Well, you're wrong. In PvP, you can get rare weapons that are just as effective as any legendary, and for PvE, well, getting better weapons is kind of the point of the game. Get a character up to 30 - start trying Crotas end, get some raid gear - you'll move on from there. For a while, my loadout was an Epilogue, Invective and a blue machine gun. I still ran VoG with it, and eventually earned better stuff (I'm now just missing mida and necrochasm (15 -blam!-ing tries))