The equipment drops based on the highest light level your character can be. If you had equipment in the vault or on other characters that your current character can equip that would raise that, then that's what the items would based their value for dropping. If you start a brand new Hunter but have a single 750 gun in the vault, then even if you managed to have power level 0 armor and guns on, the game's drop mechanic considers you as having a maximum power level of 93, so things will drop for that. 93(.75) is the average of 750+0+0+0+0+0+0+0; one piece of 750 gear and 7 pieces of 0 gear. If you had 3 weapons in the vault (one for each of the weapon slots) that are 750, then your new average is 281. 750+750+750+0+0+0+0+0; three pieces of 750 gear and 5 pieces of 0 gear. As you can see, the average light level is quite a bit higher, and that maximum is what the drop system bases its values on. That's how Destiny 2 improved their drop mechanic. Originally (and back in Destiny 1), only what you currently had on you and equipped counted for the drop system. People complained about how they felt constricted and being forced to play with equipment they didn't want to use just because it was higher light level and how they always had to remember to change out equipment when turning in for rewards. Bungie's change made it so that was no longer necessary. This is not a bug and is the way the game is intended to work. Because of this mechanic, if you want to start a fresh Hunter, and it be entirely fresh with no natural drops above a starting player, then you'll either have to dismantle absolutely everything you have that's equipable by a Hunter, or you'll need to create a Hunter on a new platform account and play with that. As far as being stuck with just a Titan, the choice to delete your character(s) was entirely yours, and Bungie's policy is to not restore deleted characters.