[b]On the day the DLC goes live, your beloved raid weapons will be obsolete.[/b] You might as well shard your raid weapons or shove them in the vault forever. Bungie has created a way for you to keep your exotic weapons and armour on par, but has overlooked raid weapons. This is a huge oversight, because raid weapons are exotics in all but name and represent the pinnacle of what we have earned. You cannot just buy these items from Xur. Please read my post about this in the Feedback forum: [url=http://www.bungie.net/en/Forum/Post/78090947/0/0][u]here[/u][/url]. Ask yourself this: what legendary items are you going to equip alongside your post-DLC exotics? If you are as unlucky as I am with RNG, you will fall behind very fast when the DLC goes live, whether or not you buy the DLC. UPDATE: Confirmed: [url=http://planetdestiny.com/exotic-upgrading-dark/]our existing pre-DLC exotics can be upgraded using new exotic ascendant materials[/url], so the DLC will not make them obsolete. BUT the DLC will make our raid legendaries obsolete overnight when the game is updated for the DLC! There is a new Exotic Weapon Core to update exotics to scale up with the DLC. But your legendary weapons will become obsolete overnight! Yet raid weapons ARE exotics in all but name! And they need to scale up in the same way. They have the unique perks that make a weapon exotic, and also the disadvantages that come with any exotic weapon (e.g. the perks being raid-specific). UPDATE 2 Exotic armour has 30 light and unique perks. That is what makes it exotic. That is the difference. Guess what: it's the same with raid armour. Guess what: it's the same with raid weapons and exotic weapons. Raid legendaries are self-evidently a special case on par with exotics.