This!! I totally feel this..i've been stuck at light 290 for a week now.. I've tried doing all those vanguard strike playlist, patrols, quests, but all my engram drops were 260-270s which made me think they cap engram lvl drop when we reach 290... Problem is, i tried to do the raid with a bunch of 290s and we were having difficulty with DPS vs Warpriest and eventually gave up after 3hours there.. I felt the grind in year 1 was more rewarding in terms of ,levelling up then do the raid to get the end game gear to reach the max lvl.. Now, even preparing for the raid need a massive amount of luck from engram drop -.-