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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#Destiny
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Agreed. Doing a Raid is harder than getting 150 marks to buy a 331 weapon or 75 marks to get an armor piece, yet the VoG ones (except exotics) are just shoved aside. This is not expanding or giving players more choice, this is replacing and making some of the already limited content less appealing. Destiny desperately needs to expand, not just replace.
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Seeing as it is [i]old[/i] gear, I would give a light level of 33 per piece.
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I'd rather just wait for next DLC and buy armor from the Vanguard that I can upgrade with ascendant materials.
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Anti bump, just do the new raid
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Only if the VOG only drops gear from a new hard mode, level 32
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Another easy fix if they "can't do it" just make a 32 VOG new strategies (and cheeses) and when house of wolves make a new level for CE and VOG this would work so well vanilla players won't get the higher level stuff so activision can get their extra million and it makes no raid gear or raids themselves too easy or obsolete
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I dont like this because vog on normal is really easy at this point and honestly iv seen people get full raid gear on 1 run. So you saying someone should be able to run through vog easy and get 36 gear? No way. I only believe guns should be upgraded.
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Weapons yes armor no.
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They wont do it. They want you to buy the dlc. Getting to 32 is a selling point
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No you should have bought the game at launch then vog armor would have mattered. It should be crap now just like crotas will be crap when HoW drops.
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How about ppl just stop making petitions bc bungie doesn't really care of they would have done something with the raid weapons and armor by now I mean this is only like the 1000th post about it
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No. This is a terrible idea!
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No. Shut up, stahp.
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Petition to end stupid petitions
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Go away
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There are new gear and old gear. Leave it be. Thats how it works. Old is obsolete.
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You people need to get over this. You aren't upgrading your VoG gear.
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Never gonna happen
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bungie will never do this because bungie doesnt want you to enjoy their game for more then a few hours. they have your 60 dollars after that they want you off their servers.
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Petition to ban petitions
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That's why they added new raid to get better not make old stuff new and do it again
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Nope leave it as is, it's just the right thing to do.