I don't completely know about balancing, but basic rules:
No 1 shot kills at any range w/o precision damage.
No overpowered abilities (Ill be the judge of that)
No other rules noted
Have At It!
My Humble Opinion
Excuse Me Sir, May I Speak?
Exotic Sniper Rifle
Primary Weapon
Possesses No Scope (Not a noscoping gun)
Precision damage is lowered to slightly better than scout rifle (x2.5 instead of x10 or whatever snipers get)
Has small iron sights, akin to a hand cannon, but a little more archaic, and slightly larger
Has a mid length 9 shot magazine (also aesthetically on the bottom)
First Perk: Luck in the chamber
Exotic Perk: Humbling Opinion (Precision hits overpenetrate, Precision kills make the target explode and increase reload speed, as well as granting a damage bonus)
Bolt Action Sniper, Increased Reload time and you have to unscope to reload between shots (Happens automatically)
1st option set(Normally scopes, but this has no scope)
Snapshot
Custom Optics
Single Point Sling
2nd option set
High Caliber Rounds
Explosive Rounds
Extended Mag
Designed as to be just something different, no idea why, just liked the idea, so thought I'd share
Now, continue Posting
-
A Trio of weapons that could all work together/be combined. 3 unique legendaries and 1 exotic. Paradise(Legendary) - "The Garden was created by God... But now we know that there is more than one God..." Sniper Rifle - Solar Damage Special Upgrade - Sancuary - After aimed down sights for 5 (?) Seconds, you are shielded. (Cross effect between Patience and Times invisibility and the overshield type thing you get after you are revived/get revived.) Adam, The First(Legendary) - "Life was created by God. This is meant to end that." Sniper Rifle - Void Damage Special Upgrade - Black Hole - Precision Kills leave behind a vortex (cross between Firefly and Voidwalkers vortex grenade) The Apple and Eve(Legendary) - "I ate the Apple first, It brought forth terrible suffering. Now that suffering will be brought onto others, but not in the shape of an apple; in the shape of a bullet" Sniper Rifle - Arc Damage Special Upgrade - Chain Lightning - Every shot chains damage onto nearby enemies for a portion of their health. (10-70% depending on distance?) ****This is the combination you get when you combine all 3 previous snipers together: Serpent's Sin(Exotic) - "How foolish... Petty Humans... Thinking you can protect something like this... Well, death may be closer than you think." Sniper Rifle - Kinetic Damage Special Ability - You can choose what elemental damage you want, but it only effects the latter half of the bullets in the clip(Glass half full, but with elemental damage) Special Upgrades - - Curse of the Snake - Each Bullet gives off an effect that, once an enemies shields are down, it keeps the shields from coming back up for 7 seconds. - Omniscient - Radar is kept up when aiming down scopes, and scoping in/out is done extremely fast.