After reaching rank 25 with Dead Orbit and obtaining my awesome exotic cloak i decided to switch to FWC to see if I could get the faction ship because it looks so cool! The moment I switched factions was the moment I wanted to throw my controller. Without ANY WARNING I was unable to wear my hard earned cloak all because i switched factions.
I am already the CHAMPION of dead orbit, i have every shader, emblem and ship. There's no reason for me to stay with them since I have all of the loot! I want to be able to play Destiny the way I want to play and having a limitation like this really turned me off to playing the game for the rest of the day and even the days after.
Bungie, please allow players to change factions whenever we please and let us keep wearing our exotic cloaks! If anything, at least have a warning pop up warning players that they will no longer be able to wear their exotic cloak once they switch to a different faction.
Imagine a player infusing their cloak to 310 so that they could wear it in raids and such. If they can't wear it, now all of a sudden their light level drops and, since they infused the exotic cloak, they have little to no options to bring their level up to par with the exotic cloak.
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It wouldn't make sense if you could wear a factions cloak as their champion while your currently allied with someone else. That'd just be weird.