Just goes to show , if something is slightly useful at all, there will always be people complaining about it Because there are normal D2 players, then are people who just exist to get the latest greatest thing killed because they are offended being killed by it And now there are even people complaining how fast others finish PvE activities

I saw the stupid YouTube video about this. I matched a few people using and never felt it to be oppressive. I know a YouTuber told you this was broken, but it really isn’t. I know that’s hard to hear…

If the common factor is 1 specific armor piece being combined with exotics that benefit greatly from that armor, maybe the ARMOR is the problem considering the LARGE NUMBER of players who didn't complain much less glance at the problem weapons. Tommy's isn't a problem, it's damage is fine, especially when the bonus damage on it comes at the cost of self damage like Touch of Malice, hence why no one uses it either, and once RDM gets nerfed, Tommy's usage will plummet. The problem is the pants that effectively give you an additional 10 or so range to your weapon, Offhand Strike, and bonus accuracy and movement speed while hip firing. You don't nerf a weapon because an armor piece makes it too strong, you're only negatively affecting any other characters builds with it otherwise. Besides, hip firing with any but like 3 weapons is unreliable at best. You suffer more flinch, have more recoil, less range, less aim assist, less bullet magnetism, and if you *are* close enough for hip firing to be viable, you're either swapping weapons or you're fighting in a position where it's VERY easy to over correct your aim, especially on controller.

I have never once seen a player mention Tommy's matchbook in the forums until now. Neither that nor even Sweet Business. I see more about RDM. Maybe do something for RDM specifically to pull it from being too meta, but I don't see too many hip-fire based weapons like TM or SB going anywhere.

All the PvP sweaties complain that movement is the skill gap, we get an exotic that encourages movement and still everyone complains I just don’t get it ….

We're talking about a gun with 0.75 TTK up to 25 meters. Its no Last Word with a 0.52 TTK or a DMT that could hipfire 3 crits at 80 meters. Its a noob killer.

Tommy’s isn’t broken tho, it’s just RDM. Honestly bungie should just make it so exotic primaries don’t benefit from RDM’s.

Tommys is fine, its RDM. Its an exotic with multiple exotic effects rolled into one. Its does nearly all the same things as Dragons Shadow and Speedloader Slacks, begging the question why do they even exist? 3 charges of dodge is exotic in its self and should be all RDM does, with all its other effects removed.

It went under the radar in the first look for balancing RDM because nowhere in the perks does it actually say that Tommy's Matchbook has better hipfire accuracy. It's just something that fits with the theme of the gun but is otherwise secondary to the main perks, unlike Last Word and DMT where hipfire is basically the only reason you're using them. It should definitely get an adjustment, but it's not nearly as bad as those two were.