Okay so I'm trying to get this idea in circulation in the community, it'd be a brilliant use of materials and time for us guardians, give us something to spend currency on, give us something unique to push for that would work beautifully for the game as well as give us that bit of personal flare we desire. I call it Project Exotic. The premise is this, we have guardians who have made gear, used it tooled and tuned it to maximize it's potential. Toland, Ikora Rey, Jaren Ward, Dredgen Yor, Saint 14, the list goes on. But what if us, the modern day guardians were given the same chance? You would start by "designing" your eventual exotic. You'd pick the base design a color scheme, and a base archetype. It can be any weapon class in the game. Then you'd use it beginning from common you'll gain it exp by using it and rank it until it hits legendary. At legendary you'll use and infuse the weapon. Until it hits exotic it wouldn't have any perks, but the kicker is that the weapons you infuse give a chance for your exotic to take on perks from the ones you've used. Bungie could use this to balance out the skill tree to ensure OP rolls that make any overly op rolls or rolls for weapons that they'd removed impossible. This would although make getting weapons matter a bit more to us because the rolls we get could help us to make our exotic as amazing as possible within reason for the game. Bungie could also introduce perks that have a possibility to roll as your exotic perk that would be influenced by the weapons/ weapon types infused, or make it that you have to follow a questline for your exotic perk and you can get all the other perks but your exotic status and exotic perk don't come until you reach the end of the quest. That way they could implement some sort of trade system or registry for personal exotics so we can track our legacy. I feel like it'd only work if it was limited to 1 personal exotic per character though. Well that's for my brain let me know what you think and add in some feedback on this. If we can get it hammered out as a community maybe we can pitch it to Bungie and see what happens!