why not get one as well instead of hoping that Bungie will do something and nerf it orrrrr play smarter

It’s a perk, not the gun. Precision Instrument on a 180 makes it actually broken just like Target Lock on a 900RPM like Fast-Talker. As for the baseline 180 Handcannons, you’re complaining that they’re working as designed. 180s are means to have a higher rate of fire but the lowest damage in the Handcannon class. Just sayin’.

Okay. Cool. Why do some people after losing a significant amount of pvp come here and complain about guns, stats, cheaters etc....and never think "huh...., skill issue?" Maybe go get one of the same weapons and try? I mean they did that to pve folks for years with seasonal model (sidearms break shield this season with so and so artifacts perk etc.) Welcome to our world.

It's a combination of perks, weapon stat, and the fact Bungie added armor types that allow you to have the equivalent of T10 recovery while still having close to 100 super and almost 200 weapon stat. This seriously wasn't anything close to a problem before MOT because to get your weapon stat that high you could barely have 100 health if that. 180s at base need 2c2b to kill a player doing I think a little over 70 to the head and a little over 40 to the body to barely reach that 230 damage breakpoint. As for heat weapons, that is again Overclocked Heatsink which is basically the equivalent of having 140 weapon stat and the fact they all have some of the best perks/ stats in the game to better sell Renegades. Something not uncommon in pvp games. * So nerfing 180s would revert them back to a state "unusable" if they're changed to require 75% crit accuracy to kill a player. * It's not fair to nerf Precision Instrument because of ONE weapon archetype of which there's only like 4 currently obtainable 180s that can get it. * They're not going to nerf heat weapons because in pvp they have the same damage numbers as their archetypes nor the stats because they aren't too different from various other currently obtainable weapons. * The weapon stat doesn't affect every archetype and is for the most part a dump stat outside of PvP, so if they nerf it they're going to have it increase weapon performance through accuracy, aim assist, and/ or stability. * And the absolute worst I can see them doing to Overclocked Heatsink is change it to work like Phase Magazine does. Only 1 weapon had that perk and it was Stochastic Variable, a 900rpm SMG that with it would lose 1/3 of it's ROF in exchange for a damage buff to match 600rpms. And on the note of Overclocked Heatsink/ Phase Magazine, I can't tell you if it was actually supposed to cost 1/3 of the ROF or if it was simply to lower it 1 archetype because there were no 720/750rpm smgs back when Stochastic Variable was introduced. So they could either become better or worse with Heatsink because either players might prefer the slower archetypes or the weapons might create their own categories thanks to having unique RPMs. Zealous Ideal for example could go as low as 300rpm, how much damage should it do if it becomes the slowest firing AR in the game?