Just reinstate crafting. They will be capped at tier 3 in EoF anyway and no longer strongest in slot. Leaving The basement dwellers to be happy because they can spend their life chasing that dopamine hit on the hamster wheel that is bungie RNG trying to get a tier 5 after the time gating each season on power level allows them to grind for them.

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Unfortunately these forums are the wrong crowd for this feedback because most of the people who roam in here are lifers who treat d2 as a 9-5 some of them probably make money's off making "content" from it and want grinds that require having no life-no job-no love-no sleep-no brain. In order to feel accomplished in life and forgot why gaming exists which is for fun and playing rng simulator is not fun. That is the majority opinion. Problem is people think the louder they argue the more right they are.

[quote]To prove my point: the auto rifle "Origin Story," sold by Zavala in the tower, has 12 possible perks in the 3rd column and 12 possible perks in the 4th column. If I want a version of the auto rifle with attrition orbs and kinetic tremors, then I have a 1 in 144 chance of it dropping each time I spend engrams on it.[/quote] Playlist weapons are outliers you cherry picked that item to try to prove a point when most loot in the game only has 6 perks per column making it a 1/36 chance of getting what you want, although these days you can get multi-perk drops making it an even higher chance of getting what you want. Going into EoF all the tiered weapons will be able to drop with double perks at T3 and T4 while at T5 they drop with triple perks. Barrel, Mag and MW also usually doesn't affect a gun all too much and only matters if you care about PvP performance.

I totally understand why some of you think of this as just another crafting method or that it will take away from the grind. My point is that RNG for legendaries weapons is literally worse than exotic drops. Exotics have drop chance of 1/20 on average. Legendary weapons with two desired perks have an average of a 1/36 drop chance after getting the weapon to drop in the first place. And a 1/144 chance with several vendor weapons. I don’t want take away from the grind, just balance it out, so I can spent my time playing a balance of content instead of doing the same content 60-100 times before getting the item to drop before it disappears with seasonal content. For example, I’ve farmed the Vesper’s Host dungeon almost 60 times now and still don’t have the auto rifle with attrition orbs and jolting feedback. I’m not even trying to get the barrel and mag I want… just the two main perks. I would love to see the game progressively reward grind out gear instead of having some item simply never drop. It frustrated me and many other players to the point I frequently consider taking yet another hiatus from the game because I burn out from playing the same content over and over with nothing to show for it. Even if Bungie only lets you infuse perks into a weapon a limited number of times and requires mats to do so, that would be huge. Even only being to infuse 1 perk into a weapon would allow you to farm two versions of a weapon until you get one of the two main perks you want on each and then infuse them together. You would still need to grind out the drops, but your chances would go from 1/36 to 1/6+1/6. (1/6 equals around 26 drops to have a 99% confidence probability per item). This means that if you have 54 weapons drop you will have a 99% chance to achieve the drop you want if infusing was a possible. Definitely still requires grinding.