You have loads of choices (Destiny)

by Kahzgul, Sunday, October 16, 2016, 13:50 (3042 days ago) @ Morpheus

I've posted this list before, but hey, why not post it again?

If you are light < 365 right now, you can get upgrades from:

Heroic Strikes (the two blue drops at the end), Archon's Forge, blue engrams that decrypt into purple items, purple engrams, faction rep packages, nightfall, raid, crucible, trials drops and bounties, weekly crucible bounty. Purple engrams will be your main source of upgrades (you get two for doing the weekly shiro-4 quest, and 1 from the first public event you do each day, plus you should get a bunch to drop just as you play). Save any exotic engrams you may get from 3oC usage until you're 365 light or higher. Save your skeleton keys until you are 365 light or higher.

If you are light 365 or greater, you can get upgrades from:

Decrypting exotic engrams from your 3oC use, archon's forge, crucible, nightfall, weekly crucible bounty, trials and trials bounties, faction rep packages, the raid, and from heroic strike skeleton key chests (set loot, look up what items drop where before opening so you're only getting things you need).

You should always wear your max light gear when decrypting engrams, and you should also decrypt engrams in order of your lowest light level pieces first, one at a time, equipping new, higher light gear as you go. At 365+ 3 of Coins is your best and fastest source of light level upgrades. You should be spending all of your strange coins on 3 of Coins each week until you're max light, pretty much. Archon's Forge is great for very quick upgrades, though it doesn't drop items for every slot, as far as I'm aware. Crucible is also great for quick upgrades and you don't need to win to get them. If you're 350 light +, you should be fine to do the raid. The very last fight might be hard on you, but up to that point you'll be okay. Iron Banner is amazing for leveling up and it's a shame you missed it last week.

The major roadblocks are ghosts and relics. If you don't get lucky with relic drops, you can always (ugh) farm eris mourne rep by running court of oryx over and over (be sure to have an empty bounty slot when you start so you get the court bounty from your first boss kill). Ghosts can't be reliably farmed but do come from almost every source.

Good luck!

PS: This game is NOT all about your light level. Because you can easily get upgrades from rep packages, I strongly recommend just playing to have fun and collecting those packages along the way.