So I think we can all agree that, for the most part, having an exotic means nothing. Most if not all exotics are obtained entirely based on RNG. Your weapons and gear don't say anything abut your accomplishments, save for a few things you can only get from the Vault. Even then, saying, "You could maybe be able to get an exotic from the VoG, or the nightfall. Maybe." Is ridiculous. We should work for our exotics. Remember back in the hype days when we were told of the legendary Thorn held in Charlemagne's vault? How the only way to obtain to obtain this beast of a weapon was to go through this nigh-impossible experience? Well how about instead of that, we randomly give out an exotic bounty that just has you grind specific things, then you can have it. Which leads me to my proposal. Exotic weapon bounties are a great step in the right direction. But the execution of the system was horrible, it's 90% RNG, and it only gives out ~5 mediocre weapons. All the others are 100% RNG. So how do we fix this, as well as the obvious problem of Xur? Well, we have Xur not sell exotics, but bounties. And this bounties are no "Spend a few minutes looking for a chest on Mars, run around between 2 vendors, kill people in the Crucible, go to a vendor, here's your exotic." With these bounties, if you see someone with The Last Word, you go "Holy -blam!- this guy is a -blam!-ing boss how did he do that bounty you have to be a god with hand cannons omfgbrbwtfbbq" These bounties would actually make you abandon them after weeks of attempting to finally prevail, but you won't be able to because you aren't worthy. Of course, there would be exotics that aren't quite so hard to get, but still require work. These would be OK, but really on Bad Juju/Hardlight ish tier. The REAL exotics would require extreme talent and skill. TL;DR The armor on your back and the weapon in your hands should represent you, your skill, and your Legend. Not that you were blessed by RNGsus. Feedback and suggestions are welcome. Ideas on specifics for the possible implementation of a similar system are welcome.