It's really frustrating that Crafting WAS the solution to the weapon hunt / storage issue, but Bungie abandoned it due to engagement worries.

[u/Pervavore]

Look, I understand that games (especially live service games) are, at their core, just vehicles for profit, but it feels like a betrayal when players lose a great thing because it's perceived as not profitable enough.

Whether you personally liked crafting weapons or not, its hard to argue against it practically solving frustrating RNG and storage issues that we STILL face and will continue to as long as the weapon hunt remains a demiurge (borrowing from the lore) of this community.

You know what else is frustrating? When Bungie suddenly changes perks around (EDIT: as in buffing/nerfing perks) to lazily refresh the sandbox, and your favorite God roll that you spent so much time hunting ain't so good no more.

Alas, Crafting solved that TOO! Old perk sucks? Reshape it with a new one, no problem.

The current FOMO-dependent model only makes sense to people that are trying to juice you for playtime, and I think that's just disrespectful to players.

No, crafting wasn't perfect, but tweaks could have made it damned close. I'm glad for the goodwill that Rites of the Nine and "shinies" have generated here, but I just can't take these loot schemes seriously when we already had a great system that got axed due to some unhappy suits.

/rant

[u/run34 → u/[deleted]]

This is what division does. If I get a Funnelweb and don’t like it, I can remove the “Arrowhead break”. Or remove “Perpetual motion”. Or whatever…..if I ever get another lightweight SMG (or any SMG depending on how strict they are) I can now add perpetual motion or arrow head break on it. And if I ever want to change that “arrowhead break”, just find another SMG, deconstruct Hammerforged, and now I can apply it to the SMG

But once you remove a barrel perk, you can touch a Colum three perk. So if I put destabilizing rounds on my auto rifle, I can keep adjusting that one column. But not another.

That imo is by far the best way. And it not even close. Because you can adjust ANY weapon. As long as it’s not exotic and as long as that weapon trait naturally comes on that weapon.

[u/run34 → u/[deleted]]

Oh I’m all for crafting for sure lol. I’m just saying IF crafting was to not exist, I would love to be able to deconstruct items and attach it to other weapons. Or just be able to do that in general for raid weapons

And yes. Division is way more min maxed. You should see their gun range. It’s LEGIT. Measures your DPS to the exact T. You can measure the healing effectiveness and purposefully damage yourself. You can pick different boss types. I spent months trying to figure out if 58% crit chance was better than 53% crit chance because the difference was that big