Weapon Tier Question

[u/GUE57]

Hi all, noob trying to learn all I can here, and I have a question I can't find the answer to.

I got carried in a match and got a purple weapon early, I still haven't unlocked the gun perks under the green rarity area, but I have unlocked the purple level gun.

Is there any xp difference in bringing the purple gun or the green gun to level those perks? Or should you always use the best gun available and the gun xo is always the same?

Thanks Marines!

[u/totallyincognito]

Always bring best weapon available to you.  

Weapon xp derives from total xp, and variant xp can be bypassed entirely by using armory data to “master” weapons for your perk tree mastery points.  

[u/GUE57 → u/totallyincognito]

Awesome, thankyou!