Possibly the worst exotic in the game is the stag, a beautiful looking armor piece, but with a nearly useless exotic perk. There are a few solutions that can be done to improve the exotic. One is completely remove the rift energy gain and rift drop on death in favor of a new perk. A suggestion of the new perk would be "Being critically wounded activates Nearly Departed, Nearly departed stays active until you are no longer in critical health and buffs damage by the same amount as an empowering rift." In addition to this a second perk could be added to improve it further, the perk Dearly departed would instead of dropping a healing rift on your death, drop an empowering rift on nearby ally death. This rework would make the exotic feel powerful and feel more in line with the lore tab's sentiment.