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only 81 heavy ammo synths? That's 405 gally rockets down the drain. Think i'll take my time.

Does heavy ammo level you up more than the motes, materials and weapons parts exchanges?

Heavy Ammo is the easiest way to gain rep in my opinion since you can use strange coins (which are somewhat useless when you have 300+ of them already).

You can buy rep with 5 motes of light, which are good for reforging items, buying engrams, etc...

I believe it's 4 Special Synths which are somewhat harder to acquire now, but cost way more glimmer to buy then heavy if you use strange coins

you can also trade in armor materials and weapon parts for rep.

5 motes = 100 (125 w/NF) rep
25 armor or weapon parts = 50 (62) rep
Heavy ammo synth = 25 (31) rep
4 special ammo synth = 25 (31) rep

Isn't the nightfall boost going away next week? I vaguely recall reading that.

**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.

**Even Pro-er tip**

Hold off on leveling your faction until the 15th, so you can get the new gear with greater light.

Also, if you're doing a faction quest, hold off on completing it until the 15th, as you have a better chance at a new exotic (the faction quests are real easy, so be careful about accidentally finishing it).

Don't the faction quests require you to do 10 Nightfalls as one of the steps?

I know that feeling. My Titan is at rank 8 for new monarchy. And then my warlock and Hunter have some higher ranks in a lot of them.

Yeah, I don't even know if my highest faction is that high...

I got to Rank 3 in Dead Orbit just to get the Deadshot Luna when HoW came out, and deleted that character shortly thereafter.

Didn't do the faction levelling at all; I was much more interested in levelling Vanguard, especially since for most of my time I wasn't playing in the Crucible.

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

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?

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.