You bet your butt pulse rifles will grow in popularity! Why wouldn't the next iteration of monstrously powerful killing machines not flood in and develop the kind of nerf chanting be the pulse rifle? Ultimately, all this meta stuff just bores me about the crucible. Even the skilled players, beyond people so stupidly good they could kill you by spitting at you, gravitate to the simplest tool to kill. I know that the name of the game is kill or be killed, but even if i kill you, the fact that you use the strongest weapon depresses me. Not because I killed you anyway, but that you have removed the challenge from yourself and that feels sad to me. And yes, I have used Thorn in Crucible. They said kill it a hand cannon and that is pretty much foolproof, even for this fool.