So, I’ve been gathering some thought. About how factions worked, the recent reworks to the Gunsmith, that type of thing. And I think I’ve thought up something. What it essentially boils down to is the gunsmith actually being a gunsmith. Being able to craft your own legendary weapons. These would be split between frames, sights/perks, and weapon manufacturers blueprints. So, let us begin. [b][u]Weapon Manufacturer Blueprints[/u][/b] : [spoiler]So, in essence, these blueprints would now come from the Gunsmith via reputation with each from the manufacturers (so, say, Omolon, Hakke, SUROS, Tex Mechanica, Veist, etc, etc). Obviously, this would require Bungie release more Legendary weapons obviously catering to these manufacturers. You gain this reputation by completing special bounties that each of the current vendors might be selling. For example: -Drifter might sell a SUROS bounty that requires you to kill enemies and Guardians in Gambit with Auto Rifles and Pulse Rifles, with more progress given for using SUROS weapons (SUROS Regime, Last Perdition, etc etc.) -Zavala might sell a Hakke bounty requiring you to kill enemies with Hand Cannons and LMGs in Strikes (with more progress made using Hakkë weapons). These bounties would change bi-weekly and reward you with a blueprint for a weapon. So say, the first bounty would reward you a choice between a SUROS Auto Rifle blueprint or a pulse rifle blueprint. The latter would reward you a Hakkë Handcannon blueprint or a Rocket Launcher blueprint. These, in essence, would form the basis of your weapon. Perhaps maybe even allow for the return of Black Armory weapons via Ada-1? IDK...[/spoiler] [b][u]Frames[/u][/b] [spoiler]These frames would come from leveling up enough with these manufacturers. You would turn them in at Banshee, and he would give you a random ‘frame package, which would contain a frame (Rapid Fire, Lightweight, Adaptive, Aggressive, High-Impact, etc.), and a weapon kit that caters to a specific stat (Stability, reload speed, Impact, etc). An example of this would be once you level up enough with Omolon, he could perhaps offer a High-Impact package that contains a High-Impact frame, with a specialized stat in blast radius from Omolon which caters to Omolon weapons. This, in essence would allow you to choose who to level up with, and provide further mix and matching with how you want to design your weapon. (Example; you want to take a Hakke Frame, but want to give stats like a Omolon weapon. )[/spoiler] [b][u]Sights/Perks[/u][/b] [b]Edit:[/b][spoiler]After some brief consideration, alongside the responses of valid criticism worrying about the idea of an immediate god roll selection, I’ve decided to rework the idea on how sights and perks work. I hope you enjoy, both those of you who are new to visiting this and those of you who might’ve revisited this. [/spoiler] [b][i]Sights[/i][/b]: [spoiler]Sights, Barrels, and Mags/Specialized Rounds I feel are safe enough to the point where the original idea of mine’s could work. It breaks down to this; dismantling blue/legendary weapons has a chance of granting a certain barrel/Mag/ Sight mod. Assuming they return other sights from previously sunsetted weapons, this would mean that there would be a plethora to potentially nab. Obviously, it also hopefully makes blue weapons a little more useful beyond just simple fodder.[/spoiler] [b][i]Perks: [spoiler]Perks would work much differently. Essentially, rather than gaining them from weapons, you would instead wait until you reach the gunsmith to actually work with the perks. Additional details explained in the next spoiler. [/spoiler][/i][/b] And finally, after all that; the actual weapon crafting! Which would require a few things. [spoiler]First, you have to have a weapon blueprint, frame, and a couple sights/barrels to mix and match with. My thought would be that, to bring weapon telemetries in as more important resources, these would be required in order to tweak an element, making it either a special or heavy. They would all start off as kinetic legendaries. Perks, however, work wildly different. Before you actually complete your weapon, you can choose between three different ‘subsets’, which contain a variety of certain perks. These perks subsets switch some perks every week, with more nominal/ considered ‘god-roll perks’ (ex. Rampage, Swashbuckler, Trench Barrel, etc, etc) being in their own subsets, only perhaps switching every month or two. When a specific subset is chosen, the weapon you create will select 2 perks at random. Considering the sheer number of perks in the game, my assumption is that there would be ten perks per subset. To alleviate the additional burden of potential RNG a little bit, you can buy a potential ‘veto’ item from Banshee (similar to that of the veto mods from the Cryptolith during Season of the Hunt) for perhaps a few enhancement cores/prisms, which allows you to choose two perks out of the subset you’ve chosen to get rid of. That way, it’s still RNG, but you essentially get rid of two potential useless perks out of your chosen subset, leaving another 8 to be potentially chosen. Maybe additional gunsmith materials can be required to: - Choose what specific masterwork to choose (say, a Reload Speed or Range Masterwork) - Make it an automatic masterwork (this weapon would probably start off at Weapon Rank 9) - Add an automatic kill tracker -Put more detailed visual customizations to it (engravings on the weapon, etc, etc.) Finally, the finished product would require a certain amount of glimmer, legendary shards and gunsmith materials. Maybe, put the weapon on a 24 hour cooldown just so that people could give it some time before the weapon is done. Once it is done, it’s given a random name based on its manufacturer, which you can change with like, 500 glimmer. [/spoiler] [b][u]Miscellaneous Notes:[/u][/b][spoiler]-Potentially, perhaps there can be Ghost mode that have a chance of giving off half of your XP from certain bounties and such to a specific manufacturers. Making it just a little easier for some people to go after a specific manufacturer/frame if they wish. -Additionally, another thought could be that there could be potential weapon mods separate to other weapon mods that provide a small amount of XP for each kill with a weapon to go to a certain manufacturer. Separate from the Ghost mods[/spoiler] I mean, I know this would be way too overambitious from a 20-something year old with way too much time on his hands, but I just wanted to get it out there. What do you guys think?