When the weapons hit kit damage was buffed appropriatly, and quickly hotfixed to back down to exotic level. Did we ever get a Dev response to this? Now that they’ve been out a few months I would say the majority of the community has at least 1 ascended weapon.
Once people start wearing ascended armor everyone will have and additional 5% stats in addition to 5% more defense rating, to offset the additional 5% base weapon damage of ascended weapons, BUT engineers kit damage will be left even further behind.
Power builds for Engi’s are already pretty abysmal, and I doubt the suggested trait changes to modified ammo and energized armor will make a huge difference.