Beating difficult bosses in games like this has always been about good players and good strategies. Using the platform is just another strategy like any other. In fact using the platform actually makes the process of killing the Templar both more difficult and slower. They are not killing the oracles, the team are taking all the shots and the Templar often moves out of view. The minute the platform was changed they basically said "play the game you payed good money for our way or else". The weapon changes were no different. I feel some of these changes were just plain stupid and punished people for playing the game the way people want to. An easy fix to the platform idea would just be to make missing oracles kill. Then people can adjust their strategy to become more involved in what happens below. People can remain on the platform while 2 split up and watch over oracles adding an air of danger to the match. One of these people fall then the rest fall. What i find most annoying is they have gone ahead and removed communication from the game and yet made raids require a huge amount of team work and communication. No communication in a team work heavy raid is just plain retarded. The platform change forces communication even further in a game that has none. If it wasn't for PSN/Xbox communication features we really would be stuffed in these raids. Bungie has become royally lazy now that they have made their money back i think. On to weapons the issues with the Mythocast and shotguns could have been fixed by only applying the changes within pvp. Weapons are already dumbed down to suit a even playing field. Assault rifles really didn't require any change at all. For some reason i sat and watched some retard on Twitch go on and on about how OP AR's are yet admitted he never used one in favor of hand cannons. Going through the lowbie areas he was one shotting everything no matter where he hit at the same damage level as my own AR.