Bows, Autos and Scouts get hit the hardest by Primaries not doing enough damage.
Low DPS/high safety weapons are balanced around being more valuable in endgame content. But primaries hit so weak that it doesn’t even matter.
This is compounded by additional ability spam and survivability in most content enabling weapons like SMGs and Handcannons to be viable everywhere.
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Honestly even with scouts high range it's not useful to use em over hand cannons. Hc's deal so much that in pve you can shoot at scout rifle ranges and still hit similar if not sometimes higher damage because hand cannons have a much higher base damage.