Marathon game director Joe Ziegler announced in a recent Steam blog post that Bungie will be nerfing the WSTR shotgun again in next week's update.
"We're gonna take a shot at bringing the WSTR more in line," he wrote (thanks, PC Gamer). "Right now it's become a dominant option and is eclipsing a lot of the other short range options that exist in the game.
In TheGamer's tier list, we placed the WSTR Combat Shotgun in the 'S' bracket, noting that "this weapon will take down almost any enemy in front of you."
"The WSTR will no longer be able to down an enemy player who has blue shields or above with two shots," he continued. "The ideal is that in a majority of cases this will force a reload in scenarios where the target has a blue shield, allowing for some more counterplay."
WSTRs will still down green shielded targets with two direct shots at short range, but they will no longer be capable of downing blue and above shielded targets with two shots. These changes will go live on April 21 "in the morning", likely at 8am PT.
While most agree that the WSTR was in need...
