I'm okay with the upgrading exotics through RNG/Xur a week and the glimmer cost, but making us re-level the whole damn weapon/armor? Maybe I might be getting my panties in knots over nothing but seems kind of counter productive.
I know, I know it doesn't take that long to level a piece of gear up, but couldn't they just add more nodes to the tree?
Yes, I will shut up now, and still play the hell out of this game regardless. - Meg
EDIT: Seems people are thinking I am advocating a free ride to the new version exotics, I am not. I want some kind of work involved in that respect. I would like to seem some compensation for the time/materials/work invested into the old version exotics, for instance more upgrade nodes.
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Think about it like this: by upgrading you're getting an end game gun at launch. Had you of not upgraded you would have had to earn marks, and possibly rep (which would take time), or get one to drop, and then fully upgrade that. By upgrading you, not only, get to keep your current gun that you're already used to but you cut out all the things it would take to get a max damage weapon. I'd say Bungle did a lot of the work for us already. You could, conversely, decide not to upgrade the gun and it would still probably get you through the new raid on normal, get a gun from that or a vendor or Xur, and then upgrade that one.