So you're ok with the raid being useless unless you by the game today? VOG weapons do bonus damage to Oracles and others in VOG Crota's End Weapons will do more damage in Crota's End in some way. So each weapon set with still have their own purpose. I don't see why making VOG gear on par with CE gear is a bad thing. Obviously, bump the VOG to level 33 or 34 to make it harder and only allow people who purchased DLC able to play it, but making the old raid gear obsolete is a dumb idea. It just cuts down on the amount of endgame gear and with only ONE set of raid gear... the diversity in this game is reduced to shaders and exotics (Which you can only have one). Halo's had numerous gear to choose from, COD does too. Their armor doesn't affect light level and such, but Destiny should have more personalization when it comes to your guardian. The type of game it is seems like it would have more options. Even making removable and addable thing on raid armor would work (Take off/on pouches, Shoulder pieces, accessories, etc etc) It is really frustrating when you have more lower tier green and blue gear than endgame gear.