Having reached ranked 5 on all 3 character last IB, I was pretty burnt out and straight up refused to grind again for this IB, and so up to this point I only did normal crucible when I'm bored or just finished up with a raid.
I have to say, the normal crucible right now it's like an amusement park on a cloudy chilly day. Very little people around, no line up, can repeat the rides as much as I want. I see very few try hards with thorns, TLW, red death, Felwinter, Party crasher, matador etc. I see people using auto rifles, NLBs, fusion rifles like the POE one. In general, it was very fun and I have the wiggle room to swap out my try hard weapons for weapons that I always wanted to try out like Universal remotes, monte carlo, fourth horseman etc.
I imagine this weekend is going to be even better as all the sweaty try hards it's going to be either in IB and trials.
EDIT: Don't be offended by my use of "Sweaty Tryhard", when I play IB, that's me. Sweaty Tryhard is simply the term I use to describe any one who use the best possible gear and weapon, best possible class loadout, and try their best to win every match.
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I should probably have been doing the same. I was just playing a few games of IB using NLB and suros (flicking between upgraded and non-upgraded versions). Wasnt doing very well at all.