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Edited by Daniel Rose:
10/9/2014 6:51:38 AM
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Iron Banner is an embarrassment
I love how much Iron Banner was hyped up and how DeeJ and all the other employees at Bungie advertised it as a game mode in which better armor and better weapons actually matter when in reality there is a difference so small in the level advantage that it's basically not even there. As a level 29-30 with full raid armor it takes me the same time to kill a level 6 as it does to kill a level 26. Multiple times I have been shut down by level 9 players with the shingen-c or level 19 players with the shingen-e at the same rate in which they'd shut me down in regular crucible. I tested this out by swapping out my Vanquisher for the BEGINNING AUTO RIFLE you pick up in the first mission and I managed to get second place easily. I further tried this out by deranking myself by wearing all blue armor instead of my usual all raid gear and exotics and what do you know, I was getting killed at the same rate as if I was still level 30 and killing at the same rate as if I had my Vanquisher or Monte Carlo. This is an embarrassment and a huge -blam!- you to us from Bungie.
PLEASE COMMENT IF YOU'VE HAD SIMILAR EXPERIENCES!
No flaming, let's just discuss.
EDIT: My level 30 gear is in the vault at te moment, I'll be home at 5pm PST to put it on
EDIT: Armor is on my warlock 1433 defense
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Edited by XiX GhOsTx XiX: 10/8/2014 9:57:48 PMBefore IB started I thought that it would be some kind of sliding scale for damage. Like each level someone is below you, they take 10% more damage and you receive 10% less damage from them, up to a certain point like 30%. So a lvl 28 would do 20% more damage to a lvl 26 and the lvl 26 would do 20% less damage to a lvl 28. This would make it so that it's not impossible for lower level players to kill higher level players but at the same time they would have to work for it. I guess I just expected this to be 'endgame' content for lvl 26+ players. But apparently that assumption was way off base and realistically it's just Control with a new name and a rep grind attached. I feel bad for everyone who got excited about this 'event', especially those Guardians that spend their time almost exclusively doing PvP.
