So I was playing some PvP with good ol' TKL yesterday and something that has bothered me in the past about this game suddenly reared its ugly head. I have played a lot of Destiny. Over the course of the life of this game, the way in which I play has also varied wildly. In Vanilla I mostly chained strikes. TDB and HoW, I pretty much existed in PvP. in TTK, RWG introduced me to raiding. No matter what I was most into playing at any given time, the thing that has always been the most important piece of gear that I had is my primary weapon and to a large extent that has dictated the level to which I play and enjoy PvP. Now where is all this going? Ever since TTK dropped, I've pretty much hated ever single primary I've used in this game. Now maybe that is being overly harsh, but even the ones I've used regularly have NEVER been anything close to my go-to weapons from year one. Up for Anything Hygiea Noblesse Coiled Hiss NA3D1 Salvation State They were incredible weapons, but what really made them great is that they felt comfortable for me and fit how I played. They had the perks I liked and the scopes I preferred and they were like extensions of my being. So I was playing with TKL and I told him I have been using a Hopscotch Pilgrim and that I love it, but hate the scope on it and keep hoping another will drop. That's when he equipped his with red dot-oas (the best scope in the game), full auto and perfect stability and right then and there it was just completely brought home how -blam!-ed up it is that I will probably never see one with that roll. The absolute perfect weapon for how I want to play, right there and completely unattainable. And I wanted to blame Bungie for the RNG chance just to get one to drop (let alone with the right perks), but it's not Bungie's fault I can't play how I want, it's ourselves who have done this. We had reforging. We had the ability to turn ANY WEAPON IN THIS GAME into a God-roll for ourselves and our personal play style and we threw it away because OMFNG people are rolling popular weapons. Well guess what? They're all still using popular weapons, but now only the ones lucky enough to get good rolls are able to use them. It took me 25k glimmer and 90 rerolls to get my NA3D1 with red dot-oas, full auto and explosive rounds. But once I had it, it was the most fun I've ever had playing PvP and -blam!- your Thorn or whatever else you wanted to use, I had my perfect weapon so I could care less what you used. But again, it's always been too easy to bitch about what we die to rather than try to find what we are good with and the one opportunity we had, instead of taking advantage of it, we complained. Instead of finding our perfect weapon, we bitched about our opponents using weapons they liked. So here I am in year 3 of Destiny, over a year removed from the last weapon I truly loved and a year into searching for another I even like and I've finally found one that I really like a lot and WANT to go play PvP with again and the odds of my ever seeing it with the perks/scope I want are pretty much nil. So instead of playing and competing, I'm sitting in orbit like I've done so often over the last year when no one is around to play. In year one I'd have been playing Clash, playing Control, killing fools that thought they were going to win because they had Thorn. For the last year when thinking of what to play on my own, I've mostly looked at my weapons, looked at the Crucible and said -blam!- it. I want to be able to play Destiny how I want to play. I want to be able to use weapons I love to use with perks that I want on them. But I can't because too many people on the forums are focused on taking away anything powerful or fun or popular that kills them. I don't care what you use and you shouldn't care what I use. We should all be able to have weapons we love.