Look, I respect your opinion. But mine is not going to change. For a weapon to be OP, one does not look at the weapon alone. A weapon can only be OP in full context. Therefor you will have to take into account all weapons. Where you say: "Thorn is powerful and one of the best, most balanced performing weapons in the game right now, since ARs have been wiped from the field and pulse rifles are not reliable at close range." It sounds to me that that is what being OP means. If ARs would not have been wiped and had pulse rifles been reliable at close range, Thorn would not be OP. If for instance weapon A does a damage of 50 per second, and all other weapons deal 80 damage per second, weapon A is underpowered. However, if weapon A does that same damage of 50 per second, but all other weapons deal only 20 damage per second, weapon A is overpowered. Thorn being the same gun as it always was does not mean it isn't OP.