Hi, choice is always good to have. I don't have hard light but it looks like a pretty good gun... the volatile light perk sounds pretty good. Always worth leveling up guns at least to the point before you have to start spending ascendant energy on them. I kept going with my legendary gear till i hit 29 (with an exotic helm) only run the raid once but i got loads of shards from it and only chatterwhite and the raid shotgun, i'm sure by the time i actually get some raid gear i'll have plenty of shards to level it up. I started soloing the nightfall when i was 29 done the previous 3 solo but this weeks was pretty nasty - down to the amount of enemies dealing arc damage i think. I was glad to have some help in the end cos i died just b4 sepkis died and if i'd have been on my own that would have been pretty upsetting lol.