I’ve been thinking about what I’d like to see from the crafting system to come, aside from the features they’ve already announced, and came to the conclusion that having an equivalent of Reds from VT2 would be ideal. With the old naming scheme, my thought was that they could be called “Archeotech” but that doesn’t quite fit anymore.
But basically, they’d have a a guaranteed max stat roll, and any blessings/perks that are equipped are at the highest level they can be. Additionally, if you consecrate a Transcendent to the Red tier, if it has any less than that max roll, you can decide where the unallocated points go to, thereby making basically all weapons useful in one way or another, from the most perfect roll Transcendent to the lowest roll Profane.
Let’s say that this max stat roll is 400 (just like VT2), and you take your perfect 380 Transcendent to a Red, you still have 20 points you can invest to round out or fix the stat bars. Alternatively, take the lowest roll Profane you can get, that you upgrade all the way up. If you start with ~80 base, you have 320 points that you can manually invest where you want them.