But the thing about "forced to get close" is that it isn't exactly difficult to do something the class is designed to do. Picture if they had an exotic shotgun that healed you, but people claimed it was fair "because we have to get close to get a kill". The argument starts to fall apart. Not to mention, they have perks that allow their arc blade to behave differently- the straight line, the spin, and invisibility, all of which promote either getting close or getting kills.