With that said I think weapon balance is the hardest things to do. Techincally it is easy as it just tweaking a value or so. But the hard part it to weigh it in with how the weapon is used accross all of the situations that you use it. Then factor in that people like things different. In the end its almost a loose loose case as no matter what you do some groups of people will want factor x to be increase and yet another group will want that same factor x to be decreesed.
