Upgrades you from the old 300 damage model to the 331 one. Sounds like something you didn't need. It's not a shortcut to the upgrade tree as many seem to think.
It sucks to keep reading these posts of people doing this. I wish there was something in place to stop them from upgrading a 331 to a 331.
They just didn't know... :(
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I just landed on these forums because of this exact same thing. I am fairly new to the end game, level 30 stuff, and today I popped into the game to see what Xur has. "Oh look, upgrade for my half leveled up Bad Juju! I guess I'll spend a ton of glimmer and my first exotic shard thingy and go for it!" BOOM. Happy yellow exotic animation. Wait. What the? I must have read something wrong in the game, must have missed something. Nope, in order to know how I just pressed a "buy an exotic upgrade" button to delete several hours of gameplay, I have to research the strange history of releases and patches for this game. It is a terrible hole in the game to allow people to just dump away a bunch of hard earned resources already in the bag AND wipe away all the time spent leveling the equipment, just because of an old awkward game evolution! I bought the game two months ago, ages after the DLC came out. Why is it even possible for me to sabotage myself in this way??? Pathetic. I shouldn't have to read angry posts deep in a forum just to figure out that an "upgrade" is really just a giant trash chute.
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There's actually a really good reason the upgrades were allowed, unfortunately it only applies to armor. Weapons are always exactly the same. Not so for exotic armor, their stats very, often by a range of maybe 70 points. So for example the upgrade for the hunter helmet the Symbiote this weekend has a stat of just under current max I believe at 124 whatever, I'm going to take my old 113 stat helmet and turn it into a 124, and this works whether it's a pre-dlc one maxing at 30 light or a post dlc one with 36 light. You can upgrade it to better stats if Xur happens to roll a good one (he had a perfect roll on the Hunter Crest of Alpha Lupi the other week) Sadly nothing was done to prevent/warn people that weapons can't gain anything by doing this
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Yeah that's normal for the BUNGIE of destiny. They don't think much
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Isnt bungie going to change tge way to upgrade in HoW?
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Edited by way455: 4/3/2015 3:20:35 PMThey better. I really don't want to have to relevel all my exotics one at a time again. Seeing the rage and exodus it caused when TDB hit and the vendor gear and the new damage model negated everyone's raid gear and exotic progress, it would be beyond stupid to do that again.