Look. If I get going this is going to get far too long. So I'm going to try to be as straight to the point as I can. We have had six seperate sets of Iron Banner armor in D2's life time. Not a single one of them looks good. I'm willing to let the first three sets slide. That was a new thing, you were trying to get more weebs into the game. But prior to Forsaken, one of the community managers said they heard us about wanting the old aesthetic back. Forsaken comes out, and we get a collection of clumsily strewn together sets that don't have the look of the knight/viking aesthetic, and don't have the conviction to at the very least stick with the tired Samurai look.
You keep telling us that there is a limit to how much you can fit into this game and each time a new armour set comes out I am baffled. AWESTRUCK, by your design choices. If there is a limit, why do you insist on filling that limit with armor sets that look so god damn mediocre? Iron Banner armour is just one symptom of this. Iron Banner used to have the best gear in D1. The hunter had long gorgeous cloaks with elegant trees stretched upon the canvas, or a collar wreathed in flames. Titan's used to have plated armor embroidered with wolves, and the horns of bulls.
What happened? Where did your designers go? Why is it the one armor set with an animal theme, sorry the one armor set that looks truly unique in this expansion, is eververse exclusive, while Iron Banner has us looking like a bunch of washed out janitors in a post apocalyptic world? Why do you keep aproving these designs? Are you struggling? Do you need new ideas? Because there is fanart that is infinitely better than whatever this cobbled together, sleeping bag cloak having, weirdly rounded, stupid boots having armor set is. I would take one good looking Iron Banner set over this entire year, rather than a low quality set every new season.
But then, I guess I shouldn't have been surprised or even hopeful for the new set, considering the set we got in season of Opulence wasn't even a new set. But eververse sure got updated though.
And just like that, it was not straight to the point. So I'll leave this here I suppose.
[b]tl;dr[/b]: Iron Banner gear, and gear in general needs to stop being so god damned mediocre. There is a limit to how much you can put in the game, so stop filling it up with such ugly armor sets, and actually put in some work and creativity to make something that looks half decent. If you don't want to put in the effort, then don't bother with Iron Banner anymore.
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It isn't just the Iron Banner armor....the aesthetic of all the newer armor and weapons has been trash. Dreamsbane from Eris is by far the worst so far. For Iron Banner: Reintroduce the Iron Regalia For Titans in general: Do legendary versions of the original Knight Type, Arihant Type, Illyrian Type For Warlocks in general: Logic Singer (especially the helmet with the crests and without the stupid opulence jewels all over them), Tengu Operant, Axiom Coven For Hunters in general: Sojourn from Dead Orbit (especially the helmet and cloak style), Ghost Angel, Komarov, Snakeline, Rustburner The aesthetic back then was so much better. Bungie's new armor and weapons with leaves, gigantic vex back spines, and stuff all over them is just....ugh, bad. The new Iron Banner is bland and once again, the hunter gets a super crappy looking cloak. Seriously, it's pretty bad when I'm hoping for a reintroduction of old sets like they did in Forsaken with the Prodigal sets, rather than hoping for new cool looking armor. If for nothing else, Bungie should bring back some old Legacy sets from D1 for those of us that liked the aesthetic back then. More customization is never a bad thing and they already have the models for the armor & guns. It can't be that hard.
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I’d throw money at the screen for some Good ol’ crusader armor. DEUS VULT
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1 RespuestaUnfortunately it looks like in year 3 they're going to be reusing the designs from year 1 and 2 which is why theyre not making year 1 and 2 IB armour available as ornaments for the new IB sets, so they don't have to design new armour, so disappointed but I guess it's my fault for having hope that bungie wouldn't do this in the first place, I shouldn't really be surprised 😂
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1 RespuestaI just wish ALL the sets were ornaments on the Truage quest set. Not just the 1st 2.
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6 RespuestasTo be honest my favorite set was the Iron Breed set from D1. Actually liked the ornaments for D2’s armor a decent bit.
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5 RespuestasWhy is your opinion right and others are wrong. I really like some of the Iron Banner armor.
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1 RespuestaNew Iron Banner Armor looks like regular armor you can get from a random legendary Engram I miss the D1 Viking look and the Dark below Hive Armor sets from Crota's End
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1 RespuestaWhoever designed and approved that warlock dreamsbane armor should be beaten in a dark alley. Jesus Christ people....
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The season of opulence IB armor is one of the few good locking ones, and the S3 ornaments are fire for the warlock helm and hunter cloak.
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1 RespuestaThe new IB armor is some of the best looking imo. Now the raid armor on the other hand that’s kinda trash
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The designers obviously went to Eververse. Have you seen the new Armor for Shadowkeep? The IB looks Breyer than it has in all of D2 but the Eververse looks even better than the new and improved IB armor...
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1 RespuestaI thought the samurai aesthetic was interesting but bungie couldn’t pull it off. They didn’t really try to change the geometry of the armor so it just looked really off from how a samurai should look.
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I must say I'm not keen on it myself, I feel like the iron banner gear in D1 just looked all round better and to me suited the theme of the iron lords. A viking style for iron banner gear with wolf pelt would look fantastic but that's just my personal tastes.
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1 RespuestaIt sucks that they butchered the samurai design so badly. It doesn't even look like samurai armor when you compare the two. Honestly, comparing it to samurai armor is just an insult.
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Personally, I really like the new Iron Banner set... But I didn't play Destiny 1 (PC only, don't have consoles). I also was pretty partial to the "weeb" armor from Year 1. Different strokes for different folks.
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4 RespuestasI want some greek style armor or even old sets from D1... Wolfwood cloak was lit.
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I think that season 3/4 iron banner is the best armor in the game. Nothing I've seen from shadowkeep get me excited. Looks freaking hidious. Especially the grandma pantys on the warlocks face. Oh and the miss kitty backpack.
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I like it
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1 RespuestaThe only remotely cool looking cosmetics are locked behind the Battle Pass and Eververse. Those are the only armors sets worth a "you had to have been there" moment. One is literally given to you for just doing even the most simplest repetitive tasks and the other requires either microtransaction or grinding a soon to be throttled Bright Dust economy. Had to be there for what? Whipping out my wallet? 😂😂 Gg Bungie.
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4 RespuestasDid...did you see the raid gear? *cringes at reskin* Raid gear used to be some of the coolest gear out there (looking at you updated VoG and Crota sets). It's not just IB that's suffering (though I agree with you 100%). The Eververse set probably looks the coolest right behind the seasonal rank one. Why did those get brand new looks? I mean one you practically gotta pay for :/
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1 RespuestaThis is just a reskin of a goofy set we got this year. They just don’t give a phuck. Don’t expect a new armor set unless it’s in the cash shop
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5 RespuestasIs it just me or does the hunter gear look suspiciously like the season 5 iron banner gear.
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3 RespuestasLol complain all you want. The new iron banner armour in shadowkeep is the best armour set in the game for hunter IMO. The new vex armour also looks quite nice along with the eververse set.
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28 RespuestasGood looking gear is subjective my dude. You might not like it but I loved all of the year 1 IB gear. Hated Forsaken IB gear and am digging next seasons. They can’t please everyone.
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1 RespuestaI think the new gear looks super clean.
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We need more armor that makes us look like mechs or power rangers or guyver suits or insects. Not enough mecha looking armor though for sure. Give me gundam looking shit damnit!!