I just upgraded my Merciless to GS 500 and it dropped in DMG.
Why??
All the talents stay the same as it is supposedly upgrading the gun so why rebuild it as another lower damage gun. It is not an upgrade if its making it a poorer version of the original and should be worded correctly or actually increase its effectiveness !
This makes no sense whatsoever to the upgrade process and the whole exotic upgrade process needing to destroy another exotic to upgrade is an insane ifea in the 1st place.
Ubisoft please reevaluate the whole Exotic upgrade process as currently noone will want to destroy an item to potentially get an inferior item after "upgrading"
I don't agree that they are crafted at less than 500gs. We go through the effort to gather the parts just to make a weapon that isn't even maxed, but to upgrade it to max we need to break other exotics down.
My suggestions:
Crafted exotics are scaled to the max of your world tier. The upgrade blueprints are used to upgrade them to the new WT max levels when they get released or maybe if you crafted liberty in WT2...
Give us a blueprint to re-roll the damage. Both my Chatterbox and Liberty are on the low end of damage and getting the parts for those was a huge ballache... D50... Hyena cache rng...
Finally give us a way to get exotic components without destroying exotics... they take a ton of time to earn and could be rewarded via a weekly project and used in not only upgrading exotics but to re-roll the damage.