Dude why do you think that everyone cried about hand cannons so much, exspecially Thorn. Crucible is nothing but shot gun rushing you with a slide. The Last Word and Thorn could kill fast enough to percent this being effective. Pulse rifle can and will be come the new OP weapon, probably shortly with trials coming back, still prevent the shot gun slide. Auto rifle can prevent the shot gun slide , but they have no range, which I do not understand why they install drop off on a auto rifle and not a pulse rifle aren't they the same. You get what you asked for with the nerf of hand cannons. As far as sniper being a skill. You must be drunk, any idiot can camp way off and wait til a targets c enter their scope. That's all they do. With the patch the crucible has become a non skill environment. Point and shoot.