I like your first paragraph, but the high impact autos are good. The higher rof don't seem as good, except for one guy's scathelocke last night. What seems to be the problem for me is the very large gap between headshot and body shot damage. HC and pulses just fire too slow outside of smg range to compete with scouts and ars. Inside of that range you have to not miss the head to even have a chance, so they're really outclassed at every range by multiple other weapon types. I think I was single digits on the body with graviton Lance the other day. That's crazy for a gun that fires that slowly. You can't use that at range or close up. I was living the vanguard slow rof pulse rifle when d1 ended (can't remember the name). That wouldn't be even semi useful in this game.