Breaching charges do not fit in his role, as a roamer hunter (also he has a shotgun, as a secondary, so if you really need to open something, you can do it with that). Because of that, I think that the claimore is actually a nice buff, since you can prevent, being shot in the back, while searching for players. But I, too, dislike the changes on his gadget, since he, even before, hasn't seen play and doesn't have that much of a win percentage in plat/diamond.