To add, fusions are just glorified shotguns. Both are easy to use. This is why when you take autos out of the equation during those 8 months, the top 4 weapons are hc, shotguns, snipers, fusions. I'm that order. I should also state snipers didn't surpass fusions on usage untill I hit the end of the revoker era. However both snipers and fusions after the revoker era had close usage rate. Being only about 2-4 tallies off reacher going to fusions. The excuse "shotguns are bad" isn't a good one when every stat shows them to be the #2 most chosen weapon type in the game for trials. 22.7% of all 910 top weapons in 91 weeks of trials were shotguns. If you take away everything from the revoker era and earlier, shotguns still come out in second place. I took breaks at weeks 80, 78, 56, 40, 29, 19. Between each break I figured which three consistently showed up and they were hc, shotgun, fusion, untill week 50 or so. Then it was hc, shotgun, sniper with fusion steadily decreasing in usage the closer I got to week 1. The whole argument is Bungie is willing to nerf everything that isn't handcannons and shotguns. Fusions have been also an issue but not as the top seeded pick rate. Dosnt mean it isn't an issue. Bows are getting a nerf, more precisely monarque, because it showed up 1 time at #10 on the meta report. People say it's due to aim assist, however it has the same aim assist as 7 other bows that arnt being used. The d.o.t isnt that much. It can push for one shots, however wish ender dose the same and sees through walls. What the post is getting at is Bungie has unfairly nerfed weapons in the past to subside and hone to hc and shotguns. They have been the top pick rate for years now and need to go. Be it by damage, slot changing or just making them feel so bad that people stop using them. Something has to be done otherwise the pvp state will not be good. Heck, I forgot about a week where trials was literally so empty, the highest killing weapon, which was hc btw, was barely over 1,000. Autos were barely 100.

The issue is that shotguns have been nerfed (so have handcannons and fusions) yet they are still the most picked weapons and continue to be in the meta week after week. However 1 nerf to any other weapon completely kills it and pushes it out of the meta. Also, you shouldn't be required to play other weapons to counter 1 weapon. Take apex for example. Any weapon can kill and out eat any weapon. In that game movment and positioning are more important than the actual gunplay. I'm d2, Bungie has stated they want gunplay to be their main objective. So, if they want that they either have to slow the game down by increasing ttks overall, or nerf down the most used weapons untill atleast 75%-100% of all weapons are close to equal. Around 5% of each other. This would indicate that ALL weapons can beat and be beaten by ALL weapons. That a single weapon type dosnt overflow the meta and dominate through. That you can comfortably play and know it's more weighted on skill instead of distance/ttk. What makes a good fps is balance. Hc and shotguns don't show balance in d2. Especially since d2 has 12-13 different weapon choices with each having 2-3 different sub choices. In any fps game, no 2 weapon types rule the game. Especially on a heavy weapon built game. Apex is again a good example of this. they have 6 groups of weapons. However, each can best eachother with ease. If there was a two group Dom, it would be okay because within those groups, there are 4-6 weapons that all feel different. Ex: the hemlock and flatline. Both are listed as assault riffles, however they both are vastly different weapons. The only other thing apex has better is that you arnt facing the same thing over and over, team per team. Btw, desitny can easily do this by having a more even pick rate between weapons. Ie: nerfing what is the highest pick rated weapons.