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Edited by Kreis:
7/28/2015 2:55:26 PM
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Re-Buff Auto Rifles Completely! Poll.
So, understandably Bungie nerfed Auto Rifles as the statistics proved they were the most over-used weapons in almost every activity. Now that they've castrated and killed Auto Rifles completley and buffed Pulse Rifles to top-tier and Hand Cannons to the most over-used genre of weapon, they might as well restore ARs to their former glory to compete with the newly buffed and overused Hand Cannons. If they re-buff ARs, will you not use Thorn anymore?
TLW: 2 Hipfire = Kill.
Thorn: 2 Headshot = Kill.
Red Death: 2 Headshot = Kill.
Scout Rifle: 3 Headshot = Kill. ( G-Demise )
Auto Rifles cannot compete with any of these weapons at close range.
If two players that were both pros shot at eachother with perfect aim from the same distance, all of the weapons I just mentioned would clearly win. Unless you get the first shot, no.
The first 3-10 shots in, you will lose any gunfight with an Auto Rifle against a skilled player.
EDIT: Bungie finally gave in. Not only are Thorn and the Last Word receiving a due nerf, but Auto Rifles are receiving the exact buff we decided on ( Or mostly )
To restore Auto Rifles to their prime damage but to keep the range nerfs in place to limit Auto Rifles to close-mid range encounters like Thorn and Last Word were originally intended to be.
Thank you all for consistently bumping this forum and I'm gladly looking forward to the Auto Rifle buff.
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I hope they actually change assault rifles and rebalance them properly, hopefully by the way of a precision damage buff, rather than reverting to a previous 1.1.1 state. I want to be able to use high RoF/low impact autos as a means of CQC deadliness rather than getting spat on by literally every other gun in the game. And that archtype was underwhelming even before the AR nerf. It makes no sense to me that guns like the Necrochasm already have poor damage output (and poor DPS) despite a better rate of fire, while also receiving a range and stability loss. Why should i have to fight against a gun for it to perform well? Auto rifles should be a general purpose weapon, and just like everything else in this game Bungie deems worth rewarding, its through head shots, so they need that precision multiplier of x1.5 back. Whether or not the damage should be changed after that. I can't say since I can't crunch those numbers. Either way, they currently have no place in PvE or PvP at the moment, and that needs to change.
