I'm prime for upgrading lots of gear, but I never have any ascendent energy or shards. How can I get lots of this stuff?
NOTE: Yesterday I played on the moon for a while until a public event came, then I got something like a mote of light or some other non-ascendent thing. Today I wasted an hour on the moon before a public event finally happened, and I was about 2 or 3 seconds late to get there. I destroyed an exotic gun, only to get one of those exotic upgrade things (not the ascendent materials). I destroyed a legendary piece of armour and only got hadronic essence (which was unusual).
Where/how do I get ascendent materials?
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Google destiny public event tracker and it'll give you all the public event times on all planets and areas. That way you can knock them all out and not have to wait so long because you'll know when and where the next public event is coming.