Here's how this works.
You can purchase for 65 marks from the vangaurd either boots and arms without a commendation.
You can get an exotic chest or helmet from xur or nightfall.
You need a commendation to buy either the missing chest or head that you don't currently own.
You will earn a commendation when you rank up your vangaurd which can be done very easily.. How?
Well think about it.
Doing nightfall = about 450xp to vangaurd.
Doing weekly afterwards earns about 500xp to vangaurd.
That's nearly half your vangaurd level there.
To buy the gear which people have no issue with you need to complete the tiger strike (DLC owners the RRC strike) and get the 6 marks at the end of each one. Now if you have the nightfall mod on then you will get 31 vangaurd from that each time.
So aprox you would need to beat the strikes 80 times to get to 2500 xp. But you also completed the weekly and nightfall and you're now sitting nicely on 1000ish xp.
Now you would need to complete 41 strikes which will be a lot but there is another way to lower this.
Vangaurd bounties make a big chunk of that xp needed to disappear so you should do them and can get gear in a day or so depending on how long you play for if doing all above methods before hand.
Now once you get the commendation you can also get an engram from the postmaster which may turn into the piece you want. If you're doing the RRC playlist then farming blue engrams has a better chance turning Into purple from my experience since the DLC was released.
The commendation system works perfectly and in no way affects how the system worked last time as you still do bounties. You still do weekly. You still so nightfall. You still do strike playlist. You still need to collect marks. And you'll still level up doing all that.
People whine about it because they don't see THIS ^ anymore but rather follow the group who hates it.
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It is not bad but people are bound to hate them because they serve as yet another arbitrary barrier to progress in a game that already provides more such barriers to progres than actual game content. If they somehow made sense into the game's narrative or mechanics people would tolerate them better. Actually all the game's soft barriers to progres are counterintuitive to the game's concept/narrative
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The commendation system is dumb as shit and it's also redundant and pointless. The only reason they implemented it was to put in a barrier so everyone wasn't fully geared 2 minutes into the "expansion". Sure a lot of us had ranks ready to level, but we were only getting one commendation off the bat. Now a month later, we all have piles of the useless shit in our inventories and they're pointless because you can get multiple commendations in the time it takes to get 150 marks [b]so why have them at all[/b]?? Bungie can't make an economy worth a shit and all the garbage they've implemented is just to try to stunt progression speed. Not only did they change raid gear mats to prolong that grind, they did it to make Eris rep a necessity for raiders, otherwise she's as useful as tits on a bull. So no, commendations are as bad as we think.
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I agree but that's also why they are pointless. Unless you get a weapon with the commendation from the postmaster
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I delete them everytime I get one. If you need 31 gear you are probably a casual.
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So the 12 commendations I have what do I do with them now I've bought all I need to buy ?
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They are piling up in my vault. Wish they would give you something for them if you don't need them. I'd trade them for materials any day of the week.
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Yeah right, this game isn't enough of a grind as it is already. We have the 100 mark weekly limit, so it takes more than a week to get enough currency saved up to buy a weapon or helmet. Now we have the requirement to rank up to get a commendation that will give us permission to buy the item we want. Everything Bungie does seems to put the brakes on people's ability to rank up or progress in this game, it's becoming increasingly tiresome.
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...And then you need something from one of the other 4 factions. Neeeext!!!
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450+500 = 950/3000=half Logic
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Its another grind step because did not have and still do not have a full game ( or half a game even at this point). More proof bungie does not know what they are doing amd do not care about making a complete game. Isnt Lukas Smith to blame for us not having match making in all aspects of Destiny?
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They are all bad, period. I've had 10, I kept 3 for the next dlc and all the others have been scrapped. They are worthless
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Wow, I thought this game was supposed to be fun…
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I have like 5 rotting in my vault.
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The only thig that sucks is having the vanguard and crucible commendations seperate. Completely understandable, just lame for people like me who almost strictly rank up a faction instead of vanguard or crucible
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I know that commendations aren't as much of a problem as I thought they would be. I can easily rank up the vanguard in about 2-4 days. It is the marks that are annoying to get
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I ignore their existence [spoiler]i have 10[/spoiler] [spoiler]never used one[/spoiler] [spoiler]but i use plenty of spoilers[/spoiler]
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Commendations are useless , I have like 10-15
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Commendations are easy to get, what I do not understand now is why we cannot finally amalgumate vanguard and crucible marks and simply use the commendations as our separation. Why keep so many different currencies? Just increase the caps on what we can hold and earn and use one less.
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It is easy to rank up vanguard. But ranking up crucible on the other hand Not as easy or fun.
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I didn't know people where whining about this. I Have have more commendations than things to buy...
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2500 to go from lvl 3-4 nghtfal/daily not close to half
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Got 8 don't have a need for them either
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I have like 6-7 commendations just sitting in my vault taking up space lol
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I have 3 or 4. Haven't used one yet and have no need to use one. Unless your new to the game they're useless
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Great, except i have ranked up twice since this has gone live and have not got a commendation so its utter -blam!-ing bollocks
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You actualy explained it well. But so basically you need to be rank 3 or 4 to buy hings you can get at rank 2. And to buy weapons now, urgh... It's grinding upon grinding. Deej and dev plz make some special Vanguard/Crucible bounties that reward a commendation and you can only do 2 a week (2 vanguard and 2 crucible that is)