I look at my year one guns and think "damn I got lucky" I have all vault of glass weapons, some old vanguard weapons, her benevolence, ldr, longbow, felwinters, vex, nechrocasm, ghally, mida, and all of those and not a single one was hard earned. You could argue that you grinded for hours and hours just to get your fatebringer, but it's just rng. I got mine and my vex on my first 2 tries. You could say you earned a certain exotic, but in reality the only exotic bounty that required any effort was thorn or the PoE weapons. Everything else was luck or just handed to you. Very very few things were earned in year 1. Last word? Nexus nightfall where we blew the nexus up in seconds. Hawkmoon? Solar burn omnigul. Nechrocasm? Got my crux on the second try. Year 1 was much too rng heavy and that was too big of a problem to say something was hard earned. Everyone just got lucky. On a side note, ttk is pretty sweet.