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Edited by Valek27:
10/18/2015 4:20:38 AM
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How satisfied are you with the iron banner loot system?
OK here is a poll because I'm curious to how many people feel the way I do. Personally I feel the loot system this iron banner was a complete joke.
Let's compare year 1 vs year 2 drops:
Year 1 Saladin had 2 weapons and 2 armor pieces to buy. The loot table for matches had 2 additional iron banner weapons, exotic items and all of the regular crucible gear. Which made for getting some decent drops pretty regularly once you hit rank 4 and higher. I know you could get some at rank 3. But the rate seemed to increase as you got higher. Yeah sometimes you got nothing, but at least you saw good drops going to your fellow guardians. Which gave you hope and drive to keep pushing.
Year 2 Saladin has 2 weapons and 1 piece of armor. The loot table (from what I've seen) contains only the same gear as saladin, the new ship, and a whole ton of blues that average 10-20 light levels below from being useful. Oh and let's not forget strange coins and motes of light...
The loot system is so bad year 2 that most of my hard core pvp friends have stopped bothering with iron banner. Between the lag, void bow spam and horrible rewards it hasn't been worth the effort.
[i]edit 1: Thanks for all the votes and replies÷[/i]
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Edited by ClownPuncher2K: 10/19/2015 8:49:51 PMHorrible. IB is now a total waste of time. Would have done better running Patrols all weekend than spending the time to rank up to IB5. 1) The drops are almost non-existent. 2) What little does drop is worthless, and is always far less than what I already have armed (sometimes >20 points less!). I couldn't even use them for infusions. 3) The total number of materials (armor/gun parts) that you get from dismantling the infrequent, worthless rewards has been NERFED, so they're even less valuable than you thought. 4) Now you have to Legendary Marks (40 of them!) to buy a titan mark? Really??? Who's idea was it to move off of Glimmer as IB's currency? I've always been a defender of Bungie's decisions when it came to changes in the economy of the game including the ones that directly affected my personal play style (NERF-ing of IceBreaker, The Last Word, Thorn, shot package, etc.), but this is just ridiculous. Bungie totally blew it with IB. I won't be wasting my time next month. Between the lackluster (NERF-ed/missing/pathetic) Nightfall and IB rewards, there's not much point in spending time as a Guardian.
