I suggest that sunset weapons should be able to have a cap refresh using the infusion system. If we aren't going to have an abundant of new weapons to replace the old sunset weapons or at least not as immediate as players want it to be, then i believe i have a solution that will allow reissued weapons to be accepted by the community and allow for new weapons to join the frey. Ex: lets say, "bygones " becomes reissued in a new season but due to grind fatigue players don't want to go for it because there tired of grinding, there is no new perks, and they already have a good rolled version in the vault but its sunset. I believe if you implement a system where if (a sunset weapon is reissued back into the game with a new light cap or seasonal cap, you can infuse that reissued weapon into the sunset weapon to give that sunset weapon a new seasonal cap, light cap, and new light lvl) this would mitigate player fatigue, increase moral, lessen work load in terms of sunsetting and reissued weapons, allows time to work on new weapons with no issue, and keep the community satisfied with loot grind. This also allows us to safely and slowly move away from old weapons without feeling like there gone forever and never coming back from our vaults. I believe a system like this could also help rotate the meta.
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I think the biggest issue your gonna run into with this suggestion is weapons that are reissued will likely have new perk pools and bungie will likely use this to weed out perk combos they find problematic. Like reload + damage perk that ends up making most other combos on the weapon obsolete. So changing the perks pools would mean nothing if people could just dust off their old god rolls.