When D2Foundry went dark
I used to play a lot of Destiny 2, heavy on PvP and obsessed with weapon rolls. The game has hundreds of guns, each with semi-random perks and stat pools, and figuring out the optimal combination for a given build meant opening D2Foundry. It was a community tool that simulated time-to-kill values for every possible roll.
Then its creator quit the game, and the site went down.
I’d always wanted to try building one. The maintainers had described the project as painful to keep current, which sounded like a challenge worth taking on. Ergo Sum is named after my favourite weapon in the game.
What it does
A full weapon database with procedurally generated pages for every gun and perk combination. Accurate stat previews, time-to-kill calculators for the PvP crowd. Built in Astro so the static pages stay crunchy fast and the generator step stays simple. The same sort of thing D2Foundry did, current with the latest sandbox patches.
The feature I cared most about is shareable rolls. Pick a weapon, set its perks, and copy a link to that exact configuration. Stats, TTK, everything bakes into the URL. If you want to tell a friend the best possible roll for a hand cannon in Trials, you just send them the link and they see what you see.
Where it stands now
The site still runs. I still own the domain. I don’t play Destiny anymore, so I haven’t touched it in months, and I won’t be backporting new weapons as Bungie adds them.
Somewhere between a love letter and a monument. It did what I needed at the time, and that was the whole point.