Going to keep bumping this until we get a straight answer. There's got to be other people out there who want to know about this as well. I don't care if it requires some long quest chain or a new material, but are we going to have the ability to upgrade our weapons/armor of choice? If not, I probably won't buy TTK to be honest. If Bungie isn't creative enough to make new weapons that are just as good as the old ones, and therefore arbitrarily makes all of the "past" weapons obsolete, then they don't deserve another dime from me anyways. I feel like it would be pretty ridiculous for them to let us ascend gear less than two months ago, and then take away that ability a couple months later. Why tease us with the ability to make our weapons/gear current again, just to take it all away a few months later? We better be able to ascend gear too, because it would be just as stupid to acquire all of this ToO gear just to have it become unusable/obsolete several months later. Most of the gear in this game looks like crap. If I can't ascend the pieces I want to wear and am forced to wear the (probably) terrible-looking gear coming out for TTK, then that's even more of a reason for me to quit.