I played solo yesterday a few games and finally made leader board for the last requirement for one of the brown bounties. It seems to be all over the place. Some games we dominated. Others we were getting crushed. After I just created a team of six. Basically the same thing. A few were close. Not to many red bars this time either. Not to laggy either this time either. We will see how it goes as the week progresses. Drops seem on the low side though. Keeping track this time.

Just checked my last match; the leaders on either side were top 13% and top 23% respectively. For a top 50% player that's just unpleasant to face match after match.

I don't understand why Ironbanner is still a thing. It's the same vanilla 1990s multi-player but with the twist of pretending to he rewarding. How does anyone get excited about that?

I hear what you're saying. However, if your matches are sweatfests, it means you are evenly matched. That's not getting trampled. My personal experience was running against full fire teams. I enter solo, so that pretty much always means a loss, usually a big one. There is nothing I can do about that but join a clan and enter with them, and that's just not going to happen. It's also not Bungie's fault; that's the way the game should be played. The point is if I go in alone and face full fire teams I'm always going to run into 2-3 players supporting one another. I might get one or even two, but the other one will get me in the end. That's going to run someone's score up big if I continue to play aggressively. That person will look like a god, but in reality is just playing smart. I think I've read (can't cite the source) IB this time around is 80% CBMM. That's going to cause more blowouts for sure, but you know what? Finish that match and hang in there. You will get split up and move on to a better match in all likelihood. As the other respondent said, play the bounties. Profit. Go to regular Crucible if you want the regular experience.

Who cares.......just hang around for the end of match rewards and dance while you knock out bounties.....I've had two sniper rifles, a pulse, three boots and a gauntlet drop.......... We all know the servers aren't getting any better, so sti wasting breath I played a total of four hours yesterday and completed 99% of the weekly bounties, the three dailies and four dailies I had saved from last month. Two of my classes are rank oneish and my Titan is almost 2 which is my main runner to 5. The others I just complete bounties on and switch to the next class. Iron banner has become more about loot drops and rank 5 than winning. Casually complete bounties, save them for Sunday to take advantage of the boon and reap the rewards of farming end of match loot and three of coins