All of the ritual weapons we earned are still in the game but can't be leveled up. There are a lot of new weapons being introduced to the game as well as old weapons still being dropped; most of which get converted into legendary shards.
Destiny lost a ton of players due to sunset. I was a daily player until that time. I'm a PvE main and it was fun to earn my 21% Delerium, and that gun was fun to use in PvE activities.
We were told that server storage was the main reason for sunsetting weapons. Since then there has been a lot of new & previously sunset weapons introduced. For some reason, the ritual weapons we spent [b]HOURS[/b] to earn are still in our collections. We can pull from archive and even use them, but the light level is locked. It still makes no sense that our Ritual Weapons had to be sunset with all of the other random drop weapons, then reintroduce a lot of random drop weapons but not our Ritual's.
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Some of the old ritual weapons are coming back in Lightfall. You'll be able to focus them via vanguard and crucible vendors. Detailed in today's blog post 👍