did it last night. thanks to all the guys in the nml crota raid and moving over to the hard mode (up through the bridge part)- was able to get enough shards to finally upgrade armor. thanks to DoD- never would have thought this was possible until joining DoD. a very special thanks to Vlad and Berberick for running me and other raid "virgins" through our first crota raids which got me on the path to 32.