The armor boost may be a real actual problem as it kind of pushes you away from using set bonuses you may like to opt for more DR, though depends on the set bonus. Weapon boosts will literally not matter and anyone complaining about that like the sky is falling is ridiculous. For starters you need to have T5 loot to gain a 10% boost, and lower tiers give you even less. So if you are the average player you might get T3-T4 loot maybe after many hours of playtime, that means you are only getting a 6-8% increase on damage which won't ultimately matter outside of very specific scenarios like raid boss damage, but that is also highly dependant on if your weapon is a good roll or not. Then T5 loot will really only come from the hardest stuff like Grandmaster/Ultimate difficulty with a couple modifiers on to get the highest reward, but by the point you are getting that top tier loot the only thing you are using it in is those high level activities where you might be more underlevelled than usual so that 10% boost might help out newer and lower skill players really. tl;dr god roll weapons will trump a small damage boost. Armor boost is kind of an issue because of putting pressure on your decision between DR or set bonuses. It indirectly also helps new players and lower skill players remain a bit more competitive in endgame.