Edit: SAVE ASENDANTS. Make sure you are sure that your armor is exactly what you need before you spend any asendants on it. Also: MAX LEVEL your legendary weapons BEFORE sharding them. You don't have to fully upgrade them, just get their xp to max. Doing this is the difference between 6 shards and 2 shards when you dismantle them 1, rank up vanguard. At rank 3 you will get a Legendary weapon. That is how I got my first legendary weapon. Save 150 Vanguard marks and buy a Legendary weapon if you don't get the one you like. The Devil You Know is a beast of a handcannon and Shadow Price is a very respectable AR. 2, Think about what weapon and playstyle you like and buy legendary gear that makes it better. Vanguard armor rotates quickly so if you want a set of gloves with strength and scout rifle reload speed, it shouldn't take too long. 3, max your weekly marks and spend them. When you can run Tiger Playlist for PvE or run Crucible if you like PvP and spend the marks. You can earn a max of 100 per week and can carry 200 per type as a Maximum. So spend them before you hit 200. 4, when you can run Nightfall do so. Its a good chance for an exotic and gives you a 20% boost to all xp per week. Run it early after the reset to max gains. 5, Save strange coins. Xur sells 1 exotic weapon, 1 exotic armor per class and 1 exotic armor engram per week. Armor costs 13 strange coins, weapons cost between 23 and 17 strange coins and the exotic lottery costs... 32 motes of light? Don't buy telemetry or ammo if you have 23 or less strange coins. 6, run weekly heroics when you can. You get strange coins from weekly heroics. This is your Xur candy 7, run daily story missions. They give you a chance at a Legendary engram and now mats. 8, run Tiger Playlist. 2 blue engram every 15ish minutes add up. Also a slight chance for a Legendary or exotic, although I have never seen one.