Yeah, they throttled progression in every single way to Pat out there game till the next DLC. That pretty much made it that you have to raid or do strikes if you want to level up. There's really no alternative aside from a couple of milestones that you can whip out in an hour or two. My best suggestion is to try the 100io website. You can go there and join several groups and you can pre schedule raid times, strikes Etc and that will give you a chance to raid with some more consistency and not have to depend on Randy's for last-minute activities