Bungie have revealed the details about the, the first for the. The event is always something that brings guardians together in terms of activities, since it’s where you can earn some really powerful rewards.Iron Banner goes live for the last week of The Dawning, which is the 25th of December, until the 1st of January. The best thing about this is that Iron Banner is live during The Dawning,. Eve Levante will also no doubt have some bounties that can be completed in Iron Banner which will help you bake everything you need to before The Dawning ends.As is usual with Iron Banner there will be brand new armour sets to earn, as well as two specific weapons that you can unlock to purchase from Lord Saladin through playing matches.

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The new armour is below, and while it isn’t as fabulous as it has been in previous seasons, I think it still looks pretty great. The Hunter armour is what I’ll be grinding to get, just because that’s my main Class. I really like the hood and the Gauntlets, but the Leg Armour looks slightly dopey. At the end of the day it’s all about being able to show off that you got everything for the event, so if you’re like me you’ll be playing about 100 Iron Banner matches or more.The two weapons you can buy from Lord Saladin in this year’s Iron Banner are the Legendary Submachine Gun:, and the Legendary Hand Cannon:. Both of these are returning weapons from Year 1 of Destiny 2, but it’s likely that the stats and perks will have seen an upgrade, as well as the random roll treatment.This year Iron Banner bounties are going to generate amazing rewards. These should be dropping around your Power Level, but probably a little above.

Just to be clear. After rank 2 you have a chance of getting the gear as a reward for completing an iron banner matches. I got the hand cannon and boots yesterday. You can get the full set from RNGesus. I dont know if there's an extra bonus for rank 3 though. May 27, 2016  Got an IB reward from lv. 3 and only the blue 320 artifact from lv. Luckily, this was my last character to rank up; immediately stopped playing afterwards. Not planning to participate this time as I could already open up my own fusion rifle store by now;-).

This makes this year’s Iron Banner the perfect way to boost your characters up to be Raid ready.I don’t know about you but I thought the steep jump in Power Level required to access Forges was quite intense. Iron Banner will make it far easier to earn the rewards you need to hit Power Level 610 in order to truly access the Black Armoury content.

Many Guardians kicked off about the high Power Level requirement and Bungie did lower it, but there’s definitely still a barrier for those Guardians who can’t play as much as they’d like to.As a final thought for you Guardians who stay away from PVP usually, please don’t. You’ll be doing yourself a disservice by avoiding Iron Banner. The rewards are always great and always beneficial.

The Crucible is a tough place, and the Iron Banner can be too, but it’s all about the grind for those rewards. Try to see it less like a group of matches that you have to win, and more activities that you can win or lose, but you need to play through in order to boost your progress in 2019.Let us know if you’re excited about the Iron Banner this year in the comments.

If you’re a Guardian who has the time to play on Christmas Day then please know we envy you greatly. We here at Hub wish you a Merry Christmas.Image Source.

I have to say, I'm pretty disappointed in the first Iron Banner event, especially when comparing it to Iron Banner in Destiny 1. Here are the pros and cons, as I see them. Feel free to share your own opinion.PROS: New announcer feels different and fun, it's nice to be able to dependably play a specific game type, the armor looks nice for some classes, and it seems easy to get tokens to redeem.

You're also given tokens for a loss, which is nice for less skilled players.CONS: Literally everything else. The weapons seem pretty bad, as least on paper, and from what I've tried using so far.

Maybe one or two look okay. There's also no 'god roll' PVP weapons for ranking up to level 5 during the event, because there's no ranking up, and there are no weapon rolls. The weapons look like reskins of existing weapons with slight changes. The 'gold' accents on the armor don't take shaders, and don't actually look gold. I was looking forward to using New Monarchy or raid shaders on the armor, but it never has that bright and shining metallic look that other armor sets can get. The Iron Banner shaders themselves don't look good either.And this is more an issue with armor altogether, but the hunter armor is resilience, and I want recovery. Far more than Destiny 1 ever did after year one, this game feels like it really needs a transmogrify feature.

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Fixed 'perks' on armor is just the worst.The bounties, excuse me, 'milestones' are also a step backward. Three daily goals, with no weekly goals, and no way to complete your standard daily crucible milestones by playing Iron Banner. At least Iron Banner does give you clan and crucible XP to work towards those weekly luminous engrams.But what of the seasonal goal? The 10 packages in a season reward is awful. Not only is it a simple emblem, but it doesn't even offer any form of stat tracking, such as your Iron Banner efficiency rating or number of games won.Allow me to reword that: The big SEASONAL reward for playing the SEASON of Iron Banner is the same thing you unlocked for reaching RANK ONE out of five during a weekly Iron Banner event in Destiny 1. It's an emblem.Iron Banner used to be much better, because you were guaranteed a specific weapon with an otherwise highly unlikely set of perks that was usually great in PVP. All through the week you'd work toward a set of specified goals.

