I read this and a few things come to mind.. 1) Why do you want crucible gear if you don't intend to play in the crucible? The Vanguard gear is better for PVE, so if you need legendary gear and only play PVE it will better serve you to use Vanguard Marks to purchase it. 2) This is how all other aspects of the game work. There are people to don't like running the raid and strictly play crucible. They are not able to purchase raid gear outside of playing the raid. So why should you be allowed crucible gear outside of playing the crucible? 3) You don't need to be good at PVP to earn a lot of marks. One 12 minute match will earn you 2 or 3 marks, depending on if you win or loose. This mean in one hour you will earn at least 10 marks, if you loose all 5 matches. That would be equivalent to farming 100 materials, which is hard to do in under an hour! edit: fixed example #3 to show correct amount of marks per match.