TL;DR Good idea but we need new content not beefed up existing content. VoG weapons will be useful until House of Wolves when VoG will not be worth doing anymore. It happens to all games and it needs to if they want to keep changing like how destiny wants to be a 10 year franchise project. Edit 1: After much thought here might be a healthy way to upgrade [i][b]some[/b][/i] old items to be on par with Crota's End gear [b][i]only[/i][/b], it would not be healthy to upgrade it past the first expansion. This would also pave the way so that the gear and vendor items obtained from this new expansion could get same treatment in House of Wolves making your outdated CE gear relevant for a time being beofe "Comet" would come out. It would have to cost ridiculous or near ridiculous amounts of materials of all kinds (glimmer, radiant or ascendant mats, planet specific mats) and would also have to invest at least double the effort for it to unlock all the upgrades for it. Maybe even a visit from Xur or take it to the gunsmith for a final inspection (a wait time of maybe 24 hours) before you can get the new version back. This however would re roll the effects on weapons on which could be re rolled (i.e would not work for VoG weapon effects but would increase there damage still, but items like vendors sell namely the old Vendor stuff could be re rolled and amped up to match that of Crota's End [b][i]only.[/i][/b] Your idea has great ground work. We need more ways to obtain new gear. I think there is many better ways to this other then revamping old stuff however. Creating anything new would add content rather then keep us doing the stuff everyone is complaining about. It's not that the raids are not fun but if that's all that is offered for end game material I would prefer new content opposed opposed to this revamped content. The entire community understands that people are still upset about their weapons being obsolete. But upping the stats of rhe same content and gear is not healthy for a game that's always going to be changing and evolving. Myself and others greatly understand that it sucks those weapons will be useless come house of wolves (i can and will argue until I die that VoG weapons are very very relevant and can almost guarantee that everyone is still using them). The only time these weapons will not be useful is when there are more options of higher level enemies (i.e house of wolves probably lyrics being 32-34 for levels.) At that point we will have to many items and will have to start making choices and unfortunately the VoG will be least effective only doing 300 DMG (or max damage vs level 30 or lower enemies, for those who do not quite understand the way weapon damage works).