I don’t know what’s going on with the drop rates this time around, but Iron Banner rewards feel seriously out of whack. I’m playing the event specifically to chase Iron Banner gear, yet somehow I’m getting more Wild Anthem armor drops than actual Iron Banner pieces. That shouldn’t even be a thing during a limited-time event that’s supposed to focus on its own loot pool.
On top of that, the balance between armor and weapons feels terrible. The overwhelming majority of my drops have been armor, and not even Iron Banner armor most of the time. When I do get Iron Banner gear, it’s almost always another armor piece instead of weapons. It makes grinding feel pointless when the rewards aren’t lining up with what the event is supposed to offer.
Iron Banner should feel rewarding and targeted. Right now it just feels diluted, like the loot pool is bloated with things that shouldn’t be competing with event-specific drops in the first place. If I’m putting in the time during Iron Banner week, I should be consistently earning Iron Banner gear, especially weapons.
Please take a look at the drop weighting here, because something feels seriously off.
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Working as intended 😉
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They need to remove Wild Anthem from the iron banner loot pool and add Finite Impactor!!
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4 RepliesBlame the streamers, they unanimously dislike that we "common peasants" are getting too much loot
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2 RepliesI’ve played ten matches today(not to mention I played since reset EAT till past midnight) and yeah something is wrong with loot. I have won most of my matches and I’ve gotten maybe 5 rocket launchers and three traces. I have had the gear bonus for five pieces since the event started and there seems to be a SEVERE imbalance between different accounts. Bc I personally know people who are struggling to earn armor bc they want different stats but yet are drowning with weapon drops. It doesn’t make any sense at all.
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Ive had the auto rifle 3 times, and the third roll was exactly the same as the first. I'm getting lots of armour and world drops but not the God dam weapon I'm going for. Getting disheartened.... as usual
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13 RepliesEdited by ⓇⒺⒹ•ⓈⒽⒾⒻⓉ: 4/15/2026 5:27:57 AMYou need to equip the IB gear from this season in order to get a reward multiplier. Look at modifiers in the playlist and you will see. No, ornaments do not work and the new weapons are somehow not considered IB gear only the auto rifle.... which really sucks...
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After my first match I got a decent rolled Reghusks, a Motif-41 and [b]THREE [/b]Iron Panoply bonds. Another 2 bonds second match.......that was after waiting 5 minutes for a match, then getting put back to orbit in another queue, flying into a black screen before being returned to orbit again I have no idea what state this game is in right now, but Iron Banner used to be a regular game mode to look forward to, yet it's acting up like it's something new in a totally new dlc. Why are there so many problems with a mode we've been playing for years?
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Iron banner drops has always been bad. With that being said i did get all 3 weapons and 3 different pieces after just 3 games. So it looks to be better.
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Edited by THEREALLONEWOLFx: 4/15/2026 12:46:21 PMI've gotten a full set multiple pieces on top of a full set and IB weapons. I think I only played maybe 12 to 14 matches yesterday. I do agree they need to remove any thing that isn't related to IB as drops!
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Edited by InspectahDeck77: 4/15/2026 8:01:58 AMi got entire hunter armor & a few new ib weapons titan class item will not drop at all rank 15 & nothing
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Well… did you expect anything different than the usual? It’s bad as always. Every other game is joining in progress right before getting mercy, no IB weapon drops. Pretty much the standard for IB
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I agree. I played about 8 matches so far have have only gotten 2 IB items to drop, and one was a cloak.