Quick and dirty thread here to help out my fellow guardians who are grinding hard. ~the book challenge asking you to complete 10 hard story ROI missions can be done by doing the same mission repeatedly. ~the light level of archon's forge drops is not determined by the quality of the offering. Meaning the 320 can drop 385 gear. The offering determines quantity of loot and quality. Meaning you're more likely to get a legendary drop at the higher levels. But it can still drop in 320. ~gear dropped in archon's forge from the boss is put directly into your inventory. If it is full it's automatically shoved into the post master. The only way i've seen someone not get loot from archon's forge is if they didn't shoot the boss before it died. ~The most consistent drop spot for offerings is the reaver splicer captain that is in the rocket yard near the hole that leads to the plague lands. It can drop off of any fallen though. I've had it drop for me off of captains, vandals and even shanks. ~Both omnigul and sepiks perfected can drop 350+ blue gear regardless of being in heroic playlist or not. ~If you are familiar with where to start the kovostov questline you can actually farm that chest for 350+ gear. All you need to do is kill a brood mother to get a splicer intel key. Go back to the chest using the key and open it. You can't do this in a fire team. The chest doesn't reset. As proof i'm currently wearing 2 pieces of dream eater gear. Oh also the pilot servitor that's occasionally there will drop exotics if you use 3oC. ~If you are not already dead orbit switch to them. They take spin metal and you have access to plenty of spin metal from opening chests in the plague lands. Faction packages can give up to 385 gear. ~use legendary marks to purchase a 350 ghost. If you have a legendary class item engram use that with 5000 glimmer at shiro to get a cheap 350 class item. ~make sure to do a public event once a day. You get a legendary engram and 15 legendary marks once a day. ~you can re pull days of iron gear out of a box you already opened. Perks stay the same but the stats don't. This is helpful for trying to get a specific roll for your build. Beware they drop at 3 light though and you get nothing for dismantling them. ~heroics don't count towards the "take a strike" node in your book. I think that's it. Hopefully this was helpful. EDIT: Damn I didn't expect to see this take off. Anyway just wanted to make a few more points: ~Skeleton keys do NOT drop outside heroic/nightfalls. Their drop rate is the same as and influenced by the vanguard streak just as strike specific loot pre Rise of Iron. (edit. Some Guardians are saying it's possible. I've yet to see any myself. Just know that heroic/nightfalls have a higher drop rate for them.) ~You can complete the daily gold public event on 3 different characters to get more legendary marks and engrams. ~save your exotics and strike keys till you are 360 for maximum benefit. But strike keys can be used at 350 if you feel you really need to. ~Artifacts that drop from strike horde chests seem to have a much better chance of appearing if your artifact is your lowest Light level piece of gear. ~3 ways to get higher artifacts include: legendaries turning into artifacts when decoding, ranking up eris can possibly give you an artifiact, and strike horde chests. I have heard tier 3 court of oryx will drop light relevant artifacts. But I can't confirm or deny this myself. At the very least the court is easy rep to rank eris up.