I did the raid like 2 times on normal and never beat it. Then, this weekend, we ran through the raid on normal in like an hour and 20 minutes, and after every loot drop I got a piece of gear hahaha I actually feel bad for my boy cause he plays this game day and night since he's jobless (got a home "biz" if you know what i mean) and he just needed a chest piece to hit 30 and ended up getting nothing but the shader. I ended up with everything but the Helmet (Raid gauntlets, leg and chest armor, prime zealot set), but I had an Exotic already (Hunter-Mast of the third man) and had the gauntlets and leg armor from the iron banner, so really only needed the chest piece. Anyway, now I gotta get shards for the legendaries and wait for xur to show up so I can max the Helmet and I'll finally hit 30. Farming ain't that bad, especially if you do it while doing patrol missions from your vanguard bounties, plus they just included material drops in bounty cash-ins and for doing the daily. I got a lvl 28 titan too. About to start a Warlock as well. More characters just means more chances to get materials, and 3 chances to run the daily, weekly, nightfall etc.