You might want to be a little more careful when you call someone an idiot. Especially when you have failed at math. Checking your profile, you have logged about 531 hours and 48 minutes in Destiny (I ignored the seconds). You see when you aren't even capable of converting days, hours, and minutes properly, the rest of what you say tends to lack any credibility. You have still logged more hours than me, but not by nearly as much as you claim. I also have 26 exotics, not all of them maxed, but the majority of them are. So I can "grasp" how this announcement impacts a player. It can actually impact them in two ways (when looking at how close Destiny is to an MMO). Reaction #1: I have to level all my gear all over again? This sucks! Please make the expansion easier because I want to retain my godlike ability even though there has been a level cap increase. (this is the reaction of someone who does not understand that with most MMO's when there is a level cap increase, your current gear becomes irrelevant and you have to grind for new gear to be able to keep up with the new content) **It should also be noted that this reaction is completely incorrect. You don't have to level ANY gear at all if you don't want to Reaction #2: I get the option of bringing my current gear up to the new level cap if I want? This is GREAT! (this is the reaction of someone who understands how level cap increases work in ANY given game)

You failed to read. I said X1 hours. And any MMO comparison you make isn't valid. Not a single MMO released a level jump 3 months after release. Sorry.

So if your X1 hours are different from your currently logged Destiny hours, does that mean you deleted and restarted characters? If so then you have reset nearly 400 hours of playtime (400 hours worth of progress). Why are you upset with the (completely optional) exotic reset again?

I never deleted any characters. I think the issue with X1 hours played is it considers the time the game started till the time you switched games or the x1 went to sleep. So X1 goes to sleep after some time when you turn the xbox off by voice or controller. It wakes up to your voice command. In there I think it keeps counting some of the time Destiny is still up. Honestly not sure how Bungie calculates time played and given their track record on other development items...well, no need to pile on.

So the currently logged 531 hours is actually closer to what you actually played than the 900 X1 logged hours.

What progress are they taking away? From what I hear, the new Exotics base will start at 299. That is 1 less attack power than a fully upgraded exotic. So, if this is true and you are seriously crying one missing 1 attack power, you have some serious issues.

You have more than 10 fully upgraded exotics just 3 months after release? That progress. If you actually invested some time into this game, you'd get it.

Progression isn't lost? Lol... Greens replace hard earned & upgraded purples on day 1 of expansion and the grind begins anew. This new system gives you the chance to turn something you earned into something you can take with you. The upgrade part was also made a lot easier. Quit crying. Plain and simple.

They're not taking it away. The weapons are starting at a base value of 302, the beginning of the next tier. Think of it as them just adding another tier of upgrades to your exotic. This is a good thing.