Amongst all the dumb and broken things in Destiny, the dumbest thing in all of destiny is that we have to level up Eris to have ability to exchange our materials. Even more frustrating that we have to use black wax idols and glimmer to do so. I think it's frustrating as hell because I have enough radiant energies, materials and glimmer to be level 32 on all 3 characters but I don't have the rank to do it. I find it weird that you can exchange radiant materials but not ascendant materials? Also you can't sell either those materials for glimmer or other materials/consumables? I have almost 200 ascendant shards in my vault that serve absolutely no purpose. It's lazy programming in my opinion. We should have the ability to exchange ascendant materials for others things like: weapons, armour, glimmer or consumables. It would be amazing if they would work like marks but unfortunately, they don't. :'( [b][i][u]FUTURE RAID PREDICTIONS [/u][/i][/b] I can [i][b]guarantee[/b][/i] you money that the new raids will force you to level up [b][i]another[/i][/b] faction in relation to the raid and use consumables that are relative to that enemy (ie ether seeds for fallen enemies) for that raid. They will increase the light level again. This will destroy the pervious raid and further break the light leveling system. It will introduce another way to level up your characters via a newly introduced material like how they did with the first "expansion"(using the term loosely). Stop using these consumables so that you can be ready for the new raid. [b][i][u]Edit 1[/u][/i][/b] Also the DLC won't be anything new but enlarged bosses with character models similar to smaller AI. With some puzzles tossed in.