Each time Iron Banner returns, there seems to be more and more players using the Suros Regime. I think it's an amazing weapon, and pretty much beats any other primary straight up in terms of 1) ease of use and 2) power. I have some open questions/opinions/observations: 1. The healing from this gun seems "broken" at best, at least from the victim's perspective. If I happen to land a body shot with a sniper, and die to someone shooting a Suros, all I see is their life and shields return to 100% about 1 second after dropping. What's with that? The description of the perk says "has a chance to return health while dealing damage." By chance, does it mean 100% of the time? If that chance does hit, is the shield recharge timer reset immediately? I can't imagine that it gives you all your life back from landing a few shots? Perhaps this is just a display glitch -- am I the only one to notice it? 2. The range is a bit absurd (this includes all auto rifles). Remember the Halo AR? When you have a healing auto rifle with the range of Scout rifle (let's not pretend the IB maps are large enough to separate Scout/Pulse range and AR range), why would anyone pick another weapon (other than to avoid being considered status quo)? 3. Auto Rifles are endorsed every day by the "20 AR Headshots" bounty. This is -blam!-ing baffling to me - why is there such a push to use an AR? 4a. Suros breaks the balance of the game. Even according to Bungie's definition of "weapon balance," if a very high percentage of players are using the weapon, then there is clearly some advantage outweighing other weapon choice. 4b. Every weapon should have it's drawbacks -- If I use a shotgun, clearly my range, ammo, and reload time is limited. If I use a hand cannon, then ammo, reload times, and fire rate are limited. Pulse and Scout rifles are especially limited in Iron Banner because of the horrible map rotation. 4c. The Suros does not have any obvious drawbacks. There's not clean cut defensive strategy against a Suros except "kill them first." It's true that at *Long* range, a Scout Rifle or Sniper will win against a Suros, but at mid-range, I think that "sure thing" drops to probably 50% (which would be acceptable for Sniper vs Scout but Sniper vs AR?) . Consider all other primary/special weapons in Destiny -- You can almost always intuitively think of a good defensive strategy. Please don't misunderstand my feedback. I'm not suggesting that "nerf" is the solution, and I certainly do not presume to understand the complexity of Destiny weapon balance. If there is anything that irritates me about the weapon, it's that the skill curve is basically a flat line. This example is bias and fairly extreme, but it annoyed me: I witnessed a hunter clean up about 6 kills in a row with a Suros, fire up his golden gun, and proceed to miss 4 shots. Lots of variables, I know, but you'll have to just take my word for it that anyone who saw it would be scratching their head. For those folks who love Suros in PvE and PvP, do not take offense to this, as I think your gun choice is very wise. Additionally, just because a gun's output doesn't vary a lot based on skill, do not take that as me saying that anyone who uses Suros doesn't have skill. I know many skillful players who will use Suros in many circumstances. However, what I am saying is that there shouldn't be a reason that one should feel pressured to switch to a gun just so they can compete (or win consistently). When your opponents all have the same weapons, the game feels very one dimensional and boring. Am I crazy? Butt-hurt? Whatever nice descriptive phrase you come up with, please try to at least be constructive :)