If bungie were to make each old tier of gear the same quality as future gear upon release of an expansion... I will quit. I hope this doesn't happen because this is the only game I've played for over 3 months. There is nothing to keep you progressing if they do this. There is also no reason to buy the expansions if they do this... It would be a freebie fest for all of the people who don't buy the expansions, and for those of us that do buy them, all we get to differentiate from vanilla players is a few extra pixels to shoot at with gear we didn't have to earn from the content. This whole idea is terrible, and unprecedented. No other game that has expansions like this updates gear to the expansion stats. And that's to avoid the game getting bland and boring.