[quote]I’m a player with way too many GM completions. I would have much more if I wasn’t spending most my time helping. I must lose 50prisms and 10 ascendant shards sitting at the postmaster at least 3 times per season on each character. I am one not to care about ascendant shards costs. That said, I 100% agree with your rational: If I’m required to spend 1 ascendant shard to max out a legendary gear and only gain +2 in each stat. The exotic gear requiring me to spend 3 ascendant shards should yield more than +2, or allow me to allocate the +12 total points how I see fit. For instance, I will gain a +12 in discipline, and 0 everywhere else. If the cost is exotic, the reward should be too.[/quote] Wow, you did a better job explaining the OPs point better than the OP. 👏 👏 👏

Very good idea.

This I 100% agree with!

being able to allocate points upon masterworking an exotic is a great idea, and makes total sense for crafting good builds.

I like how you think. Bungie is under the delusion that everything needs to be ultra rare, and every cost has to be unreasonably high for nothing special, and no good reason, like I.B. weapons. Nothing new for literal years, yet for a bunch of average, to subpar weapons with undesirable perk pools, it costs way more than anything else except Trials stuff. I think I've only ever masterworked one piece of exotic gear, just to experiment, and have refused to waste those materials since.

I would totally be down with alocating your 12 points as desired for the cost but, I disagree with op, it is logical that bungie requires the investment. Many just don't like it. There is a difference