I thought it was pretty obvious coming in that this would be a game equally pvp and pve. I for one love both modes. If anything, pretend that, when you are playing the game, it is real. Crucible is meant to train guardians to be better attenuated to fight the darkness (this is how they lay it out at least). As such, the factions want to see how well you do in the crucible (earning marks) before they give away their armors for you to fight the darkness. And (with this patch) someone high up has decided that running around in a circle collecting spirit blooms is no longer good enough to obtain armor and weapons from them. And here's a hint *you can get even better gear than what the factions give out by doing pve stuff like the raid, nightfall, and xur* I literally do not use a single piece of armor or weapon that any of the vendors in the tower sell....