Now perk roles are gone, all the guns are RNG, and most of them seem completely pointless to use or bother earning in the first place.Anyone else disappointed? Perhaps you disagree, and you're enjoying the event even more than Destiny 1 Iron Banner. Either way, I'd like to hear your thoughts. The problem with Iron Banner 2.0 is the same problem with the rest of Destiny 2.0.there's no incentive and/or quality endgame.

Because 'factions' really no longer exist (outside of the occasional, pointless faction rally) you have nothing to strive for. Also, much like the rest of the game the loot is a waste of time if you already have the other all too often seen weapons like Prosecutor, MIDA, Uriel's Gift, etc there is literally no reason to go for the loot outside of 'Hey look at me!' .and since the gear is lame and easily attainable by everyone you're basically in the equivalent of a $5 Wal-Mart t-shirt.In Bungie's attempts to please everyone with their 'new' flavor they actually may have ended up diluting the formula too much. I know that I've done the to completion twice so once I get my prestige nightfall completed I'm not exactly sure what the point is any longer since Prestige raid is confirmed to not really reward you for your time. 2012 hollywood telugu movie download full. If you look at it from a rewards perspective it is pointless. Armor is pointless in D2 across the board other than having a different look and the weapons in this Iron Banner are all subpar to the established meta for Crucible as well as PvE. They are not trash, but if you have stuff that is better already, why bother?

((The Shaders look great on certain armor sets though))That said, as I wanted to play at least some of it anyway, I quickly got into the old school Iron Banner mentality and joined up with some of my Crucible friends. And I have to say, this stuff will never get old. I was having a blast playing it with my friends.

It's the inverse of Trials. While Trials might be my favorite multiplayer mode of all time, it is also quite nice to have it be the complete opposite for a while: completely stomping any team you cross paths with.It's difficult to explain why, but so much fun was had. We laughed so much at so many things that happened. It is quite different from regular Crucible I do otherwise, because you never team up with 4 people for Quickplay unless it is Iron Banner.I guess my conclusion is I love the crap out of it even though there is no reason to love it.

I hope for the next iteration they will have changed their mind about armor and have it be given certain perks and the weapons could be a bit more interesting. Then I'd be cool with it. One of my biggest takaways was actually something that surprised me. The lack of Iron Banner being 6v6. Some of my best Destiny 1 memories were joining up with friends during Iron Banner, even friends from different parts of Destiny (GB friends, Clanmates, Trials, random LFGers) and just hanging out together in a really stress free environment. That doesn't seem to be the case anymore for the IB 4v4. And I love the 4v4 format.

But for some reason, 6v6 just seems to specifically fit Iron Banner better to me. I kind of miss it, which is hilarious, because I absolutely detested 6v6 for the most part in Destiny 1. I'm not sure how make sense of these feelings, loving 4v4, hating 6v6, but at the same time loving 6v6 Iron Banner.

Maybe the big thing is that last night I saw a bunch of my friends in groups of 3-4 and I couldn't join them because there were 2 of us, and that didn't feel good, and it felt like with 6v6 Iron Banner I could always find a group of friends to hang out with. They seriously need a transmog system like Diablo 3. I love the idea of each faction in the game having a full armor set, I spent a while trying to get the full FWC set and I love the iron banner armor.but if I wear it then I have to re mod all of it and then also lose my FWC armor by DEing it.

Just really makes getting the gear pointless other than collecting it, but the collections tab doesn't save as armor sets.If I could just transmog my best armor to look like any armor I've collected that would make the game a lot better.The game just has too much pointless content. I can have way more fun just playing pubg with my friends. :They did have that in D1. But all this equipment streamlining kills it.I am indifferent towards Iron Banner.

It's good that I can play Control anytime I want during this period, but the loots are just. Except for the Hunter's headgear, that thing looks cool. I mean come on, all the weapons in this IB looks similar to the normal weapon drop from Vanguards. Where are the distinct design of the RoI IB weapons?It just feels like 'Crucible with Saladin' and, as much I think Light Level enabled in pvp is not a good modifier, there is nothing special about IB anymore(while Trials remove the power level requirement, it still has the Flawless metagame on top of it).I dunno how the matchmaking works for IB, but I got both Undefeated(Unbroken in D1) and We Ran Out of Medals in the first match (playing on Shores of Time of all places), the 2 medals I thought I will never get ever in D1 or D2 besides 7th Columns, which was nice.

