My experience was great! I only had one really bad lag switcher out of 36 games. I keep a win loss so I do know how many I played. I loved having more maps and I guess Iron Banner just doesn't happen on the larger maps with turrets and vehicles? Or our map rolls sucked. I didn't detect any advantage attributed to my more powerful gear and weapons which made sense since my last Iron Banner I was equal to max level and this Iron Banner I'm a level below. (Trials of Osiris didn't go so great. Don't get me wrong, I like the mode, I'm just not quite "there" yet.) This Iron Banner DID feel a lot different though because I went with an entirely new strategy. This is my third Iron Banner and I really enjoy the event. That is not to say I did well. It's pretty much been a process of watching how people play while I foolishly ran to be first on point (no I didn't. The others on my "team" literally stopped and let me be first. He doesn't know any better? Right then something else we can abuse!) So my strategy this go was less Sun Tzu and more Monty Python: Don't be seen, cover the points, learn the maps, only strike with a multiplier of one, raise multiplier whenever possible. Also my loadout was literally created by counting nerf posts then adding to it the Jolder's Hammer I won during the last Iron Banner. It seemed fitting. The loadout was freakin' gold! You can probably guess: Thorn, Judgment VI (Shot package, rifled barrel, luck in the chamber) and Jolder's Hammer which still has it's default rolls and it really doesn't matter. The Thing's a beast. So power-level advantages weren't something I really felt. If something new did give me an advantage, it was the gunsmith. That Judgment didn't make itself.... That and the meta game really made the difference and yes, the results have been different - and greatly satisfying. Also I didn't get tea bagged at all this go, and to all who were doing it before and just decided to suddenly show decency, Thanks! My first two goes at Iron Banner were about one teabagger short of a really good Bill Maher sub-reference. I also can't speak to the difference between normal Crucible because I don't play it. I play all parts of Destiny and my PvP usually IS the big tourney's and events. Which I love. An' I'm an immigrant from the MMOs. Yeah it's new to me, sure I'm not the most experienced, does that make it any less fun? Nope. Not at all.