Totally agree with you. About the only thing they could have done was, the new vendor gear could get you to 30 with one to no perks. This solves a couple things. 1. Fills in holes if your unlucky with raid drops. 2. Gives players the choice of doing VOG or just grinding for a month to get vendor gear. 3. Makes CE last longer since you might have to do the first three bosses a couple weeks to get enough upgrades to 31. 4. Next DLC vendor gear can get you to 32. Then there is always 2 DLC's of content relevant. Downfalls: 1. People cry because they can't beat Crota in the first week, unless your truly hardcore with tons of ammo synths and really pushing content with different strategies. 2. With limited perks on the vendor gear, it kind of shafts the PVP players. 3. Opens up another can of worms. Similar to WOW's PVP/PVE gear disparity.