I try to use things that line up and function, usually 370 and up. I hate running around with weakspot damage on ogryn (or anyone) or any of the other fart wasted perks. I think stamina is pretty decent for melee weapons though.
Because the value of the perks and blessings influence the ones you get from upgrading. Its like 1% odds for you to get T3 blessings from Peddler’s hourly stuff. It makes these crazy gamble items where you could roll off at the start to improve your odds but it could re introduce a bad blessing to the pool/you could get screwed over pretty easily.
I usually just spam the armory till I get AT LEAST a base level of 360. While I enjoy chasing those perfect 380 base stat weapons, I am super excited for the itemization and crafting updates. RNG I a major pain at times…
I am drowning in weapons… so anything of an Item Rating below 375 doesn’t get bought unless it has a Blessing i don’t have yet.
I don’t need these weapons anymore, and mostly its just me gambling with the atrocious gear system to see if Hadron might manage the miracle of not ruining the weapon.
I don’t buy with Melk, unless for a Blessing, because he only sells scrap metal… and Brunt only rarely presents me with useful items, but at least they are there.
And buying “typed” weapon and gambling on getting a 370+ item from the grays is just painful. I have sunk millions into that crap and didn’t get any useful items out of it.
Honestly, the way items are obtained in this game just sucks. Like you do a HIST Damnation mission and the emperor gives you a crappy <350 orange weapon with crappy blessings… “like yeah, thanks mate, let me sell that right away, before it clutters my inventory even more”.