You realize this is Bungie's doing right? It's basically flaming head buff year three, and delivered in a way makes me recall the pokerus virus from the pokemon series , where the stat boosting buff could be obtained via random pokemon encounters or traded pokemon with the virus. It's a very clever viral (lol literally) marketing campaign by Bungie , and really people, is it coincidence that this starts happening after a random out of the blue maintenance period?