I have 2 ideas that might help make reforging better than HoW.
Idea 1: Small changes to reforging.
[b][u]Price[/u][/b]: In HoW it was too cheap and easy to reforge your weapons so with the new reforge the price will be steeper and have some side effects to it. (Will get to it in a bit.)
So for a fair price I believe it should now be
1000 Glimmer
25 weapons/Armor parts ( pending on what you reforge)
5 Motes of Light
3 Legendary Marks
[b][u]Price Conclusion[/u][/b]: The player can only reforge a maximum of 25 times in 1 sitting making them decide to either go gather more materials or leave the weapon as is.
[b][u]Drawbacks[/u][/b]: As of now there are no drawbacks to reforging other than economic costs that can easily be regained. So I was thinking what if we add a reason to make a player to debate reforging their weapon/Armor.
I came up with a few things that might help with this.
1. Once reforging has begun the weapon/Armor piece turns into a Blueprint that you must take to the gunsmith. This blueprint will hold the schematics needed to obtain your newly reforged gear which will be available every armsday. In addition to this Maximum Orders placed is increased from 3 ->> 5. This is due to Blueprints counting as an order.
2. Every time you reforge your gear it will decrease in light value. The lowest any given gear will drop is 230.
The rates at which how much light you lose is completely dependant on the current light your gear is.
200-230 = 0 lost light
231-245 =1 lost light
246-280 =2 lost light
281-309 = 3 lost light
310-335 = 5 lost light
[b][u]Drawback Conclusion[/u][/b]: With the ability to reforge you will have to choose to wait 1 week and lose the light level your gear had or hold out with what it currently has.
Idea 2: This one will take longer to explain as it is a much bigger change to the loot system as well as how we treat weapons. This will have to wait till later hope you like idea 1.
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This is by far the dumbest, well written post I've seen on here. I'm not sure if I should congratulate you or pity you for that.
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Idea 1 isn't a bad idea actually. But 1 question: why do you have to spend legendary marks? In my opinion, that's not too realistic in remodeling a gun (In a univers full of space-magic).
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It's just of matter of making people spend for the reforge. Its like the reason why we gotta use the marks to infuse a weapon. You are changing the weapon even though it looks the same on the outside. Also legendary marks do not have much use atm in destiny.