First I do not play hunter much.... I will preference that, but also state gamblers dodge and shade step are the 2 most potent escape abilities in the game and the benefits of auto reload and getting back melee energy are very good utility... do I think they should be nerfed? No.... but I will use the ability as a comparison to show why the others are not in a good spot. First Rally Barricade.... the removal of auto reloading neutered any use of this ability. While towering Barricade situationally is useful.... Rally has 0 benefits. The reload speed increase is almost unnoticeable and the purpose of the 1 second delay of deploying this from what I can only feel is a wrist watch makes this ability.... probably the most useless in the game. Empowering rift... the benefit of this ability compared to a healing rift is nothing. The minute buff this rift gives you vs the ABILITY TO STAY ALIVE in the healing rift with how you have certainly increased difficulty in endgame has made this rift basically obsolete... unless with a coordinating team with second lock with healing which even in endgame activities like nightmare hunts, high level strikes, & raids your teammates will still question your overall strategy. Which brings me to this... does anyone actually use these in PVP? Maybe there is some high level strategy I'm not in the loop about but even the highest to lowest levels... I never see these never... the delay of these abilities make these nothing more then a slight inconvenience in pvp... and due to the delay its only plausible to use these 2 abilities behind cover which.... after the "go fast" update means when you actually use these your getting 12 pellets to the face from an ape way before there is any benefit from these 2 abilities.... but both dodges for hunter are instant and that to me makes no sense. Not that a dodge should have a delay but placing all three abilities side by side.... other then visual appeal.... why should using an ability on Warlock and titan be more of a liability with little to 0 utility other then a slight damage increase and basically shooting a baby gate from my wrist where a dodge that refunds your magazine or gives you melee energy is instant how does that at all make sense? Well... I actually have a theory that this was not an issue prior to go fast and now after that update, the buffs to weapon TTK, and the inevitable systemic issues in this game we merely excepted these because of pve... rally let you shoot forever and lunifaction empowering rift meant better dps... but now... it doesn't.. and those systemic issues shine through and make these options as useless as aeon exotic armor pieces. My final thoughts and thanks for sticking with me: every season you over buff or provide these much needed exotics to warlocks and titans which I believe is to try and get hunter mains to run the other classes (see Antaus Wards, OEM, or Contreverse holds for reference) yet you then need to 180 because of the community and nerd them.... but you never fix the real systemic issues with Class imbalance.... like the fact hunters have the best inherent jump, movement speed (on x,y axis), and abilities which do not actually become a burden to use. Where as titans and warlocks have crap abilities like rally and empowering rift that actually can get you killed more often then not. I'm not saying to Nerf Hunters I'm saying a utility rework to Warlock and titans specifically their less used abilities so there is a reason to use them Also, (and sorry for the rant) I would really enjoy a post season analysis which actually show ability usage, exotic armor usage, and other statistics that there is not a 3rd party site posting already. I know light.gg and a few other do subclass and weapon usage.