Still not convinced by the AR nerf (Destiny)

by someotherguy, Hertfordshire, England, Tuesday, March 17, 2015, 14:04 (3762 days ago) @ ChaosSociety
edited by someotherguy, Tuesday, March 17, 2015, 14:16

Even before the nerf I felt like 80% of the people I played against were using Handcannons (Thorn and TLW, unsurprisingly), not ARs. I honestly don't remember the last time I saw more than 1 or 2 ARs in a lobby (Iron Banner excluded), let alone on the top scorer. As Cody will attest, Handcannons are just better weapons, and I see them even more now as the update has limited options even further.

I suspect Bungie looked at the number of players bringing ARs into the Crucible but not the number of AR kills. Lower-level Crucible might be chock full of ARs and I wouldn't know, but at least at mid-high level Crucible play all the best players seem to use Handcannons, not ARs. That suggests to me that ARs must not be that overpowered, or surely everyone would use them?

Tl;Dr Considering ARs are so overrepresented (and supposedly OP), I never see them. Handcannons on the other hand, are everywhere.

Edit: That said I'm still running a Vanquisher, I just seem to be the only one. I definitely can't keep up with my Thorn-using friends any more though.