Board Thread:Questions and Answers Forum/@comment-198.103.184.76-20140930142156/@comment-25267708-20141019081244

No, public events COULD award you with ascendant materials, to upgrade legendary or exotic gear. As well as the daily mission awards you with ascendant materials also on the higher difficulties. If its gear youre looking for you want to do the raid or nightfall (if youre high enough level though it sounds like you might not be). Or just do thehighest vanguard strike playlist you can untik you have enough vanguard marks. Tiger strike playlist rewards you with blue engrams and you can also get them to drop from killing enemies during it as well. Small chance that you might get a blue to turn legendary or getting a legendary engram from a cryptarch package when you level up cryptarch. Theres also the weekly strike which gives you strange coins that you can use towards exotics from xur as well as blue engrams have a chance to turn into motes of light or strange coins.