Nice! I went the first two post DLC weeks getting 8 ascendant energies (only had one character at that point) so had the opposite experience before yesterday! Those two weeks were what prompted me to make a second warlock. That and the gloves never dropping in VoG for me (and I still only have (several) Atheon's Epilogues and Praedyth's Revenge but no other weapons from all my VoG normal / hard raiding!). Still love VoG though.

Keep raiding guardian. I didnt hit 30 until my 21st clear

Fair one! I only just levelled an alt so was limited to one run per week (and am a casual gamer so took some time to hit L26 to start raiding), so have fewer than 21 clears. Leaving aside the gloves, on reflection I was actually relatively lucky on VoG raid armour. I still managed to get 30 via raid helmet and exotic gloves though, albeit a week before DLC, but get there I did! Much as I enjoy Crota's End, I personally prefer the mechanics of VoG so still do that on hard each week.