This is the different point of veiw. If EW will be superior to SG, in pvp there will be no SG sniper.. it is fact. Only best PvP chars are in PvP. If you lower this resistance, BG will protest, because they will not be so strong like now, and because nobody wants to nerf anything, they will raise BG power.
ugh should players really care about whining Bigguners when they loose some of their ultimate supremacy?
And yes I actually i know what im talking about. 2 BIgguners lvl 21 now, 2 SG snipers(6 and 10 luck) and 1 energy sniper. I can easly tell that if you can afford your ammo(just ammo coz lsw is a caravan drop) then you have an utimate hitting power over long range, shitload of AP, AOE attack, Partialy resistant to blind/psycho effects(bigguns does not require that much % to max chance to hit, unlike other guns)
Right now we have a reverse situation. everybody uses Small guns because they are better than energy guns. If energy guns would be a BIT better than small guns(especially on medium distance), then some people would still use SG and some would use EW: why? EW are hard to get/hard to craft and ammo is shitty expensive. Well we at least would have SOME diversity

. I know devs wanted to make EW rare, but this should not be achieved by making them worse in PVP in a PVP based game. Making them expensive with hard to get ammo?: YES. Making them shit: OH GOD NO