On perks (Destiny)

by General Vagueness , The Vault of Sass, Tuesday, June 23, 2015, 16:12 (3680 days ago) @ Cody Miller

You are not correct. The old perks are not still there. You cannot get them on new legendariles. You cannot get field scout on a scout rifle anymore. You cannot get send it on a hand cannon anymore.

I'd like to see a citation on that. I've gotten plenty of old perks on new weapons. I know certain perks won't show up on just any weapon, but I'm pretty sure that's always been the case.

Dude, there are CERTAIN OLD PERKS no longer available on regular legendaries. Of course you can get the old perks they kept. Many were flat out replaced. Trials / PoE weapons can have some of these old perks, but not regular legendaries.
Load up Destinydb, and look at the perks available on regular legendary Scout rifles from House of Wolves. Field Scout is gone. Just one example.

Well I never noticed anything missing. Being able to get most of the old perks (I'm pretty sure almost all of them) means that part of your argument is mostly not true, and it doesn't address the ability to get almost any perks on almost any legendary just by spending some resources and time, or new weapons with better stats than old ones, or the interplay of perks.