Fire and feel are purely aesthetic traits. The table I provided are factual and all the evidence you need. I'm with you in that I want to try new weapons. I don't even use fatebringer much anymore. I will miss my vision of confluence, I admit. However, we absolutely do not know if they new stuff is better. In fact, when they allowed us to ascend our VOG weapons it surfaced how poor the weapons have been since. The Dark Below exotic weapons? Terrible. They marketed Nechrocasm with this expansion and were promptly embarrassed when nobody used it. The Dark Below legendary weapons? Liking that Black Hammer but that's it....doh HoW exotic weapons? Cute, but no. Prison weapons? shank burn anybody? Trials weapons? Nice, but not replacing more effective weapons from VOG The reality is they know it's hard to market and sell an expansion when they can't top their first attempt. That's just the reality. I'm actually fine with it.