I began playing HOW at 1pm Tuesday, the very moment the switch was flipped. Within an hour or so I began to realize what they meant when they told us in the reveals that all gear and weapons can be upgraded to the new higher levels. Each piece can be upgraded with Etheric light. I then made the erroneous assumption that EL must be pretty common if every single piece of purple in the game needs it. I have played every spare moment for 5 days. I have farmed the new bounty events for HOURS. I have done Strikes. I have done the Nightfall. I have done Prison of elders on 28 a dozen times, and on 32 three times. Each time with keys for the big chest. I have won Crucible Control matches. I have done all the story missions on two characters and an even dozen Petra bounties with both. Can you guess how many Etheric Light I have gotten? ZERO! So Bungie listens to its community. A request from a devoted player. Please come up with a way to get more of it out there. Maybe make the stuff for weapons different. I am not expecting to get to 34 overnight. But I am a high level PVE player and have always known how to get my characters to top level and how to upgrade my weaponry. Now it's just luck. I know everyone is going to say to run the 34 Prison and I will get it. Frankly thats a bit of a ridiculous task just to upgrade a Timurs Lash or an LDR. I am pretty disappointed and am losing interest in the game altogether. When I logged on last night at 7pm I told my group of friends that if I didn't get one EL tonight before I logged out I would be quitting Destiny. At 2am I still hadn't gotten one and had my finger on the delete button, when I decided I would post to the forums before I did anything drastic. Find out what the community thinks. Maybe get some advice from other high level PVE players. So what do you think? Am I alone in my frustration? Is there a better way that I haven't tried? I would really appreciate a response from someone at Bungie. Tell me the thinking in this decision. EDIT: SO I understand now. Etheric Light and House of Wolves were just meant to get us to keep playing until Year two when The Real Destiny was finally released. All the gear was going to become defunct anyway.