'Nother thing; Ok, so poeple were crying about how the storm trooper sucks (for some reason) etc etc…but I play one now, and frankly, having a WS aptitude was a good thing; they had access to afordable Parry and WS related talents.
Now he's an over armed, over armoured, less-than-flexible Weapon specialist, rather than a jack of all trade assault soldier as I saw him. Hell, the weapon specialist still got Weapon skill accessible, right? So they actually get BS at the same price, and WS related talents and attributes buys are now CHEAPER for the weapon spec. than the Storm trooper.
Enjoy your self made one-trick poney guys, but I'd rather keep using WS instead of finesse; I'd rahter like my storm troopers well trained than just being better equipped guardsmen.
As for the armour, who cares, it's a good quality light carapace, so still AP6 on the first shot. Since he's is no longer filling the assault role (being yet another shooty guy) giving him ST armour won't help him, as he is worse in melee now than a weapon specialist, so giving him better armour to hold longer won't be a good bought since the first goal now it to NOT get in melee. At all. Leave this for the Sarge and Weapon Spec. Stick behind cover, gets a free AP4 cover helping your AP5-6 armour and respectable toughness bonus
And now with variable lasgun settings, the ST is no longer worth it since your regular Trooper Exandible now has a weapon that can be, damage-wise, 2-3 points under what a BOLTER can do. I'd rahter have no pen, but autofire thankyouverymuch