Been saying this for years… crafting is so bad because bungie micro manages everything you can do at the shape forge. Example: multiple hand cannons in the forge all have different selections of available perks. Instead of every perk being available for every hand cannon. 9 times out of 10 the options they give you have no synergies or god roll combos so its a complete waste of f**king time to shape them in the first place. Literally a pointless waste of time because you can get better RNG rolls. Crafting should just be removed entirely if this is how they are going to continue to handle it. Then theres the problem of layered RNG. It’s too punishing. And Bungie has purposefully bloated the perk pool with the most useless stupid perks imaginable. For no other reason than to give 90% of your drops trash rolls. So getting a good roll in this game is akin to rolling a 6 on a dice 10 times in a row. Because thats how many RNG hoops you have to clear to get one. And like you said it’s entirely possible you will never get one because of this. How I think Bungie needs to handle the game going forward: Every single weapon in game now has a shapable pattern you can farm. The RNG/grind portion of the game is now to farm patterns and materials for crafting. Different patterns are available in different activities. Patterns have a much higher drop rate than their weapons counterparts because you need 5 of them. Excess pattern drops for weapons you already unlocked are auto converted into materials. There are no more random weapon drops with random perks in the loot pool. They are all just pattern drops. Stupid useless meme perks are all removed. Once you collect 5 patterns you can craft the weapon with ANY perk combo you desire. No more “big brother Bungie says you cant have these 2 perks together because it’s too stronk and we suck -blam!- at balancing”. And finally you will be able to re-roll masterworks at the shape forge and upgrade non masterworks into masterworks.