With the announcement that the expansion will be accompanied by a replacement of all gear currently available from vendors for marks with new gear of higher level was a welcome one. But the added cost of these new Commendations, available only through a Faction level up mail, has me wondering if players will be getting Commendations for levels they've already achieved, at what level these Commendations will start arriving, and if they're a guaranteed part of the level up mail or if RNGesus is going to be involved with their distribution. I sincerely hope that players will be getting mail from the factions they have existing faction standing with containing these Commendations so that we're not forced to wait for our next standing increase to start purchasing this new gear from the vendors. I also hope that the Commendations will be mailed out starting at level 1 with a faction and that players don't need to wait till they reach level 3 to start receiving them in the mail. If we're forced to wait till level 3 to purchase a single piece of gear from a vendor and then wait till level 4 to purchase a 2nd there are going to be a lot of players sitting on hundreds of marks with nothing to spend them on other than Material purchases. Finally I'm keenly aware of how fond Bungie has been with employing RNGesus to dole out the loot in Destiny, it took me 3 months to get raid gloves on my Titan even though I ran the Vault with him every week since it opened and in that time I was able to get SIX Mythoclasts and fully outfit my Hunter and Warlock with raid gear even though I didn't start raiding with them till much later. As much as I understand the need for random factors in loot I don't think that these Commendations should be subject to it. Gating these new legendary items through the use of Commendations is understandable, but only if there's a reliable way to acquire them. If there's even the possibility of gaining a level of faction standing and NOT getting a Commendation for it that's going to lead to a lot of new players being unable to get the gear they require to level up and attend the new raid content without spending weeks or months in the old raid content getting gear since you're removing all the current non-commendation items from the vendors.