Why would they instantly allow you to full damage output with a reforged exotic?
I already have a shard from breaking down an exotic last night. Why would I expect to have my mythoclast at 373 or whatever right on the 9th?
I continued to be amazed that people had no clue what they were getting themselves into with a loot / MMO style system such as destiny. There's going to always be a grind in these games.
As far as I'm concerned this isn't bad. Reforging a weapon sounds like it doesn't reset the damage you leveled, but allows you to increase the cap. The trade off is having to work through the attachment perks again. That's the give and take, and it doesn't sound unreasonable.
Now if they started your exotic back at 270dmg... OK. But from what I'm reading that's not the case.
You get it, other people don't seem to. If you didn't have to reset anything, people would be maxed out the day the expansion drops and complaining where the content was. It's thin enough as it is, the grind is there to give you something to do.
Alright so:
-Icebreaker
-TLW
-GJHorn
-PI
-Plan C
-Thorn
-Suros
-Red Death
-Truth
-Invective
-Exotic gear like two hunter pieces, three titan pieces, two warlock pieces
So.. at least 17 exotic pieces to upgrade that I care about.. 17 x 7000 = 119k glimmer
Not counting weapons stored that got better now and same with exotic gear I semi-care about.
I haven't even counted the glimmer needed for upgrading the perks on all the above and we are stuck with 25k cap.
Then, there's the fact that I have to level up each weapon individually still all over again after flushing all the Ass shards, energies and exp we used up down the toilet.
THEN, also account for Exotic shards that I now need 200+ strange coins of to cover just the above listed weapons and gear.
I can go on. Please don't say that shit is "easy to do or easy to get" because the grinding adds up. Hell, I'd have been fine with having our shit become obsolete if it was further in the future and not so soon, again making all that playtime worthless.
In the end, I'm just going to pick a select few exotics to reforge and use for the raid. I'd rather enjoy playing with my friends or playing other games between the new raid runs