Yes, exactly. (Destiny)

by Funkmon , Wednesday, November 29, 2017, 09:06 (2630 days ago) @ CruelLEGACEY

Except gear in vanilla wasn't boring. The alphabet soup scout rifle with field scout, explosive rounds, and Firefly was buyable for anyone. The Devil You Know was arguably the best hand cannon available, and a top roll was available for purchase. The Vanquisher ruled the crucible. We all loved our vanguard Shadow Prices.

Iirc, Bungie said that the intent was not to get gear from drops (outside of the raid), but to get gear from buying it. Legendaries were so rare because they were all good.

Remember when TDB came out and all the guns were crap? Remember Gothalian acting like an absolute maniac asking for the high impact auto rifles because they were gone from the game? That's what you get when the guns are easy to come by. You must be remembering the craptastic TTK guns or HOW guns and stuff.

FFS, I used my vanilla guns that weren't retroactively nerfed into oblivion (proof of how good they were) in crucible until the end of the game. Light/BEWARE was always available on my dude for some fusion kills.