Purchase a full set of Faction armor. Why? The ridiculously low Mark Cap.
100 Marks a week is way too prohibitive. Assuming 2.5 a game, (half win/loss), that is 40 games a week. Most games in my experience take 8 minutes to finish. Less for Rumble, more for Control.
40 games by 8 minutes is 320 minutes. Add another 40 for actually finding the matches. (30 seconds before/after). This is 360 minutes.
When you turn that into hours, you get 6. Six hours of Crucible and you earn no marks. Almost [b]anyone[/b] has more than enough time to play for an hour a day.
How can Bungie justify artificially delaying how long it takes to grind their gear? This is absolutely ridiculous and must be changed.
Edit: Apparently Marks are NOT transfered between characters. That means you can waste anywhere from 64-149 marks not buying what you want. Mark cap needs to be increased
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okay, think. level 26 to do the raid. it's been suggested, and rightly so, that the raid will get you close to level 30. you can get to level 26/27 with a couple legendaries or a single legendary and an exotic piece of armor, which is 13 Strange Coins. it doesn't really seem that much of a problem.