Ascendant Materials are hard to get for a reason. They upgrade Legendries and Exotics if they were guaranteed like this then the value for Ascendant Materials would fall and so will the value of Legendries and Exotics. The reward for Random Public Events is Vanguard Markers which can be used to purchase Legendries from the Vanguard so I'm sure that's enough reward right there, and if you have Legendary armor already then buy some more and scrap it for Ascendant Material ;) smart right?

The rewards shouldn't be guaranteed. If they were, it would take 2 days to have enough ascendant materials to upgrade everything you have and will get.

I opted for disagree bc they are repeatable. If you get all the shards/energies, why keep playing once maxed?

Picked up 2 ascendant materials then one from the postmaster. From one public. Nice day.

I could get Ascendant materials from running the Vault of Glass or by shooting a Fallen Walker. I could get the rewards from the Vault once a week per difficulty or once every 10-15 minutes for as long as I want. I think public events are fun, but this isn't a healthy idea.

you should get something more than.....well....basically nothing

I agree, to some degree. Guaranteed Ascendant materials on the first try are perfectly understandable, though sometimes one or two, or something similarly significant, after subsequent completions of Public Events would feel nice, especially depending on how you complete them.....like, say, defending the WarSat; it's possible to kill as many enemies until shielded Majors and/or Ultras become more frequent, and if you're able to mow down plenty of them before completing the WarSat event, pleasant rewards would be nice.

Perhaps not guaranteed ascendants, but some kind of guaranteed rewards would be nice, relative to level of success. Purple engrams, Strange Coins, Motes of Light, etc.

Increased chance sure, but gaurentees are absolutely awful.

Just increase the drop rate because guaranteed would be to easy

With Public Events dropping at the rate they do (especially if you hunt using the event schedule site) then the materials wouldn't really be legendary, they'd be a common drop.

I agree, and also agree with adding a rare/legendary engram as random reward along with the materials. I do lots of public events, but I get really pissed off almost every event because at the end everyone (or almost everyone) but me receives an ascendant material, after more or less 20 events I finally receive one (and then no one receives a material!). It should be like 1 guaranteed item: 45% chance to receive 1 Asc. Shard, 45% chance 1 Asc. Energy, 5% chance 1 Strange Coins, 5% Legendary Engram... or whatever would be fair for public event farmers. I know what I'm going to say now is a bit unfair, but in my opinion people that just entered an event after 95% completion should not receive a reward, unless they helped alot, it really pisses me off when I'm doing my 15th event in a row without a reward and I'm, for example, killing a Cabal Engeneer by myself, and then when I only need a couple of shots, someone joins, he/she gets a material and guess... nothing for me, and that's really unfair. And also increase experience for the events, if I recall correctly we need to do 50 events to receive the same experience as ONE tower quests, not counting the 1000XP one, then it would be 100 events, 50 events already takes an eternity, thanks god I try to do some missions while I wait for the event to happen. PS: By the way: why should we receive 6 Strange Coins for a Nightfall Strike if it's harder than the week one you receive 9? anyone thinks Bungie needs to change that too and give us at least 12 Strange Coins when it's not the Engram or materials?.

Because the public events schedule is published on line. Three characters...and zipping around farming public events...and in a week you could amass an amount of acendent materials that woudl DWARF what you could get from running the raid.