I think Bungie dropped the ball... (Destiny)

by Doooskey, Kansas City, MO, Wednesday, May 27, 2015, 17:31 (3470 days ago) @ MacAddictXIV

If the ultimate promise of Etheric Light is to allow us the freedom build our characters however we want, speced out for whatever activity we want, then it seems to me that a wider range of reliable ways to earn etheric light would be in keeping with the spirit of that goal.

The most reliable way to earn Etheric Light is actually in PoE. Everywhere else it's random (as far as I know).

The 6 wins package and 8 wins package in ToO gives a guaranteed Etheric Light, I believe. And the 9-0 chest on Mercury drops one too. That was how it worked for me.

Level 35 PoE is insane to me, I did not have any fun in it. Skolas was a huge ramp up in difficulty over Urrox. The Level 34 vs. Urrox was easy, but Qodron was not... Those are the only two guaranteed PoE drops of Etheric Light (The lvl 34 and 35), and to me it's less appealing than trying to get 8 wins on one ToO card for 2 Etheric light.

If they added Checkpoints to PoE, I would feel a lot better about it. I like taking breaks from tough boss fights... Which we can do in raids, but for PoE you have to do the whole freaking thing over again or just grind it out. Really unpleasant experience for me with Skolas.