Let me get this straight. The forums want this for every expansion: 1. Meaningful loot tied to activities. 2. Powerful loot 3. Their gear to still be relevant and good indefinitely. Okay. That will 100% of the time introduce power creep or make new weapons appear meaningless. Period. So now Bungie is facing the problem and feedback that there's so much to do, so many activities in expansions, and none of it matters. Well, there are three ways to address that upon a major DLC release: 1. Nerf the previous meta every time. I hope this doesn't need explanation as to why that's a garbage idea. 2. Release weapons that are inherently more powerful in terms of stats, perks, damage, etc. in order to overshadow the previous meta. Sounds good on paper, but what about 2 expansions down the road? 3? Our power would grow without bounds to the point where the gsme would have to be designed around that power. How do we know that? The disaster that was Reckoning. I for one do not want the release version of Reckoning to be present throughout the entire game. 3. Put a infusion cap on weapons. This will bring value to new weapons immediately without diminishing the effectiveness of our previous weapons in non-endgame activities. Right now, no new SMG on console will be considered by the majority of players unless it's better than Recluse. No shotgun was considered at all over Ikelos until Threat Level was released. Heck. The majority of hand cannons users stuck to Midnight Coup all the way to Black Armory, where Threat Level gave competition for the slot. That's the trend. Players did not have a reason to hunt for loot at all since outliers we're left uncapped. Put a cap on those weapons and now all of a sudden, new weapons have a purpose. They have value. If these new weapons are at least good and are plentiful, this is the best option. Pick which option you want. But the best is definitely 3.