[quote]That's demonstrably false. The [i]problem[/i] that post is referring to was the basic issue of respecting players' [i]time[/i], which was [i]totally[/i] undone when they invalidated an entire year's-worth of players effort in "Year 2."[/quote] That's not true at all. The post was referring to people having to trade in their maxed exotics to get the same exotic & grind to max it out again. You can go back & read the update if you want, & you'll see I'm right. [quote]They also [i]specifically[/i] said that they didn't want players to ever feel like their favorite gear had become useless... Like, they [u]literally[/u] said that. You can't deny the irony. :P[/quote] That would be ironic, but they weren't talking about legendaries. They planned for TDB legendaries to take the place of the vanilla ones. That's why they made entirely new sets of gear that was all more powerful than even the highest vanilla gear could be. Again, that's how progress works. Etheric light says "year 1 max" in its description as well, so it shouldn't have come as a surprise that year 1 stuff wasn't going to come into year 2. [quote]A rose by any other name, bro.[/quote] That phrase proves my point, not yours. They keep calling it "year 2" & "TTK" but it's obvious that this serves as a sequel. Some of the ways in which it is a sequel are the new subclasses, new leveling system, their biggest armory to date, year 1 activities & gear being irrelevant for the new end-game activities, etc.