I haven't bought forsaken, because i strongly disagree with their paywalling, but i keep getting power 500 gear from crucible anyway, and i can't equip it, because i don't have forsaken. Which, in turn, makes me hate their paywalling even more, because i can't even play past 265, because i either get 260, or i get 500, and none of that helps me. @Bungie either stop giving me stuff i can't use, or let me use it!

Heh bought Forsaken today, did the first story mission was 372 light. Had 5 engrams at the clan chick. They all dropped at 503.

If you have more than one Warlock, Titan, or Hunter daily weekly and prime engrams are all given at lower light than you are once you’ve done them on your first character. Bungie added this so you couldn’t have 2 or 3 of the same characters and power level them. This was added for a more grindy game. If you have the same problem while having only one of each character then I do not have an answer to that problem.

same here, for daily reward both i did were -4 and -5 and the Ascendant Challenge was a 501 when i was over 515 :-/

update, I believe the reason we're not seeing more light levels is b/c (at least me in part) is doing it the old way. I just did a strike, and got a 504, which was due to a challenge. So, maybe it's only going up by each challenge and not by the grinding the same thing. Bungie wants us to play all parts of the game, and yet, still draws it out, not sure. either way, I did get a 504 today but (again) nothing I wanted and not even worth infusing.

can confirm still failing. Completed a few challenges where "Powerful Gear" is listed but all of it was 500. Just did 3 heroics at the dreaming city and while I did get 3 legendary items, all of them were 500. considering last week I got 506-509 in the tangled shore, I'm thinking sometings broken on the DC map. How are we supposed to do the raid or level up to do the blind in the DC if we can't get beyond 500, and the recommended light is 560?

......... 12? 13? Can’t be much older

U sure they weren't legendary or the bugged ones that update on Wednesday

yep

This happened to me too, it sucks so much. The best possible idea of what happened is that they refreshed, but the system in place that keeps you from earning too many Powerful Engrams wasn't modified to account for the more frequent resets. So if you go do the Milestones on another character of the same class, they won't drop as high, because Bungie counts this as "breaking the rules" and nerfs your drops. I bet that's what's happened here. The game thinks you're earning more frequently than you should, even though it's Bungie's fault in the first place for letting you earn them.

Just farm the raid chest like everyone is and you can get higher gear on all 3 characters. Rocket launcher, pulse rifle and armour are easy to get once 1 player gets to the chest. Im sure Bungie made it exploitable to make up fr the powerful engrams not being powerful ;)

its a bug it happened to us all. That said in 5 days I have uncounted prime or powerful engrams drop. Im at 518 almost 519 and others are up to about 525 already. There are ship tons of powerful or prime engrams dropping way above your light just for killing powerful random enemies...prime engrams....aside from the powerful engrames. I just had a 523 drop doing a heroic event on Nessus. You are getting way more than that small bug did to you on ONE day ....

same thing. I was able to get to 504 yesterday *(using things I don't enjoy using and have crap rolls) while all day today was strictly 500 everything. Bungie NEEDS to stop rolling things back before testing and this is sort of lame b/c I did all the bosses who were supposed to drop higher light levels, and now I feel somewhat cheated our of time/effort/reward (especially since it's a reward based game I paid for)...well, maybe it's time to stop playing again. I left for about 5 months and returned b/c the hype. what we got was a grind for turning in gunsmith materials b/c now it take 100, and I have to mash the button just to get ONE SINGLE return.... I mean, how much thought went into the grind? If , or when we're turning in the gunsmith materials, we're doing it for the return, not to mash the button 99 times... Same with the shaders. I presumed they'd be able to make deleting shaders a x1, x10, x100, or xALL, but nooooo!, it's x5, and only in a special place, where it's still annoying. I enjoy the gameplay, but all these little craps and thorns make it easy to put it back on the shelf and play other titles that offer more play time and less bs like we're all (still) seeing. Listen up Bungie, this game could be the best title of the years, but the way it's going is a huge let down. put more insight into the players who support the idea, and don't let morons make decisions like oh- lets increase the shader delete by 5 b/c 5 is soooo much more,,, no, we want intelligent menus, we want to be able either have a dedicated spot for ALL shaders, so they don't take up ANY space in the vault, OR an unlimited vault. seriously, how is the vault even a thing? This game has all the things built in, and to use it, it's merely a pointer in the code. It's actually easier to create a vault that merely adds the items we unlock during gameplay, yet people sat down, and programmed in this chokepoint on purpose... think about that. Where every other game I've played was about unlocking things, this one is about unlocking a million things I don't want, or dont like, and then says I can only have 5% of what's built in. if things got unlocked permanently, I would probably try more things out, but the way it is, I have to spend millions of hours deleting it.. the more I type, the more I remember why I put this game on the shelf in January.

I had a few quest powerfuls dropping at 500 as well. I didn't think about it too much and just figured I was unlucky. More strangely though, after a few days, I've established everything drops at 500 unless I'm on Mars where I was getting some 502 - 503 legendary world drops. This is while being at a light level of 508 - 509. I'm keen to see what the reset brings but if it's more of the same then I don't know what I'm going to do to progress other than farm Mars to at least hopefully bring the lower end-rated pieces up to more closely match few the 510 - 515 items I managed to get to drop from some of the bounties/quests. Cheers, Lain

I just wasted my time in Gambit to get a 500 helmet. Wasn't even a piece of Gambit loot.

Just went through the Forsaken story last night on my hunter, did his first powerful drop of the expansion tonight and received a drop below his current power level. Definitely a UI bug...

Why is my “powerful engrams “ are dropping me 500 gear. I want compensation for 2 that screwed me three daily heroic missions and three gambits. That’s a lot of one I wasted and got nothing to show for it. My light level is 511 because I keep getting 500 powerful engrams or my favorite I got a pair of boots that were 2 light levels below my boots like wtf I’ve been excited for this forsaken just to have my excite turn into frustration which turns to finding other things to do with my time instead of pay destiny. Oh and fix the color shaders already just make it to wear they all show up on our gear and we pay with glimmer to use them. It’s simple and easy

You sure those were powerful engrams and not legendary? Some of those things show as legendary. I have gotten some powerful engrams over 500. Many people have. That is how they have gotten past power level 500 ....

I just did the gambit and got a 509 blue I thought that was my reward even tho I’m 517 then I see me post master and only had 500 boots then I do daily mission and only got 500 pistol cmon bungie

I love how they have to always --blam!- something up all my power drops this weekend have dropped at 500 all of them I have not had a drop over 500 in 2 days what fun this gam is what a -blam!-ing wast of time surprise lol not disappointed it was all going so well what a joke I had to by all the dlc just to have them -blam!- up again thanks