complain about 1 aspect, they need to see how everything can fit and if it can be improved, they see how it can be. But if it can't, then there really isn't much they can do except find another means of keeping balance. Now we need to ask ourselves some serious questions, but before you answer these questions, you need to reflect on this and really think about it before you answer. What is this community really upset about? Is this community upset because it didn't get what it wanted, or because Bungie had a logical reason for making the decision they made regarding Warlocks? What are you really upset about? My answer would be because you didn't get what you wanted. You wanted a nerf to Warlocks only to see that it can't exactly be done because of how they are built, you get upset because you didn't get the nerf you wanted. No one will probably care about all this, but at least I made an attempt to help see the bigger picture here. I can only hope people can see that.