You would think that patrols WOULD give vanguard rank points, but alas, no. Gone are the days of the vanguard maintaining, let alone establishing new, drop zones like we did in D1, especially the Taken King stuff where we had to place the beacons on the Dreadnaught. Side thought... wasn't that one of the hunter vanguard duties, to establish landing zones and patrol beacons on newly discovered destinations? Maybe they'll get around to appointing one during or after WQ?