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A great idea, actually... (Destiny)

by Ragashingo ⌂, Official DBO Cryptarch, Thursday, July 23, 2015, 04:57 (3511 days ago) @ Claude Errera

I think I get where he is coming from. There was a little something lost when you can't tell what a gun is by looking at its name.

For a long time I recommended Three Little Words to people. While you could technically get a Three Little Words with random perks from a drop, the chances of that were so low that I felt confident that when I talked about Three Little Words people knew I was talking about the slow, hard hitting Crucible Vendor Pulse Rifle that came with 3rd Eye and Headseeker. When I got killed by it in the Crucible I pretty much knew what roll it had on it. To me, even though it wasn't 100% technically correct, Three Little Words was very much a specific gun.

Now, post-reforging, that very rarely holds true. I don't feel comfortable talking about a 55A-allFATE as if it is a unique or specific gun because my 55A-allFATE (with 3rd Eye and Hidden Hand) might be very different from your 55A-allFATE (say with Full Auto and Counter Balance or whatever). The ability to buy a weapon from a vendor then drastically change how it acts vs another gun with the same name in a way dilutes the Legendary-ness of the name...

If you can buy that then sure, Cody is right. A Praedyth's Timepiece is more "special" and "unique" than any random Spare Change.25 since there aren't any variants. It is exactly what it is. It's name refers to one very specific gun. Same thing with Exotics. We all know exactly what a Bad Juju or The Last Word are because there are precisely zero different reforged variants of either floating around.


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