I have Hawkmoon,Ace of Spades,a Down and Doubt 00-0 with awesome perks and you know what? They're collecting dust in my vault.
This is happening due to the fact that Handcannons,compared to the other kinds of weapon,do not offer anything special,sure some of you might still be using them,but I don't see any reason to use them anymore even tho Hawkmoon has been my favorite weapon for a lot of time in year one. I took a break from Destiny for 7ish months and when I came back I sadly realized my beloved Handcannon was barely useful. Their range right now is ridicolously low,even on high-range-stat HC,the damage falls off quickly once your targets moves a few meters away; also,the amount of reserve ammo is unbelievable low,if you compare the amount of DPS of an HC to the DPS of a pulse rifle,you'll notice they're usually quite similar,normally a high impact HC deals (with one bullet) the same amount of damage of a high impact pulse rifle burst,the reload speed is similar (most of the times,Pulse Rifles are faster,but it's fine) and the ammo in the mag are similar too (8 bullets normally on a HC,24 bullets normally on a pulse rifle). My point is that,since the DPS (only at mid-low range,sadly) of a HC equals to the DPS of a pulse rifle,why can I only hold 65 bullets on my Ace of Spades compared to the 350+ of my Red Death? The total amount of reserve ammo should be 3ish times lower,not 6 times lower,which means that HC,to be a viable choice,should have twice the reserve ammo they have now. I do understand that HC were too powerful and they needed a range nerf,I'm fine with that,I just wanted to point it out to make people understand what's the situation; but at least give us HC lovers the chance to not feel like we're doing something wrong when using our favorite type of weapon by giving HC more reserve ammo,that's all I ask for really...it wouldn't make HC OP or anything like that,but it would make me and hopefully a lot more people enjoy playing with Handcannons. (I know a lot of people do play with HC and they probably think I'm complaining for no reasons,I'm not saying that they're not usable,I'm just saying that I feel like they offer less than any other kind of weapon right now). Does anyone else agree with what I wrote?
TL;DR: Handcannons should get more reserve ammo to be as viable as the other kinds of weapons for PvE.
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The damage drop off is a little to much atm honestly.