Bungie And Weapon Balancing - Why We Keep Seeing Nerfs And Now Sunsetting

The sole underlying factor behind all of the weapon nerfs we have become accustomed to in Destiny, and now sunsetting, is the fact that Bungie are constantly trying to balance weapons and aren’t able to do so effectively. One weapon type gets nerfed due to being the PVP meta and another takes its place. This happens time and time again, eventually leading to weapons being awful in PVE and ruining the experience.

We’ve heard Bungie are too small in numbers to be able to manage the growing number of weapons and keep them in balance, which has now led to sunsetting.

I know people love to grind out loot drops for the perfectly rolled weapon of their choice, the so called “God Roll” but with there being so many different weapons and so many different weapon perks, the combination is massive and balancing is never going to work. Not unless Bungie have a massive team working solely on weapon balancing.

Unpopular opinion, but hear me out. If Bungie are too small to balance so many weapons and perks, perhaps they should go back down the route of only having curated rolls on weapons. If a weapon has amazing stats and is best in class, give it some of the less desired perks. If a weapon has average stats but nothing amazing, give it some of the better perks. This way we don’t get amazing weapon stats and amazing perks on the same weapon, which will become the meta and lead to blanket nerfs spoiling the average weapons in the same class.

I’m sure Bungie won’t ever do this though because they know they get many hours played in the game by people just grinding for a god rolled weapon, and this in my opinion is why they have gone down the sunsetting route.

TLDR; Having only curated rolls on weapons would make weapon balancing much easier, reduce the need for nerfs and buffs, get rid of the so called need for sunsetting, and make Collections actually useful again.