So, now you can earn both faction and vanguard rep at the same time. Cool, right? Well... Kind of. The vanguard has very little I am interested in getting. I joined a faction because I want FACTION ITEMS. Now, when you join a faction and complete a bounty, guess what? You only receive HALF of what that bounty is worth. If I do a 50 bounty, I get 25 for it. If I do a nightfall or heroic, I get maybe 250 for it. Im sorry, but before this update I could rank up my faction every 2 days or so simply by completing the daily bounties and maybe a few patrols with some strikes and crucible thrown in. Now if I'm lucky I'll rank up like twice a week. Granted I can turn a ton of things in for rep, but many of those things I plan on, you know... Using once in awhile. The drop rate for shaders and ships better have increased dramatically, cuz I've been working hard for them both and now it's gonna take even longer just to rank up, let alone be lucky enough to be blessed by rng with a shader. Edit 1: General consensus has been that you can earn a class item from your faction of choice that will help raise your earnings. I currently have the quest, which requires 10 completed heroics (done) and slaying enemies in said strikes, and 10 crucible wins with slaying enemies as well. However, let me say this: while the bounties are easier and you can now hold 16 at a time, you still only get 12 a day per character. None of them are worth 100 at the moment. You only get half your earned rep for your faction (25 for a 50, 33 for a 65, plus whatever nightfall gives you), and patrols are not rewarding rep at the moment. Second, I recognize that you can trade in things for rep as well. However, this is only a great deal right at the beginning. When HOW dropped, everyone had tons of engrams lying around and got to trade them in and get tons of cryptarch rep and glimmer and new items. I don't know about you, but I burned through that glimmer quick and those materials even faster. You can trade in heavy synth for rep... But it costs 27 strange coins for 81 heavies which will rank you up one level. Don't know about you, but I don't want to get rid of all my synths or coins just to rank up one time. Motes are going to be an important currency, so spending them right now is stupid. Old armor materials are a one time , you might have a ton now but you never will again. Point being, I get that eventually this might be a better system, but for now it sucks.