Personally, I believe both competitive and raid rewards should be purely cosmetic. Maybe give raid gear extra perks that are only active inside the raid, but otherwise, keep the rewards cosmetic. Pvp players (which I am not) should not be forced to run the raids in order to get the best weapons, neither should pve players be forced to run competitive in order to do the same. Rewards from these activities should give you a sense of accomplishment for earning them, which cosmetics will do (as proven countless times in other games) without giving you measurable advantages over players who have yet to earn them. The caveat to this method is that the reward needs to be worth the effort, which means cosmetic rewards need to look good. If you go down this route, and the rewards for these activities is another reskinned reskin, there is no incentive to earn those rewards. Raid and competitive rewards should be cosmetic items that, when other players look at you, should think "wow, that looks #$%^ing awesome, I want to look like that person!". Competitive rewards that give players a measurable advantage over players who don't have them just creates a wall of extra difficulty for the less skilled players that discourages them from wanting to play competitive while encouraging paid carries, ddosing, and other forms of cheating. Bungie has learned the hard way that giving skilled players better gear than the less skilled players will only hurt the game, as it has, but the lesson they seem to have taken from this is that there shouldn't be any incentive at all? I'm going to tell you now, Bungie. Make the raid, and do your competitive rebalancing. Then make a set of raid gear, and a set of competitive gear. Not a reskin, definitely not a reskinned reskin, but something that genuinely looks cool and unique. I guarantee you that players will want to get such gear even if that gear doesn't give them special advantages over the players who don't have them. If you really want players who earn this gear to get special advantages, give the raid gear perks that are raid exclusive as the Leviathan gear has. Give the competitive gear perks that allow players to earn extra tokens or something for playing crucible. Go with unique animations or something for the weapons, or even add unique character animations that can only be earned through those game modes.