This thread is for mature discussion. Do not reply if you don't wish to read the entire article and articulate your ideas. Don't make a fool out of yourself here. No one will respect it. --- Problem: Year One Exotics are being left behind, and if "I" wanted to hold onto my Year One Exotics, I should be able to and still use the same guns for 10 years. --- Argument: Let me start with a quote from Bungie, [quote]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] I think this is a good quote to take from Bungie, as originally taken from the December weekly update. It shows that Bungie wanted their weapons to never become obsolete. It means they do not want your weapons to become useless or lose priority. Except, in this context, this was before any DLC has been released and it meant instead they didn't want your vanilla weapons to become useless. I, myself, support the changes Bungie is making, and aim to show why your weapons will NOT become obsolete after the Year Two gear comes. Reasons: -Your weapons lose no power in the Crucible, because there is no level advantages in the Crucible. Alone in the crucible, all of your weapons are still revered the same way and lose no power. Armor works the same way. -Your Year One gear will still be able to complete Year One activities with the same effectiveness. If there's a group of Year Two guardians who could probably blow through VoG, your Year One gear is effective in the same regard. It's not like you'll be kicked because you don't have Year Two gear. You aren't obsolete, you're useful. -Some of your Year One efforts have been tracked and appreciated, giving you a head start, and you'll be able to earn a couple weapons useful in Year Two which are blueprints of your Year One exotics. It's not about transferring your favorite exotics to Year Two into blueprints, it's about giving you a slight advantage over newer players by allowing you to dive right into new activities easier by showing Bungie you had what it takes to brave through Year One. Yes, I assume Year Two gear will be much better than Year One gear, and as such Year One gear will become obsolete in a small way, I would still rather use Year Two gear as opposed to Year One gear in PVE, (I would use whatever I prefer in PvP, no exceptions)... But this progressional system of Year gear is necessary for the way Bungie plans to take this game. Bungie wants this to be a game where whatever time you put in felt like it was worth it, you can always progress your character. Similarly to how MMOs and RPGs are, where you progress characters and have a reputation to them. My favorite weapon is my first ever Khostov, still in my vault. I can't use it, it's obsolete AF. It helped you get through your first mission and that was about it. Your current weapons will get you through all Year One activities the same way right now. They don't get downgraded. There will soon be better gear and weapons, but new players will still need those fate bringers to get themselves to the mightier and more powerful weapons you'll soon be equipping. What if you wanted to use Bronze Armor (Starter gear) in RuneScape(MMORPG) for the rest of your days? Your progression is deterred, the same way in this game. It's necessary, unfortunately, in my opinion. You can still whip out that fatebringer in your VoGs and still do as you do now, same as your Crotas and your PoEs and Trials and Crucible. None of that has changed. What you all have a problem with is simply not being able to use your fatebringer to kill bigger, more monstrous and powerful enemies on the Dreadnaught. It won't do the job, simply. You're going to either have to pick up a Year Two exotic blueprint of your current gear as a head start, or earn some new gear and progress your character to more powerful levels beforehand. Otherwise, it's simply not a possibility unless you want to put a lot more bullets into the more powerful enemies with that Fatebringer. When hunting higher caliber targets, don't use a lower caliber gun. Get the new guns. Counter arguments