VoG is now for me to grind shards / energies for 2.0 Legendaries, just so I can be competitive in Nightfall / Weekly / Iron Banner. My Titan is my alt and he needs loads of shards, so for now, VoG still got its use.
Yeah, if I create another character, shards will be needed once again.
I went from desperately needing shards on Monday night to get my shop-bought 33 chest armour upgraded to make it to level 31, to having no use for them at all by Tuesday night once I picked up the raid chest armour in Crota's End. So, unless I create another character, there is literally nothing I can use them for - I've got fully upgraded 33 gloves, raid boots and chest armour, and exotic helm.
I guess it's just really dawned on me that I'm going to have to run through the new raid about 20 times to get the radiant shards to upgrade the raid armour, whereas previously, doing Nightfall, Weekly, Public Events etc all contributed to getting ascendants. Only getting raid loot once per week means it will be a very long time before I'm anywhere near level 32!
