For those who disagree slightly, I reviewed my idea and have a slight change to it. Let me know what you think. Keep the level 29 armor and 300 attack weapons in Tower. Guardians must complete the Vault of Glass until they gain their armor needed to reach level 30. Make the armor and weapon drops in the VoG set drops instead of random. Each week change the drop to a different piece of armor and different weapon. Keep the chests as random loot. When a player reaches level 30 light, they can now purchase level 31 armor and 331 attack weapons at the Tower. They can also play the new Roc strike playlist, which should be set to lvl 30, that will reward with a level 31 legendary piece of armor or 331 attack weapon after completing each strike. They work to level up their gear and take on Crota's End. There they will work to gain gear and find chests with the loot system set up just like I mentioned for the VoG. Any raid gear dismantled will yield radiant materials. They work to get to level 32 and they can now buy level 33 gear at the Tower once the House of Wolves is released. The thing that frustrates gamers most about that is the fact that anyone can make a new character and get to level 31 right now by just buying some gear in the Tower. That they don't have to complete the VoG at all and don't have to do any of the grind we all had to do to get to 30. They just skip right up there. A few variables with how I think it could work. Legendary Engrams would still drop the old versions of Legendary gear, although they could have a different class of Legendary like Legendary Mark 1 Engrams. Or just a new name altogether for the new stuff and a new color, red engrams mabye? The Exotics would drop as the former versions and need an upgrade through Xur. It would make more sense to upgrade the weapon or armor fully before you can acquire an upgraded version through Xur. The upgrade causing you to only have to unlock and upgrade the final three damage upgrades on the weapon or armor upgrades on the armor. That would be more reasonable and feel like your previous work didn't go to waste. So you aren't upgrading a weapon twice for no reason or dismantling a fully upgraded old version for an unupgraded new version.