User blog comment:Fryguy42/A Modest Proposal - Range data/@comment-2249418-20121023091234/@comment-1191892-20121023124144

Maybe not perfect, but I think "as close to level 50 and as high a rarity as possible" is probably best. If nothing else because at high rarity the differences in the weapon's stats are emphasised a lot more than with minimal-quality weapons. Some white-quality weapons have such small bonuses to their distinctive stats that it's hard to tell what's actually different about them.

That and it'd be nice if the default view and zoom were treated as standards, some weapon articles have guns at such ridiculous angles you really can't tell what parts they have.