It was. It's not only that, though. (Destiny)

by CruelLEGACEY , Toronto, Wednesday, April 06, 2016, 18:50 (3154 days ago) @ Funkmon

The gun did 99 damage on headshots. This does all low armor guardians. NOT minimum armor guardians, just ones not running high armor builds. It does 49 on the body, 74 to the head, zoomed in.

Before:

Zoomed in:
Headshots: 3
Body shots: 4-5
1 headshot and body shot: 4

Not zoomed in:

Headshots: 2-3
Body shots: 4-5
1 headshot and body shots: 3-4.

Currently, to ensure it won't kill in two, they would need to drop the damage down to 89 or so per shot.

Now:

Not zoomed in
Headshots: 3
Body shots 4-5
1 headshot and body shots: 3-4

These numbers don't tell the full story, though. It looks like all they did was remove the two headshot capability. But, they removed the one head three body shot capability for mediumish armor builds, only putting it on guardians speccing for very low armor, which, I agree, is less common, but it does exist.

This is why I think there's almost no reason to do it.

Except that TLW can still hit 4-5 body shots in less time than most other weapons can kill, so I'd say it will still be extremely competitive. Hopefully just a bit less dominant at close range.