I don't know why they don't.
Do the devs want us to rng the raid?
Is it too easy to get an exotic primary?
Are raid weapons supposed to be better than exotics?
Exotics are supposed to be the best weapons. Right now, most people don't use exotic primaries mainly because they don't have elemental damage.
Also, it would make more sense for the lore of some weapons to be elemental.
Thorn has its pvp portion of the bounty requiring kills with void damage. Why does it not do void damage itself?
Why does hard light have a stream of white-blue bullets, but no arc damage?
I hope the devs consider this.
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Because they want to keep legendaries still valuable and meaningful. I actually like the fact that exotics are not the ONLY choice in all situations.
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Exotics are never supposed to have been the best guns, just most unique with the "special perks" I myself think they should be better..
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Raid gear is on-par with exotic gear and gives you the ability to equip multiple items (since they are marked as Legnedary). Hence the elemental damage on raid primaries.
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They might change this later. I've seen kill cams with several exotics showing elemental damage. Thorn showed void in crucible. I'm guessing they did this to keep the raid and nightfall from being too easy. Or this could be added benefits for the dlc where when you upgrade weapons further they gain additional abilities.
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Raid is toughest content, so they should be the best & most sought after reward. Xur should never sell arc/solar/void primaries. Nor should they drop in nightfall or for last place in crucible.
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I think that if exotic primaries had elemental damage then we would very rarely use other secondaries and heavies.
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By not putting elemental damage on an exotic they give an incentive to do the raid.
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Primaries should be your Mob Killers, for boss and sub boss you should be pulling out your special and or heavy, so why do you need elemental for mobs? it's irrelevant in PVP so .... the only thing a elemental primary is good for is on a nightfall, and really, the legendary primaries are fine and perhaps OP for the nightfall's anyways. there are literally 1000 things that need to be tweaked in this game before this one. Sry u lose internet.
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Actually exotic primaries had elemental damage during beta, but for some reason it was taken away before the game was released
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Why is every exotic primary made for PvP except the exclusive hawkmoon?
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i want arc on hard light but an option to add elemental to primary through the gunsmith with a qeusts or materials would be way better.
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Because then your favourite might be useless in situations like Epic difficulties with damage type disadvantages. Maybe they also wanted to encourage us to use the secondary and heavy exotics in equal measure? Who knows man!
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i think that they should add an option to the gunsmith where you can have your weapons reworked with elemental dmg for a few shards. i would have a hand cannon for EVERY type, and hell could you imagine hawkmoon with elemental dmg??
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Short answer they are easer to obtain than most and if they added that it would make arc/void/solar burn less of an issue to face