I actually agree with you on that. Bungie need to increase the number of activities that offer upgrade materials such as Ascendant Shards and Ascendant Prisms. There are a number of other things that should happen with regards to the raids. The first thing Bungie need to do is to update the Leviathan raid up to current light levels so that completing it offers Pinnacle loot. They then need to allow the Leviathan weapons to have randoms rolls as well as access to mods. This would shake things up immeasurably for the community as not only would this make the Leviathan raid relevant again but there are a number of Leviathan raid weapons that would be much sought after with particular rolls. The second thing Bungie need to do is to take leaf out of the Age of Triumph playbook. They need to have a weekly rotating raid that offers pinnacle loot. Now I admit that some of the raids such as Scourge of the Past, Crown of Sorrows and the Leviathan raid lairs are pretty short by comparison so they should rightly be left out the rotation. Come seasson 12 the rotating weekly raid should switch between Leviathan, Last Wish, Garden of Salvation and whatever the new raid is come year 4, much in the same way that they did in Age of Triumph. The third and final thing is where I agree with your post on. Come year 4, completing one of the main raids in the weekly raid rotation will offer an Ascendant Shard as a reward in addition to whatever raid loot the players get. This would be per character as opposed to being per account but it would mean that it is possible to get three Ascendant Shards per week per account. Any raid completing after this will only offer Ascendant Prisms and Enhancement Cores. Bungie need to make better use of the activities that they have and the older raids are one such resource that could add a lot of longevity to the game. Changes along the line of what I just mentioned would ensure players would raid more often and would actually have incentive to raid in the first place.

It'd be nice. Or maybe just chances at bonus enhancement materials in general on top of the loot we already get. I think myself and many others would probably want to raid more consistently if this were implemented.

I say no because not everyone is in a position to do raids and you should have a drop chance from all pinnacle activities in general.

This Idea is very WOWish. One run per week for rewards. And what happens is that everyone does their one run and goes home. But In WOW the gear that drops is almost guaranteed to be useful, while the gear in D2 is almost guaranteed to be junk. This is the difference between an MMO like WOW and Looter shooter. One gives a tiny bit of gear and that gear is good, while the other gives a TON of gear but is mostly junk.

No but listen before you snap at me. I say no because destiny true endgame is it’s horrible pvp. Because you can only play the raid once per week with each character if you have three separate characters. After you have finished all other activities and that is including menagerie,black armory bounties,reckoning,nightfalls,strikes,and gambit. The only thing left is anything that has to do with pvp. Minusing gambit heavily because of it pve/pvp but let’s be honest it’s more pvp than anything. Raids should be where you can play them as much as you want and get gear instead of one time per week. It BS.

First make the raids fun then add the shard. Both these things would encourage people other than no life elitists to try and complete them

I'd say yes. Ascendant shards are almost as rare as tits on a snake.

Yeah lets give 2% of the player base a new way to farm shards. They need to add a chance of shards dropping to all end game content, like dungeons etc. Not just raids! Id rather delete raids altogether and just put more dungeon type activities instead.

No. Not yet. Before that happens, each raid should drop it's own exclusive top tier exotic weapons/armor with awesome perks that no other gear in the game has. That's how the pinnacle endgame activity of the game should reward the players, period! After they start doing that, and only after, if Bungie wants to add an ascendant shard to the final rewards, that's ok with me.

You should get 1 for every new guy you carry through a raid.. try your luck with 5 freshies and get 5 shards.. plus give you a emblem with carries on 👌

They should offer a hell of a lot more actually. No, I haven't run any of the raids and how lacking they actually are is the main reason I won't waste my time, especially now that sunsetting is going to "improve" the experience running raids.