Come on OweO you know you really want to give VoG a goPretty much sounds the same as VoG day 1 / week 1 in D1 in that regard. No one was on level for the final fight as you simply couldn't get high enough with the drops at the time (D1 Vanilla required you both get the drop and then run the raid to get ascendant energy / shards to level up the drop before it became max light / level).
This is before the forever 29 issue, whereby it didn't matter how many times you ran VoG you couldn't get to level 30 (max light effectively) without the right drops. I was forever 29 due to missing gauntlets until the first round of Iron Banana whereby I became a "fake" 30....
IIRC I was either level 28 or 29 in the final boss room and the Praetorians were basically team shoot only as you stood no chance taking them on solo without the right weapons (which no one had.. unless you were Davie who had ******* everything on his first run!).