I wish these threads would stop. Bungie hasn't said anything about making year one gear non-upgradeable. They *have* said they will be going back and nerfing many of the perks that make some of the year one gear so desireable. They wouldn't waste the effort doing that to balance the weapons if they were just going to nuke them altogether by preventing them from being upgradeable. Furthermore, Deej has stated before they want each of your weapons and gear to follow you through the game and have a story for each piece.
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So instead of making good guns just nerf the ones that are good so we have to use the new ones genius!!!!
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Yup. Didn't say I liked it, but that looks to be what is happening.
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Side note, eliminating an upgrade path for these guns would cut out a bunch of grinding we would be doing for etheric light. We all know that would be against everything this game stands for. Bungie is all about anything to make us grind.