Minimizing the Burden of the Investment System (Destiny)

by red robber , Crawfish Country, Monday, December 15, 2014, 21:28 (3871 days ago) @ Dan de Board

How bout this:

Remove Level but keep Damage and Defense ratings for weapons and armor.

Make it so any weapon can be ranked to the max damage, and your weapon of choice is based off play style, perks, etc.

Same with armor. All pieces can be ranked to the same max defense but the different perks determine your choice.

This goes for all rarity types from common to legendary, with the exception of exotics. Got a blue or even green you really like, level it up. I think this would allow a little more diversity in PvP especially. Most likely you'd choose a legendary over a common because of the extra perks, but there would be some blues that would def still be competitive.

When the level cap jumps, say like 30 to 32, just add two more damage levels to all weapons and armors max. Even make a new material so people can't just throw down saved up shards and energy to immediately level to the new cap.

Exotics should be able to have 1 level higher damage or defense rating than others to make them special and give yet another reason to choose them over the other classes. And make their final stage the exotic shard/energy. You could also do this for Raid or IB gear as well, to make them stand out as well.

Then set a 1 weapon and 1 armor limit on exotics, IB, and Raid gear.

Ex: 1 Raid Helmet, 1 IB gauntlet, 1 Exotic Chest, 1 of your choice of regular pants. Then same with weapons.

So now when you go into Iron Banner, you have no idea of what you are up against. But if you inspect a player and see he has all the weapons from the special IB, Raid, Exotic groupings, and for his armor as well, you know he's bad ass and has worked the entire game to be that way.

As far as the ratings go, If a 300 damage weapon hits a 300 damage armor piece, the ratio of damage is 1:1. If the weapon is 300+ vs 300 armor it would damage more by a percentage, and vice versa. So, If you focused on bad ass armor and had not upgraded your weapons you'd be tough to kill, but slow to kill others. Or if you just put all your beans into a bad ass weapon, you could take em down quick, but die just as easily.