Not the same thing at all. All your witcher 2 gear is safely in your witcher 2 save file. Witcher 3 is an entirely new game. Bungie is essentially forcing us to delete our old gear if we want to play, that's the part that makes me question whether or not I want to play TTK. I was ok with Vault weapons staying at 300. But I didn't want to delete them. And I didn't.