How about making the bonds, cloaks, sashes do something instead of just being purely cosmetic. How about stuff like Fragment of the Prime (VoG warlock bond) granting additional orbs of light from super kills of vex. Or Crota raid bond giving you an bonus damage modifier for meleeing hive (2X please cause meleeing knights and wizards is not a trivial thing at lvl 30+ enemy lvl). Maybe the other legendary class items grant stuff like +2 agility, granting health recovery from orbs of light, stuff like that. The game currently has 4 armor slots for customization of playstyle and really those don't customize playstyle since you end up using raid gear which has the exact same perks. Let the 5th slot give players some freedom to build a more unique character. While we're at it, obligatory gunsmith can upgrade pre-dlc legendaries to new max, reroll perks on legendary gear, transmogriphy, convert ascendant energy to shards and vice versa. strike playlists with modifiers and bonus rewards. dlc doesn't increase difficulty for the same rewards, it adds a difficulty which has a corresponding increase of reward. vanguard never sells equipment equivalent to raid gear. Vanguard stock does however rotate every week offering fresh rolls on armours, new weapon inventory (with different perk rolls). Same for crucible vendors. Same for faction vendors. vanguard missives have bounties for all exotics excepting raid exclusive exotics. vanguard offer unique bounties every week for major rewards (think the Eris urn quest chain).