Apparently they don't exist anymore. And high grade weapons are also very specialized (Like, dealing a lot of damage, with awful rate of fire, and high ammo cost, i.e. Plasma, Canons, Railguns, Missiles/Torpedos...)
I've been searching for 'prefixed' weapons since launch, without success. I assume they stealth-removed them (there was never anything in the patch notes) for balance purposes.
Good weapons currently do not exist. Even Leesti has nothing. What a horrible balancing mistake from the devs. I hope they fix this quick. I hope many people have ticketed it.
I think all variance in the weapons has disappeared since the end of Gamma. I hope it's some mistaken tweak to the availability, and not a deliberate choice to remove all those interesting variants.
Heck, I want even more variants, also low end ones.
The entire outfitting selection is utterly characterless not just weapons sadly. Who wouldn't want to buy a "supercharged xenon slaved pulse laser" or you could have....A class 1E
Jeez us how boring is this game nothing is immune to the realms of reality and boringness.
Anyway OP you are entirely correct the special weapons don't exist anymore as far as I can tell.