Trust me, you dont want good weapon perks

[Hasty_Eyez]

Seeing a lot of people crying here in the last few days about weapon perks and how particular weapons like bow, musket, rapier need their perks buffed. I understand that your weapon was underperforming (not musket, hell naw) but asking for weapon perk buffs is the worst way to do it.

I play a build that has mandatory weapon perks on all 5 armor slots.

FS/VG:

1. Refreshing Pillar of Fire
2. Empowering Fireball
3. Putr Scream
4. Voracious Blade
5. Nul Oblivion

Without any of these perks, the skill in which they effect are drastically moved from A to shit tier. This is the problem with having good weapon perks. Yes they make the weapon playable/viable, but only when you have spent 1m on BiS pieces.

Instead of demanding weapon perks to be on par with others, instead you should be advocating for passives/base damage to be buffed.

This is all especially true with the new PVP perks coming out, every mandatory weapon perk you need means one more global PVP perk that you cant take advantage of. If only my FS/VG was decent at base value, I could just use the full new light set coming out in Depths, and be almost done with gear, instead I have to spend ludicrous $ getting the mandatory perks for my build.

Be careful for what you wish for…

[desubot]

while i get the point. shhhh i have a shit ton of crappy mods sitting around begging to be converted into cash i desperately need to roll more crap.

but in all honesty.

id rather it be equal so we can all suffer.

also another though

what if weapon skills on weapons had a different rate.

could be an interesting shake up to what is “bis”

[Punty]

The problem is largely that they nerf the base skills to compensate for the perks, when the opposite should be true…base skill should be valuable and viable without perks, and perks should be just a little enhancement.

Void Gauntlet is the textbook example of this. I run Firestaff without any associated perks, and it’s fine as is, but Void Gauntlet is hot garbage without perks. Even with the perks it isn’t great for PVP because it lacks grit, or haste, or gap closers, and the Scream as a CC skill is useless, only the associated perk is useful.