In this video you will see that you most likely will need to farm / acquire raid gear to reach rank 30. Please read the description of the video to learn a bit more info of it. (will copy and paste it here just incase you can't see the description. So what I'm showing you guys in this video is my thoughts about this. As you saw I showed you both my friends gauntlets. 1 is legendary which was given to him from the raid. 1 is exotic. Notice they both have the same max armor if they were both upgraded fully but mine is capped at 304 theirs is capped at 329. What I was told was, more armor is more light. So this is my theory about this all.. What do you guys think? Note: I dismantled exotic and legendary gear I was saving for my other characters if I ever wanted to make a new one. Note: Don't use your ascendant shards......save em. :c