In general there is a lot of good things we can look forward towards like some love to core playlists or changing the world with fights challenging that blueberries would matter. There is one line that really worries me, that works in games like WoW, but can't work in D2. That's the idea i'm talking about: "The simplest version of how it is going to work is: Legendary weapons will have fixed values for how high they can be infused. Those values will project the weapon’s viable-in-end-game lifespan and we think that lifespan is somewhere between 9 and 15 months. " What is worrying is the feel of weapons, as mentioned in the 1st part of DC: "I recently sat with a couple of external folks who really love Breakneck. It’s the only thing they use. They aren’t ever going to use another primary weapon in Destiny 2. Why? Because they don’t need to." This is wrongly interpreted, Breakneck is awful, been for a long time, they use it cuz they CAN. Those guys love the feeling. Now, in games like WoW, there is no feeling to weapon, there is an archetype with combat associated to that archetype and what ppl use is purely translated to stats. Weapons don't have the feel like D2 weapons (or Dark Souls weapons) have like it's mentioned in this DC. Making old weapons obsolete would not only go against ppl who love feel of not the most powerful things (like Breakneck, even tho Sundial auto is way better, but doesn't feel like Breakneck) and also would go against most of the playerbase (cuz even if i myself do endgame activities i recall i'm in minority) meaning forcing more grind. Instead of chasing stuff we want, we would chase stuff we need. Like in this season I've got god roll of most Sundial weapons, i didn't need to, but i did and i'd def use them if like Linear Fusions would be in a better spot or firewave from Martyr had a place to shine outside places like Altars of Sorrow. If Sundial had 140/150 kinetic handcannon (had sidearm in kinetic) i'd likely replace my Austringer since i'm reload addict and can't make full use of auto rifle's magazine. I'll 100% agree that weapons do feel unique. I can't stand sound and feel of Spare Rations, that's why i stick to Austringer even tho it's worse since is Aus has 10 less rpm. I'd hate to be forced into using weapons i can't stand feel of, just cuz others are literally unusable. Making old stuff irrelevant is going directly against unique feel of all the weapons. What's the point of uniqueness when it's irrelevant? Old stuff is getting slowly irrelevant cuz of lack of perks. In this season we got a bunch of old weapons back, with new random rolls giving them all a standing once more. There are definitely things that are underused, like rocket launchers (outside exotics) and this is cuz they have no place there could shine, their dmg is not outstanding as you'd expect from ROCKET launcher. Ammo is scarce, dmg is meh and you can kill yourself with them so no wonder nobody uses them. Limiting weapon power is not gonna make a big changes to meta, it's just gonna change feels of weapons, making ppl even less convinced to get things, since they will just be useless in 9 months. Right now ppl are still farming for older weapons like Mindbender or Reckoning stuff. Doing old raids has a point since each raid has something to pursue. You'd kill all that ambition to go back to older activities. How would you convince ppl to run Last Wish, known as the best raid in the game, if all loot, ALL is meaningless? When i imagine that system in place now i'd use Jack Queen as primary. would it change something? Not really outside the fact i'd be using sth i don't enjoy. In classic RPGs all you care about are stats so newest weapon is always the best, in D2 -that's a 1st person game- feel of weapon is the most important outside dps phases (but those dps weapons are not the ones you use the most anyway, you literally use them for few seconds, cuz that's how long dps phases are). If bows were to get a slight buff i'd prob swap to bows, cuz i love feel of Black armory bow and Arsenic Bite, but those guys are so underwhelming in pve you can run out of ammo (in general Dawn's champion mod choice was bad since champions feel like bullet sponges with those choices). You Bungie might be surprised but a lot of weapons are not used since getting them is really painful. You'd see a lot more Last Hope (that's technically old, but it's new with rolls) if not that it's hard to get. I myself got 3 god rolls, but i'm at almost 900 obelisk level. 900 drops for 3 Last Hope rolls is not that nice if ppl are aiming to get specifically Last Hope. I've seen a post a while ago proposing that weapons would have random stats on them, like literal stats like +10% handling, +4% dmg, +20% reload speed (so you could find both buffs and debuffs). And i do believe random stats on weapons would give them more RPG feel and make all weapons dropped be possibly good, kind of killing that current situation where "weapon with name X is the best in Y archetype" since other weapons in that archetype could possibly roll with better stats and i do believe that's one of the best ways to make ppl use all weapons since every weapon could be the best one, surprise could be found on every step. Now that's a long post, if you read it all, dear reader i'd love to see your perspective in the comments. Every opinion has its own arguments and i'd love to see them all including possible (and likely) counterarguments.