Here's the one question that can't be answered by anyone opposed to keeping the weapons and gear: How is my keeping and ascending them going to affect your game if I don't know you and don't play with you? Answer: it doesn't, and this can't be refuted. Things that do affect others are changes like forcing non optional matchmaking like they did with the weeklies, now taking those away to force people to play strikes no one wants to so as to increase the time it takes to level up or show false hours played to shareholders, making the weapons weaker so as to increase play time.....everything is to increase play time. I love playing Destiny, but I don't love what they are doing to it. I haven't loved all the changes along the way, but I grit my teeth and bared it. Now, through two times of resetting my progress, I have to do it again? My friends and I are already starting to find other games to play. This saddens me the way I was saddened that I bought a game based on open world rhetoric that never happened. But hey, some fanboy as you guys call them will retort to this I'm sure with some comment that is irrelevant and selfish and demeaning, as a 41 yr old retiree with a family, I won't even bother with responding. Again, great post OP, Lost, and all you guys out there. Old Badger, #infusionforall

Sorry to lose you Guardian, hopefully things can turn around. This game has such great promise, I had some really good times with friends. I'm starting to feel that my time has less and less value however. As a 46yr old father of 4, I'm at work a lot. I manage to get in a few hours of playtime a night.....then it's midnight and 5AM comes really fast thereafter. I'm somehow feeling that my past year was for nought. Good luck in the future however and hope to see you starside again. #infusionforall

I haven't left yet, just not happy at the moment ;)

Let's hope for a brighter future ehh ;) #infusionforall

I'm sorry but I have to disagree, it's the raid weapons that everyone talks about and wants to know where and how to get them. The weapons AND armour are a huge part of our identity as guardians, it's what makes us legends. I struggle to understand what Luke smith said, it seems so obvious to me. It's an FPS gear is absolutely key.

Uh, what exactly are you disagreeing with?

I like your outside the box thinking. Usually we agree. However, I simply do not give any shits about cosmetics. We can't give these assholes that kind of easy copout.

The way I see it, it took 8 months to love the look of my Titan because I didn't like any of the vanilla or TDB gear. While I'd like to be able to not lose my armor and NA3D1, if my Titan looks like a schmuck again, it will be twice the kick in the nuts.

Indeed. Though, that's really only like a bandaid, really. You'd still be losing the actual gun itself in that case. Transmog works well in games like Diablo or AIKA but that's mainly cause they're essentially just stat adding objects with no real functionality to them.

Depends on how they do it. Terraria has something called vanity slots, where you have two equip slots for a given piece of gear. One slot is for the look, the other is for the stats. Granted they solely do it for armor. A system like this has the same purpose of transmog, but achieves it differently as the piece of gear in question is not lost. I imagine from a programming standpoint that this is actually easier to do than Transmog, and can be added in post development far easier too.