To assist with the TTK issue, I will point out the flaws in some things OTHER than Dust's rifle collection today. As I'm sure you know (but I'm going to say it anyway) the radius of any circle is measured from the center to the circumference (the outer edge). Anyone care to venture a guess at just the area a MD round's blast covers? The total area covered in a blast is affected drastically by even slight changes in the radius of the blast, allow me to show you by breakin it down for you using a normal proto MD and math. (Area of a circle = pi x radius^2):

Freedom Mass Driver Radius: 4.4m
Mass Driver Operations 5 Skill Bonus: 1.1m
Total Radius: 5.5m

Formula to find the area: Area = 3.14 x 5.5^2

Area of a Freedom MD blast: 78.5m(squared)
Distance across a MD blast: 11m

How about that Boundless?

Radius after Operation 5 Skill bonus: 8.25
Area of a Boundless Assault MD blast: 213.72m(squared)
Distance across the blast: 16.5m

Now please explain to me why these weapons, who's damage grows by leaps and bounds with the application of damage mods and proficiency skills (base Freedom MD damage with prof 5 is 146), have such a large AoE. Why does ANYONE need a 78m AoE to fight people? Why is it possible to stack two damage mods and deal 174 damage over a 78.5 meter area once every second on a weapon that can kill people without even having to SEE them?

Now how about those Core Locus grenades that everyone is so fond of?

Total Radius: 7.2m
Area of Core Grenade Blast: 162.7776m(squared)
Distance across blast zone: 14.4m

Now please explain to me how you can have a weapon that you can control where it detonates with such a huge blast radius and insanely high damage output.

As you can see, explosives have far too big of an AoE. This post is not to downplay the over-the-top damage output of some other weapons, but merely to show that there are more ways to be OP than just with sheer DPS.

Lastly..... Fix TTK in 1.8 PLEASE!!!!!