Simple solution to bring more enjoyment into PvP overall, and give Iron Banner a much needed elevation boost (because this should be a raid type game play for PvP and reward accordingly) is this:
Iron Banner should have gear that drops with max boost perks potential, like Dreaming City and Raid gear. Curated rolls should have potential to drop during game play. Create a pool of emotes, banners, shaders (high end ones), ships, sparrows, basically a large pool of desirable cosmetics that have a chance to drop during gameplay or when you rank up. Weapons should be of more desirable stats that give them meta potential.
Base Crucible should have skins that drop (like they've done in the past). This decreases the amount of armor we need to hold on to. Each season should bring some additional weapons to be added to the pool. This could be accomplished just by bringing back some old outdated weapons that were all the rage back in Y1 but never saw updates to perk trees when Bungie implemented those changes. Also, bring in maps from D1. Many of these larger maps would also help to make scouts and snipers more relevant.
I'm with you on this as I'm mostly a PvP player myself, but feel that aspect of the game has been largely ignored in D2 sadly. Also bringing back factions and making them more invested in PvP play, they are looking for champions and prestige afterall, would be an awesome addition to the game. You can hear the NPCs that walk around the city talking about the Crucible as if it was a form of sport and entertainment to them. You would think if it was something so many people were interested in, Bungie would invest more into it to make it an extremely important and relevant part of Destiny.
What's more, this is all pretty easy to do. It's not like creating a new raid with new areas, bosses, mechanics and challenges. Everything is, for the most part already there and would just need to be tweaked or ported over and polished up to implement. It would give a huge amount of fun and increase desires to play and feel rewarded, with very limited investment from Bungie.
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Also... In D3. I would like to see THIS idea come to be. Instead of what we currently have. :) https://www.bungie.net/en/Forums/Post/251879097?page=0&sort=0&showBanned=0&path=1
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Yes. I agree. I'd love to see the Iron Banner get such a treatment. Larger maps (with less clutter) would be great. An increased base loot pool would help. And the dang Factions... If they came back; permanently, and had a big presence within Crucible it would be amazing. And I like the Crucible as a sport idea. What if they made a map that was basically a huge stadium with protection built around the fans so they can watch us blast each other in person somehow? I don't know. Something. ANYTHING. Too make it feel rewarding and to have it become more sporting in some ways. Like have a way to always see the top 100 Crucible players in different categories with your rank at the bottom for comparison. HAve a way to look at all of our stats; in game, and maybe compare those stats with your clan or even the whole community. Maybe have a clan leaderboard to see how clans stack up to each other in different categories. And have a leaderboard for the Factions in different categories as well. So much they could do to make it rewarding and more engaging.