These posts really need to stop. Annoying on so many levels. - Your friend can reach 31 from vendor gear, which is still purchasable without DLC. He could reach 32 with Ironbanner. - 31 will not get creamed in IronBanner, with the gear I use I am always a 31. - Bungie has stated DLC strikes will be in rotation every 3wks, as such guess what it's that week again. - Bungie has done this before, so its nothing new. They blocked multiple social and ranked playlists in halo3 when you didn't own certain map packs. That's not one mission every 3 weeks that was a ranked playlist for months... - This is a game of progression: level gets higher, weapons get stronger, new stuff comes out. If you don't want to progress then don't play the game. - VoG doesn't require tracking rockets, but that won't stop the nature of the community. Not the game's fault, that is failure of society...