You gotta play the right activities once you are a high leve (Destiny)

by Monochron, Monday, November 03, 2014, 12:58 (3472 days ago) @ Warbow

Basically, in order to keep leveling up once you are around level 27, it is best to stick to the same couple activities to gain levels.

• Level 28 version of the Daily Heroic mission. Upping the difficulty to 28 guarantees you 2 ascendant materials. As those are your life blood for leveling up Legendaries, you have to get every one you can.
  
• Play ONE Public Event for gold tier each day. Again, Ascendant Material.
  
• Level 28 version of the Weekly Strike. 9(!) Strange Coins!!! per week guaranteed. Be ready for Xur :)
  
• Do all the bounties you can so that you can actually get enough XP to level up your armor/guns.
  
• Once you are level 28 you can probably solo the Nightfall each week. Just look up strategies for soloing it each week (there are plenty of videos) and be as cautious as you can. It's brutal, but the promise of a guaranteed valuable reward is worth it.

I can see how your addiction makes it hard to stick to the above :D, but if you can avoid the pull of the engrams then you can get some seriously sweet gear!