I put up a post with what I felt were doable solutions to making endgame better the other day and it was really cool to see the support it got, but also how many people were willing to add their thoughts and opinion on them. Two of the things that stood out the most are that people really love Xur and there is a very passionate divide on static weapons. On that second topic, after many discussions with other Guardians, I have been thinking about a way to kind of have the best of both worlds and improve the game with out breaking it. We all know how fickle RNG was in D1. Some were blessed by RNGesus and others never got the drops they endlessly grinded for. We also know how absolutely Bungie were unable to balance around all the myriad of weapons and rolls. I got to talk Destiny with the DTR Podcast crew last night and Reythos made the point of having to carry multiples of every good weapon in D1 trying to find the best and it resonated with me because at the end of D1 I had 5 Hopscotch Pilgrams on me that were all slighly different that I'd rotate through trying to find the best one. I don't miss that. I'm going to say right now that I do like static rolls over what we had for most of D1. The exception would be HoW which to me was the absolute best balanced era of D1 and the reason was re-rolling. Literally any weapon could be good enough to compete with because we could build them exactly how we wanted. It might have taken a lot of attempts, but everyone was able to have a weapon loadout that fit how they wanted to play. In all other eras of the game we were completely beholden to RNG and most of us never had sets of weapons we loved with the perk combos we wanted. D2 looked to simplify things for many reasons. First and foremost was most likely to make the game easier to balance, but I also think the static weapons were part of a larger movement to make the game as accessible as possible to everyone and not just those who grind endless hours playing. To this end I think we've all seen that they took things too far and in doing so unwittingly neutered their own endgame to where they've had to mea culpa on it and ask for our feedback. I know there are a lot of players who feel that one of the answers is to bring back RNG weapon rolls, but I disagree. I don't want the dumpster fire that was D1 weapon balancing back and maybe the solution was too conservative, but there was a legitimate problem that needed correcting. So the question then is how do we fix it. What I think would work is the best of what D2 has done and the best of what d1 did combined. To that end I think that weapon rolls should remain static but the fix is in the mod system. Currently we can add mods to our weapons to add +5 power level to kinetics and +5 elemental power to energy weapons and while it's nice to be able to change elements at will, it's kind of a false front on customization. What I would like to see is a second mod slot added to legendary weapon and with those give us the ability to apply mods like 3rd Eye, Explosive Rounds, Stability, Range, enemy highlighting, custom scopes, etc. It keeps in place the system where everyone have access to the exact same weapons and it gives everyone equal access to setting up those weapons as to how they like to play the game and to me that should be the absolute first tenet of weapons in this game. I don't think it needs to be a huge number of possible customization either and can vary a bit by weapon type, but I think the game needs something to let us take the weapons we love and make them a little more how we'd like them to be. Then there are raid/trials weapons and how to make them stand out without braking balance and while I initially thought maybe yet another mod slot, I think that is pushing it too far, but again they need something to stand out as true high level endgame rewards. I don't know what the answer is here, but weapons like Chaos Dogma, Funky Steel Medula etc in D1 and the raid Sword and Rocket Launcher in Leviathan manage to stand out and feel special. Another thought is maybe allowing raid weapons to be switchable between multiple RoF archetypes. I think that D2 has done a lot right with weapons and I think there are a lot more great weapons in this game than people realize (my Iron Banner kinetic is the blue Cuboid Aru). I see diversity in play (though a definite leaning towards ARs) but if I'm on my Titan or Warlock, I don't think it benefits the game to feel like you have to equip MIDA to use 3rd Eye, etc. Anyway, just one idea on how it could be improved. Interested to hear other solutions that go beyond leave it or go back to D1's systems. Thank you.