The sandbox changes weren't as destructive as I expected. It seems you've started to realize that a balancing model that involves always nerfing the most used thing is unsustainable and, with time, reduces everything to a squirt gun. But there were still a couple changes that made absolutely no sense. Once again, forum whiners for the better of you. Over time, you've completely dismissed the importance of exotics in the game. Right now, most exotics really aren't 'exotic'. Weapons like Fabian Strategy, Hard Light, Boolean Gemini fit this category. Sure, those guns make a different sound when you shoot them and have an "exotic perk", but they serve no real use that makes them better than substitutable legendaries. You have to realize that giving a gun a slightly altered version of a normal perk doesn't make it exotic. Well, you've furthered that in this patch. You've taken a couple exotics that are some of the only ones in the game that actually warrant their exotic title, and ruined them. The Last Word -- Can somebody tell me what was actually wrong with this weapon? I'm having trouble placing it. It's popular for the same reason MIDA Multitool is popular; because all your nerfs put them in front. But instead of addressing that issue by considering the massive depreciation of weapon quality over time, you just choose to perpetuate the goddamn issue. Instead of realizing that exotic weapons are supposed to [b]be exotic weapons[/b] and buffing the ones that aren't worth a shit, you nerf the good ones to artificially broaden the landscape. You said yourself that you want to encourage variety by making sure there are a lot of viable choices. Apparently, though, you'd rather encourage variety by nerfing whatever people use. Are you too blind to see what it's done to the game since launch? The auto rifle nerf back in 1.1.1....it was the start of a chain reaction, yet you see it as a constant balance. We know you like your graphs, Jon. Why don't you hop on excel and make a graph of the last 18 months. I guarantee you'll see a clear wall where every major nerf was made. And maybe you'll learn the simple concept of cause and effect in the process. Get crunchin'. By taking the damage bonus away from The Last Word perk, do you know what you've done? You've reduced its exotic perk to what is essentially a slightly boosted version of "hip fire". Add that to a weapon that's already had its range and accuracy halved in the name of "balance". And to those who say "but, but, but, but we haven't seen the patch yet", please refer back to the stream. We saw just how shitty the new TLW is. He couldn't even kill a guy that was standing still. He had to reload twice. Thorn -- The reason thorn was better than most exotics is the same reason TLW is. Because most exotics suck. But like always, you'd just rather nerf whatever people are whining about. At least the whiners are just butthurt, you're the ones turning their cries into realities, a crucible that sinks to their level; which makes you worse than them. I expected a nerf to thorn. I knew it was coming. But I at least expected you to acknowledge the purpose of DOT. DOT, whether or not it's doing more than 2 damage (what a joke), it supposed to keep the target disengaged. By reducing the stack limit, the target is disengaged for no more than an additional second. When you compare that to normal recovery time, that's shit. And to add to that, 2 damage. 2, -blam!-ing, damage. You reassured the viewers "don't worry, DOT will rarely ever kill anymore". Well, if you're done patting the backs of every 12 year old on stream who stole mommy's credit card so they could sub to your channel, maybe you can give us an explanation for why you think 2 damage is anything worth wielding this gun over any legendary, especially take into account the reduced stack limit. [b]Hawkmoon can 3-shot body and 2-shot head, and it doesn't take time for any DoT to finish the job either. Yet I don't see people complaining about that.[/b] I usually conclude with a wordy conclusion, the kind that makes my professors love me. But your bullshit deserves no duplication of effort (that's what a conclusion usually is, telling you what I told you). Jon Weisnewski, you hate fun.