Two immediate questions about the exotic blueprints (Destiny)

by dogcow , Hiding from Bob, in the vent core., Wednesday, August 19, 2015, 17:34 (3620 days ago) @ Chappy

(2) If I've leveled that Light Beyond Nemesis to fill out all perks, I will have spent 75 armor parts, an exotic shard, and a great deal of experience and glimmer (time). If I shard that helmet and then later decide to purchase it from the Exotic Blueprint console for 125 Legendary marks, will I receive a leveled copy with all perks unlocked, or will it require the same (considerable) effort and expense to level again before it becomes fully useful?

Given Bungie's general attitude toward player time requirements, I'm guessing that the answer to that is "no" - we'd have to level it again. Which makes sharding exotic items that I've already leveled to free up vault space unwise - IMHO it would cost too much of my time and effort to rebuild what I'd already done, I'll just have to keep wasting vault space storing all my exotics.

I have MANY exotic weapons that have one or less upgrades unlocked. I'd be just fine losing that progress to free up some space. But it would suck for ones I've nearly fully upgraded.