So according to the latest news, you will not be able to upgrade [i][b]legendary[/b][/i] year one weapons/armor. All those dragon strikes for Hopscotch and guess what... there will be stronger ones out. Those fancy adept weapons from trials... pfft sit down, we got bigger and better ones coming. Oh wait, the mighty Fatebringer will be no more. Gotta love the direction this game is heading in. 10 years people this is the plan. Mean while, $1000 later, regrind again.
In case you people still want to call it a [u]MMO[/u] *cough From Bungie-
Destiny is a first-person shooter video game developed by Bungie and published by Activision. Released on September 9, 2014, Destiny marked Bungie's first new franchise since the Halo series. Set in a "mythic science fiction"
I love it! The flames are rising in the forums now. So many similar topics all over the place. I might change my name to Firestarter. Keep up the good work. This stuff is gold, especially when bored at work. I need more entertainment. Not sure how long this topic will stay alive before it's nuked like a previous topic I created. I also appreciate the defenders justifying their hard earned time. Keep telling yourself it wasn't all for nothing.
Picture your favorite car... Do you buy the next model each year or do you hold onto it because you love it? Too expensive, no problem. Do you buy new ice cream every week or do you stick with what you love? You have your comforts and so do I.
Have a nice day!
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Let's be frank - constantly allowing the players to ascend old weapons will create no incentives whatsoever to obtain the new and fresh gear the development team creates. Eventually people would find the holy grail of weaponry and Bungie would be forced to either make a better weapon, over and over, therein creating endless power creep in the meta, or they'd be constantly creating inferior weapons that nobody will ever use unless they're too new to the game to get that "holy grail", which therein bars them from obtaining "top tier" gear. I like my Fatebringer as much as the next guy, but you must acknowledge that they don't want one weapon to reign supreme for the entirety of Destiny's lifetime. Why bother making Arc primaries if everyone actively ignores them? Tl;dr - Allowing upgrades results in power creep and unbalance among the PvP community, or the creation of sub-par weapons in comparison.