PVP is balanced, and Raid gear is worse for PVP than faction gear. You don't need to be lv 30 to be stronger in PVP, so if you are a PVP only player you don't need to be lv 30. It's that simple. The ONLY and absolute ONLY use for being light level 30 IS the hard mode Raid. It reduces the damage you take and increases what you deal to lv 30 enemies in the raid. So once again, if you play only PVP you do not NEED to be light level 30. you simply WANT it. and you expect bungie to change the game, yet again to cater to the smaller player base of the game... there was a poll and PVE players outnumber PVP 10-1 but somehow all the PVP players are the ones bitching and changing the game in their favour. That's why my mythoclast now sucks in strikes, I didn't even use it in PVP and now I have to suffer the nerf because of whiny little bitches. If you do however play PVE also, then you should probably work hard to beat the raid each week to get your gear. If you don't want to do that, then don't complain.