Well, at least we finally got the Cody mystery solved... (Destiny)

by dogcow , Hiding from Bob, in the vent core., Monday, October 03, 2016, 13:36 (3065 days ago) @ DiscipleN2k

So... Maybe I'm missing something here, but how do blue engrams help you post light 340 when they only decrypt to light level 340 max? I mean, aside from weapon & armor parts you get when you shard them and cryptarch rep for decrypting them.

I've been hanging onto the blue engrams & decrypting them just for the rep & parts, but they mostly just add a bunch of housekeeping, as far as I've seen.

They will occasionally decrypt into a legendary which could be up to light level 365. It's fairly rare, sure, but even if it's only 1 in 25, at the rate that rare engrams are dropping, it still seems to happen fairly often. Also, since there's the possibility of them decrypting into an artifact, if the stars align and your blue engram becomes a purple artifact, that can be a pretty good bump since the ghost shells and artifacts seem to be the hardest to come by.

Even after you reach light level 365 and the occasional blue->purple decrpytion doesn't help you anymore, I have had at least one instance where a rare engram decrypted into an exotic item that was over 365 light.

-Disciple

I've had possibly one, maybe two decrypt into legendaries in the past two weeks. I certainly do not recall it helping me with my light level. Maybe I'm just unlucky. The only help I've recognized from blue engrams is weapon & armor parts and cryptarch reputation.