Don't focus everything then .....

Good thing Solstice starts next week. You'll be swimming in everything with 2-3 hours a day in the EAZ.

Next to nothing even costs legendary shards not sure how you're running out. If you're spending 100's of them on Iron Banner engrams, just don't. Iron Banner gear is next to the worst gear in the game. There are so many weapons that are just outright better than Iron Banner gear with zero cost. Do Raids, do Dungeons. None of what you need will cost you anything at all. You can get the best boss damage weapon in the game from a Dungeon for free. No spending shards at all. Be smart about how you spend your stuff. Really think about whether or not you're going to use the item in question because chances are the thing you're spending 100's of shards on is just garbage anyways.

On average I get 500-600 legendary shards per week, even the weeks like this week where I barely got to play I still have gotten 250 legendary shards since reset in 6 or 7 hours play time.

farm the nightfall at hero difficulty or form a team for 3rd difficulty. 8-10 min run depending on nightfall. I'm in the same boat. I missed out on that shard farm too. you get more rep for vanguard rank. Potentially exotics, nightfall weapon, vanguard weapon, and legendary weapon/armor. Ghost mod for additional legendary drops in vanguard strike I work full-time, 3 kids and all that jazz. I know the feeling I was racking in shards when it's double nightfall drops.

One thing that helps is to keep a ghost that rewards extra legendary drops from playlist activities. They will most likely be crap.... I mean 4 shards.

go spend some time on the Cosomdrome. It drops legendarys for anything you do and at the top of the map there are literally 3 chests spawned all the time. You can easily farm leg's there. I know it isn't much fun but it will get you what you need.

I think you ran out of shards because you spent them

You keep spending your shards, that’s why you have so little.

Honestly the best way right now to increase your legendary shard reserves is to dismantle unwanted gear that you may get as rank rewards and or end of activity rewards. This is honestly the most effective way to increase the amount of shards you have in your inventory. Not to mention if there are other ways to gain legendary shards as rewards, you can do those as well. A lot of times I like to farm valor ranks by playing rumble. So far the whole week I’ve had to reset my rank 3 times in which I now have 90+ engrams sitting with lord Shaxx from my days of just casually playing pvp and ranking up steadily. But if you’re not a PvP sweat, and do not like the grind it takes to keep collecting engrams, you can also play PvE playlist with certain vendors that award these engrams as well. As an added note, you can also decipher umbral engrams with whoever his name is and dismantle the unwanted gear that comes out of it. Understand this, as a consistent pattern that always occurs with me at least. For every 3 engrams you collect from a vendor you will get an enhancement cores. Sometimes it will be 2 sometimes it will be 0. But for me this pattern is the most consistent. So not only will you gain legendary shards from this method, but also a good amount of enhancement cores if you need them. *Edited[Irrelevant Below] Earlier in this posts I had commented about inflation and gas that was simply supposed to be taken as a joke. Now with the exception of the one guy who commented and understood the posts meaning. I would like to say to the other people that you are quite blind and foolish if you did not understand that the comment was a joke. It would be irresponsible, reckless, and foolish of me to be serious about a comment like that. I am not ignorant to the point where I would be serious about a comment like that. It was solely supposed to be a joke to lighten the mood. So for the ones who commented in true seriousness about how idiotic the comment was; I just want you to know you individuals are quite deterred of an open mind and is a joke and what is not. But thank you for taking the time to comment, because it shows just how insecure you guys really are😄….

Use what you have and have fun if you only play a little. Why do you expect to have top of the line things if you don’t play?

Not sure what the solution is but the material economy is kind of like the power level thing. Its interesting how it works out because its something that truly has to work based on how everyone plays. The only thing they could really do to make people spend them is cap them under a level that a lot of people have passed and make it so people deplete them over time. But they have to know that wouldn't go down well. I just find stuff like this interesting because its one of the things that gets close to being an actual limitation that they can't just control however they want even though of course they can. Its fun to see how they handle stuff like this and power leveling. The only thing they could really do is something that would make people angry, including a lot of people that otherwise aren't involved in the daily drama, or make things cheaper. I'd personally be more likely to buy an emblem that said 10k LEGENDARY SHARDS on it than to spend them gambling.

Agreed newer players can’t purchase focused endgrams at drifter Salidan or saint. Also dmt and hawkmoon should be craftable

I have to be honest here but don't focus engrams. Don't spend shards etc.. just pay the game and delete crap that you don't need. You'll soon be swimming in shards.

2-3 hours a day is more than I play and I have 23k shards lol

It’s honestly not been too bad for me. I’ve been hovering around the same amount since S15. By the time I have an Umbral to focus, I’ve gotten 10 shards worth of bad drops. Xur’s crazy expensive but he’s been like that for months. A pro tip is to not upgrade stuff you’re not going to use very often. Armor stick at 7 power and weapons don’t really need masterworks now unless you really need the stats for PvP. Avoiding upgrading a lot helps if you’re low on shards.