Re: DICE PUT BACK THE MARTINI-HENRY please!!
I felt the same way but this was a fix, not a nerf. It was never supposed to be so crazy. It was treating shots the the arms, legs, foot, etc as chest shots. It was temporarily a buff rather than a recent nerf. I played Battlefield 4 for about 2 years straight with hundreds (maybe thousands) of hours in it. People will do the same with BF1. So if the class 10 weapons were super good, everyone would be using them and only them after a week of play and you'd get killed by the same 4 guns for the next 2 years.
The weapons should be on par, maybe even marginally better than the standard weapons for the class but just have a unique look or animation or something. Otherwise level 10 should have taken far longer than it did. As in months of grinding.