Haven't finished reading your full post yet but to answer your question, yes old exotics found as drops after Tuesday will start out at 302 damage. No thought went into the way they designed this system. I will now finish reading. Edit: finished reading, very well thought out and logical. Fully agree with everything stated, and feel this represents how the disgruntled dedicated players all feel. None of us want an unfair advantage or for max level guns to be handed to us, we just don't want all that time and all those materials to have been for nothing. I hope bungie can take these things into account and make better plans in the future. This system they came up with is designed to fluff play time, but it's about to totally backfire. Anyone that spent extra time to max all exotics in preparation for CE is going to stop grinding from here on out. What's the point of grinding the new raid if I can just wait for another dlc to drop and buy light level 32 gear from vendors? What's the point of maxing out my weapons if they become outclassed every 3 months? I'm done putting as much time as I have been.