lore wise its easy to make sense.

Design wise... that's CCP fault.

BTW the original AR in Halo had 60 bullets.

Well I liked the original AR from Halo 1 and it felt balanced back then, but you could only reload it twice before you magged out but it was no instant killer like our Plasma Rifles are.

yeah the weapon had its pros and cons. Large clip but lacked extended amounts of ammo and the damage was par.
In dust, you get a large clip, more than a fair amount of ammo and the damage is hands down the most devastating anti infantry weapon. Nothing is ever done to stop the AR, out of my entire stay here the only nerf ive seen to the AR were the camera scope removal and reducing the clip on the Tac rifiles. Hey, that balanced the Tac. Why cant we balance the full auto AR in the same way... when the players are asking for it? Surely that wont balance the weapon or anything

And heres the problem in that Dust 514 ARs are instant killers and this then is UNBALANCED.
Therefore to restore balance lower magazine sizes are needed.

There are other weapons with near similar time to kill amounts though so I am not sure what the TTK goal is for the game so even if you nerf it to 30 round mag its still going to down people near instantly and most folks reload between kills. So overall a magazine nerf alone is not going to 'fix' it.

Maybe higher dispersion because the damn thing is near laser accurate right now.

The original AR in Halo had the same recoil exploit as the AR we have now...

34 damage? whoops, thought it was 33, my bad. Have to update my post then :)

Regardless, unless that's a proto gallente assault or a proto logi, that's a hell of a glass cannon you've built for yourself. You're gonna be armor tanked and a nice slow easy target even if you are. Not to mention the slow regen of armor means you're eventually gonna die just from being whittled down or be forced to sit out of the battle after every engagement for half a minute+.

Still anyone who didn't have proficiency V and 3 complex damage mods would still have a tough time with only 30 bullets. Not to mention the base SP investment to get the proto dopsuit, level V weaponry, level V AR proficiency, and both engineering and electronics to level V so you could actually fit it.

Also do you happen to have a link to wolfmans post on that hidden 10% buff? Not calling you a liar, just curious and want to see it. When did that come in?

Someone missed the top half of a quote ill fix it here, true but the assault rifle which will become the blaster rifle, doesn't have drwbacks, unlike the scrambler rifle, which is actually a laser assault rifle. The minmatar will have an acog scope which makes hard to use in cqc and a low mag size, while the rail rifle will have a low rate of fire.

The weapons go something like this.

Assault - Short Range, Full Auto Gallante
Burst - Short/Mid Range, Burst (obviously ) Minmatar
Charge - Mid/Long Range, semi Auto, charge ability Amarr
Tac - Long Range, Semi Auto Caldari

Each race will attempt to mimic each other in the other ranges, and do relatively well, but each race will shine in its base range! There will be no difinitive jack of all trades.

But instead 16 rifles, who between them profcient everywhere! And because of how the skill tree works it gives you 4 weapons for the price of 1. Alowing you to swap and change dependent on the enemies you face!