27 Major Destiny Changes in The Taken King (Destiny)

by dogcow , Hiding from Bob, in the vent core., Thursday, August 20, 2015, 15:16 (3481 days ago) @ Speedracer513

This particular detail I've heard about from 2 different outlets now, and it's really not clear what it means:

"Not all exotics are getting upgraded for Year 2."

Does that mean that they're not moving to new attack values? Or just that they're not getting revamped with new perks and such (as I heard was being done to a few, such as Suros Regime and LBN)? I'm guessing the latter, since generally Bungie's plan seems to be for exotics to stick around.

Perhaps it was more clear when they talked about it on the livestream, but I wasn't able to watch it at the time and it's unlikely I'll have time to sit down for a full viewing in the next few days.

Yeah, the live stream makes it more clear...

Some - but not all - year one exotics will have a year two version (with updated perks and values). If you have ever acquired the year one version of a particular exotic, you can go to the big iPads on the wall by the Vanguard mentors and re-obtain the year one version, or even automatically obtain the year two version (if applicable).

Just for example, it appeared that while there are year two versions of Thunderlord and Truth, there is not a year two Gjallarhorn. Let's assume you currently have year one versions for all three of those weapons. On Sept 15th you will be able to walk up to the giant iPad and get a year two Truth and year two Thunderlord (upon turning in some materials), or re-obtain the year one versions of any of the three.

Does that make sense?

But this does not mean that your 'Year 1 only' Gjallarhorn is going to be 'left behind', Yeeessssss?