I feel the overall concept of allowing us to upgrade our exotics to keep them relevant with the current raids is a great thing. I put a lot of time and sometimes effort(bounty exotics) into these weapons, and I enjoy some of the exclusive weapon perks they offer. I'd have been disappointed to find out all of those exotics were only good for breaking down for parts. I find 2 big issues with the whole situation - that it will be random chance as to when I can upgrade my exotic, and even then I'll have to start all over and lose those unique weapon perks that made the exotic weapon exotic. It seems like a poor design that only hurts those who have spent the time leveling their weapon to the max, they put time and materials into a weapon and now they get to do it again, where someone who never leveled the weapon can upgrade it and start from the same point. For the randomness of when I get to upgrade my exotic, I feel a better method would have been to have Xur just sell items that are unique to the weapon/armor type (Primary Exotic Upgrade Kit, Special Weapon Exotic Upgrade Kit, and so on). There could be a limitation on them, maybe 1 weapon and 1 armor a week, or 1 exotic upgrade in total per week, and the cost could even be expensive, something close to the normal cost of an exotic weapon/armor. But why limit me to the random choices that Xur offers, all it means is that my preferred choice of weapon or armor might not come around for a couple weeks, and what happens if the weekend he offers my upgrade I'm not available? As for resetting the weapons when you upgrade them, I don't get why there can't be 3 new upgrades added on when you do the exotic upgrade. This will benefit anyone that has already leveled up their weapon/armor as they'll only have 3 new upgrades to do, with the final upgrade costing an exotic shard again. For anyone that has a new or unleveled exotic, they have to start from the beginning just like everyone else and do the exotic upgrade whenever they want/can afford it from Xur. There would see no benefit of the exotic upgrade until they max the weapon/armor at that first exotic shard upgrade, but that makes no difference as they never had the weapon there before.