Yes it's a grind to get stuff, but I made the decision to delete my Titan when the house of wolves came out as I preferred the hunter and I have played with one character up until now. But even with just one character I got all the weapons I wanted ascended and I'm now doing up my armor. And I have been happy with that as I have been able to help my mates get there characters upto level 34, as I was a level 34 in the first week. I have got another hunter now as I want it for when the taken king comes out to help get my main character upto the new level quickly in the taken king. I know it is a grind but how bungie sees it if you have everything to quickly you won't keep playing the game. I never played iron banner until I found out you could get 2 etheric lights from it. So they dangled the carrot and got me into the crucible to do something I don't like so they won and I won as I got what I needed and I'm still playing the game. So leave it as it is or do the grind with 3 characters