I don't think mmos typically allow upgrading old gear...

No I want my cake and the ability to eat it too! Lol jk I honestly don't care because the base damage from my upgraded to ungraded remains at 300

I'm unsure if I'm in disagreement with your point. Part of me loves that I will be given further room to grow and a fresh roll at my exotic gears, the other part empathizes with people who only have a few hours a week to play. Any way you dice it I feel like its cheap to just look at the legacy of rpg's as justification for a design decision. What they chose is IMO a perfect middle ground on exotic's. On the other hand I find it abhorrent that so much content is being relegated to a place that makes the gear sub-par for endgame pve scenarios. If bungie were listening I would say this, I want my gear to grow with me. A great gun should be a starting point. I spend hours and hours looking for something like fatebringer, only to have it become outclassed? I want my gun to become part of my legend, as it should be. I see a gun like the last word and the history woven into it, and I appreciate the weapon in its own right. But I want to write my own tale, and should the darkness ever take me leave behind something worthy of being sought after. I don't know how to tell you guys how to do that.... I think your already figuring it out for yourselves. I am looking forward to what's next... The pool of options should GROW with every update.

you usually only lose one little perk when upgrading armor. it's different in destiny though.

At least the damage begins at 300

Plenty of people don't understand this kind of gearing system. I'm surprised we even get to upgrade our exotics since expansions tend to make old gear obsolete. I get the thinking behind the reset, regardless of whether the gun functions the same, we are still trading in a weaker exotic for a stronger one and that's the point of the reset.

I don't see why everyone is freaking out if you leveled it once I'm sure you can do it again.

Why don't they just give us extra nodes... I'm sorry, but MMO's let you keep your progress when they expand, they jsut give you some new stuff you can buy. But since Destiny's level system is based entirely on gear, 100's of hours of playing time have been invalidated by a piddly little update, that does not happen in MMO's. -blam!- this system and whoever thought it would be a good idea to create some more time sinks for us. ARTIFICIAL CONTENT FTW

sit up straight, i can't wait to upgrade my hawkmoons the crits, oh imagine the crits!

I just don't like that its only three months after release. But, in a game so lacking of content, I guess that's the only option.

Yeah these idiots never played an MMO before.

You haven't either, based on your post. You're just lapping up to that talking point only to silence criticism.

I admit I was one of the nay sayers against the current exotic upgrade plan. I'm still not a fan but have accepted it in hopes that it eventually evolves to something more clever and unique to Destiny and Bungie's original stance that they want players to develop stories and relationships with their exotics of choice. Personally, I feel the next iteration of exotic upgrades should build upon player's current progress. That progress should not simply be reset and the player asked to relevel the exact same weapon/armor. This goes completely against Bungie's original stance that they want players to have a story behind exotic equipment. In an attempt to bolster Bungie's original vision and foster a true relationship between a player and his/her exotics, I feel a better upgrade option would allow each player to customly add upgrade options to their existing weapon/armor as each DLC drops. An example of this would be an instance where players take their fully leveled base level exotics to Xur and purchase weapon/armor cores (specific to the DLC purchased by the player) for each specific exotic. Once purchased, this opens an additional modifier column on the weapon/armor by which a player chooses a single modifier from 3 possible options that -- in turn -- upgrades the weapon with whatever perk is selected in the column. This selection becomes fixed and each subsequent DLC allows a new upgrade column (again, unique to that specific DLC) with new possible upgrades added to whatever the player currently has built on his/her exotics from previous DLCs. This is just one idea but one that I feel is far closer to the original intent Bungie proposed in terms of players building actual stories and strong ties with their exotics of choice.