Year one I liked sniping have some nice clips but since everybody is sniping in the back why not reward myself with free kills?:) your probably one of those kids who gets pissed at people like me. Except I don't primary my shotty. And there's differences between nerfs and balancing. ;) Ps my favorite sniper rn is the stillpiercer;) I have no problem with the flinching I still pull off the snipes easily

You have 10,000 kills on your Hunter with shotguns. If you're not a primary shotgun user, you're pretty damn close to it. I get pissed at shotgun users all the time, but not for the reason you believe. I'm generally a more active PvP player and actually use my sniper as a secondary weapon. I use my primary weapon as an actual primary, so feel more comfortable moving around the map. My dislike for shotguns has probably risen since 2.0. That is mostly because the best counter to shotguns (that wasn't another shotgun) has been nerfed; The Last Word. No primary has TTK that can stop a warrior from running through your bullets and shotgunning you from a stupid range. If you 'balance' a weapon type, which in effect makes it harder to use/weaker, that is a nerf. Shotguns are being 'balanced' in 2.1. Is this not a nerf?

Not being able to shoot after sprinting we both know if that happened to snipers you'd 100% bitch about it. That's a nerf not a balance. Some of it is though like the melee blink strike thing that's balanced. And I have a lot of shotty kills because I'm an aggressive player, especially when I play sweats. I'm not going to use my pulse in close quarters. Ya feel me?

If I'm trying to use a sniper after sprinting, I'm likely doing it wrong, anyway. They're not meant to be used in that way. I guess it depends on how much of a delay they were placing on them. Still, it'd be less than a second, so I personally wouldn't be complaining about it. If I'm shooting out of sprint, I'm doing it with a primary. I don't see it being a massive problem for snipers. Snipers aren't blinking/sliding around, and shooting as soon as they exit the animation. Reducing shotgun range is a nerf. I can't really see it in any other way. If a weapon is being changed, so that it's harder to use, it's being nerfed. You can balance something and it still ends up being a nerf.

I use a shotgun and I can honestly say it needs a range reduction but there's plenty of times your running with the sniper equip and someone pops up near you. You gotta stop and aim real quick right? I personally think that is the dumbest thing I have ever heard coming from a nerf

It can happen, but it means I had the wrong gun equipped. I would also not expect to win the gun fight in that scenario. I can't run around with a sniper and get quickscope kills consistently. Neither can the vast majority of the player base. You can obviously get lucky now and again, but it's not consistent. That being said, I wouldn't expect Bungie to ever nerf snipers in this way. People are not sniping like this. People may use them as primaries, but they're not running into multiple guys at once and quickscoping everyone.