I agree on the drop rate, but disagree on marks. Account wide you've had 240 marks available from reset to reset (30x7 for dailys, and 30 for weekly heroics). You've also had 75 marks per character available through the three weekly iron banner bounties. You also had at least a weeks notice to save up some of last week's 270 (+30 for weekly PvP that wasn't available this week). This doesn't include marks from breaking down legendaries or from incomplete missions. Assuming you wisely planned, and started the week with 200 marks, you'd have had 665 (interesting number) marks available to you this week. I didn't look at anything about the pulse rifle, but this would have been enough for 7 pulse rifles with change. Obviously you'd have to spend marks as you went since you can't stack over 200, but you get my point. They were also very generous about decreasing the cost of the items compared to the faction vendor/kiosks. Also you missed one thing they did right. The way the reworked the tempered buff and bounties made this IB MUCH more enjoyable. If you hung onto you three weekly bounties, then yesterday or today you could have gone from half way through R3 to R5 without completing a single additional match. And it was incredibly easy to hit R3 by doing some of the bounties. I only played on one character, but I was able to hit R5 last night even while skipping ~3 days worth of bounties.