Yeah, doing laps to get iron/blooms/tubes/spinmetal is easy enough, especially after you have 2500 kills in a zone and you get double resources. but those ascendants take awhile. I have been getting lucky and usually if you do the public events you can gather a few.
also make sure to raise the level on daily hero strikes at least above normal because you will get ascendant resources. This is unlike the weekly events where you can do it 3 times and get 3 coins each time. Once you do a daily strike on any difficulty you won't get any more rewards for it. and i know this sounds drastic, but you can always dismantle legendary/exotic items for ascendants. and a lil tip, if you have maxed out equipments, is to switch to green/blues when you turn in completed bounties and then level them up (just with glimmer/resources) and then when you dismantle them you will get more resources (usually weapon parts / class specific armor parts).
It just sucks tho because I totally want to play more tonight and tomorrow night,
but I have 1 last clan war. Diamond Division Call of Duty Ghosts, one final 1st place finish
from 9-1am, next four hours. i mean, yay....