Us hunters are not to fond of you overpowerd titans either, especially your floating...your supposed to be the grunts. Your shield abilities and somehlow your fist beats a knife to the face. You are the class most favoored by Bungie, warlocks too. While Hunters are the red-headed stepchild of the guardians, have the least powerful supers- ggun only 3 shots, and still very vulnerable in blade mode...ever see a hunter with a blue bar over the health bar? Never mind how either one classe can get stabbed still have health and put up a shield take 2 more stabs yet punch me once and I am dead, even with full white and red bars. Yet I still had a good time, it wad fun. Took me all week to get 5th Rank, and was able to get 3 sets of IB Leg Armor(auto/scout+1 for ascendants, which I did not receive), 1set IB Gauntlets(auto), both Armor Shaders, the Hunter's cloak, an Emblem, Fusion and Scout Rifles, only won the Jolder's machine gun; some rare stuff too(dismantled). Was able to reforge MG, took 5x's to get what I want, mostly, but only twice for the scuot rifle.

I had a great time. It didn't start out on a good note with me. I logged in and had found that my previously attained, and long since maxed out Iron Regalia gloves sitting in my vault, were still level 29 quality, with no re-forge option available to get them up to the level 30 quality. Basically, those of us who grinded all the way up to Rank 3, painstakingly, with no buffs, no medallions(nothing for losses) and harder bounties, got crap out of Iron Banner version 1.0. May as well have started from scratch. I had to dismantle my gloves and re-acquire them and then re-level them. It was completely unfair...it left me with that "what was it all for?" mentality for quite awhile...thereby, taking away from the fun-factor in the beginnings of IB 2.0...you'd understand if you made it to Rank 3 that last time. In the time it took me to get to Rank 3, is what it would have taken me to get to, say, Rank 8 in this last go(assuming I started at Rank 3, and that there was no level 5 cap). ...but I managed all the gear available; including the ship and four Timur's Lashes, which I already had mine maxed out from last go around, and I bought the Scout rifle, the fusion rifle and already had Jolder's Hammer maxed from the last event as well...it wasn't too bad. I even had time to get my wife's character up to Rank 3 for her, since she was already at Rank 1 from the last event. She's finally happy to have ditched her horrible looking Vanguard greaves with their horrendous pointed knee bits...but she didn't need the scout rifle, since she already has Cryptic Dragon, and she's not a fusion person and so there went that. Never the less, I am level 30. I use two Iron Banner armor pieces, in substitute for my raid variants, which are now vaulted, but I still wear my raid helm and exotic chest piece(Praxic Fire). So, all-in-all, I manage to be level 30 while only using one Raid piece...not too shabby. I can now look a little more like I want to look and the perks for the IB gear are beneficial for my new found love for my maxed out Hardlight(extra ammo capacity). Recommendation/s Please diversify the bounties for the next time around. It will get people playing differently each day...for one. Secondly, do not include the Automatic Headshot bounty, unless you're going to include ones for pulse, hand cannon and sniper rifle as well. I don't know if Bungie did it to test out how balanced auto-rifles were, or what...but everyone using the same weapon type(specifically Suros), is not what I would call ideal, nor diverse. It was a huge automatic weapon fest(machine guns included). I don't think I landed in a single match where someone wasn't using Suros. I personally prefer Hardlight myself, you have to fire it in pulses, which makes it more of an art to control. If you just pin the trigger, as you would with Suros, the gun automatically becomes shit, unless the person is point blank. ...but all-in-all...Bungie should inspire use of different weapons, via, bounties, not the opposite.

I found the level improvements and the losing medallions a HUGE success. It made the Crucible [i]very[/i] addicting and more importantly, [i]fun[/i]. Limited items but i am very impressed with their update. Nicely said!

I don't know why everyone is scared of arc blade and self rez, arc blade + shotgun2face = killtrade self rez + pretty much any gun while they sit like a duck = free kill. also pocket infinity is great vs both of those also plan c is great for a quick fusion blast just before the arc blade gets you. pretty much any super counters both of those especially hulk and nova nuke :)