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