That doesn't make sense. If the HoWguns were good, then you wouldn't need to ascend the old ones. I ascended old ones bc the new ones sucked ( particularly the POE guns) fatebringer poops on my six dreg pride with arc. Maybe if they put a useful perk on the guns instead of "shank burn" or " chance to stun captain" they would have been worthy of keeping. ( not to mention most of the perks only work in PoE) I say you should only be able to ascend exotics and raid weapons, not the rest of them.
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But that is precisely the point. If ascension is allowed it will always be the same weapons. Fate, word, fang, vision, etc. They need to make people use the new guns, or people will say they suck. If you could not have ascended your fatebringer (which has an elemental advantage over the queens weapons) the appeal of higher attack weapons would have been much more prominent.