The Vault of Glass is absolutely one of my favorite things to do, both raids are immensely fun with the right group, but it's painful when you don't get that one weapon/gear drop that you need.
Personally, I've only gotten a single chest armor drop from either raid, the VoG Chest piece on my hunter. I understand that the point in having the new raid gear boosting your light level is designed to make you "buy" more content from Bungie and is all about the bottom line, to be honest, I don't mind it. My concern is that there will be a new raid, with new gear and new weapons that make all of the old ones less useful.
The newest raid, Crota's End, has its own set of unique upgrade materials. That being said, they are obviously only obtainable by doing that raid. It's not confirmed yet as to what the House of Wolves raid will use for upgrade material, but radiant material seems likely. So the only way to upgrade the raid gear for two of the three raids is to have done the newest raids. While the Vault of Glass Raid gear will set in a terminal 30 light per piece and 300 attack cap. Using only ascendant materials that we, at least most of us, have plenty of just stockpiled for nothing really...
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Here's my plan:
● While equipped, any raid weapon or armor piece may be rerolled through the speaker/gunsmith respectively using 10 motes of light per piece, upgrading it to the new highest level possible, i.e. 36 light or 331 attack as of now.
• [i]This will reset all nodes in the gear. Similar to how Xur upgrades Exotics.[/i]
• [i]Upon completion of this upgrade the final nodes for damage and defense, that used to require ascendant material, will now require radiant material instead. [/i]
• [i] This method forces players to use the current standard materials earned through the DLC, hence requiring players to own the DLC in order to do so.[/i] [/b]
This will effectively allow, not only, a unique environment where players can have a boost to their level with gear that has become somewhat obsolete, but effectively solve the "everyone looks the same" problem. Additionally, when the light level is increased, to say 34, during the House of Wolves DLC, players will have three different sets of Raid gear to hit max level with and be able to use the perks they provide in harder versions of the raids.
Please let me know what you think and if you would be interested in this process.
Edit: People weren't reading the italicized bullets, so I made them bold...
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The only point for doing so would be of they added additional difficulties to both CE and VoG, which Bungie has stated they have to intention of doing.
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Would be nice but it won't happen, same thing will happen when the HoW comes out.
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No that'll be too easy getting. VoG is tier 1, End of Crota tier 2. That's how it works.
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I bump the shit out of this idea.
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What makes more sense to me is VOG gear is 31 and cruciable/vanguard gear 30. Get your 30 gear to run vog more effectively the 31 gear to run crota.
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Bump yes
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Bump yes
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Bump yes yes yes
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So much bumping
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I will bump this every day until HoW. It better happen.
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As much as I would LOVE that, I think it'd be best to leave them as is. Break the meta - use some variety... [spoiler]prepared for incoming hate[/spoiler]
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I agree, that way people will have different gear instead of everybody running around with the same new raid gear Also I would love to have a fatebringer 2.0
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Won't happen. What will happen is the release of a higher difficulty level on VoG with new raid gear. Possibly same look, with different names, stats, and color scheme. A much easier solution for everyone. There's simply no reason to upgrade gear with Oracle and Praetorian perks outside of the VoG raid when there's gear already available with a higher level.
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I back it, but it won't happen, bungie don't do what we'd like, they fix patches!
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Bump want that 331 fatebringer