Resetting the upgrades is a major slap in the face for those who spend an obscene amount of time upgrading ALL their exotics. Not just the ones I use, all the crap in my vault. My OCD demanded it. I think this really is bad game design. A some new content to experience, and once again an XP farming-fest to upgrade the same weapons, to have them function the same as before but at 323 damage instead of 300.
It's gonna feel really sucky to upgrade a weapon and have to level it all over again and slowly regain perks you have already been using for weeks/months. No new experience, the same upgrade path. No new interesting gameplay, just a different number on your screen. I think this is quite lame. At least offer a serious XP buff on weapons that were full upgraded. Pffff, might as well dismantle my fully upgraded bounty exotics and keep fresh ones around for when Xur offers their upgrade option. Right now there is no advantage to having upgraded a weapon. There should be some kind of reward for that effort.
If you don't use, don't upgrade it? Your OCD may demand otherwise, but Bungie isn't holding a gun to your head and forcing you to go through leveling up Bad JuJu again if you don't want to.
Absolutely true. It's just my perspective. But I know quite some people just want to max their crap. It's an MMO affliction. I've had it for years. I'm just to doing things over and over, just not so quickly. Feels all wrong to me.
I feel your pain. I have the same nagging tendency to upgrade things even if I don't use them. They could just take away exotic scaling, make the Vex the only out of the box non DLC exotic that scales and force us into grinding RNG for new gear and then leveling that. At least we're a leg up on the newbies. We have the weapon, we can use it. We want it maxed? We gotta pay the price.