Hopscotch Pilgrim is dead, Bungie killed it. All your hard work, time and in game resources mean nothing more than 150 Vanguard marks. If the problem was its stability, why not tweak the stability? The auto-aim was a bit much, why not knock 5 or 10 off it? Why did The Messenger not get the same treatment? Why not just come right out and straight up say "we're nerfing the Hopscotch Pilgrim" instead of being so damn vague about it? Bungie acted like the entire weapon archetype was taking the hit in the guise of nerfing one weapon. Maybe it changed a few rare and below, but no one has noticed because no one spent hours and hundreds of strikes trying for one, let alone all those weapon parts (that you grinded your ass off for) to reroll it exactly how you wanted. We spent that time playing YOUR game for a reward we thought was worth it. We spent our free time on YOUR servers. This is pretty much a slap in the face to everyone who had this gun. Yeah, I get it.. waaah wahhh my gun got nerfed. Sure. My problem is that this weapon was never a problem because compared to Thorn, The Last Word, which ran rampant in the crucible, you NEVER saw this thing. People have the messenger equipped way more often than the Pilgrim ever was. I know Bungie can see that. The Hopscotch Pilgrim was a functional trophy. When someone killed you with it, you thought "damn that guy has one too. Probably took his ass forever." The problem weapons were a problem because they were so easily accessible and they infected the crucible and ran out of control. There's always going to be dominant strategy in online gaming and I'm sure a lot of the time spent between patches is predicting and mitigating the next one before it even arrives, but this one never was it. There was plenty of time to see that. As far as this thing goes for killing straight up, yes it still can two shot people but their armor has to be nearly nonexistent and you have to hit all 6 bullets in the head. That's something my Allfate could do months ago. I don't want a blue Allfate, I want my goddamn Hopscotch Pilgrim back. I want to fire two slow well aimed shots and know that i'm going to kill someone. I want to confidently counter snipe across Pantheon and be the mid-range buffer covering my closer ranged teammates. Guess I'll just go get the Spare Change.25 and roll it until it has rodeo, braced frame and counterbalance. Oh shit.. I've said too much. RIP Hopscotch Pilgrim. It was a long road. I enjoyed it.. to all a "fitting" end. FFS.