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Originally Posted by gottabekd
Quick tip about factions, marks:
Consider ensuring you level up your Vanguard rank to level 3 before ranking up a faction (FWC, New Monarchy, Dead Orbit). In order to buy good stuff from the vendors, you need to be level 2 or 3. It would be frustrating to get enough vanguard marks to buy a shiny new gun, only to realize that you have to grind away levelling up the reputation.
Vanguard marks, you can only earn 100 per week, and carry 200 max. So if you hit the 200 max, might as well spend them!
And this is an obvious tip for those that have played the game lots, but if you are still finding your way, listen up. You know how you have earn experience to level up your weapons and armour? The best way to earn experience to do daily bounties. But wait! You actually earn that XP when you cash in the bounties. So when in the tower, before walking up to cash in the bounties, swap out your fully levelled gear for some that could use the XP. Then cash in the bounties.
Note that you also get huge XP for missions (e.g. daily missions), and the weekly strikes. If you are really quick, you can kill the last guy for the mission, then quickly open up the menu and swap to your unlevelled gear. Sometimes you get a 2 or 3 second window before the mission is actually completed.
So again, this little trick should be obvious after a while, but if you are just getting into the game, this is hugely helpful to get the armour upgraded and the gun perks unlocked quickly.
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Another issue with the other factions is that you can only buy gear with Crucible marks, which take much longer to obtain than Vanguard Marks. Something like 5 marks per win, 2 for losses?
Also, a really easy way to get marks besides the nightfall, weekly, dailies, and strike list is go just chase public events. You get 4 marks for gold tier completions, which are fairly easy. You can chase them up using
http://destinypublicevents.com/. They're also pretty frequent, so you should see them pretty often when running patrol missions.
Also, a little too late for you guys, but bounties are a sure fire way to get to level 20 really fast. I just got my warlock to 20 in like 3 days running Vanguard, Crucible and Eris bounties, with no gear help from my other 2 chars. Might be good to know for your future alts though (and yes FYI you can do Eris bounties as soon as you hit Lv 4. Just gotta dismiss the main mission first. Some of my buddies didn't know that).