Here is my post Iron Banner Feedback https://www.bungie.net/en/Forum/Post/194492421/0/0/1

Somewhat Connections good (only 2 read bars rest green) Rewards OK 297 Sniper 1 307 gauntlets 1 toon Game type fun Opponents used a range of guns not all MIDA tlw and snipers Saladins guns quite good bought both

What bothers me the most about the last Iron Banner, is that they said Connection was going to be priority. That minimal filters will be in place to separate hardcore and casuals. How broad is that!? It's another way of wording Skill Based Matchmaking. Destiny is a game that if teams are very uneven in skill, supers will be rotated and heavy will turn the game towards a mercy. To support what Bungie is trying to do with matchmaking, we need dedicated servers.

1`.Just curious how you guys rate this IB compared to the last one? -Can't say didn't play previously. 2.Is the lag better? -The Lag was fine through Thursday, after that it was insanely horrible by Friday night and unplayable the weekend. 3.What about the rewards? -The IB rewards, well RNG hated me tbqh. Pre Rank 5 I had 3 gauntlets (288, 305, 307) and 1 Helm (280). ANd post Rank 5 I got an Iron Shell. Outside of that the "rewards" were a joke, wins/losses, didn't matter, mostly just motes of light, a strange coin or nothing at all. I got better rewards when I jumped into regular crucible matches over the weekend. Rank 5 pkg was SC's, motes and a chest piece (310). 4.How do you like the game mode? -Clash worked well 5.Are the teams pretty evenly matched? -Most matches were pretty close, only a few blowouts. 6.If you're a solo player, are you getting blown out by fireteams? Didn't see more than a few and was never a issue. 7.Are you frequently being put into losing matches? I'd say it was about 40/60 odds of being put into a losing match. How is the weapon diversity? -Meh, lots of Doctrine, Arminius-D and Mida. But not horrible.

It was laggy, drops were terrible, it was fun, and competitive

This was the first ib I received 320 drops a ghost after a match and 320 chest rank 5 on hunter. So I can't complain on the rewards. The last day I played tho all characters at rank 5 and after match rewards were 3 ghosts in about 3 hours. Lag was as to be expected for ib. When we had a team of 6 me and another guy on my team would red bar but solo I was green bar. I think the problem with ib and lag is more people are running a full fire team causing more lag than regular crucible. I could be wrong just my observation. Matches seemed to be evenly matched most games were pretty close only a few matches did we get completely destroyed or vide versa. Game mode was not my first choice. I'm more of a control player but way better than Weapon variety seemed to be pretty good for primaries. For special mainly saw Snipers. They were a little frustrating especially when I played a full team using snipers if have to try to snipe to compete. Mainly ran auto rifle and fusion rifle so it was hard to get up close when fighting a whole team of camping snipers covering every flank and choke point of the map. However I did run into a few others using fusion rifles and others with shot guns. Final thoughts: way better than rift!!!! The drop rate for rewards seemed to be a little low. Didn't really see much of a difference with the changes made in ranking up. I think it was mentioned in a weekly update 20% buff to rep gained from wining but usually get all characters to rank 5 by the end without any issues. Lag and snipers were prob the biggest flaws in this ib. Not to sure what needs to be done with snipers maybe buff fusions and primaries so not everyone uses a sniper. Lag issues I don't think Bungie can do anything to fix that unless they scrap p2p and use dedicated servers which isn't going to happen for destiny one maybe destiny 2 I'm not sure on that.

Got two to rank 5. Loot for Rank 5 highest light was 311. Rest was 310 ghosts. After rank 5 continued to play and got 315 x 2 ghosts, 316 ghost, 306 and 309 armor. Got the sniper about 6 times. All in all not a bad run. Clash was fun.

Dropped only ghosts and helmets. Nothing useful. This is what pissed me off

No reward in post game drops should not happen, I would take a mote of light, strange coin, or one blue over no reward at all. played full game, even at the top of my losing team, struggled to stay alive the entire game against some sweeties with snipers at every corner. 12 whole mins of straight BS to get what, nothing at all. This should not happen in any game type. also, drops from rank 5 should be higher than your light level.

The game play seemed much Improved. I think I saw damage referee come into a play a few times. I red bar very seldom and at times I saw a player just standing frozen off their spawn so after I killed them I noticed they were red bar. Might have been a coincidence but I'm not sure. The loot drops however still need tweaking for sure. And the Same 310 ghost and 310 rare artifact are annoying as hell but other than that it was a good experience for me.

