Is that better or worse than never using secondaries? (Destiny)

by Kahzgul, Wednesday, December 16, 2015, 18:32 (3533 days ago) @ cheapLEY

Seriously, before TTK using secondaries was a 1 in every 100 encounters proposition, and then it was only if you were using a Shotgun. There was never any reason to use a Sniper Rifle if you had Thorn or even TLW. As long as you rolled Hand Cannon and Shotgun you were basically always covered.

I've only played Crucible a handful of times since TTK dropped (and haven't touched it at all since the latest weapon balance), but it seems like they may have swung too far in the opposite direction.

I think you've nailed it. I think good balance would be for primary weapons to have average TTKs around 3 seconds at all ranges, with the only real difference being how the weapons feel, and maybe small (SMALL) tendencies towards particular ranges. Then you set secondaries as role-specific with much faster TTKs but also extremely specific ranges. Snipers would need to take 10 times longer to ADS with and have zero chance of hitting when hip fired, while shotguns would need to be within titan melee range to deal OHKs, for example. Then you'd run into primaries as weapons you choose for feel and playstlye, while secondaries would be for the specific role that you want to excel at.

IMO they should rebalance until your primary source of kills in PvP is primary weapons, the secondary source of kills is secondary weapons, and all other sources of kills make up a total of about 1/4 of overall kills, combined. Right now I feel like I'm a shotgun-only neutral game until I get super or heavy, at which point I use that until I'm out and go back to shotgunning. I only use my primary when I'm out of everything else. That's not what "primary" means, bungie.