Before tonight's Challenge event begins at the Golgoroth checkpoint, I'll have a question for the participants (and something I touched on in another post). Should we continue to run Challenge Events for 3 Characters, or switch to full raids for a single character?

Until the update, the most efficient approach to obtaining max light gear was to run the raid challenge three times (once per character). This guaranteed three 320 items, three 310 items, and a couple extras in between for a little over an hour of playtime. Each week, the drops would be always be from a limited set (special/heavy, gloves/chest/boots, or primary/helmet). Since most regular raiders were already 320 (or "forever 319" waiting for a class item), these drops were an efficient stream of infusion materials.

With the update, all raid drops are 1-5 light levels above your current light level. The raid challenge adds an extra drop guaranteed to be +5 (based on my limited experience to date).

A full heroic raid run will drop:

• 18 Moldering Shards (assuming all chests opened)
  
• A ghost or fusion rifle (or just shards)
  
• A sniper or machine gun or rocket launcher (or just shards)
  
• A gauntlet or chest piece or boots (or just shards)
  
• Possibly an exotic
  
• A shotgun or class item (or just shards)
  
• A primary or helmet (or just shards)
  
• If the challenge is completed, it will add a +5 item
  
• If 20 moldering shards are in-hand when Oryx dies, it will add a random drop

That's a lot of drops; the sum total of which should increase a character's overall light level (+3 or more? I haven't done the math). Most [Edit - actually only half] of a character's gear should see see a light increase - I think that's better than three high level items of the same type. The downside of course is that a full raid takes longer than 3 challenge runs - up to 2.5 hours (but probably closer to 1.5 with a good team).

Since most people are trying to reach max light level 335, I think it makes sense to forgo Challenge runs and switch to Full raids - at least until everyone hits 335 and we're back to collecting infusion fuel.

I'll ask tonight's raid challenge event what they think, but I figured I'd put it to the forum as well.

I'd rather run a full raid while doing whatever the challenge was when it came up.

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