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by General Vagueness , The Vault of Sass, Wednesday, June 24, 2015, 17:04 (3679 days ago) @ cheapLEY

So, the nice thing about stats and perks in Destiny is that you really can tailor them to your own play style and preferences! It's definitely worth trying new things and seeing what feels good in-game. I, for one, prefer high-stability, medium-impact Scout Rifles that increase Agility (<3 MIDA) and detest almost every Auto Rile I've used. Then I have friends who feel the exact opposite. The beauty is that we can spec ourselves out, and nothing is set in stone.

See, that's sort of what I'm talking about. What does the Impact stat actually do? I mean, it sounds reasonably self explanatory, but does more impact equal more damage, a higher stagger rate?

Impact is the base damage relative to the type of weapon (a certain size bar for a pulse rifle isn't the same as the same size bar for an auto rifle, and it's wildly different from the same size bar for a shotgun) and it's always relevant. Attack affects damage dealt to AI enemies and players in the Iron Banner and the Trials of Osiris. In regular multiplayer matches attack doesn't do anything. Impact and possibly attack affect how likely a target is to stagger from a hit, but I think that's more about how much damage you deal regardless of the specific stats, and the high impact rounds perk seems to have more of an affect than just having high attack or impact.

And then you add perks to the stat equation, and it's a lot without any real info. Obviously with perks I can just experiment and find what I like, but can I find available perks on weapons somewhere to know if there's something better I can reforge for?

There are guides out there, I'll see if I can find one.

And I might try for Saturday evening or Sunday afternoon for the raid, but I won't know until tomorrow if some other plans I have are going through or not. Weeknights are a bit difficult for me to dedicate what I assume will be a pretty significant chunk of time.

It really depends on the group, how good they are and what weapons and armor they have and just if they're playing well or poorly that day and if you get a bunch of lucky or unlucky spawns. Once you get the routine down you can knock out a normal-mode raid in about half an hour. (I have yet to have this happen personally.)