I've been playing the game since release and while, in year 1 exotics were powerful, since warlords of new york has been released people switched to high-end weapons because they have much better stats and talents compared to other exotics.

While some of them are actually powerful (Scorpio, Chameleon, Nemesis, Regulus and others), other exotics seem to fade away in obscurity (Eagle Bearer, Sweet Dreams, Merciless, Chatterbox, Backfire, Diamondback) and that they should get buffed to be on par with the curent good exotics we have.

The perfect example of a exotic weapon that fell on the weak side was the Eagle Bearer, for people who don't know, the Eagle Bearer used to give 35% damage and 100% reload speed along with the tenacity buff, but after warlords of new york, the devs nerfed it, even though they said that exotics should be powerful, if not even best in slot, especially for a raid weapon, they still decided to nerf it.

I have also come up with some ideas that might bring those "forgotten" exotics on the stronger side.

Eagle Bearer: Eagle's Strike(Buff): Accuracy increases as you continously fire up to 75%
Headshot kills grant 25% amplified damage, 75% reload speed and the tenacity buff for 12s
Tenacity should be kept the same

Backfire: Payment in kind(Buff): CHD ability should be kept the same

On reload apply a 10s bleed to yourself, which deals 0.33% armor damage per stack.

Sweet Dreams: Sandman(Buff/Rework): Melee attacks instantly kill non-named enemies.
After killing a target with a melee, grants 40% weapon handling for 5-10s
Merciless: stability increased by 13%
Binary Trigger: At 7 stacks, shooting an enemy deals 700% amplified damage and creates a 10m explosion dealing 500% weapon damage, consuming the stacks.
Chatterbox: Incessant Chatter(rework): should be reverted to year 1 talent: Every shot landed grants 1% rate of fire to a max of 60%. This resets on reload.
Kills with this weapon reffil 20% of its magazine and grants a buff for 10s
While the buff is active, every shot landed increases magazine capacity by 1 to a max of 60. Killing a target consumes the buff - to fully refill the increased magazine.
Diamondback: Agonizing Bite(Buff): Hitting that enemy consumes the mark, guaranteeing a critical hit with damagle amplified by 40%

Some people may think otherwise, but I personally think that these exotics and some other more should be getting buffed since they are jsut not good enough.

This is a suggestion for a weird shotgun made to buff cluster seeker mines. It would be based on the full auto USAS-12 shotgun with an 8 shot magazine, high rof (for an full auto shotgun), low damage, with mid accuracy and range. Well here's the talent

Scrapmaker: Every hit on a enemy will give you an single stack of scrap, each stack gives 1% cluster seeker mine skill haste and explosive damage, scrap will be consumed when you deploy a cluster seeker mine. You will get a different set of bonus added for each 10 stacks of scraps.
10-20 scraps: You for every cluster seeker mine that you release they will be followed by another mini mine that will do 30% of that first mine damage
21-30 scraps: Cluster seeker mines now deal 50% extra damage against armor, breaking an enemy armor with an seeker now gives 5 scraps
31-40 scraps: Cluster seeker mines explosive radius and speed are increased by 80% and will get 4% skill haste and damage instead for each scrap stack.

Pretty straight foward like capacitor, it's about shooting a gun to buff your skills, if you want good buffs you have to engage with your gun (so the above avarage accuracy and range will help you get more stacks and the low damage is to keep it from being too good of a gun in red builds

You guessed it, it's just straight up another made up gear set suggestion this time focused on a CC support that also buffs the team by giving them bonus armor and causes blind and debuffs enemies accuracy. As usual it's just an weird idea but hey we are here to have fun i guess and i wanted to explore a weird armor gear set. I just like thinking about giving a healer something else to do in case everyone is already topped off in health can assist in a more offensive form without being just damage bonus.

Blue main core
2 pieces bonus: 50% blind duration
3 pieces bonus: 15% armor + 1% armor regen p/ second
4 piece bonus: Your granades are now replaced for flares that last for 10s and have a 20s cooldown. If an enemy is in the range of the flare when it ignites the enemy will get blinded, if any enemy stays in the flare range or walks into it, they will recieve a "Glare" debuff that decreases their accuracy while they stay in the range of the flare. If players are in the flare range they will instead get a 3% bonus armor bonus p/ second to a max of 15% bonus armor, if they are at max bonus armor from this effect they will instead get 1% armor regen p/ second. You will get 10% bonus damage per player at max armor.

Chestpiece (special signal flare): Breaking an enemy armor will make them drop an small magnesium flare at their own feet that has shorter range and 5s duration.
Backpack (magnesium mix): Flares now have a longer duration of 15s, increases the bonus armor regen to 5% p/ second, max bonus armor to 30%.

Had this idea of a support tank/healer hybrid that instead of focusing on keeping everyone alive topped off with vey big heals, instead would buff players to have a constant bonus armor that would regen often making so people could constantly peek from cover and be slight more agressive, so you have some more constant buffer armor to take a few shots and could have a weird sinergy with other gear sets such as Future Initiative by making so people would have the bonus armor to let them keep the max armor bonus damage bonus active more often and possibly not lose due a single shot as well as System corruption gear set.

As usual i also made the chestpiece be a more offensive bonus (so you are more constantly blinding and debuffing enemies) and the backpack focus on making the unique set gimmick be more defensive and reliable.

Well feedback is always welcomed, including on how i can make 4 piece talents that are almost a wall of text just to say talent good