How does it favor PvP when you're forced to raid to get to 30, and obtain elemental damage primaries, get the fastest sparrow, and obtain a consistent income of shards and energies the highest achievements so far. Not to mention nightfall, which is the one thing where exotics come from randomly the most often, and the rep boost, plus the weekly, which is where strange coins come from to buy the exotics, plus tiger strikes and daily, where you get guaranteed engrams.
How does this game favor PvP? How? If you took a pure pve player and a pure PvP player. Not only would the pve player level up quicker after 20, they'd have more stuff in general. The PvP player has literally zero chance of getting 30 and near zero chance of getting exotics because they rarely drop in PvP.
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I've had one exotic drop from PvE. One. All others I bought from Xur. You can get to 30 with Iron Banner gear. Raid weapons I'll give you. But in regards to the ability to choose how to "become legend," PvP players have the hands-down advantage thanks to the plethora of vendors for them. You can use crucible marks to very specifically CHOOSE your gear ... What stats/weapons you want to boost. Can't do that with RNG and two choices to make purchases. So when I say "heavily favors," it's the gear to which I'm referring. With the exception of raid stuff, PvP players can get everything PvE players can get and then some.