I agree, though I must point out that arc damage was the icing on the cake for fate bringer, letting it deal 3 TIMES the damage in pve on arc burn in year 1. Nowadays, with arc burn, the multiplier dropped down to 2 times. Unfortunately, if you brought back fate bringer now, elemental damage and all, it would be nowhere near as good as it once was in year one for a couple of reasons, and this is also why those well rolled imago loops aren't anything like the old fate bringer of year 1: 1: Firefly was severely, severely nerfed, and pulling off a headshot today on a group of thrall would do practically nothing to the surrounding thrall. Back in year 1, shooting an enemy in the face would almost always kill the minor enemies surrounding it. It felt rewarding to land precision shooting with that weapon, today, not as much, even if you have the well-rolled imago loop. 2: Field Scout, once allowed fate bringer to carry 13 shots in the bag, 12 without, and well over 100 shots in reserve. Now, this is not the case, you have 2.0 balancing to thank for that. 3: The global nerfs to hand cannons have just made them a non-viable option in pve. I'll use fate bringer/imago loop (well rolled) as an example. It is hampered by only 10 shots in the mag (as opposed to 12/13 in year 1), low ammo reserves even with field scout, low range, and, to top it all off, the low range stat make landing shots inconsistent and unrewarding. I wish more than anything that I could have fate bringer back, in its true and unnerfed form (not gonna happen, but one can only dream)

They could always (one day) buff the firefly perk so it would do more AoE damage to minor enemies. They also could make the exotic weapons have a little more better rolls and maybe add some elemental damage to them. Plus, the reason I even most did raids was to get the elemental primary exotics/legendarys, I really hope they add elemental weapons which had great potential like the fatebringer, Vex Mythoclast and the word of crota.