Destiny has previously been a game where the largest amount of time was spent chasing better variants of a small pool of weapons. The addition of Shaping has been a great one, as it effectively serves as a bad luck protection through the system's deterministic nature. However I feel like the addition of enhanced traits have negative knock-on effects that should be adressed in the future.
First off, they make shaped weapons flat-out objectively better than randomized ones, which cannot have enhanced traits. This undermines the "traditional" gameplay of Destiny, the replaying of its content offering for more spins at the loot slot machine, which veteran players are bound to have grown fond of.
Second, it has created negative feedback for the Seasonal Activities. Whereas they were previously enticing for their loot, they are now judged solely on the metric of how many weapons with Deepsight Resonance they reward, with the actual loot being discarded in favor of self-crafted equipment.
Third, it incentivizes "camping" equipment. If your rifle has enhanced traits that are suited to PvE but you need the XP to unlock the other enhanced perks, might as well enter Crucible with it, right?
I think that, for the long-term health of the game and its reward structures, something needs to be done about enhanced traits.
Suggestion A: Turn enhanced Traits into secondary Trait slots. Unlocked upon reaching a certain level with a weapon and costing the same resources as buying an enhanced trait to "fill" that second slot. This would turn eliminate problems #1 and #3 by equalizing the power level of shaped and random drop weapons.
Suggestion B: Allow Masterworked weapons to enhance their traits for the same amount of resources. This would alleviate Problems #1 and #2, but it would require creating enhanced variants of every trait in the game.
Regardless of what is done about it, I firmly believe that [i]something[/i] needs to be done. In my opinion the current state of shaping is going to have escalating negative effects on the entire game if it's left unadressed and Bungie would be better off if they did something now instead of having to scramble for a solution if, or when, it's going to be unavoidable.
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