I know it is subjective but for me I quite enjoy revisiting some of the old guns. In that respect it is better than D1 because their a year 1 gun was useless in year 2. So if I get a crap roll go figure, then I have two options: I can use some cores to infuse it into my god roll blast furnace (which is my favourite pulse rifle right now) or I dont and infuse it into my best go figure in my vault and play with that for a while For most activities, a decent pulse rifle is a decent pulse rifle and for things like a vanguard strike either will do. If I get a crap roll nightshade then I would either keep it to up my overall power calculation while I am powering up and use my next best weapon or use it for infusion.fuel. You can get 2 cores a day for 30 shards from spider so that means you could infuse one weapon today even if you dont get cores from anywhere else. What I dont do is everytime I get a weapon that is a handful of power levels higher than my favourite gun, is infuse it into my favourite and if you decide to do that then I think it is right that you dont have enough cores to masterwork every weapon in your vault. Cores should be rare enough that you have to make a conscious decision on when to use them and when to save them up. That said, I can see that the economy is not quite right for many people which is why I was suggesting we should get some more cores from everyday activities rather than have to do some other activity to get soime. I am not sure more bounties are the best solution. For me cores is not the most broken thing in this game by any means.