You're going to want to stop posting (Destiny)

by Earendil, Tuesday, March 17, 2015, 16:51 (3776 days ago) @ iconicbanana

I also do not buy that Auto Rifles are zomg worst thing evah! when the AR took a 2.5% reduction in base damage. I bet I could flip that switch on and off all day on 99.99% of the community and they'd never know. The almost 10% increase to the pulse rifle though, that's some good shit right there :)

This is probably why the AR nerf is so keenly felt, too. The fact that "Pulse Rifles can outshoot AR's at any range" might be more confirmation bias than people are admitting. I know, as someone who doesn't use either very often, that PR came up a lot more than AR in the last couple weeks on my death cam; but that could be, after all, a result of nobody using AR's.

Exotic Handcannons still come up most often. I don't have issues killing PR and AR users with those, and never really have.

Precisely. If the entire game was AR vs PR one could make the argument that the AR took an 11% dive. But instead people seem to feel that hand cannons are doing all the killing, before and after the update. Since hand cannons were nerfed a little too, I'd say the AR nerf is even less than 2.5% because of who you face the majority of the time. While I die to PRs more than I used to, if an AR is in the game I still die to it. Maybe I'll pick up my AR and take it for a spin again. I stopped using it before the update because I found killing with a SR far more fun and effective for my style :)