Now that Destiny 2’s Forsaken expansion is live, players have much greater control over which weapons they get to carry into battle and what perks those weapons have. However, that hasn’t stopped one dedicated Redditor from detailing an intricate system for how players might one day be able to create and customize their own weapons from scratch.
The system, which was outlined by Redditor Fliktorbean over on the official Destiny subreddit, actually functions in a similar manner as the upgradeable armor system that was featured so prominently in Destiny 2’s recent Solstice of Heroes event.
Essentially, a player would start by picking their desired weapon archetype (auto rifle, scout rifle, hand cannon, etc.) and then they’d be given a Common (white) rarity tier version of that weapon. Next, the player could choose a single perk to add to the weapon before deciding how they wanted to level the weapon up, with their options being PvE or PvP gameplay. Leveling the weapon up would require completing a specific task based on the method the player chose such as finishing a certain number of strikes or Crucible matches with the gun equipped.
Once the leveling task was complete, the player could upgrade their gun from Common to Uncommon (green) rarity, and they’d be given a randomized selection of three perks to choose from as their gun’s second ingrained perk. A similar process would be followed (with suitably harder challenges) to bring the gun up to Rare (blue) and finally Legendary (purple) rarity with additional perks to match. As an added twist, if the player wanted they could dismantle the weapon at Legendary rarity in order to “carry over” one of its perks to a completely new weapon if they weren’t happy with the other perks.
Fliktorbean admitted that such a system would likely be quite grindy, but for players who were willing to see the process through (potentially multiple times), it could also allow for some truly awesome weapons with equally awesome perk loadouts (or “god rolls” as they’re colloquially known). There’s no evidence to show that Bungie has any sort of similar system in the works, but if it ever did decide to create a custom weapon creation system, there are worse ways it could go about it than what Fliktorbean suggests.