I have only played iron banner for a couple hours but I just feel like the new event track system is not a good fit for iron banner. Like all the other event tracks, it takes forever to gain levels once you've gotten through the challenges, and it also does not feel like the rewards are even worth it at all. Your options for focusing gear are very limited, you can focus a weapon for 100 event coins, but that means within one day you can't even focus one gun without a reroll chip. This wouldn't be much of a complaint if the loot was just raining on you, but the amount of drops per match feels way too low for the time investment. The previous system felt much more rewarding, dropping rewards post match and leveling up your rep with saladin which actually allowed you to focus engrams on specific stuff. I enjoyed farming for a tinasha's mastery in revenant because even though there was only a chance of it dropping each match, each match I played was progressing towards me getting more of them because of the engram focusing. Whereas right now it feels like I'm rolling the dice for anything of value to drop.
I don't know what would fix this, I would appreciate if all the crucible rewards that drop at the end of a match were replaced with iron banner gear, and that more should be dropping. I think playing matches of iron banner should provide progress towards a way of determining what item you want to drop because currently the motivation to play is really not there.
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Along with Iron Banner I didn't find the Reclaim reward track all that dazzling, either.
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Edited by AOSpare: 9/18/2025 7:25:40 PMAnd the rewards are not even mid tier. Basically the blue cores after you dismantled the weapons. Or infusion material. The new way of doing events sucks and it's all monetization. Greedy company and it's so obvious.
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Who was the idiot who decided to get rid of all the bonuses you could have towards Banner Reputation? No armor bonus. No emblem bonus. Nothing. I want my Synth Weave back that I wasted so I could use something besides Iron Banner armor in the event.
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You'd think at this point they would get the hint and remove regular crucible loot from the IB pool. Trials only drops trials gear, so why can't IB do the same?
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Portal dumbs down the entire game. Rewards are simple and similar tasks across events. Unique aspects eliminated. Gear is simplified. The interface is simplified for maintenance but definitely not for in game use. So cumbersome. Uniqueness is gone in both IB and Trials. Now we have crucible with theme. Soft sunset.
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That's because they're structured to force you to engage every day. Bungie is only interested in player engagement metrics and nothing else.
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Iron Banner is full of cheaters amd Bungie doing nothing against them.
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I'm just sick of the limited timed events. This is the third week in a row where we've had a timed event going on.
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The last TWID also promised a shader in the reward track, and it’s nowhere to be found.
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Wait 3 months for it for what?
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It’s basically just regular crucible now. No longer have to equip iron banner stuff for multipliers. I swear Bungie cuts off their nose to spite their face
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Destiny 2 hasn’t felt good in a very long time
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I went up to rank 5, got the power drop, the emblem, tier 4 hand csnon with a good roll, Tier 5 Combat Bow with a God roll and guilded Iron Lord in 11 total matches. Done :)