Honestly my guess is ghorn will be fine until you start getting new raid gear. Same with other 365 weapons. You'll get better stuff before then but current 365 will work fine. Looked to me like they were normalising weapons to a set attack value (180 I think) with slightly better (190 and up) available. But it is level that determines what activities you can attempt not light, so you can do a level 40 activity with a ghorn but it might not fare you as well as a ttk purple (or even blue it sounded like to me). Chances are that the decrease in damage won't be worse than being level 29 doing hard vog, which was me until 3 week before TDB came out, and I still did that raid 3 times a week teaching randoms (often level 30s who only ever pushed Templar and atheon).

I don't think it's a pointless nerf. The weapon will still work for all year 1 activities, and seeing as everyone and their mom have Gjallarhorns now, everyone will still use it to DPS Crota, Skolas, and Atheon. It won't do as much damage as it did before individually, but collectively, more people in your fireteam will have it now. It would make sense to not allow it progress, honestly. Why else would they allow Xur to sell it after like 10 months of it never entering his inventory? I think it was a parting gift to year 1 players. Perhaps the best solution for the most powerful weapon is to phase it out completely. Besides, gotta give people something new to chase for all of year 2, but year 1 will always be the Year of the Gjallarhorn.

I'm honestly very excited for that upgraded Truth honestly. I need it.

Deej had year 1 versions of; Gjallahorn Truth Thunderlord Super Good Advice Suros Red Death TLW Invective Ice Breaker Universal Remote Year 2 showed: Suros TLW Truth Invective Thunderlord Red Death Good point about him not having a MIDA

I just took your lead to list everything in case any of us missed something

Yeah. Nobody will use it anymore i guess.