If there intentions was for it to be hard to hit max cap then they failed lol if you have three characters and ran poe last week and did trials maybe one or so 35 poe you can easily get all your characters to 34. Maybe not your guns but light cap definitely I love the system the way it is. Getting etheric light has not been a problem for me and I haven't gotten any from the nightfalls. I guess for others it may be harder but not from my experience heck most of my buddies have 3 34s as well