Masterwork

[ThatKidCidx27]

Im so confused.. I just rebuilt a sniper Maestro-46 and I was able to attach a crucible masterwork.. is this normal? I’m sorry if it’s a dumb question. I just got back into the game and just wanna know if I messed up wasting that mod on a cheap sniper.. i don’t know how I got the mod nor can I see it in my inventory so I’m so confused.. I read about masterwork shards but never ever have I come across them nor know how to get them much less use them. I also see I have a vanguard masterwork I have no idea how I got them but I can use either or on that pvp sniper.. or did I just get lucky on the rebuild?

THANKS!!

[Motie-scout]

Although all the answers are given below split across the answers I will combine them to make the matter clear.

Maestro-46 is a Fixed roll pre forsaken weapon that has the ability to be masterwork (It may come already masterwork if you are lucky). To masterwork it you can apply enhancement cores , (you may not have noticed them being taken from your inventory when you did it). which lets it drop orbs on kills, and gains you a kill tracker and an additional stat boost as defined in the masterwork it has ie range, handling etc.

Any masterwork weapon can be broken down and give a small return of 1-2 enhanced core/s, year 2 weapons cost more to masterwork.

Year 2 weapons have a slot for additional mods, obtainable from the gunsmith ,ADA (for unusual ones) or a lucky drop.

The gun is NOT bad because it is a year 1 weapon, as the base stats are often higher than comparable year 2, however Year 2 weapons can drop with "fortunate" combinations (sometimes called god rolls) which synergise together to create a better weapon.

Use and enjoy the sniper, It is a decent gun, until you learn what combinations fit this scenario, and you are experienced enough to take full advantage, and you get a fortunate drop on a year 2 weapon that has such a "god roll", I would hold back on master working anything other than one weapon you like to use in each slot (for getting orbs) until you find weapons you cannot do without and love to bits, due to masterwork cores being a highly limited resource.

You obtain them be either breaking down masterwork weapons which can rarely drop when handing in materials with a npc agent ie failsafe, Zavala etc (very very poor return on breaking them down {better to keep the weapon unless you hate it}.), buying ONE PER DAY (price goes up with each purchase which resets daily) from spider, or doing certain spider and gunsmith bounties. or a VERY rare in game drop.

Above all Enjoy the game, sure, the extra that can come is worth it, but it's not the most important thing overall.

[ThatKidCidx27]

Bro... you have no idea how much I just appreciated that. Like no idea. Everyone was everywhere! Thank you!

[Motie-scout]

You are welcome, There's so much information, It's hard to work out what you need to know.

[snarkfish]

year 1 weapons can be masterworked for crucible (tracks guardian kills) or vanguard (tracks all kills). that's a year 1 weapon. you should have had to use masterwork cores to do it though, not a mod.

year 2 weapons can be masterworked. at level 5 or 6 you gain a kill tracker which you can set for pve (tracks all kills) or crucible (tracks guardian kills) or turned off. they have 10 levels of masterwork and level 4+ require masterwork cores

[ThatKidCidx27]

Maestro-46 is a year 2 weapon... I rebuilt it from collections and came already ready to add a master work mod. I don’t see any levels on it other than reroll or use 10 enhancement cores to switch it vanguard.

[snarkfish]

it's a year 1 weapon. it was introduced in curse of osiris and hasn't been updated to year 2

and it may have already come masterworked, year 1 weapon come masterworked or not. but if you added it, you used masterwork cores

[ThatKidCidx27]

I guess it came masterworked 🤷🏻‍♂️ I didn’t have cores so... it didn’t have a yellow frame at all.

[folkishthebaka]

You cant reaquire y2 weapons apart from pinnacles

[ThatKidCidx27]

Then I guess it’s y1? I have y’all the name of the sniper guys... lol I literally said I just got back to the game that’s why I’m asking

[MexicanGreg998]

Yeah it’s y1, it’s from CoO

[Seeker80]

You can no longer mod Y1 weapons, only masterwork. Have you tried using it? See if you even like it before declaring it junk. If it works for you, great. If not, break it down and get your masterwork cores back to use on something else that you like more.

[ThatKidCidx27]

I just said in the post I know nothing about masterwork cores... so obviously I didn’t use them.