What's the point of weapon augmentations if they nerf the weapon ?

Armor augs are useless. Seriously, what's the point of add something extra to your armor if it's going to take as much as it adds e.g. +50% accuracy and -50% shields, and call it "Ultra rare" while at it. The fuck? Will never use those.
If it's supposed to be situational, then fuck it. I wont waste time using an aug that barely ever drops if it's going to be situational.

Weapon augs sound cool and all, but I got the impression they work in the same fashion.
Crafted an Equalizer VI with the grenade mod. What a waste. The thing shoots explosive popcorn, that's it. About 3 complete clips to kill a random unshielded raider shooting at the head.

I think the augments have their own secret implementation you're suppose to figure out on your own.

The plasma for example on a scatter shotgun will make the shotgun require reloading after 2 shots and unlimited ammo. This combined with shield oscillator turns you into a tank with shields reloading every 2 shots. Reduced damage makes sense for a tank.

I see that in a new light now. Good thing I saved the one I got. Maybe I'll use it some time.

weapon's are good...i think you are talking about armor's mod,the ones with nerf together with the bonus. they are like the sigils in DAI but i didn't find them useful while in DAI some of them were really good (-50% attak +200% flank damage for assassins)

Some weapons go very well with some augments, others make the attached weapon total trash. PAW is the best weapon to stick Augments into. You guys have tried it with grenade launcher or bio-converter? It's pretty silly.

That said, it's stupid that you need to destroy the gun to get your augment back. Harms experimentation a lot, unless you want to reload a save.