I was just watching a video on YouTube where a player named Kackis had a FWC Variable Machine Gun drop for him with an incredible roll that basically made it usable whereas usually it isn't, and it got me to thinking. How many times have I had to use a weapon for infuse materials, or scrap for parts, because of the horrible roll it dropped on me with? Well the answer is, far far far far far more often than not. It's not even remotely close. I have a ridiculous amount of hours in this game and yet, most of the weapons I consider usable or ones that are my favorites have either come with good solid rolls from a vendor, or were from orders I sat on until the Gunsmith finally had a good roll on a weapon. FYI, I'm rank 67 on my Titan with FWC and have gotten about a half dozen Variables over that time period. Anyone want to guess how many lasted longer than the day it dropped? That's right, zero. Perks should add to a weapons usability, not create usability. I have a very small handful of weapons that dropped for me from an activity, ranking up, or decrpyted because of the certain combinations of perks required to not just make a "God Roll", but to make a weapon usable in the first place. There are a number of weapons that absolutely require a strong stability number in order to be good, and yet come with a base stability that make them worthless. Most weapons that can fire faster than a scout rifle NEED stability and lots of it to function properly and the faster your fire rate the more stability you are going to require. Auto Rifles are the biggest culprits, Machine Guns and Pulse Rifles as well, and Fusion Rifles due to the way the spread patterns with stability. I'm thinking Bungie should restructure the way Perks work or are laid out tier wise once again, as they are not all created equal, and some are much much more important to a weapons function and ability. Maybe even add more choices or another tier altogether. I had a Final Duty drop for me the other day after completing CoE that had Guerilla Fighter on it... A perk in the running for worst perk ever. While that might have been nice if it was an option or an extra, nope, that was a force fed perk that I can't see any real use for in this game. In PvE there might be a few areas or situations were you can take cover and shoot from behind it, but not many cases at all. In PvP, I dare you to try something like that. One of those Speedy Gonzalez shotgunners are going to blink across your line of sight, land in your lap, and end your silly ways right quick. I'd love to hear some ideas on how to better this situation, but one thing is for certain, most perks are crap, there's a handful or good ones, and some guns need the better ones to even make them usable, let alone good. And I for one am sick and tired of how ridiculously horrid my chances thus far have been in getting weapons that I can actually enjoy and use competitively. I keep getting blues out of my purples for those of you with nightmares from those days, and while I understand that should have a chance to happen some of the times, it shouldn't happen the overwhelming most of the time which is where things are now.