NLB is garbage as a PVP gun (Destiny)

by Xenos , Shores of Time, Saturday, February 14, 2015, 22:29 (3806 days ago) @ Kahzgul

Praedith's Revenge smokes it. So does LDR. So does pretty much anything with the Ambush 25 scope.

The scope is not accurate (headshot spot is about 1/3 of the way down the pointer), it blocks a huge amount of your view, and the reload speed is atrocious. Even if you reload-cancel (the possibility of which is also absurd), the firing rate is garbage. Because you have to drop zoom for every reload, you can't reliably stay on target over range.

Even more absurd is that the stats show it has maximum reload. Too bad it doesn't have maximum speed on a shot per shot basis.

God that gun sucks.

See while I agree it needs some buffs, you are comparing it to other sniper rifles, and it's obvious the ability to keep it in the primary slot is taken into consideration when they balanced it. It's not supposed to compete with the best sniper rifles in the game, because part of the perk of the gun is that I can have a sniper rifle AND another special weapon, all of which have the potential to one shot kill. If No Land Beyond was at all comparable to other sniper rifles it would be the most overpowered gun in the game, because I can pick up primary ammo for it AND still have a shotgun or fusion rifle. I already have had a few matches with the current No Land Beyond where I counter-snipe with the NLB and then use a good range/fast charge fusion rifle basically as my main gun. Now imagine if the gun was as good as Praedyth's Revenge.