Since every weapon except SnS has an open gear slot, (the shield), I think it would be an interesting concept to add a new gear item for all of us that don’t benefit from 3 free perks on our weapons.
Grips would be equipable in the shield slot for every weapon except SnS that already gets additional perks from the Shield.
Grips would not act as a shield and there would be no additional block potential, so they would have no additional gear weight.
Grips would be named drops / craftable and pull from the same perk pool as shields. (No weapon perks)** See below example.
I think this would give us some more interesting combinations of weapon perks to play around with and let theorycrafters run wild for a while. Would some things be OP? Sure, but something always is.
An Example:
Steel Reinforced Grip 500-600
Keen: +9.5% critical chance.
Vicious: +9.5% critical damage.
Keenly Empowered: On Critical: gain 15% Empower for 5s. (Cooldown 10s.)
Bind On Pickup
Named ItemTierIV
0.0 Weight
2750 Durability
Requirement: Level30