User blog comment:Charcoal121/BF3: My Buffs and Nerfs/@comment-1990578-20120112153114

See, the thing you guys are forgetting about claymores is that if Recon has them, they will always use them, i.e. camp in back of the map and just throw down one by the ladder/entrance to their camping spot, which will get obnoxious as the things are hard to spot.

Granted, people will start to expect them, but I kind of like not walking around a corner and getting destroyed while going to knife an oblivious recon.

Support can keep the mortar and claymores, but they should get the spawn beacon and the Recon should get C4 as a trade.

Otherwise, my list of fixes:
 * Increase recoil overall on FAMAS, maybe spread as well due to high fire rate, fix it on Battlelog to state 1000 rpm rather than 900.
 * Lower recoil on AK-74M and increase minimum damage on it and the L85A2 to 20, as Slopi suggested.
 * Keep F2000 as-is, not only because I love it, but because it already has a major increase in recoil and spread, especially noticeable with a 3.4 or 4x scope. If anything, reduce bullet velocity a bit.
 * Greatly increase spread on Frag rounds for all shotguns and reduce explosive damage from 30 to 20 on semi/auto Frags to make it a 3-shot minimum, rather than 2-shot at 8m or less.
 * Increase MP7's damage from 20-10 to 22-15 (maybe more) to account for low mag size/high fire rate and recoil, make it so ext. mags isn't necessary for a kill half the time.
 * Increase spread on G18 and 93R as they seem to be the only pistols Recons kill me with/ever use.
 * Reduce recoil and spread on AN-94.
 * Return G3 to 3-shot kill with 34-20 damage; maybe increase spread a bit to keep it balanced or lower bullet speed by 10-15m/s - don't want TTK to be too high like it was.
 * Make bursts more accurate on AR's, carbines, LMGs, and PDW's. Make semi-auto even more accurate to make it more appealing, but not sniper-level.
 * Re-balance attachments to make them all have pros and cons, rather than making everyone only use the grip, suppressor, and a scope of choice. Right now, flash suppressor is nearly useless, underslung doesn't decrease switch time by much, and bipod takes too long to deploy. zh1nto had a Reddit thread going about his suggestions of what to do, and I like what he was thinking, as well as what most others thought when they weren't being stupid.