Trying (part of) the question again (Destiny)

by CruelLEGACEY , Toronto, Monday, October 12, 2015, 16:12 (3554 days ago) @ Claude Errera

So, the question (as I read it) was "how do you cross the 300 threshhold without raid gear when you're already in the high 290s?"

This was an interesting question to me, since I have exactly the same question.

All of the answers, so far, have been talking about how to GET to the high 290s, which the OP didn't really need (well, on his main).

So let me ask again, more clearly:

If you have a character that's in the high 290s (297-299), and you're already doing the high-light-decoding trick, and you haven't finished the raid... how do you cross the 300 barrier?

As others have said, the raid really is the only practical way to crack 300 at the moment. There are a few exceptions; Black Spindle drops at 310 for the moment, as does the exotic sword and the Touch of Malice, and Eris will give you a 310 artifact as a reward for one of her quests. But the raid is the only way to get items to consistently drop at 300+.