I loved the unexpected "hidden" story mission.. (Destiny)

by Korny , Dalton, Ga. US. Earth, Sol System, Friday, December 12, 2014, 15:17 (3875 days ago) @ HavokBlue

Seeing that there was another mostly fleshed out story mission was the highlight for me and I really wish this was something the game did more.

You investigate the rumors about Thorn and eventually end up going into the Vault of Charlemagne. Your search for the Hard Lighr prototype leads you to Old Russia after a missing fireteam. Fight through a network of Vex timeslips on Venus to retrieve Super Good Advice.

Make them hard, and interesting, so that when you see someone with that exotic rifle you really can go "Hey, I know exactly what they did to get that, that's pretty awesome" like they talked about during development.

And it can be done!
I got an exotic Bounty this morning for Pocket Infinity/Super Good Advice, and though they're the two easiest bounties to get (and I do need to upgrade my copies)... I just didn't feel like doing random grindy stuff just for one of them.

If I had to run some really tough mission/bounty sets that didn't require grinds, though... I'd look forward to getting them.

Xur screws up the "Earning" aspect of the weapons, but that could be mitigated if his weapons had slightly worse stats than getting a quest version... Heck, maybe even a different paint scheme would be neat.

Warframe does a thing where participating in special events gets you a weapon skin that actually affects weapon stats in one way or another, on top of giving you the ability to level "another weapon", which makes leveling up your Rank easier...

Can you imagine an Ice Breaker that had a bigger (and blue!) blast radius for the combustion? Maybe the impact would be a little higher, but it only held five rounds...

Or an Invective with incendiary rounds and glowing effects from the barrel...

Unique variants that are really tough to earn...

Warframe also has variants of existing weapons called "Prime" versions, that are very ornate. And while they have some trade-offs and aren't vastly different, they're coveted because they're difficult to build (You have to do specific missions for a chance at getting a part for them, or you buy it from another player), and often sell for high prices.