Ya, Ya I know half of you already hate me but hear me out. Ok? A little bit about me first, though. This loadout is my "main" and I have many days of crucible time running this loadout, but I am by no means trying to say I am all knowing and should have the final say on this topic. I'll link my destinytracker stats at the bottom of anyone is interested. If you disagree with me, that's fine I'm open to your opinion, too. This is going to be long so get ready. I'll also put a TL;DR at the end, but read the specifics if you would like to counter me please it will be helpful to both of us. I'll start with the most controversial topic first; that being The Last Word. I think if it stayed exactly how it is now it would be fine, but [b]in my opinion[/b] Bungie needs to return the extra precision damage while hip-firing. I say this because the gun is meant to be hip-fired and currently the bonuses you get from hip-firing just aren't worth it. The counter to this damage is that even with the accuracy and stability buff the shots are unreliable at best. I have over 10k kills with this gun and I'd say that maybe 500 of them are two taps while hip-firing. It happened way less than people made it out to be. Now, before you flame me in the comments, when I say add it back I don't think it should two tap, even with aggressive ballistics. I think 85-90 precision damage would be a good middle ground between the old and new Last Word. This change would not affect body shot damage. I'd love to hear feedback, but worthless "Last Word is a crutch gun that needs to die" isn't helpful. Now, onto the sniper. I snipe. [i]A lot.[/i] In fact I have a soon-to-be competitive team and I snipe for it. I'm sure it's not going to surprise anyone when I say [b][i]Snipers are not OP.[/i][/b] So, to back up my bold statement I'd ask, well, what are the main arguments against snipers? [quote]It's too easy to snipe while being shot.[/quote] From my experience this argument comes mostly from the scout/pulse crowd and it's a fair argument, but, I've found in many cases the only time it's possible to pull off a countersnipe like that is if you are either 1) extremely lucky with flinch or 2) good enough to time your shot as the flinch from being shot returns to the center. Other than those two ways the only other way is to back off if you are being shot at and reengage shortly after and hit the shot before your opponent can return fire. Are any of those unreasonable? Do we, as a community really want to make it impossible to counter primaries with snipers, because if, say, you add more flinch to the point that if you are being shot the reticle won't return to the center then it's pure luck if the shot lands with no skill involved; how does that make the game better? [quote]Snipers just sit in the back and hardscope corners.[/quote] And shotgunners just corner camp what's your point? No, but in all seriousness, yes there are a lot of hardscopers out there, but the solution to that is to [i]learn to not walk around corners at head level.[/i] I cannot stress this enough you - 90% of the time - will not die to a hardscoper if you slide or jump around a corner. [spoiler]it really is that simple[/spoiler] If there are any other reasons you feel that snipers need to be needed feel free to tell me below. Strikers. The subclass that is so balanced that it looks OP compared to everything else. I'll talk about the super first. FoH can at times be a little ridiculous I'll give it that, [b][i]but[/i][/b] it is an instant super and can only be used three or four times a game if you are getting plenty of kills, so is it really that terrible to have a SUPER be a little ridiculous? Now, for the real "issue" people seem to have with striker. Shoulder Charge and Juggernought. I don't personally use juggernought so it's not my place to say whether it feels too strong or weak, but it's fairly simple to counter. It has about 100hp, so it goes down in one sniper shot, and sometimes the shot goes through it, although that seems to be a glitch, or 2-3 TLW shots leaving plenty in the clip to finish him/her off. I think, emphasis on think, that it takes about 1 and a half bursts of pulse rifles to take it down or 3 Mida shots. I personally wouldn't be against a juggernought nerf, but I don't use it so it won't really affect me, and I don't have any good ideas in ways to nerf it. I'll leave that up to Bungie. Shoulder Charge, on the other hand, I use religiously. The main point people use against it is, why should Titans get a one hit melee? I counter with, why do hunters get a one hit melee AKA backstab. I'm not dumb, I know there's a difference between backstabbing someone and shoulder charging them, but look at it this way; in order to backstab you have to get behind someone (obviously), and in order to shoulder charge you have to get a running start, plus SC won't even consistently one hit people. It does exactly 200 damage and with high armor builds you can tank that much damage. No one can tank 367 or however much backstab does. One thing about lightning grenades before I close out. Dying from full health to a lightning grenade is a lot like those scenes in movies that you are yelling at the character to just run sideways from the falling tree instead of parallel with it. [i]Ya feel?[/i] In conclusion if you made it here you are dedicated, so congrats! I think the main reason people call for nerfs to the aforementioned weapons and abilities, is because a lot of the other things in the game are underpowered or that they just don't fully understand what they are complaining about. TL;DR TLW is broken but not for the reasons most people think Snipers aren't broken, people are just predictable Striker isn't broken, it's just balanced better than the other classes I could've gone on a lot longer tbh. Feel free to ask me about other things. DTR link: [url=http://destinytracker.com/destiny/player/xbox/Traderkirk][/url] [i]Edit: Ignore my warlock's stats I just recently restarted her and I haven't played seriously, just messing around with old guns and playing stupidly for some laughs lol[/i] [spoiler]If your account is 75% shotgun kills don't bother this post isn't about you lol[/spoiler]