Weapon sub-classes with new color of damage (Destiny)

by scarab , Thursday, December 04, 2014, 14:08 (3741 days ago) @ Cody Miller

I like the idea of just adding nodes but that wouldn't gain Bungie enough of your play time in the coming months.

so how about...

We know some of the new weapons do two colors of damage...

Our character subclass have "entirely" separate tech trees with separate progressions...

So...

For our current exotics add a new color of damage with its own, different, tech tree that is empty and needs to be maxed out.

You keep your old tech tree, as maxed out as it was before the DLC. You just gain a new subclass for your weapon.

Bungie gets the benefit of:

• not having to make new models
  
• not having to come up with new stories for each new exotic
  
• players expend just as much playtime on the new sub-class as they did on the old
  
• this mechanism is already familiar to players from character sub-classes

Players get the following benefits:

• they keep all their work investment/benefits spent on the previous sub-class
  
• they have a fully powerful weapon to use in hard stuff
  
• they can upgrade the new sub-class doing easy stuff (patrols)

It's a MAJOR win for Bungie and not so bad for players. Some may even think that it's a bargain.

-PS I feel dirty already for suggesting a way to double your playtime investment. I am a bad person.