You brought up a good point but I totally disagree with you that this patch ruined PVE or in any way was a nerf. This patch was awesome IMO. I hated farming materials with a passions and the ability to now spend vanguard marks which are essentially useless to me made me so happy. You are correct though. The 3 factions only accepting crucible marks is an issue. I find the vast majority of my playtime now is PVE based. It just seems it is a way more effective way to get experience to level up weapons. Also running the raids a couple of times, nightfalls, weekly, etc. means I just don't have much time to PVP. Like yourself I am shut out from the reputation based vendors. However I would never claim that this patch was a nerf to PVE, this patch was mostly really good.