The reason being is because people will just go for what kills the fastest, which is why shotguns dominated pvp for the whole of year 1. Another thing to add to it as well is what Bungie call a weapons balance is just a reverse of the numbers, first: Auto Rifles, dominated early pvp, Pulse's were non-existent and so were Scouts, Hand Cannons were slightly viable, then the Auto Rifle nerf came, Hand Cannons were buffed and the roles switched from dominant to dominated. Next Pulse's were buffed and Hand Cannons were nerfed, Role switched again, now Pulse's got nerfed Hand Cannons got a buff and Auto Rifles got a 0.04% buff ... so now Hand Cannons dominate. The only reason MIDA is so popular right now is because its just a great exotic gun, extremely balanced and a good all round exotic. What bungie calls a weapons balance is a simply a reverse of 1 of the 4 primaries, that switch from dominant to dominated, so there will always be a meta and people will always use only the hand full of guns out of that category that have the fastest time to kill. Its seriously sad as SO many weapons are left out, removing variety from the game, it won't be all that healthy to have EVERY weapon viable but it would be nice to have more than what Bungie are making the meta, its always only 1-5 guns that are viable, use anything else and unless your seriously skilled your going to be putting yourself at a disadvantage.

You are jumping to conclusions that are not supported by anything. Just because only 3 weapons are being used doesn't mean nothing else isn't viable. All of the exotic autorifles (barring necro since it doesn't have a year 2 version) are plenty viable. same with the pulses and scouts. Hell even first curse is actually good now. Trials and iron banner have level advantages enabled. and implore you to use the best equipment you have. So of course there will be a trend in what is used. Some things are just better then others. that doesn't mean there is an issue. Also that's just straight shit. erine RR4, still piercer are both legendary snipers that can do the exact same thing 1k stare can do. And so can black spindle which isn't even terrible in pvp. it just uses an exotic slot and most people prefer to use an exotic primary. (even though in this day and age there are tons of viable legendary primaries.) 1k stare is popular because it was easy to obtain. that's literally it. it's got nothing over the other options available.

It's because people know these weapons are the best tools for success. Ignoring them, only serves to hamper yourself. Everyone else is using them, so if have high aspirations you don't want your opponents to have that kind of advantage. Other people don't mind beating you with cheap shit, so -blam!- their complaints. I agree it's depressing. I used to be one of those guys that would try to use unfashionable weapons, after a while I realized that it isn't my responsability to provide varaity for everyones else. It also lets lazy devs try to point out that "there is nothing wrong with weapon balance". There will always be 2 or 3 weapons that stand above the rest in this game. There is no point in deluding ourselves. :(

Used to be Thorn, TLW, Felwinters

If everyone is using the same weapons then it is a balanced even match about skill. I really suck at all those weapons so I would have to say they are more skilled at trials than I am. Trials is basically snipe kill, rush in and cover the orb, let them get the revive and snipe him agian. Rinse and repeat till your k/do is good or you get bored. That is what happens to me anyways but like I said, I suck at it. I like the bounties though.

Well according to the site they only accounted for 24% of the kills in IB. Pretty interesting how preferences changes based on game type.

Wait til weylorans march is for sale

Thorn used to be like 70% lol.. [spoiler]or was it 50? pretty sure it was 70[/spoiler]

So many people say sidearm and fusion are good but if they're even remotely good at all shouldn't there b at least one in the top ten or 15. Not even 1 kill out of 100 is from sidearm or fusion.

Xur sold MIDA recently, and scout rifles are in a very good place atm. 1K stare is used because it is one of two 31 impact snipers in the game and you get a very good one early on via quests. No reason not to make this your go to sniper. TLW has always been amazing... with so many people still trying to get in shotgun range TLW has plenty of peeps to dominate.

I did fine using answering chord and suros regime, both of which aren't on there but I never felt at a disadvantage. People just out gunned me sometimes.