Look at it from a different perspective- HOW weapons were called subpar, but why? Because we could ascend older weapons! Of course all new hand cannons would be worse than hand cannons with elemental burn damage from vog and ce. But that's what the community asked for. Then we complain that the new weapons are no good. If they had not allowed ascension, a hygia nobelesse with..... lets say full auto and firefly at 365 would have been better than voc at 331 with solar burn. No matter which way they go someone will be upset.
EDIT- I believe exotics will progress
EDIT 2- they should allow xur to sell a legendary upgrade that allows current ( whatever dlc we are on) weapons to have an elemental burn
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That doesn't make sense. If the HoWguns were good, then you wouldn't need to ascend the old ones. I ascended old ones bc the new ones sucked ( particularly the POE guns) fatebringer poops on my six dreg pride with arc. Maybe if they put a useful perk on the guns instead of "shank burn" or " chance to stun captain" they would have been worthy of keeping. ( not to mention most of the perks only work in PoE) I say you should only be able to ascend exotics and raid weapons, not the rest of them.
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But that is precisely the point. If ascension is allowed it will always be the same weapons. Fate, word, fang, vision, etc. They need to make people use the new guns, or people will say they suck. If you could not have ascended your fatebringer (which has an elemental advantage over the queens weapons) the appeal of higher attack weapons would have been much more prominent.
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Exactly