There are a lot of useless/underused weapon archetypes which are overlooked because their performance simply isn't as good as other archetypes of weapons within the same weapon class. I'll give examples below: 1. Low impact/High RoF snipers. There is no reason to use them over high impact snipers because their damage output is less in PVE, they offer no advantage other than a faster shot rate, and in PVP, they are the only sniper achetype now that cannot revive-snipe. 2. Highest Rof/lowest impact chainguns. A good example is the Vanguard chaingun (Diluvian or something like that). They do less damage, have shorter range, and are often FAR LESS stable than high impact, lower RoF chain guns, and they share all the same disadvantages that are for chainguns globally (reload speed, ammo capacity, etc.). 3. Lowest impact/short range shotguns. A good example of this is the Crucibabies shotgun "In Times of Need." This gun's base stats offer terrible combo of low RoF (similar to Party Crasher), Low impact, and the shortest base range of any shotgun I have seen in this game other than Lord of Wolves, which is actually a Pulse Rifle. Absolutely ZERO reason to use this shotgun in particular, and other shotguns in the low impact/higher Rof archetype. These are a few of the weapons archetypes that need a little love. They should be changed so that we have an actual reason to use these weapons. I'll even give Bungie some spoon-fed examples of changes they could make to make these weapons desireable. 1. Have sniper rifle impact dictate how many rounds are in a magazine and how many rounds the sniper can carry. Example? Highest impact snipers should carry the least ammo and have the smallest mag capacity (average 3 round mag base, goes to 4 with right perks). Moderate snipers carry a middling amount of ammo and have a magazine capacity of 4 base, goes to 6 with right perks. Highest RoF snipers carry the most ammo and have the largest base magazine capacity (6 base, goes to 9 with right perks). 2. Change sniper handling speed based on impact archetype and make Highest RoF Sniper rifles the only snipers on which you can get an ambush/snappy scope that would allow people to use them to quickscope. This makes people make choices between a higher impact sniper with slower handling that can res-snipe or a sniper that can be used to quickscope, but cannot res snipe. 3. Low impact, highest Rof Chainguns should have double the average magazine size. I see them with around 50-60 rounds in the magazine, but due to how inefficient they are because of damage drop off combined with poor stability, doubling the mag capacity would help make them more appealing vs. higher impact chain guns with smaller mags and longer range. 4. OR, make low impact chainguns reload faster on average. Or; 5. Make low impact chainguns handle significantly faster. After all, its a light machine gun so its not as heavy- it should handle faster right? RIGHT? This might make them have more appeal in PVP...OR; 6. Increase their ammo held in reserve to make up for the fact that they are weaker and do less DPS. 7. For lowest impact shotguns, make them all pistol-grip shotguns with no stock and let them handle SIGNIFICANTLY faster than high impact shotguns. This archetype of shotgun should be able to be pulled out on the fly to blast your opponent before he can ready his own high impact shotgun. 8. Make low impact shotguns the only shotguns on which kneepads is available. This plays into the shotguns playstyle best anyways. Evade fire, get in close and personal, and pepper your opponent with a rapid fire shotgun. 9. Make full auto only available on the lowest impact, high rof shotguns. See description above. 10. Allow low impact shotguns to reload faster. This gives them an advantage over Higher impact shotguns as well. These are just some examples Bungie could consider to try to provide us some incentive to use these weapons. As of right now, there is literally no reason to use any of these weapon archetypes. Just get yourself a Spindle or 1k Stare and your good. Go get yourself a Squillium's Terminus, and your set. Shotgun? Party Crasher or Conspiracy Theory. And your good. If Bungie wants weapon diversity, we need reasons to make uses of all these kinds of weapons. Because they don't compete on paper, and if they don't compete on paper, we won't use them in the field. [Edit] I see other people making posts on what other archetypes of weapons are underused/overlooked so I will add them below. However, this list was never intended to be an all-inclusive list. Rather it was intended to be a list that provides examples of guns that are underused and how Bungie could go about improving them. Other guns that are underutilized are: 1. High Impact/Low ROF PR 2. High impact/Low RoF AR 3. Mod Impact/Mod RoF PR (I see a few of these though. Hawksaw most prominently). 4. Sidearms in PVE was mentioned. I tend to agree. If I see any others worth mentioning, I'll add them here. Thanks for the support guys!