Let's actually question this cause it doesn't get any light shed on this subject. Strikes take about 10-15 minutes to complete, so let me set up a scenario for you. You start up a strike. You play all the way through, you either did well or you had a difficult time depending on your light level. You finally make it past the hordes of enemies and beat the boss. Yada yada yada, you killed it. Awesome, cool, great. That took about 13 minutes to complete. You get [u]25 rep.[/u] No problem right? Here's another one for you: You go to patrol on earth to complete the patrol missions for the bounty, which is completely fine. You pick one up and it turns out to be an assassination mission, cool. You travel there in less than 5 min and kill the target. You completed the mission and you get [u]25 rep...[/u] You see what's going on here? You can just farm for this assassination mission instead of doing the strike playlist to get rep faster. You get [u]25 rep in less than a third[/u] of the time it would've taken to complete a strike. Not only that, but you killed a high ranking enemy in that faction! You kill a Cabal General and [b]you get the same amount of rep you get for killing a dreg with 2 arms!!![/b] Please Bungie, raise the rep gain in strikes... Don't let all this typing go to waste...