Trials is a strange beast that wants to be competitive in a game that provides varying gear. What I mean is for a game mode that is based on skill Destiny really comes down to who has the better gear or better roll on said gear. It is competitive, but frankly the devs trying to balance the game in its entirety by balancing it around Crucible and Trials really is a problem because you cannot balance skill by destroying our gear. This really hurts the average or new Guardians. An example would be if Bungie were to make all sniper rifles have one shot per clip. The top 1% who turn around and insta-kill an opponent with a no-scope headshot won't be affected; the rest of the Destiny play base who can't no scope across the map will be the ones who suffer. On another note the reason weapons such as the VoG and CE weapons and exotics were popular because they always had the the same perks (besides elemental primaries) and you could make a loadout around those weapons. Instead we now have weapons that you need specific rolls on to even be viable on top of getting the weapon in the first place. Bungie wants to help make things more competitive, but they keep nerfing the only weapons that actually kill reliably. (Cough, Matador 64! Cough) Competition based around RNG and altering your game around the 2% of people able to compete because of luck, time played, and possibly skill is not the way to balance, let alone fix problems in a video game...