It takes a while, but you can rank up the other factions by equipping their class item, and then trading in planetary materials (spin metal, helium, relic iron, spirit bloom) for crucible marks. You still won't be able to buy from Shaxx or the crucible quartermaster if you don't play there (not enough crucible rep level), but future war cult, dead orbit, and new monarchy can be leveled up without stepping one foot inside PvP. Granted, your return rate on materials vs. crucible marks is basically 10 to 1, as you have to turn in 50 materials at a time to get 5 marks, 25 rep, 250 glimmer and a small amount of XP.
I will say at the beginning I was like you, and didn't want anything to do with crucible. I tried a few matches the first week and got stomped, and even avoided a few exotic bounties because of the crucible requirement. I gave it another try when I decided to do the bad juju bounty (no death penalty unlike the thorn one), and only played when there were easy crucible bounties (complete 5 of match type X, kill 25 of this class guardians, earn 50 assists). It's kind of grown on me. I still have games where I get stomped on, but I tend to go at least even k/d, and I've even won a couple of rumble games now. It's definitely a lot more enjoyable when you have a friend or two in your fireteam. Most of my friends don't like crucible either, so I end up doing the bounties on my own.
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I know what you mean dude, but players like us should be able to buy from the factions with the Vanguard marks that we earned because otherwise they are just going to waste whilst Crucible players get a much wider selection, which is the part a lot of the community disagree with.
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I see what you're saying. I guess I don't feel strongly about it either way, but it would be awesome if the three factions took either crucible or vanguard marks. You still have to use their class items to gain reputation levels, so it's not like a PvE only person would get instant access to their stuff. Or maybe they could add a Marks Exchange robot (or give Tess or Xur something else to do), so you could trade in one type of mark for another at a reduced rate.
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I agree, that would be an awesome thing to do! If they still need to be stingy towards PVE, then I wouldn't even mind paying two hundred Vanguard marks for one hundred Crucible marks. I just have all these Vanguard marks spare with nothing to spend them on and it seems stupid!