I am here to defend Bungie's decision to "change" Hopscotch Pilgrim. I'm here to defend Bungie, not because I like Bungie because I feel strongly indifferent about them. Rather, from a pvper's standpoint, I'm defending the idea to change it. Notice how I didn't say nerf, because they didn't nerf it. Nerfing would imply that they reduce the effectiveness of it, which they didn't. It's still the best pulse rifle in the game, a statistical favorite to the messenger. Hopscotch beats the Messenger in RoF, Stability, Magazine size and can even be reforged to fit the player's play style. It's a three burst to the head vs. the Messenger's two but consider this: Hopscotch has a faster RoF, this getting the damage off quicker than the Messenger with near no recoil, thus getting those head shots are considerably easier than The Messenger. Couple that with a larger magazine and you can afford to miss a lot more than with the messenger. Couple that with reforging and you can customize it how you like it, unlike the messenger which is fixed. The main reason I'm ok (not in support but ok) with the change is that a two burst with the head on a pulse rifle like the one I have with Max stability, near max range and a huge magazine would spell overpowered very quickly in today's meta. They would have to actually nerf it like they did with The Messenger's stability, which I'd rather them not do. In short, Hopscotch is still the best pulse rifle and to think its nerf'd for being put into a different archetype is frankly....ignorant. It's damage is reduced but it fires faster, thus the net damage is unchanged.