I have a buddy who is doing this right now, so some of this sounds familiar. I experienced the overpowered enemies myself when I started my final baby Titan shortly after HoW came out.

http://kotaku.com/level-8-in-a-land-of-34s-a-newbies-take-on-destiny-1721337520?_sm_au_=iVVsJt5531LSKVqN

Love his take on joining the game this late. It really does sound like a lot of fun. While I wouldn't trade my experience with the early days of Destiny, part of me does wish I could have experienced playing the game for the first time now, post-HoW.

On a somewhat related note, I just read this post on reddit & really enjoyed it.

https://www.reddit.com/r/DestinyTheGame/comments/2vj4t2/my_level_1_hunters_journey_through_vault_of_glass/

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Thanks for posting this!

I started Destiny shortly after HoW dropped (though I played the beta).

It's def. a hell of a weird ride, but like he said, the weird spikiness of the wolf packs and that GODDAMN Queensbreaker captain is pretty great. now I get to go back and kill that dude with a bounty, and that feels pretty amazin. "Oh hi, I hear you like shoulder charges and shotgun blasts"

It still does this thing where it just hits a wall around level 22, and your progression just grinds to a halt., though from what I understand it's better now than it was. It's better in a lot of ways from what I gather, as the purples rain a little more regularly now, but it's also not because the gap to get to the higher level content is even wider, and the stop gap measures to get there aren't so widely available. I was pretty down on the game in that period between finishing the "story" and leveling up enough to start tackling heroic strikes.

Bungie better solve that for TTK honestly, because that's the moment that drives away new players. And no, explaining the light system in a Modal dialog isn't NEARLY enough.

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I started playing about a month or so before HoW dropped, and those mid twenties are rough. But it didn't take long to realize I was doing it wrong by playing for drops. Get those Vanguard and/or Crucible Marks and buy what you need. Takes a bit because of the weekly mark limit, but you'll get some lucky drops too if you hit the limit every week.

Good read. It made me lean toward starting a Titan, but then I read the article about the loss of Dinklebot and now I'm wondering if I should wait so I can have a consistent Nolan North bot experience to compare to. I am conflicted.