So as we all know, the new raid gear no longer upgrades through ascendant shards, but instead, you need to acquire the new radiant shards in order to reach level 32. At the moment one piece of armour requires 21 of these beauties, making a full set (assuming you also have an exotic piece) 63 shards. Now while you can also transmit energy to shards and vise versa (which I'm not sure if anyone has yet unlocked access to or not) this is still a huge feat. But these shards seem to bear some resemblance to the ascendent shards we know so well. Perhaps we can somehow convert one to another? But something like that would have been a process so elusive you would need to find someone just as elusive to do it for you. Luckily, someone with just that description comes every weekend. Xur would be able to infuse these shards with the radiance of motes of light (and a small payment of coins) to make attaining 32 that much more real. All backstory aside, it would be a neat thing for Xur to transmit our now-useless shards into radiant shards for motes and coins. If you were to build your entire set of raid hear, you need 84 shards. While veteran players may say this was easy with the last raid gear, we were open to far more sources of the shards, while now all that we have is the raid, with 3 reward sections and 2 (?) currently known loot chests, and with the upcoming hard mode and new hard gear (which will need more shards!), I personally think radiating our material would be a fair boost to players. But maybe I'm wrong, and the task is reasonable as it stands. Let me know your thoughts and spread the idea of you like it!