If you hadn't gotten word yet, Xur is going to come to the tower and offer some random guns an upgrade...at the cost of glimmer, your original gun and an exotic shard. You might be thinking "oh that's dandy" when it's quite the contrary. Those exotics that you grinded and worked your tail off for basically get reset the second you give them to Xur and the community in general is really really mad. I've read posts on people quitting and normally I don't think they will but this time they seem pretty authentic. So... Dee_J and bungie what players are thinking you're saying is "screw the vets and people who put heavy playtime into this, start over." BUT there's a really really REALLY easy fix to all this mess. You're only upgrading the base damage(I assume) SO all you have to do to keep everyone happy is just add like 2 or 3 more "upgrade damage" nodes and keep the original 300 one with exotic shards and make the last one also upgradable only through exotic shards. That way new players get access to better guns but have to level but at the same time vets have their old gun and just have to level it twice to max it out.