I think they need enhanced rng. I should be able to get any perk on any gun. Guns themselves should go through an aesthetic rng. Bungie takes stocks, barrels, clip designs, and throw that into rng. Just have a shit load of designs for each part, then when I get a gun I can name it whatever I want and the look of it will be completely unique to someone else. Then they need to separate pve and Pvp. Weapons you acquire have 2 stat screens. One for pve and another for Pvp. Just press a button in the menu to switch between the 2. Give them levels In Pvp, levels will give the gun perks. The perks would be similar to how they are now. It would go like this Common- max lvl: 1 Uncommon- max lvl: 2 Rare- max lvl: 3 Legendary- max lvl: 4 Exotic- max lvl: 5 Combat sights and scopes do not count, so getting the common to lvl 1 will give the gun 1 random perk of 3(or 5) that you choose, plus it's sights. Here is pve's solution. You really can't have an op weapon that the enemies would complain about right? If we get stronger guns then Bungie can give us much stronger enemies and bosses. Give pve weapon levels as well. But better: Common- max lvl: 10 Uncommon- max lvl: 20 Rare- max lvl: 30 Legendary- max lvl: 40 Exotics- max lvl: 50 Each level will give you a point(or multiple points maybe), and each point can be used to boost a stat of the gun. From fire rate down to magazine size. Every tenth level will not give a point, but net you a random perk of 3(or 5) that you choose. Once level 50 is unlocked for the exotic, you will unlock the exotic perk. Idk if they would want to let you pick the perk or give you a set of 3(or 5) to choose from. Obviously the higher tiered weapons would be better because they have more enhancements. It would certainly separate the tiers more and give a reason to use exotics. Also once ANY tiered weapon reaches max level you can give it a weapon shader. Sry for long post

If anything we need more RNG, especially on exotics, because that seems to be why they were able to actually make good ones in year 1.

Scarcity and weapon effectiveness are not connected in any way in this game. Aside from the ever dwindling supply of year one xerces-c's with focus fire. Good stats and perks make a good weapon really good. Not how rare it is to find.

xerxes-c with Focus Fire? that's a green machine gun right? i think I have one in my vault

Yup.

Your logic only has arguement against it. Notice how when exotics were extremely hard to get, they were much better? Now that exotics take no special effort to get, they are rarely even worth using over legendaries and there are only 2 exceptions that aren't from year 1 (sleeper and dark drinker). [spoiler]I didn't count black spindle as an exception because it's a y1 gun made into an exotic in y2.[/spoiler]

If you are referring to the ghorn, which was sold in the second week that any day one player would of been able to afford (I could, but I already had an icebreaker) as well as near the end of Y1 before [i][u][b]having its effectiveness reduced[/b][/u][/i] as well as the Vex mythoclast, which while still relatively hard to obtain, being reduced to a slim percentage that you can try for 3 times a week at most without remaking characters. While the vex is still quite rare, it isn't used very much due to it performing rather poorly compared to how it originally worked.