[quote]Bungie Weekly Update 12/04/2014: "In the months to come, your quest to become more powerful will have more avenues that lead to satisfaction. The last thing we wanted was for you to look at your favorite gun or helmet and decide that it had become obsolete. Since the reveal, we’ve read a lot of ideas for how this could have been done better. Your feedback is clear: The time you have invested in your stuff should be respected."[/quote] [b]How much sense does 10 years with the same weapon becoming boring make?[/b] Let us decide when we're bored of our gear and when we want new gear. Put more time in and move our gear up with us. Respect the players a bit more. People are very indifferent about this topic. Many people say "I'm interested in the new gear but this is such a drag" Nothing can justify the time spent collecting and leveling gear and have it all become useless at the end of year one. This makes people indifferent towards finding joy in collecting and leveling gear. I personally have collected every exotic weapon in the game, fully maxed them all out and then ascended every single one to 365 willingly after they said they would never make the mistake of resetting our exotics again or leaving the behind. This is outrageous. If you condition your player base for the entirety of year one to collect and ascend gear, that's what we're going to look forward to when we log on to play. If you condition us to not get attached to gear and not to collect gear, for many people the amount of hours they play will drop immensely. Collecting is the reason I poured nearly 2000 hours into this game. Collecting is a very important part of what drives this game for many people. This far in the future they have to know how to improve our old weapons and armor to be better. They make all of this stuff out of blue little glimmer cubes for gods sake... [b]No matter how many times you try to make our old gear obsolete there's always going to be outrage. Just get used to ascension being part of destiny and stick to it. It was a shard of hope for this games individuality[/b] Our legend is defined by our weapons and gear. Jaren wards legend was defined by his weapon. This weapon is known as "the last word" he used this thing until the day he died. Not for one year. Edit: [b]Bungie continues to stand firm. Don't give up![/b] https://twitter.com/zoomquake/status/635669591167864833 @zoomquake [quote]@DeeJ_BNG @Bungie honestly I'm not trolling you but everything said from year 1 contradicts what you're saying about year 2![/quote] @Deej_BNG replies [quote]@zoomquake Year Two is a new beginning.[/quote] Edit: So after the Shield Brothers strike live stream it has become clear to me that the "all new, more powerful gear" doesn't seem more powerful, they do more damage because they are allowed to, but the higher attack value and defense value is the only difference.