Board Thread:Questions and Answers Forum/@comment-65.30.157.23-20160128142947/@comment-27404954-20160129012315

PoE is still run, it's good, VoG is irrelevant these days, motes of light give experience on your equipped gear to unlock upgrades, strange coins are still useful, exotic shards are really useful, motes of light are also useful for the same reason as exotic shards (upgrades), unless you have The Taken King you can't level up any further, you can infuse Year One guns into Year Two guns if the Year One guns have higher attack, they didn't really change the raids but added two more, everything is for The Taken King now since they took off all our Heroic and Nightfall strikes as well as all but three Crucible modes, and faction reputation is gained via getting something called a Faction Allegiance for 2500 Glimmer from the Faction Representative and then earning Vanguard and Crucible rep which will go to your Faction rep instead.