The commendation system makes total sense to me. What does not make sense is the Marks system.
You get vanguard marks for pve strikes and other various activities which can only be used for 1/5 of the items available.
Crucible marks, on the other hand only come VERY slowly from playing crucible matches. To purchase a gun from the FWC vendor, it would require at LEAST 50 crucible matches (3 marks for a win) to accumulate the required 150 marks.
So, to get the vast majority of gear, you basically need to hope it drops in packages/night falls/RNG, or you need to devote ridiculous amounts of time exclusively to the crucible.
Bungie, please adjust the system to allow vanguard marks to be useable for more than just vanguard gear! Please!
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Clash is the fastest crucible match to gain marks in.
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That or increase the crucible mark system. I can get 6 marks from completing vanguard roc, yet for 6 crucible marks it takes between 2 and 3 matches.
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The commendations are just stupid. For pretty much ever, people have been telling me that it's RNG and they start at rank 1, so I thought that maybe I would get one just today after getting to rank 2, so I can buy a piece of legendary armor, but no, the piece of armor I want requires a Vanguard rank 2 to get, but I need a commendation to get it, and I won't get it until I am rank 3... effing logic...
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It makes since for other players. Think about it, if you have a character that is rank 5 in vanguard, you have 3 vanguard commendations assuming you haven't spent one. Now, you make a new character and level up the Vanguard reputation to level 2. You can take a commendation earned on your higher level character for your new character that is only rank 2. It's stupid and I personally think the vanguard/crucible commendations are just so people will spend more time on the game, but that's how it is.
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Edited by SalineVampire: 3/28/2015 2:16:20 PMI agree wholeheartedly. While doing patrol missions 90 percent are for one of the crucible factions. We should and do gain rep with those factions for those missions. There should also be a marks exchange system. Even if it's 1 for 2.
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Absolutely. It's like I am building up one currency in abundance (rep/commendations) but have to go somewhere totally different for the second currency. Vanguard and crucible make sense individually. Factions need some work.