Huh, it honestly never occurred to me to kill those enemies in the yard, on Devil's Lair. I don't remember what level I was when I first did that mission, but I remember assuming that you were meant to sparrow to the beginning like the Ishtar Sink strike. I almost always skip the public mobs, but I really don't consider myself to be a runner.

Consider this weeks weekly. You [i]could[/i] fight all the mobs in the first room, or you could just bullet dodge them and go straight to the lieutenant fight outside (first darkness zone). That's what I did. Too many wasted rounds on those damn things for no loot. Especially nightfall when everything is over shielded :/

Yeah, considering I had to run that mission 9 times in order to overcome desyncs/mistakes and finally get 4 successful runs on my two characters, I started skipping that part as well. Too much time and ammo burned for no real benefit.

And the logic is weird: you have the same chance for engrams from killing level 1 shanks on earth that you do killing level 28 cabal ultras (colossus!)... So yeah. That whole stupid room = Olympic sprint practice. No kidding, only started skipping this week after a couple of nightfall wipes on the boss. The only thing I dreaded was that damn room. Finally I was like... Wait a minute!!!! There's no darkness here. [b][i][u]What the hell am I still doing fighting this stuff?!![/u][/i][/b] Odd that it just dawned on me :P