Rise of Iron is on the horizon and will most likely will be the last substantial content drop till Destiny 2, I cant help but wonder how Destiny 2 will treat us especially in respect to our previous years of playtime? I am in the camp of starting off fresh for the most part, new gear, new subclasses, new areas, and we all feel we made bad discussions on some of our characters appearances. Gear has to be different fresh and new but the 4 things we should be able to keep Shaders, emblems, sparrows, and emotes. Shaders: they set the tone of our characters. In year one it took literal months to earn one we liked, hundreds of faction packages needed to be collected, thousands of engrams decrypted, fingers crossed in loot drops, they were as bad as exotics for a wile and some still are. I don't ever want to quest for something that 99% of games give to you as a free option ever again even if it is easier to aquire. Emblems: Ever since emblems were introduced in halo 2 I always felt them important to the identity of our characters, I feel destiny is no different in that respect we earned them through play and they say something about us whether its a trials flawless emblem or Lauraea Prima for completing year 1, they are the few things that mark our achievements in the game, not to mention how much bungie has put into to them buy packaging them with their products or giving them away by participating in events. Sparrows and emotes mostly fall in the same category they are both cosmetic but we had to pay real money for them on top of purchasing the dlc and unless something changes drastically (i.e build your own sparrow) I don't feel we should have to replay or re-buy that content. Now I didn't include ships mostly because I don't feel they impacted anything during game play at all. Did I have to earn mine? sure. but mostly its a nice screensaver that I didn't make an impact like emblems have, except if I saw a trials one, but that's very few and far between. I hope they do more with them in the furture. Let me know if you agree,