Don't care about the rest of the post, just going to get that out of the way. "Bungie nerfs. You defend it" Please provide 5 examples of games that never nerf anything and instead only buff. Nerfing is the quickest, easiest way to balance things and avoid power creep. People get mad at nerfing because they think that buffing everything else up to the level of something that's broken will make everything better but they don't think "hm, actually it'll feel the same as it would if they nerfed it." Let's say average damage for weapons are 100 damage per shot in a game and a broken weapon deals 170 damage per shot. Our two options are to: Buff every other weapon to deal 170 damage per shot and raise TTK across the board and have to completely rebalance PvE enemy health. Or nerf the one broken weapon down to 100 damage per shot and not have to change anything else. If you buff everything else up to 170 damage per shot, now the broken weapon is the same as every other weapon in the game, nerf the one weapon and now it's the same as every other weapon in the game. Of course there are other ways to balance things that aren't just tuning damage but I don't feel like typing a novel. People cry at the word, not the actual balancing.