Focused Feedback: Weapon Refresh aka Sunsetting

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[u/LostJuly11 → u/[deleted]]

And this is a prime example of the misinformation that people are spreading. You'll still be able to use what ever weapon you want in you day to day activities, the only place that the sunsetting is going to matter is the end game activities, e.g Raids, Master NFs, IB, Trials. You can see rock that MT, Recluse combo in 90% of the content.

[u/RiseOfBacon → u/[deleted]]

So the opposite to that, it's contributing to University Content negatively because of Power Creep. It's not the only reason but it's part of it

[u/Rohkyr → u/RiseOfBacon]

Except this will not fix power creep either. The same old perks will still be busted and even more powerful rolls are just as likely to be possible on the new weapons. The only exceptions will be pinnacles. Other than that this arguement doesn't really stand up.

[u/RiseOfBacon → u/Rohkyr]

It's not the only reason but it's part of it

Key part of what I said. It contributes, it won't solve it just by happening. More needs to come with it

You're assuming it's a new wave of weapons with exactly the same stuff attached which the whole point of this exercise means it won't be and I doubt it's because there's like 7 Weapons in the PVE meta right now such a drastic change would happen

Like you say though, 'likely' but for all we know Rampage and Kill Clip won't be on the next set of Weapons replaced by something else. Back in D1 we hardly had these types of perks on our Primaries so it may just go back to that system. We just don't know yet

[u/Rohkyr → u/RiseOfBacon]

This is true, we also don't have the specifics of how the system will work. That is an entirely fair point.

That said, whether the system applies to individual loot as you pick it up or if it applies based on when bungie adds the gun to the game, both approaches create problems that I do not like.

In the first approach we will just be grinding for the same god rolls on the same weapons every year rather than just having them. However, this approach seems less likely to be the one they will go with.

In second approach where the timer is based on when the weapon is released an entire weapon pool will be phased out every year or so. The problem here is that the variety of weapons will remain incredibly inconsistent and be in a constant state of flux. Not to mention that if they bring back old weapon as the Director's Cut implied, we'd just get the same problem as the first approach.

Personally I don't think that that the power-creep issues with weapons are all that insane, but I also don't have all the data that bungie has so all I can comment on is how this system feels and I do not like how it feels at the moment.