So let's see. Doing the weekly Heroic to get a guaranteed reward of 9 Strange Coins on a character that can be used to purchase an item from an in game NPC isn't earning an item. But. Getting an Engram from killing a Thrall and having it turn into Gjallerhorn is earning? Or having your friends all but carry you through a nightfall to have a chance at being given an exotic at the end is earning? Or beating Scrota or Atheon and getting an exotic instead of the expected raid gear is earning? Man. I must have been living my whole life under a rock, cause I could have sworn...