You guys and your simplifying of the Bungie statisticians (Destiny)

by Xenos , Shores of Time, Wednesday, March 18, 2015, 00:35 (3792 days ago) @ iconicbanana

I was actually a little disappointed by the graphs, mostly because graphs aren't the best way to communicate this data. Raw numbers are. The original reddit post made a strong attempt to break these numbers down, and found that a Scout Rifle had the best TTK in the game; why not nerf that scout rifle? I'm still skeptical of what Bungie provided us with because they refuse to give us any hard measurements for what things like Impact and Range actually mean in crucible.

Lowest TTK does not always mean the most effective weapon. Just look at a sniper rifle vs a shotgun they both have identical TTK, but that doesn't mean that they are identical weapons, or even just as useful as each other. The ARs were overpowered because you didn't have to be as precise to get kills as reliably. With a Scout Rifle it tended to be (pre-patch) that if you missed a headshot the AR was much more likely to win because they only had to get a ratio of headshots to bodyshots to win a firefight. And I think this is a big part of the reason they don't reveal all the numbers because people tend to take numbers as the end-all-be-all when they tend to only be one part of the equation. I also would love to see the numbers, but even if we get them we have to take them with a grain of salt.

(Don't misunderstand me though, I do think ARs were overnerfed, just that they definitely should have been nerfed)