So to build reputation for Variks to get his cosmetic items, not endgame gear, just cosmetics you need to accumulate Rep like other factions, 1000 for Rank one, 3000 for Rank two and the same or more for rank three.
You gain it from completing the weekly's, doing all nets you 1000 per week for your character meaning it'll take about two months until you can acquire his shaders, that's fine I'm not expecting everything week one, but then they give us a second, unrestricted, path to build rep by doing the 28 version, but there's a problem
It's only 10 rep a round, 25 for the boss
That's just such a small amount, that's patrol mission levels of XP but this isn't a one-minute objective, without Gjallahorns or cooperation between teamates (which is to be expected in the 28 version) it can take 20-30 minutes to clear PoE, and completing it doesn't even give you House of Judgement reputation, it's Vanguard for some reason! So why is this extra rep in the game when it's so insignificant and the rewards are just cosmetics?
Also,the items are not bought with existing currency, they're brought with these new tokens which are not exchangeable (something Bungie so proudly claimed before HoW) and by the time we get to the Rep level to use them we're going have way more than we know what to do with them. I already have six tokens of identity in the first week alone without farming, that's more than enough for everything Varkis is selling.
tl:dr - I think that Judgement's Rep and currency could do with improvement
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This topic NEEDS to be revisited, it's stupid how slow you rank up still. Now I know there are weapons and armor that scale and this could be used to level up quicker