Welcome Kinderguardian, First, read up on the reputation system, you may have a basic understanding of this already, but your primary goal should be to get vanguard to level 3 so you can begin purchasing legendary gear. Next Bounties Bounties Bounties. These provide an enormous XP boost for you while you go about your regular story missions. After this, strike playlist. This is where you will earn your vanguard marks to purchase your Vanguard armor. weekly cap is 100, and you can only hold 200. Also, Armour>weapons Use your marks on armor first, the legendary weapons are of no use to you if enemies are 4 levels above you. Make friends, do raids. Weekly heroic and Nightfall strikes is a great opportunity to get legendary weapons and Ascendant Materials, and a chance for the ever elusive Exotic weapons. Check out Xur and how to get strange coins. EDIT: Never pass up a public event or daily heroic story Happy hunting