When was the last time you seriously used an auto rifle? (Destiny)

by iconicbanana, C2-H5-OH + NAD, Portland, OR, Tuesday, May 26, 2015, 15:46 (3706 days ago) @ Earendil

Was the last time, by chance, back when the debuff happened and everyone thought auto rifles were a worse fighting option that taking your shoe off and throwing it?

I never found the auto rifle debuff all that bad, and more often than not unnoticeable. What I noticed far more was that before all the changes, I could kill a silly guy using a ulse rifle 9 out of 10 times with my shadow price, and that dropped to more like 50%.

But then I also gave up auto rifles for scout rifles + shotty a while ago.

I think the biggest thing that debuff did was make people realize that other weapons might be more viable than the auto-rifle they were using. It wasn't necessarily that auto's got worse: it was that more players found more optimized loadouts, and with a larger pool of good scout/pulse rifle users out there, auto's suddenly seemed less effective just by virtue of not being the only thing that killed you anymore.