[h=2]House of Wolves DLC lets you upgrade your old gear, here's some details...
[/h]Destiny is adding ways to make beloved old gear just as cool as the new stuff, and hey, that means you can keep rocking your classic gear from The Vault of Glass and Crota's End all the way through House of Wolves, which is pretty cool.
The new expansion will add a unified system for boosting old items, if you have the required resources (new resource called Etheric Light), you can Ascend any legendary or exotic weapon and armor up to the new maximum stat values, which makes everything you have now relevant again.
Owners of House of Wolves, which launches May 19, can upgrade any legendary or exotic piece of equipment in the game to its highest level. For weapons, that means increasing their max damage to the game's new 365 limit, up from 331. For armor, your upgraded gear can bring you up to the new Level 34 cap.
Ascending weapons will not reset progression for the unlocked perks on each weapon.
Legendary equipment will require resources, Glimmer and one Etheric Light to upgrade. The new resource Etheric Light will drop in House of Wolves' new endgame content, the arena-like Prison of Elders, and the PvP Trials of Osiris. Etheric Light will also occasionally drop during Nightfall runs, and during the Iron Banner event, meaning players won't need to own House of Wolves in order to reach the new Level 34 cap, though collecting required upgrade materials will take longer. Also New Legendary weapons included in the House of Wolves DLC can also be Reforged by talking to The Tower's Gunsmith, allowing players to randomly change up the perks included on those weapons.
Exotic gear won't require Etheric Light to ascend, and instead will burn one Exotic Shard — among other common resources. Xur, the game's weekend vendor, will no longer offer that service, as players will be able to upgrade their exotics without his help.
This really sounds like a vast improvement over how The Dark Below handled distribution of the game's highest-level gear. The armor and weaponry dedicated players had found during their runs of the Vault of Glass raid were essentially made obsolete by The Dark Below. This new system will not only make that gear worth using again, it will allow for more variety in the equipment used by the game's highest-level characters. We all won't all look the same as much.
There is a lot more details and info you can find out by watching the Twitch Reef reveal video.
