And for the grand finale!

Whoah, PAW got OP AF. And Hurricane got a big buff! I guess someone was tired of the Rozerad being the best pistol.

What I would really love for them to do next is fix all these stats in smartphone app. I like to look at numbers in there on occasion, but they’re all just horribly wrong now...

Well, it is a cooperative game, not a competitive, so any and all buffs are fine IMO. In particular, buffing URs is fine with me because I’ll never unlock their variants, so making any of them I do have better and more usable is great.

New people starting the game who get one of these UR weapons are going to get a demonstrably better gun than whatever Common, Uncommon, and Rare weapon they are using. Long-timing players who have been for grinding URs to variant levels will be rewarded with an OP UR weapon.

Now, as far as the Soned goes, I’d like to think that there will be another balance change that buffs it to a level that people will take it instead of the Rozerad, Hurricane, or Silhesh.

Soned siphon variant is useful in platinum if you combine it with juggernaut. While you're firing you literally can't die thanks to the regen it provides, mixed in with the armour buff of the character. All u need do is get 3 glass cannon team mates to sit behind you and shoot. If there was a way to boost its accuracy it'd be one of the best guns in the game. The only thing that really screws the weapon is its fast-widening, bullet spread cone. 

I hope you find some other weapons for your Jugg!  There are plenty that are better....

Soned = meh, who cares?

I think more in terms of this scene when using it myself:

But I get what you're saying.

So many shitty guns.  So few good ones.  So little variety.
I really wanted the soned to get a worthwhile buff so I could justify using it on my TSol.

Shame it still sucks more balls than an Asari hooker in a Tuchanka brothel.

How did I missed this?

It's frustrating to me that this is the case for guns when it could so easily not be like that.

As an example, think of all the ways guns in mea could have been made unique:

- accurate when blind firing is part of why equalizer is a good gun.  Why not expand that trait to say, eagle?  Instead they just bump the damage per shot but it still falls short of rozerad/hurricane/silhesh.  Accuracy when blindfiring is a huge benefit though that goes a long way to make an otherwise mediocre gun much better

- innate piercing: me3 had some guns that imparted a small bit of piercing cover/armor by default.  In mea piercing was nerfed to remove the armor bonus, it only pierces cover now, so why not give innate piercing to some of the underpowered guns?!?

- firing on the run/out of cover: in general mea confers an accuracy penalty while moving, if some guns didn't have this problem but were not exactly top tier in dps it would go a long way to make them better for certain run and gun playstyles.

I could go on but ultimately gun design in mea boils down to a few guns having top marks in multiple categories like rof, damage, magazine size, accuracy and spare ammo while other guns are lower in one or more category without anything unique to make up for it.

Not to mention that variants should have just been a 3rd weapon mod slot instead of entirely new versions of each weapon..

Personally, I think there's nothing wrong with Andromeda gun design...

As an aside the main problem with Soned is it's rarity. It would be totally fine if it was a rare gun instead of a UR. There'd be a lot of accuracy based builds using it and it would have a solid niche.