Bungie likes to go on about balancing the economy but in reality I have so many resources at my disposal I am basically a dragon on top of a hoard of gold. For the record, I sold every single shard before the season started since they were getting removed soon and we were told Master Rahool wasn't taking them any more. Surprise surprise, when this new season rolls around and we still need them to upgrade gear and pay Xur, at least until the new DLC. So then the process began again of hoarding Legendary Shards, and I am back up to nearly 3,000 with simply playing about 2 days each week. The main argument though was that New Lights didn't have much of them and were always running out. This is due to needing to upgrade their gear but [i]also[/i] I would wager that they simply did not understand they need to delete gear instead of just shoving everything into their vault. This most likely is not an issue with acquiring them, it is that Bungie does not communicate that you need to delete bad rolls to get resources, to upgrade good rolls. I still maintain that it was a bad decision to eventually remove them instead of making it worth the hoarders' while to spend them regularly on the end game side of things.