I'm pretty bummed they did away with the power-enabled nature of IB, same as I was for Trials. IB just feels like a Control playlist now, like its lost its 'hook'. It would have been cool to see some other kind of modifier enabled in its place. I think all the armor looks nice but I its a shame they didn't give the weapons unique models.

As for the weapons themselves, the only one I think is really terrible is the Scout, the rest seem to range from fine-to-great even with the SMG and Pulse being some favorites of mine. Overall the event feels kinda half-baked. Nice to see Shores of Time again and with a cleaner look/geometry too. Someone did the math and it will take on average 29.7 packages to get the full set of Iron Banner armor. 30 packages are obtained for 600 Tokens. You get 5 Tokens for a win, 2 for a loss.

Beyond that, you get 21 Tokens each day when you play some. Let's for argument's sake say you're winning all your games. You need to play 120 games to get the armor. If you play for three days, that's - 63 Tokens which means you'll still have to win 107 games.On average a game takes between 10 and 15 minutes. Let's be optimistic and call it 10 minutes.

That's 18 hours within 3 days for the armor. Assuming you win everything, which you won't.I don't want to brag, but I have no life. And even I don't have a full set yet. I think it will take most players all week to obtain a full armor set, if they even can. : it definitely counts towards your crucible milestones. I have done nothing but IB since it came out as far as competitive play and have earned the crucible and IB milestones.My biggest issue is that the matchmaking feels insanely bad.

Almost every IB match I’ve been in has been a total domination. Usually because it matches actual fire teams with 4 randoms. The one time recently I thought we got a close match, it turned out I was carrying my entire team. While the other team was hovering around KDs of 5+ and my team was 0.5 I had one of 3.5 and had managed to defend our points mostly alone. Every other time it’s been a wash one way or the other.

Rarely any tension except when I’m apparently the only player in the game who’s any good and am up against an entire enemy team.Btw, that exotic pulse rifle “Vigilance Wing” is pretty boss in competitive.If not for that I’d love IB. Not too worried about rewards and they honestly seem okay so far, and skipping game modes like Supremacy and the bomb plant one that takes 25 minutes a match because it goes like 10 GD rounds lolFor now, it’s no worse than normal crucible and gets me several tokens a match between crucible and IB and big milestones. I also got a nice emblem in my first package which is nice because IMO most of those cards look terrrrrrible. After about a week of IB, one thing I noticed is how bad the matchmaking is for solo queuers. It constantly pits full fireteam against solo players. Of all the 8 games I play with my 4 people fireteam last night, only 1 was against another full fireteam, the rest was against solo players, and duos.I kinda get it why the search time is fast in Quickplay, but this is really bad for it to happened in IB.

Bungie should have tweaked matchmaking to be closer towards Competitive instead of QP matchmaking, or queue up full fireteam against another full fireteam for at least a minute or 2, before feeding in solo players. IB sucks solo.

Except the one time you manage to carry the team and do all the work and feel awesome, but then it’s back to being destroyed because no one knows how to use a radar or stick with teammates or not to cap a point and then immediately abandon it so they can get an unnecessary cap elsewhere. Man those random solo players I get matched with are almost always suuuuuper awful. I’m not great but I regularly am in the top 3 for KD at least so it’s frustrating when people can’t even use basic skills or tactics.

: At the same time you were more or less guaranteed those 2 Armor sets and 2 Weapons per Event plus a random drop of 4 other things. I think if they bring back the ability to purchase 2 Armors and 2 Weapons via Legendary Shards, the rewards are actually in a really solid place for Iron Banner and a lot of people would be happy and not upset right now. If they changed the coin rate to 3/5 for loss/win (do the same for normal Crucible) and added those armors for say 100 Shards each, and reset Xur to similar prices (maybe even slightly higher), I think the game economies would be in a much better place. They should also give you a more significant amount of Glimmer from destroying items and the mods attached to them back.

I'd also like to see just all Vendors sell 2 of their Armors and 2 of their Weapons at a time. Vendors seem rather hollow right now.I'd also like it if they made the game fun again, especially in PvE. Bring back the potency of Firefly and other perks that were great in D1, and put perks on guns that make sense together in the future. Their Class builds and Gun Perks just seem super Anti-player right now, and it's hurting the game. : Yeah, the method of earning the rewards in Iron Banner certainly needs to be tweaked.

As for Dragonfly, yeah, it definitely appears to be less powerful than Firefly was, but I still really like that perk. The staggering effect of it is still strong.I don't have a single good thing to say about the way they handled subclass perks. They couldn't possibly have handled it any worse. I remember them justifying it by saying it would make it easier for casual players to figure out what works well together, only for them to literally break the optimal synergy found within each subclass on purpose so you don't get something actually strong. Which at first sounds like a poor balance philosophy, but then you look at Devour and can't help but notice how that one is pure synergy.It's crazy. I'm starting to wonder if they even understand how to synergize perks in their own game.

