I know it's a long post Deej, and i 'do' like the concept of Iron Banner, but the rewards made me feel cheated.. honest feedback. My constructive improvement suggestions near the end... Also i did feel the difference, not a lot, but i did notice when i played around with light levels. Mainly by some players still being alive with a smidge of health after being shot with the same amount of hits which would kill someone else. It felt 'marginly' easier with higher light level, though at the end of the day, it's still down to our ability to land shots, and who can do it faster and more accurately. I hit rank 5 on the 16th, been playing many many matches and the only drops i've had have been: bond x2 sidearm pulse rifle While that may seem good.. when you consider that I've been off work sick so was able to pretty much be on it all day long each day, game after game over 5 days so far.. that's lame as hell. The droprate is terrible.. I've 'rarely' seen other players get legendaries either. Bungie said in the News article: Destiny Update - 10/13/2015 1 - Game completion rewards have been reworked to be a more valid source for Iron Banner rewards 2 - End-of-match rewards now include both weapons and armor (including items available on Lord Saladin) 1 implies that we should reliably be able to get rewards, the facts it's Iron Banner would imply it's specific rewards, hence why i would assume it's Legendary rewards. 4 drops in 5 full days of play is quite frankly proof statement 1 is false. 2 implies that we would be able to have the chance to get 'all' the armour and weapons as a means of drops. This is due to the bracketed sentence. It states it would 'include' the sold items, it doesn't say it would 'only' drop the sold items. So this too is false. Simply put, the information we were provided with was very flawed and misleading and has led to many of us wasting our time for items that simply will not drop for 'anyone'. To say i'm feeling cheated is an understatement. I don't mind grinding for gear.. but this is overkill, and ultimately for nothing as nothing is even dropping for other people. I like the idea of Iron Banner.. however the improvements i would make are: 1. Make 'the full armour set' available from Saladin so we can 'choose' what to buy. (Due to the marks we'd have to be selective anyway). 2. Make it attainable through drops. The playtime to drop ratio would absolutely have to improve! Remember.. the event is only on for 1 week Bungie, and there is only so much time in the day people can game, we have lives and jobs outside of the game.. Due to imposing such a limited time to play, if you are going to offer 'drops' then make the droprates more reasonable for the limited amount of time people have to play those matches. At present, Iron Banner reward system is unrealistic for gamers to be rewarded adequately for the time they invest. That is why i believe this Iron Banner has been terrible. (Coming from someone who generally enjoys it). I doubt i will bother next time around unless proper changes are made. It's just not worth the time i've spent on it. [b]Edit:[/b] Another good consolidated thread about loot drops for Iron Banner: https://www.bungie.net/en/Forum/Post/163126495/0/0

We need more bounties for it. Three a day just couldn't cut it. Made it a bit more of a grind. It was fun though. Maybe have the IB game mode change between control and rift. Also I feel everything was pretty balanced. The community is finally figuring out how to counter HoS (hint: jump/run). I'd prefer if power levels capped off at a certain point though. I think the recommended light level for IB was 250 or around that. However, someone at 250 going up against someone at 302 stood no chance.

Power levels: I am in the top 5% for iron banner according to DTR. As a 299, I was being outgunned by 304s and up. Losing gunfights I normally would not. It was frustrating. I understand the power advantage by those with raid gear, but now there is no alternative. Iron banner gear used to be on par with raid gear which was my motivation for doing it. I used to raid alot but have only done Oryx once. I simply do not have the time (nor the motivation due to a vault full of useless yr1 raid gear) to grind three raids a week to get my light up to be back to top Iron Banner competitiveness. If the IB gear doesn't provide an alternative to raiding, there is no point in striving for it. Drop rates and gear for purchase: I went to rank five on one character. My legendary drops were two sidearms, and the pulse rifle after I already bought it. We used to have the choice of two armor pieces with different stats at the highest levels, and now that is left to RNG. Very much a step in the wrong direction if you want to keep players. Unless you change these and offer some raid quality gear for purchase NOT RNG, I won't be participating in the next one.

I noticed that I was surviving attacks that should've killed my Guardian (:

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Brb

How about another update Dee-Jay? No? Wait another year. Lol

What's iron banner

Power advantage was really interesting. My personal opinion as a 304 was that it was a challenge and a welcomed challenge at that. So thumbs up. The frustrating thing was - The number of people that quit a game 1minute into the match. Seriously got to punish players who do this more than once. HoS - my second toon run was a Titan sun breaker and it was a great joy smashing people to pieces, but it wasn't fair. Happy to switch to a Titan if you don't nerf it though. Damn it was fun. Then the major issue was LOOT DROPS. Poor poor loot drops. I got two toons to lvl 5 and only had a warlock bond drop. Can't think how many games I went through and didn't see anything drop. The other frustrating thing which I feel is fair to say - is the levels on IB gear. The higher level players had all Raid gear. Now I ran the raid with three characters since week 2. Hardly had anything drop. Just shards, shards and more shards. Okay RNG. Not bitching about that or saying I didn't get anything, but if you want players to perform at a fair high standard. Then we can't rely on RNG to determine how strong our toons are. You've got to give PvP players the gear opportunities you give raiders. This is coming from a raider as well. I hope you see all this in your stats though. Look forward to some being published. Edit: the only cheating I came across was laggers. Didn't see one hunter cheat using his SS. So hats off to them players who played it legit.