-- Steve's pondering changing his approach this year, particularly now that faction rep doesn't displace Vanguard/Crucible rep.

Yeah, I think 11 is my highest.

Woah, I thought you'd be much higher. 15 for me (Dead Orbit)

Knowing me, I'm still going to run the nightfall as early as possible. Mostly out of habit.

**Protip**
- For only 27 Strange Coins you can level up a faction with the Nightfall Buff. You need 81 Heavy Ammo Synths per level with the Buff. If you are close to rank 25 I would recommend doing this so you can start your faction quest.

This doesn't even make sense to me. As usual, I think I need the Dummies Guide
Is this new 2.0 stuff? You can trade coins into faction leaders for heavy ammo synths and it increases faction XP?

The idea is that you can trade in materials (even synths) to reputation. Trading heavy ammo synths give you the most rep. In fact the best way to do it is to buy with motes and then trade in the synths.

Is this new 2.0 stuff? You can trade coins into faction leaders for heavy ammo synths and it increases faction XP?

You can buy heavy ammo synths from Xur for cheap. Then there is a material donation section in with the factions for you to donate stuff for rep with them.

This is the last week of the nightfall XP buff (as far as we know). When you trade in 1 Heavy Ammo Synth you get 25 rep (31 with nightfall buff).

If you are close to leveling up a faction to 25 then this is the best week to do it. At level 25 you are eligible to start the faction quest line which will yield you an exotic class item for your chosen faction.

Or if you are really trying for a shader or ship from a faction, then you can do it for cheap this week.

edit: This is still older gear, but not the Taken King gear until after Tuesday.

**Protip**
- For only 27 Strange Coins you can level up a faction with the Nightfall Buff. You need 81 Heavy Ammo Synths per level with the Buff. If you are close to rank 25 I would recommend doing this so you can start your faction quest.

This doesn't even make sense to me. As usual, I think I need the Dummies Guide
Is this new 2.0 stuff? You can trade coins into faction leaders for heavy ammo synths and it increases faction XP?

This week's nightfall can be done in less than 5 minutes ...

People keep saying that, but what about this "Very Hard" label it now has? I'm skeered.

It was ridiculously easy to do with a single teammate. A Fireteam of three can do it in no time.
Like I said, even level 20 people can run it (although given their low Light rating, they'll have a nasty time of it).

i never saw a problem with the way it was. You get xp for everything (except raids). If you do this one thing that is extra hard, then you get rewarded with the Buff.

I think there are a lot of people that agree with you, but I totally get where Bungie is coming from. If you wanted to max out your potential XP gain for the week you HAD to do the Nightfall first thing. Giving players options in what they want to do when they want to will often be a better system.

That kind of defeats the purpose of a buff. I mean, you do something hard to get something. The way it is now makes perfect sense to me.

True, but it was kind of meant to be a band-aid until they figured out how they wanted the nightfall buff to work. Rather than take away the bonus rep/XP that people were counting on, they'll just give it to everyone for now.

-Disciple

i never saw a problem with the way it was. You get xp for everything (except raids). If you do this one thing that is extra hard, then you get rewarded with the Buff.

That kind of defeats the purpose of a buff. I mean, you do something hard to get something. The way it is now makes perfect sense to me.

True, but it was kind of meant to be a band-aid until they figured out how they wanted the nightfall buff to work. Rather than take away the bonus rep/XP that people were counting on, they'll just give it to everyone for now.

-Disciple

Gotta give us Nightfall buff addicts our fix or we will go ape shit on them!