[b] (This part added after the HoW announced info.) [/b]BUNGIE managed to screw (...lol...) all my effort, not that am complaining i liked the way they are changing things. (Except the fact of no RAID YET) now all the effort and preparation i list hereafter won't really help to get you to level up, however you will get the new vendor's stuff. Bottom line just play and have fun. now what? Good question, well for me am [b]preparing for next DLC[/b], (few weeks remained) so other than having fun playing the game, consider the following steps (keeping in mind that i have 3x32 characters - titan, hunter, and warlock and i play like 2 hours a day average) 1- [u]level up all faction to the edge[/u] of the next level (3 or above) so when HoW released you can get the level up package easily, that MAY contain legendary gears and weapons from the related vendor - and that suppose to be level 33. remember to store bounties before the DLC to level up when needed. 2- [u]Get crucible and vanguard marks[/u] to the maximum for each character - 200, which is important to purchase the new missing gears and weapons after the above mentioned step. 3- [u]store materials[/u] (Helium, Spin metal, spirit bloom and relic iron) as much as you can. of course glimmer always available in "The Exclusion Zone", Also strange coins should be stored for any surprises and bungie full of it. 4- [u]don;t mind leveling up the current weapons and gears[/u] (if you have enough to fight tho) keep your resources ready for the next DLC 5- do[u] public events[/u] ONCE for each charecter in a daily bases (if possible) and [b]KEEP the reward package at the post office[/b], later after u get the new gears from DLC, use them to upgrade these gears (u know each package is 5000 XP) - Suggested by the user [b]RickB50[/b] great idea tho. 6- this one suggested by user [b]Miktakulaer,[/b] get exotic engrams from Xur and keep them till after the DLC release to use, this one not clear if it will work or not. Probably[b] this will not work [/b], the encrypted gear / weapons will be pre-DLC 7-[b] don't cash the 200 glimmer race killing rewards[/b] (like axiomatic beats from the vex, house banner from the fallen, ..etc) keep them to use the glimmer for upgrading. all in all each character upgrade of 4 new gears (without Bungie surprises - ; ) will be 14,000 glimmer, 200 gear spare parts, 320 planetary materials, and 72 ascendant materials (or 84 radiant materials) depend on what they will require. bottom line, just have fun playing the game but do the daily + the patrol every day. now, when DLC come out, you will level the vendors up (1 bounty each) get the new package from each vendor buy the missing gears (boof u r back level 31, LOL,) level up your new gears and u r one of the first level 33 guardians and ready to do the next raid, get the raid gears (damn it u r 32 again + the said vendor's gears will be dismantled LMAO). geesh [b]this game full of it... [/b] Finally, BUNGIE may surprise us with another rewarding (...) system after all, hopefully this will work [b] what you think and what will you do ?[/b] edit-1 adding other guardians great ideas (point 5 & 6) edit-2 highlighting that idea #6 will not work edit-3 added item 7 and the overall cost of upgrade edit-4 adding opinion on top (base on HoW available data as on May 9th)