So, let me get this straight... it costs me more to upgrade an exotic item that I already have than to just buy it outright from xur?! Example: I have a voidfang vestments that is fully upgraded (before the change to material requirements, so I put many ascendant shards into it, not to mention glimmer, patrol materials, and hadronic essences, oh and time) and it would cost me almost 8000 glimmer, an exotic shard, AND I have to trade in the old one. This is all to get a reset, overall more powerful version. So, I'll also have to put all of the glimmer, time, materials, essences, and yet another exotic shard to get it upgraded again. Since xur is selling the voidfang vestments this week, I can shard my old one and at least recoup some of the materials and an exotic shard and buy it for coins which are easy to get. Since all of the perks are getting reset you should have JUST required the item as a 1 to 1 trade in. Hell, if you trade in a fully upgraded one, you should get a fully upgraded one back OR at least get some materials back with the trade in. There is no reason to require the glimmer and exotic shard cost to upgrade an old exotic. By trading in your old one, you're already giving up a potential exotic shard that could have been used to upgrade the new version. I'd love to understand the "logic" behind the decision to punish people that have gotten exotics and fully upgraded them before the expansion.