: Surely they do. They literally watched players and guides over at places like Reddit go up that talk about what to use and why.

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They put those in D1 likely to be used for those purposes. I think they were just taken back at how strong players were with them and were terrified that they couldn't make the game hard enough, so per usual they killed 1 bird with 12 stones and purposely gutted both Gun synergy and Subclass synergy. A prime example of this is Nightstalker.

They literally took the two D1 builds, PvP and PvE, and then split the perks used for each in half, and threw half of each in each of the two tree's. There is no way that isn't an intentional nerf to players. : Not sure I agree about Nightstalkers. I find them to have one of the strongest neutral games in PvP when they use the Trapper tree. Also, I have been 'out' of competitive D1 in the last couple of months of its life, but when I was still around, people switched from Quiver to Black Hole in PvP after a while.

The only PvP perk Trapper doesn't have is increased grenade duration. Nightstalkers are already a pain in the ass in Crucible, that if they ever 'fix' their Super they would be the strongest class. I am not feeling sorry for them that their Super currently sucks balls. : The build for PvP was Spike Grenade/Envenom Smoke, Blackhole, Lockdown, and Shadestep or Keenscout if you had Graviton, and most people ran Bones Control on every Hunter. PvE was Blackhole, Vanish, Light of the Pack, and Predator. For D2, your options are basically Bloodbound on every Tether because it's baked in, and then Trapper is Snare Smoke, Keen Scout, Deadfall (Blackhole/Predator), and Vanishing Step (Shadestep Vanish).

Pathfinder is Vanish Smoke, Lockdown, Heart of the Pack, and Quiver. The problem here is the way they have built Pathfinder, it is bad in both PvE and PvP, across the board. So you are left with only using Trapper. For PvE, Trapper is made worse by not having Heart of the Pack and Vanish, and instead having a useless Snare and Keen Scout, which are very PvP related Perks. But for PvP you get Vanishing Step where Lockdown would be useful. If they had built these correctly, there is no doubt that they should have renamed the classes, and put Deadfall, Vanish Smoke, Heart of the Pack and Vanishing Step together.

Then put Quiver, Snare, Keen Scout, and Lockdown in the other tree. Both of those builds synergize will with each other, even if I would have preferred they kept Envenom rather than Snare Smokes. If they did that, and made Tether actually activate immediately and do at least 210 PvP damage per Anchor, Nightstalker would have been both fun and balanced on both Classes. Note: They would also need to tone down the effectiveness of Orpheus Rig's, but that is likely coming anyways. You shouldn't be able to get more than about 60% of your Super back per Tether.As far as Nightstalker in PvP, I rarely see Nightstalkers right now, as they aren't very good, but when I do, the vast majority of the time I've actually seen them on Trapper like you said, but honestly their Grenades aren't that good, and the only good thing about Snare is that it's broken and shows a person on Radar that isn't there.

I've rarely even ran into a Smoke thrown, and easily retreated when it's happened. The only really annoying thing I've seen from Nightstalker is how broken Invis is right now. People using Vanishing Step can literally not take damage often when you are shooting them. There are some weird I-Frames (invincibility) to how it works right now. At first I thought I was just missing targets until I was told by multiple sources that no, they are just unhittable for a certain period of time after Invis.

It also breaks Super tracking and several other silly things (you literally can't Stormtrance someone that is Invis because it doesn't understand how to lock onto them). : I haven't experienced them being immune ever, they just make you lose all aim assist. Which is as ridiculous of a perk as High Caliber Rounds is. I've said it before in some other places but can say it again: perks should boost your effectiveness. They shouldn't decrease the opponents effectiveness with hidden stats. Suppression grenades are fine, it locks you out of something in an understandable way. But aim assist is part of how a weapon handles and controls.

Them having a perk that reads: 'your opponents weapon now behaves different than they are used to' is beyond irritating and dumb.Losing all your aim assist on people that are invis and randomly getting extra bad stability flinches from High Caliber Rounds is duuuuuuumb.I think smoke bombs are just stupid how good they are. Quite easily the best PvP melee right now. I have by far the hardest time against Nightstalkers at the moment as their perks decrease any skill gap between us and are able to get the upperhand in any firefight easily. That's not to say all Nightstalkers beat me, if they are just less good they'll lose. But if we're evenly matched I am kind of at the mercy of whether their abilities are available or not if I'm going to win.I honestly can't imagine I'm the only player that sees their neutral game as extremely strong.