In year one exotic armor did not change color with your shader but some of my armor for example my armamentarium, I think looks better without a shader. With the taken king some of the year one exotics had been upgraded with additional upgrade nodes to choose from in the upgrade columns, such as the suros with the focus fire and spinning up. I was thinking possibly in the next major update put an extra node to the far left of the upgrade tree where it shows the exotic perk and the ascend node. It should be able to turn on and off. Also I havent really liked the light level on class items and ghost shells. Deej mentioned before ttk in one of the reveal streams that destiny is all about customization, but putting light level on class items and not giving the option to ascend year 1 class items limits that. I personally like wearing some of the year 1 rare class items and ive heard other people say they like some class items too that arent year two.