Weapon arcanes.

[(PSN)sith_lord189]

Sooo what you guys think? Should [DE] generalize weapon specific arcanes?

Like exodia contagion for zaws and pax seeker for kitguns?

I'm really tempted to try them on my good ol' favourite weapons.

[(PSN)Beastkiller937]

I support this ideal. I wholeheartedly agree with this because the Zaws make the older weapons feel outclassed and adding arcanes with them is just a huge slap in the mouth. I would very much love for the saw arcane and kitgun arcanes to be useful for the pre-made weapons already available to us.

[RX-3DR]

Brings in a lot of weird overlapping mechanics that risk leaving certain weapons completely outclassed. Take for instance, you would put Exodia arcanes on high stat weapon while most gimmick weapons would be completely tossed aside as you can simply get another potentially stronger extra functionality. A good comparison to make is how this would pit Glaives against every other weapon in the game as you might be able to throw projectiles in the air with every other weapon while having strong, reliable stats. Essentially, weapons with a unique built-in mechanic kind of lose a lot of their charm as you can use every other melee weapon as a Grenade Launcher.

It's a very dangerous can of worms to open, especially since we're talking about the more unique and abnormal Arcanes like Contagion, Seeker and any other future Arcanes. Meanwhile, if we're just going to introduce a bunch of generic Arcanes like the Amp ones to all weapons, then it's no different than just more mods like Argon Scope with an extra mod slot.

Edited November 22, 2018 by Flandyrll

[(PSN)Beastkiller937]

This is why things we actually enjoy get destroyed and discarded so quickly (telos boltace, tonkor, etc). I understand what you mean though. I honestly don't think DE is moving in the direction majority of us want the game to be in.