Think of it like this...it will be Christmas noob season again! Going 9-0 in trials will be pretty easy when people jump in and complain about the thorn being overpowered and "too hard to get" Yes it's annoying that noobs get an experience class item, but it doesn't matter because you can max out stuff pretty easily. Armor is a bit harder than guns but can still be maxed in a day. Shaders serve no purpose. Your armor color won't effect your game experience (except the iron banner ones that boost iron banner experience gains). It's not like they get an exclusive exotic that shoots 5 gjallarhorn rockets that spawn 2x the wolfpack rounds. Let the noobs get the dlc handed to them. It doesn't bother me. It will just make blowing their heads off with the queenbreakers bow that much more fun.