Not that it makes it significantly easier.

I was trying that, didn't seem to be doing anything. But I'll give it another shot.

I'm not too concerned about that portion of the quest... I'll complete it eventually just by playing. It does seem to take an insanely long time, though :-/

Is that people will treat them as their main quest.

I remember one of Cody's recent Whine-of-the-day posts that complained about the Dreadnaught shards., saying that such a quest had no place in Destiny. But here's the thing, they do have a place. Quests can't all be "pick this and be done in 20 minutes for sweet loot".
Some are about delayed gratification. Have that quest? Don't track it. Forget about it. Leave it in the background and focus on quests that you want to do, and be surprised when you get a notification that you've made progress, or check on it down the road and be pleasantly surprised at the progress you've made.

I got the "25 shard" Eris quest, and when I got around to checking my progress, I was already way past 25, so I just waddled on over to Eris and turned them in. Don't do anything in the game that you don't want to do, is what I'm saying (although that exotic sword is pretty sweet).

I definitely agree, the rare materials are really the main thing though that I feel was a little much, mainly because you have to do it in a specific location.

Is that people will treat them as their main quest.

I remember one of Cody's recent Whine-of-the-day posts that complained about the Dreadnaught shards., saying that such a quest had no place in Destiny. But here's the thing, they do have a place. Quests can't all be "pick this and be done in 20 minutes for sweet loot".
Some are about delayed gratification. Have that quest? Don't track it. Forget about it. Leave it in the background and focus on quests that you want to do, and be surprised when you get a notification that you've made progress, or check on it down the road and be pleasantly surprised at the progress you've made.

That's all well and good if the quests involve activities that we are doing anyway. But when was the last time you went out of your way to find Relic Iron? Last night aside, I don't think I've picked up 10 of the things since House of Wolves launched. So if I ever wanted to complete this quest, I have to go out of my way to make it happen. Nothing was forcing me to do it all in 1 sitting, but I dislike quests like this so much that I just wanted to get it out of the way. If I only put in 10 or 15 minutes at a time, it'd be weeks or even months before I completed it.

Is that people will treat them as their main quest.

I remember one of Cody's recent Whine-of-the-day posts that complained about the Dreadnaught shards., saying that such a quest had no place in Destiny. But here's the thing, they do have a place. Quests can't all be "pick this and be done in 20 minutes for sweet loot".
Some are about delayed gratification. Have that quest? Don't track it. Forget about it. Leave it in the background and focus on quests that you want to do, and be surprised when you get a notification that you've made progress, or check on it down the road and be pleasantly surprised at the progress you've made.

No.

A quest is supposed to be an adventure in and of itself. We play video games for fun tasks and challenges. If you want delayed gratification, then delay the steps like with Jolly Holliday.

Everything you ask your players to do should be fun. Period. I'm still on the 'get 50 hadium flakes' portion of the quest Cruel is talking about, but am delaying it because it's so damn lame.

Your suggestion is also lame, since if you can do a quest without even trying to do it then what kind of quest is that?! I guess I'll just incidentally slay that dragon and save the princess while I'm doing some other thing.

For the materials, the items your looking for only drop from the resources. So in your case, the relic iron ore blocks jutting out of the sand.

For that reason, I suggest getting a ghost shell that highlights the resources your looking for. Just hop in a sparrow and start roaming an area. If you can find a resource node close to a transition point between areas, you can go back and forth and reopen the same node. Field Scout is nice, but it doesnt have the range or the on-screen immediacy of a shell.

Yep, that's exactly what I did. I wasn't sure if the shards would drop from chests as well, so I just grabbed them as I saw them.

With a proper shell, I got mine done in a couple hours.

About the same for me.

As for kills with Nightstalker? I'd suggest the Hellmouth. Lots of low level mobs that like to stick fairly close. You can probably nail more than a few with a grenade or toxic smoker. Ideally, I'd have a Defender or Sunsinger buddy to just poop out orbs of light for you.

Defenders and Nightstalkers definitely are the tougher void classes to do this with. If anyone else is reading this, I'd recommend void for warlocks, solar for titans and arc for hunters. Sunbreakers and Bladedancers are the most power offensive of their class, so they have a leg up in that way.

Good tips. Thanks!

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Defender Titan. Super never equals Void kills. You got it easy man.

Wait, what? Both grenade kills and Disintegrate count!