Thanks
I actually lost track of the New Light quest
. Currently about 75% of the way through the Shadowkeep campaign so will try getting through that. I'm at the soft cap and going above it seems to be a lot of work.
Once you hit softcap which I think should be 1300 this season, this means random world drops will no longer hit above your current light level. Next up is the 'hard' cap which should be 1310, to progress this you'll need either powerful or pinnacle rewards, its generally advised to hit powerfull rewards first then get your pinnacles, though in reality it doesn't really matter. Finally you have the 'Pinnacle' cap which is 1320 which can ONLY be advanced with Pinnacle drops. Though I wouldn't stress too much on hitting the pinnacle cap, RNG can be shocking at times in this game, your artifact power bonus will make up for it.
To see who offers what rewards just highlight certain vendors and activites in the Director and it should tell you, an easy start is usually hitting 8 x bounties with vanguard/crucible/gambit/gunsmith/seasonal Vendor, Seasonal activity runs, Join a clan (any clan really for now) and do some strikes etc... to get a powerful reward from hawthorne. Then a few easy pinnacles are 3 x playlist strikes matching subclass to strike Singe (this week is solar singe, so do 3 strikes as a solar subclass), 3 x matches of comp, 3 x matches of gambit. 100k Nightfall score this week will usually require it to be ran at legend or higher, its the Corrupted, renouned as one of the longest and hardest Nightfalls in the game. Then naturally if you can get a team together the VoG raid offers a weekly pinnacle and once unlocked so do the Harbinger and Presage missions.
You can use DIM (Destiny Item Manager) to view you maximum light level too. You do NOT need to have your max power gear equipped for the next higher level stuff to drop, as long as its on one of your characters or in your vault your good