When I noticed there were no light machine guns in this game (just SMGs and full machineguns) it got me thinking. What if there were machineguns that were literally Light machineguns that used light as ammo? But not just machine guns. I wonder if it would be interesting to have weapons of all types that could draw from their Guardian's Light and channel it into projectiles or beams.
If you based this on something like the Guardians super energy, weapons like this would have the advantage of never running out of ammo until the Guardians energy ran out, and then you'd get ammo back when your Light regenerated. This could be very useful in strikes, etc, where ammo is scarce.
Of course, this would mean you'd not use your Super much, but let's face it, in PvE, a lot of Guardians never seem to use their super much for a variety of reasons, at least from what I've seen. Of others do so they'd probably not want to equip a weapon like this.
When you think about it, this is just the reverse of how some existing weapons work right now, using perks like Thresh, Wellspring or Demolitionist to top up the Guardians skill, grenade, and super energies. So it's not a big stretch to have it work the other way. Plus, we already have hand grenades that are created by Guardians from their Light so why not extend that concept to some other things?
Anyway, this is just one idea for how a category of weapons of light would work. What do you think of something like this?
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Yes. In PvP this would definitely have to use quite a bit of super so it stays balanced but I absolutely agree
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Yes absolutely. This is the only weapon type left to be honest. There could be Omolon Gauntlets that you channel rapid fire void bolts through, lightning bolt throwing that behaved like drawing back a bow, and maybe a martial arts based weapon where you do combination strikes that send forward shortrange waves of energy that could emulate the effectiveness of a shotgun or Fusion rifle.