Some gun notes (Destiny)

by Kahzgul, Thursday, December 10, 2015, 22:28 (3366 days ago) @ Ragashingo

Eh. Updated change log says Pilse Rifles got up to a 14.23% damage reduction with the popular ones getting a 10.96% nerf. This places them at a lower damage output than they've been since The Dark Below (I think, someone find the 9% across the board increase and fact check me.) That 9% buff was certainly felt, so a 10 - 14% one should be as well. And given the pulse-y drift-y nature of Pulse Rifles and missing a bullet here or there the buffs and nerfs probably don't tell the whole story.

On Shotguns: My Invective NBP Defender felt unchanged but I tended to put all four shots into people so maybe I didn't notice? Ultimately, if all the change does is prevent the longest ranged Lengedaries from one shotting me at Sidearm range then that's good enough. Even shotguns should kill without having to first put the barrel THROUGH someone's helmet.

Apparently the pulse nerf was such that you need 7 out of 9 hits to be headshots with nirwen's, which is 1 more headshot than before, but is not a big enough change that I've noticed. Red Death is slightly less effective (you now need all 6 shots to hit the head in a 2 burst scenario, which is pretty hard). The people who will allegedly feel it the most are hawksaw users (I don't have one, so I can't personally check), but the damage nerf there means 12 or 13 of 15 rounds need to be headshots out of 5 fired bursts, which is *much* harder to pull off. Even so, the amount of flinch that gun delivers still provides a nice advantage.

Shotguns: The range nerf doesn't seem to have affected Conspiracy Theory-D in any noticeable way to my eyes. I don't have a party crasher to check, and my vendor Patch-A feels the same (maybe better, honestly. I feel like I'm shooting a tighter spread, but it's hard to know for sure.