First off I want to say that the goal for acquiring full gear sets is not very high. I am just shooting for a damage decrease or something for the gear now cause I felt there is no real need to have all the gear unless there was an incentive. The April update is allowing people to eventually reach max level by playing and grinding exotics for their next boost to a piece of armor or weapon. There needs to be an incentive to gather all gear sets or there is no real need to. A shader when you have all pieces is cool but what does that really do for me? Doesn't help kill or not be killed by the enemies. Whats the benefit to getting a whole new raid set when people will more than likely infuse it to something else to power their old gear up?
Example:
All Kingsfall Raid gear (5% damage decrease from Taken) or (5% damage increase to Taken)
All Vault of Glass gear (5% damage decrease from Vex) or (5% damage increase to Vex)
All Crota's End gear (5% damage decrease from Hive) or (5% damage increase to Hive)
All Vanguard/Crucible/Faction gear (5% extra rep gains) This will stack for faction exotics rep boost.
Other Ideas:
All Raid gear: Faster reloading and carry more ammo for all weapons
This would become a trade off from variety but make the goal of striving for gear sets that much more desirable.
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Edited by The Fighting Lion: 8/12/2016 10:16:35 PMKtan Dantaktee and a bunch of others had a very valid point below. Using set bonuses in the traditional sense that you're talking about wouldn't be great. It would further dismantle variation and style, which this game sorely needs. Not to mention, 99% of raid gear looks like trash and min-maxers would be forced to wear an entire ugly set of gear for whatever bonus. This can be fixed one of two ways, the latter being much more complex. 1. Just implement a wardrobe system. For each armor slot in your inv you have a cosmetic slot. Armor slot is whatever piece you're actually wearing, wardrobe slot what everyone sees. 2. Find a way to tether set bonuses to gear using a socket system or something like. If you wanted set bonuses tied to the hive then run certain hive related activities to gain a mark, gem, mote, device etc. to augment a given piece of armor. Collect however many of each type, boom, non gear restricted set bonuses.