These Chatterwhites aren't getting me any Light.

I have 44 Ascendant Shards in my inventory, just waiting.

4 normal mode Raid completions and I have only received 2 pairs of gloves. I have to wait a week between each attempt. No other armor in the game is useful to me, except maybe the Exotic helm I got because the Raid one is even harder to acquire.

Weapons, Armor--If it isn't purple, I discard it. Armor, if it isn't Raid, I Vault it. There is so much content in this game, and Bungie has made so much if it useless--and the 4 things I want requires I roll the dice, and I'm only allowed to do that once a week.

I would like to add that I too basically find greens and blues at this point to be useless. The higher I get the smaller the pool becomes. Something something math. That said... I have plenty of hadronic essence now.

Hang in there Pete. I was in the same boat as you till recently. If all else fails, you should be able to get something done if the Iron Banner turns out as Bungie has proposed.

I expect Iron Banner to return with, or very shortly after the Dark Below;

"We’re working on reigniting the flaming shield before the end of the year."

Let me back up a little bit;

"For a player and their group of six who beat Atheon on Hard mode, we'd like the Mythoclast to be a weapon they can continue to rely on in the next Raid, Crota’s End."

I feel like Bungie has given us a task (get the Mythoclast) that requires we do something (beat the Raid on hard) that is difficult to do without doing something else (getting level 30) that requires we do another thing (beat the Raid on normal) repeatedly (RNG) to get stuff (Raid gear).

And we have a deadline (when the next DLC drops).

Some people have a complete non-interest in PvP (because we don't enjoy playing PvP in any game) and at this point really all there is to do in the game is the Raid on repeat, but no reason to repeat it more than once a week (twice a week if you bump it up to Hard... but not all of my friends are high enough level to attempt a Hard mode raid). In the several times I've run it, I've only received one pair of Raid gloves in addition to quite a bit of ascendent materials.

And, of course, multiple Chatterwhite emblems.

Being a PvE player, I wasn't interested in trying Iron Banner this time around and haven't even played PvP since the week of launch. So even when Iron Banner offers level 30 gear, the likelyhood I'll be willing to play enough to get the rep necessary to purchase anything is highly unlikely. I just don't enjoy PvP, and I know I'm not the only one who feels this way.

I won't ever hit level 30 until the RNG pops out worthy gear via the raid. That's a bit depressing.

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I want to cut back now.

I'm only allowed to do that once a week.

Multi-character? I'm strongly considering it.

I've elected to use the character slot I had set aside for a Hunter to run a second Warlock for this exactly. It's level 6. I don't exactly want to grind it out, but I have a feeling that this will continue to be an issue in Destiny's future and it may be worth it to just go ahead.

I don't plan to play any other class anyway.

I have a level 29 Warlock (Main) and a level 27 Hunter (alt I made since I kept getting legendary/exotic gear thanks to RNGesus). I just started another Warlock that I can bump to 29 as soon as I get it leveled to 20 since I have so much extra gear for my main. I'm just hoping this will get me to level 30 on my main.

I hope it gets easier at lvl28, which I have just now hit. Up until now, both legendary engrams/items and shards have been pretty scarce.

Yes, they are!

Ran the Raid for the first time last night. Found 7 Shards and a handful of Energy (I don't keep track of Ascendant energy because I have way too many already)

Are ascendant mats that abundant in the raid?

Yes. 5 chests. 3 of them always give Ascendant materials. The others can too, but can also drop good gear. You can get ascendant materials from any of the boss drops. That's 9 chances at materials, 3 guaranteed. You usually get three per drop.

Like in Reach PvP.