It's not pandering.
You pander to your large audience. As you have stated trials players are a minority.
They balance guns because there's not supposed to be any broken or op weapons.
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We bring our own weapons into PvP. There's never going to be balance. Destiny requires you to find weapons you can compete with. Maybe for you, that is only the "meta" weapons. The reality is that once upon a time, everything was viable and the only reason it's not now is because players like you can't handle losing.
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Edited by Killlerschaf: 12/15/2015 6:06:32 AMThere never was a meta in which everything was viable. I have to disagree. If you didn't have a good Fusion Rifle and a Vex/Suros... Well, you didn't have those. And at an equal skill level, you will lose to that combination every single time, if you do not have them as well (vanilla meta). Buffs and nerfs happened long before Trials ever came into existence. You overstate the importance of Trials. 6vs6 modes are the most played ones, and balancing mostly caters to them.
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They are supposed to be balanced. What are you talking about? They keep balancing weapons because they are supposed to be balanced. If they wanted the sword of eternal truths in their game they would have one. I'm sorry you lost whatever crutch you were so fond of but it has nothing to do with trials.