EDIT: My point isn't that "Crimson sucks because it's useless with this oddly specific loadout!" My point is that Crimson isn't too optimal. There are plenty of avenues that give regen/health that are much more effective than Crimson. It's a sub-optimal choice in the grand scheme of things and if players doing difficult content who actually want survivability will go with other, better options. The ease of healing with Crimson is nice, yes, but in most content, constant healing isn't needed unless you're playing super aggressive, which is why many other healing options are much better. Devours, healing makes, code of commander, etc do not take an exotic slot, but also give me similar effects to Crimson. I just think Crimson can be better. Crimson sucks. Not only is it not unique at all (perk wise, but I can you can argue it's a copy off of Red Death), but its overall feel and power is not that great, and Bad JuJu does its job but better. The main problem stems from its main perk (along with some other things), which allows it to regenerate health of kill and reload on precision kill. The problem with this is that there are a lot of avenue for quick health regen that Crimson isn't nearly as useful as it should be. If I want health regen, I could always use devour to get the regeneration or a rift. Granted, those are all warlock abilities, but the point still stands. At least for a portion of the player base it's completely worthless, except, perhaps for its reload perk! But no that's also very easy to replicate. Lunafaction boots, titan barrier, hunter dodge, etc. can reload your weapon I would say much easier than Crimson. Additionally, comparing this weapon to Bad JuJu, its shortfalls are highlighted once again. Why use Crimson, when Bad JuJu essentially does it's job but easier and better? Simply pairing Bad Juju with devour allows you to completely replicate Crimson's abilities, but in an easier and better because all kills reload the weapon (compared to Crimson which activates on headshot kills) with the added benefit of extra damage and super energy. Lastly, Crimson's masterwork is slight and not very useful. Crimson already has decent range (especially given that it's a HC and pulse rifle combination), so a masterwork that gives it extra range it's not too useful in light of its other major issues and the fact that it's hard to take full advantage of the range unless you're on PC. The weapon also has a low magazine that is really punishing if you miss a precision kill, have to deal with multiple enemies (in PvP), or are dealing with majors. The obvious conclusion is "git gud," but on console at least, the recoil can make you miss shots and not every will always be a precision kill, even if you're a good player. You will inevitably miss a precision kill and get punished for it quite hard with it's port reload (and possibly your poor positioning if your playing very aggressively) What can be done to fix Crimson? It's a hard question because everything Crimson does can be done by other abilities or weapons, so it's hard to make it unique without getting a rid or nerfing a lot of avenues that allow for health regeneration or reloads outside of exotics. To fix ur there are two avenues: 1) return it to the original (D1 y1) Red Death. Returning it to a 390 pulse rifle with its OG perk (along with the new reload on precision kill perk and it's 27 bullets in magazine from D1) would actually make the gun very good. It would deal with its low damage and magazine problem and allow you to better deal with large amounts of enemies since you would be forced to play farther away. Additionally, adding a stability increase with its masterwork can really help it. However, part of what makes Crimson unique and fun is that it allows you to play very aggressively and get rewarded for it if you're a good shot. This change would completely change the fantasy of Crimson. But, as I said earlier, this aggressive power fantasy can easily be replicated if you use devour along with something like an SMG or handcannon. 2) keep it as Crimson, but buff it in a way that makes it more unique and fun. I talked about how the power fantasy of Crimson is to run and gun, being very aggressive and getting rewarded for it, so to make Crimson better, another option would be to lean into this fantasy as much as possible. I would give it a new perk, where on precision kills, in addition to reloading your weapon, you would get the buff "[Blank]," which gives you a slight damage boost, a handling boost, and better accuracy. There's very little you can actually do to make it a better weapon other than buff damage (we see a similar situation with bad juju), but the increase to handling can really help in the heat of the moment. Lastly for the Catalyst, I would add a slight stability boost and magazine boost of 3. That's all, thanks for reading, and thanks to my friends of the clan "The Ashen Conflux" for ideas.