I feel like trials is supposed to be more rewarding, hence this.
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If Iron Banner had 300 gear from the vendor, Trials would still be more rewarding. 5 wins rewards a 300+ item, 7 a 300+ weapon, 9 a 310+ weapon. You can complete the silver and gold tier bounties basically without actually winning a game, and those can both reward items above 310, and completing the bounties on all 3 characters takes less time than getting 1 char to IB rank 5 (before Sunday, anyway). Meanwhile, IB has a chance at 310 items from the rank 5 package and completely random drops and perks from the end of matches that can go up to 310 but are highly likely to be below 300. Trials wins by a landslide.
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9 wins flawless you mean (for trials) plus gold and silver packages drop 300+, not 310+. I've gotten an artifact at 300 light from a gold package. And for my silver I didn't even get any reward. And yes, everything had a free slot in it. IB vendor gear at 280 isn't the games biggest flaw, nor is it really a flaw at all. Put some blue in it and wow, it's basically 300 in 2 seconds. IB drops are also better, people are getting 310 stuff from it, or well people are getting 300+ light from drops in IB. Yes, random, where trials is more of a guarantee, makes it easier for trials gear. But still, it being random for IB isn't awesome, and they did include packages at rank 3 and 5. So IB isn't really that bad. And to be honest, no one who plays this game can really complain to hard about RNG. It's RNG, literally random. You play this game knowing it. Anyways, yeah, IB isn't really worthless compared to trials.
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Edited by Orrion: 11/19/2015 3:06:47 PMI got a 315 exotic out of the silver tier, so yes it does. Rank 3 package is pretty garbage - 310 blue artifacts seem to be all that comes out of them.