[quote]There's a difference between appearance and actuality. You do not know with absolute certainty Bungie's stance on Year 1 gear ascension.[/quote] Neither do you, hence why I made the comment on this post in the first place. Dude's already complaining about it when Cozmo said it himself that they have plans for year 1 items like you mentioned. I wouldn't have a problem with having the option to ascend things if it weren't for the FACT that it's NOT an option, but rather, a MUST to ascend vanilla gear. The DLC guns have been so poor in comparison to the vanilla weapons that it's not really a matter of choice, but a necessity to upgrade the old items (i.e the Fatebringer and Blackhammer). So, what does that leave you? Stagnant gameplay with little variety which is definitely not a win/win situation. Then, come year 5 of this series, what are we all doing? Complaining that we're all still using the same weapons and shit. Then we all get mad when bungie nerfs this and that because they want to encourage variety. For a game based on loot, there simply shouldn't be a "be all end all" loadout, but that's exactly what ascending does. And there's no one to blame for that but Bungie. That's why I don't mind guns being rendered useless. As for my word choice, I'm sorry that you were offended by what someone said in a gaming forum. From this point forward, I will take into account how your oversensitive-self would feel about everything every single time. In other words, fck off.