I believe Moldering Shards have become useless and they still can be earned. I think it be awesome if a node on all armor and weapons allowed to use moldering shards to give an increase in light for that particular gear. This would effectively allow people who only get shards in the raid to rejoice since they could upgrade their light even if RNG is being a bitch. The problem is RNG literally favors 1 person for weeks. I have 1 friend who somehow has 320 primary, secondary, ghost and 317+ gauntlets and chest piece with other light levels consistent with hard mode. the highest light anything I got is a 318 ghost, and 317 chest. all others 311 or 312 but no hard mode primaries. For emphasis I have killed oryx on hard 4 times. He has killed oryx 6 times now. Obviously RNG is favoring him and giving him way more light levels. Another friend is even worse luck he cant get any gear at 315 or higher and he has run it 4 times as well. This system makes beating a boss more of a hassle and so underwhelming. You have trouble with oryx for an hour and you get a 311 mark while your friends get 318 primaries. the distinction makes raiding turn sour. My idea is "Ascension" to make the node cost -10 Weapon Parts (which are extinct and harder to get) or Armor Materials -5 Moldering Shards -10 Motes of Light -5 Hadium Flakes This material count could be used to get any gear to increase say 1 light level maybe more. Instead of oryx taking 20 shards per completion you could spend those shards to get 4 more light levels on a piece of gear. and since you get 15+ per raid you could get 9 levels if you do a raid 3 times a week and you aren't level locked by RNG. you would still have to play content regularly and farm for those materials but eventually you are able to hit max light with your friends. RNG is broken if it doesn't have some way to overcome the level lock. Some people out there may never break 315 after 20+ hard mode completions. That isn't effective leveling and it turns content sour. This way everyone is happy or content at least with getting moldering shards when your friends get 320 gear by luck. Seriously up-vote this idea if you like it or tell me what you would do to improve it. This is something bungie should see and implement so the hard raid will still be rewarding in some manner.