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

by Xenos , Shores of Time, Wednesday, May 27, 2015, 17:56 (3467 days ago) @ CruelLEGACEY

Jokes aside, you are 100% correct that my ToO results were ideal. But let's look at the ideal PoE results: the best you can hope for from a 34 or 35 run is 1 etheric light (unless they also drop from the large chest... Do they?). So that's 1 every 1-2 hours vs 3 every hour-1.5 hours. On top of that, there are plenty of ways to spend a couple hours in PoE and walk away with NOTHING. At least with ToO you can get the other reward packages, buy weapons and armor, and get drops along the way.

Right, but I ran ToO for 5 hours and walked away with nothing but strange coins and motes of light, which I could have gotten 4-5x as much from running PoE in matchmaking. I still didn't get the chest piece or etheric light so my 5 hours was way more wasted than if I had spent it on PoE. And I imagine my experience will be much more common than yours.