I had an absolute blast. I played in both large fireteams and wrecked faces solo, good times all around. I took 2 toons to level 5 and one to level 4...tho I could have hit level 5 with my Warlock as well, but my TV konked out at 11pm last night. I really liked the items for sale. The rocket launcher in particular was my favorite. Tracking with 3 shells. Tasty pudding. The Hunter and Titan helms were fabulous too. Having the stat where health regens on orb pick up, on top of looking pretty cool is perfect. At first, I wasn't too keen on that Sniper Rifle, just looking at the stats...but getting one shot by it day after day sure did change my initial impressions! Glad I have 2 now! Which is the other thing that is fun about IB, that the few drops can be pretty varied. Tho...what's with some epic items dropping below 280 light? Eww. My only complaint has to deal with the reputation gains. Frankly it's kinda convoluted because there aren't any solid numbers on how things like the shaders and class items and emblem all contribute. All one has to go on is "Increases event standing gained in the Iron Banner". What does that even mean? Also, why do the days matter? Are people just supposed to be aware of the increased gains for other toons after you hit rank 5 on one? I only found out by sheer fluke and then checked Reddit. There needs to be some kind of explanation in game. Another issue...related to the rep gains has to do with the class items. While I didn't personally have an issue with them several people I played with were annoyed they couldn't get the class item from the vendor. Also, I think the maps for IB should include the year one maps as well. I mean, why not? Last but not least, and I don't know if it's a complaint or not but I couldn't really tell if light levels mattered all that much. At one point I put on the Universal remote, dropping my titan down to 270ish and came in first with the most kills and highest K/D. Course, having No Back Up Plans a constant shield probably played a role in that. That said, I used Thorn on my hunter and got 30 kills, back to back. Again, I'm not complaining, it's just an observation. If a noticeable difference between 270 and 310 isn't intended, then it's working great and I love it. If there's supposed to be a noticeable difference, I don't know if I saw it. I mean, maybe it took Thorn 4 head shots to kill someone at 270 and only 2 or 3 from Ace of Spades or the Baby Hawkmoon. But I gladly traded the Time to Kill for the annoyance factor. Lol. Fun times indeed!

I get that this poll isn't scientific. I get that it's heavily biased towards people on these forums who browse the feedback and then decided to vote a/k/a convenience sampling. But holy shit, to call the results "mixed" is profoundly absurd. My marketing teachers in college would cringe at that reasoning.

Three characters to rank 5 and best drop was 314 boots. Totally lame rewards for ranking-up and end of match drops, might be done with banner for good now...

I have pretty mixed feeling about this IB. - loot drops were more frequent but lacking in quality. I probably got 20-25 ghosts between my 3 characters but all were 318 or below. I got tons of arms and a few helmets (on all 3) but non were better than the ones I already had, and I never saw any exclusives as drops, not a single one. Bottom line, more isn't necessarily better, quality over quantity. - matchmaking was pretty crazy. Sure did feel like SBMM. Nearly every match I played was neck and neck the entire time, usually ending within a hundred or so points of each other. It was a week long sweat fest, iron fracking sweat fest. - Lag was better I guess. But I had some really weird encounters where every person on both teams were full green bars yet people were still lagging like crazy. I saved a vid of a crazy one just in case anyone wants to see it. Full green bars but lagging like red. So overall I felt more rewarded yet disappointed, control was far better than rift and lag was better but... weird.

Got average loot. Only one chest piece with decent light. I'd like to know what's going on with matchmaking though. I know it's a risk as a solo player but I stayed in the que and three times in a row it put me on the terrible team with almost the same players. The matches were close but it never changed up the teams that weren't in a for team themselves. I had 1000 more than 2nd place on my team every time with only one or two going positive as well. Got very disheartening to lose 5 in a row by less than 1000 points because it refused to change up teams

Drops were my biggest complaint honestly, although lag was bad for me it wasn't the biggest source of frustration. Playing well over a dozen hours at rank 5 and never seeing a single rocket launcher was beyond annoying. Also, please nerf ghost shell drops lol. Are there really people out there who do NOT have a 310 ghost? I have more of these than I can count. The rank 5 package should be dropping 315+ shells if your character is above 310.

It was fun and much more entertaining than rift.

This last iron banner sucked, it's the first time I've ever lost interest in getting all toons to rank 5. Sadly my hunter got left out this time (that bastard gets all the good rewards lol)

DISCLAIMER: I suck at PvP. I can tend to get a positive K/d, but only just barely (best game this week was 2.4 or something, but that was because we were matched with a significantly worse team). I do not intend to compete. PvP is far from my favorite thing in Destiny. Iron Banner was fun this month. I finally got a character to rank five, my connection was generally good (noticed it was worse when I was with a couple of my clanmates). Drops were lackluster, but I got a ship! So that's nice, I guess. I'll list what I got below. The packages were meh. Rank 3 I got a 310 artifact; rank 5 I got a 312 hand canon with a crap roll (so instant infusion fodder). I was running around with my hunter at anywhere between 304 and 311 light. The drops I recieved were as follows: -- 3 sets of arm armor (303, 296, & 292) -- 2 helmets (283 & 282) -- a plethora of exotic engrams at the end of matches (thank you 3 of coins) -- 1 iron banner ghost (310) -- 7 strange coins -- 1 Weyloran's March (293) -- ton o' blues -- ton o' motes -- a spaceship ...& a partridge in a pear tree The spaceship and second helmet were recieved after I reached rank 5, just so you know. Only did a single match on my warlock, because, as mentioned at the beginning, I don't play crucible seriously and am most comfortable as my Hunter. Nothing dropped for my warlock, but I wasn't expecting anything (just had a 3 of coins active from the night before and wanted to use it quickly). That should be it! If you read this far, thanks for reading. Overall, I enjoyed clash. It's much more freelance-friendly. Didn't get anything huge, but it was acceptable (for Destiny).

My only complaint is I thought light lvl mattered. I get torched by light 295 with rare weapon against my 320....and it takes the same to bring down a 295 as it does a 320...what happened?...oh and why not have game mode random or vote...playing one game mode gets old