The gear is not the problem, except that Bungie has been using gear as content. The reduction in content is the problem.

You are sadly mistaken if you think everybody is dead set on their existing loadout being the only one forever. It has less to do with being committed to just a weapon, as opposed to the offerings not being that good. The Bungie weapon trend has been to offer weaker and less effective equipment. I try out new weapons all the time. Once in a while I find a really good one and put that in the rotation. But each expansion has left fewer weapons worth putting in the rotation. The Bungie trend has been to continually weaken the weapons, strengthen the bosses. Hell, some of the majors now are stronger than vanilla Ultra bosses. For example, let's look at sniper rifles. I got spoiled early on with a Queen's Wrath Supremacy. There Vanguard Epitaph was a good one as well. Great impact, headshots do a ton of damage to higher level enemies. TDB and Efrideet's Spear and LDR5001 became available. These weapons work fantastic. Not OP but gives you a fair chance against any higher level enemy. Out comes HoW. There is not a single sniper in the entire expansion that can hold it's own against high level PvE enemies. The only one with decent impact is Her Benevolence, but it is still alot weaker than LDR, or even Longbow Synthesis and relies on a super high aim assist value. In level 34 and 35 activities I HAVE to use an older sniper as none of the new ones are suitable for the engagements. This isn't about just one shotting anything, this is about being in a sustained DPS firefight against Majors and Ultras. Bungie has done a horrible job with weapon design each expansion. People want to hold onto gear that actually works, and not weaker stuff designed to inflate the artificial difficulty even more. Bungie has yet to prove they know what they are doing in regards to weapons. Rather than taking the time to do proper testing and tweaking, they take the cheap and lazy way out by Forcing everyone into what we expect to be yet another bad batch of weaponry.

This isn't the problem. The problem is, everything but TTK gear is forgotten. It feels like they're trying to strip away vanilla, TDB, and HoW and make you dead set on starting at TTK. Vanilla and the content before played a massive role in Destiny. It would be designer flaw and laziness if they stripped away all the other content and said "All this gear is better in the new DLC, so buy it and use it, everything else is irrelevant." And guess what? That's exactly what they're doing. Destiny should be one huge game made up of many DLC's, not "this is the most recent DLC, so only this stuff is good." Its stupid. What about new players? What if they want to experience ALL of Destiny and not just one DLC? Here's what they should do. VoG- Add a new "34 and 40" level to the raid. 34 drops ONLY 34 gear for those folks who only bought TDB and HoW and aren't interested in TTK right now. Have 34 drop 331 weapons and light level 42 armor. 40 would be only available for those who have TTK and drop TTK relevant gear and weapons + add new exotics in the loot table. Crota's End - Literally same as above but drop 365 weapons. POE - Add new realms for micro transactions. Example - "POE DLC pack, all new Cabal, Fallen, Vex and Hive arena" for $15. After that, make the new arenas 40 compatible. These ideas make every end-game activity relevant for EVERYONE and all gear relevant for any buyer. You might ask, where's the catch? Remember how VoG and Crota drop only 331 and 365 gear? If you want to keep your fatebringer and black hammer, you have to delete your old ones and earn the new ones! That way you can go into these higher level activity's with NEW guns and earn OLD ones with just as much of a punch behind it! So, out with ascention, but rather make people WANT to play old stuff instead. Every part of Destiny should be relevant and fun. I don't like the idea of them scrapping everything from the past and just making new things relevant. That's not how a RPG should work.

Why am I not allowed to have fun the way I want to have fun?

do you think this will change? even if we leave behind every last y1 weapon well still see people running nothing but the same loadouts. people will always go for whats the most powerful. it doesnt matter if we remove the most used guns the community will just find a new gun to use. just look at borderlands if you want proof. when conference call got nerfed everyone just swithced to sandhawk.

I'm fine with legendary being left I'm hoping for a dead orbit pulse But exotics should at least ALL armor Hell leave gally and bring all the other weapons

Probably because we put so much time into grinding the loot then leveling it up? Loot IS the character progression in this game for Year 1. Ditching your old gear is basically ditching what you did to level up.

I agree, but it just feels like the grind for the whole year was for nothing.