 What's going on guys, welcome back to the channel and I appreciate you being here. Today I want to talk about the Iron Banner and give you guys my personal opinion on why I think it turned out to be trash. But before we get into the video guys, do you guys want to win some epic loot? If so stay tuned until the end of the video to find out more. So Iron Banner, what used to be a monthly event within Destiny 1 which came around month by month offering a variety of decent weapons and armours. Each month it brought two weapons, two armours and a class item. Those items normally had the perfect role from Lord Saladin himself or Aphrodite but it could also obtain those very weapons from end of game rewards with different roles. You could also earn emblems, shaders and even on their occasions the ships. Iron Banner back in the day also had ranks. It had five ranks in total. Normally with certain ranks reached we could then purchase gear assigned to that rank. Iron Banner would also offer us bounties too which also dropped to loot. At the end of the day the ground was there for sure. The loot was there, although most of the time we knew what we were getting it was still there. Iron Banner also had a system in place where level mattered, just like trials. The higher you were the more powerful you were simple as that but always as good as it sounded let's not forget about the Iron Banana connections. They were terrible. But it's okay now. This was back in the past we now have Destiny 2 which no doubt will have fixed all of them issues. So let's look at the Iron Banner within Destiny 2. Okay for sure it might be still a monthly thing that's cool but there's literally nothing else to it besides normal pvp with added loot. No ranks to work towards with Lord Saladin. No power advantage which I will talk more about in a sec. A loot system which is flawed. Connection is no better than what they were in Destiny 1 even though things have changed with 4v4 mold and a few other things. Weapons again were just reskins, nothing unique about them at all. Armours yes they were great but actually getting a full set of armour now is way harder than it used to be. Before yes for sure only a certain set items would be brought armour and weapon wires but it meant the month after you get a complete set. Now there is no limit on the loot you can obtain but there's also no set loot either. You can open 50 packages and still not get all what you desire. The engrams in which these come from take 20 Iron Banner tokens which you get for playing Iron Banner, 5 per win, 2 per loss so the grind is real for sure which I am happy with. I just feel the reward is well not as specific as it should be. A friend of mine had to open 35 packages before he got full hunter armour that's 700 tokens that's around 140 wins that is crazy if you ask me. Also the fact these Iron Banner engrams drop normal crucible gear should not be the case at all. It's Iron Banner we want Iron Banner gear. Connections seem okay for me as a player who plays within the UK. Everything is great up until about 6pm then all goes to crap I mean serious crap. It's like the servers then come overloaded which affects connections within PVP and surely that should not be the case at all. And let's not talk about the spawns. The spawning system within this game seems absolutely shocking and even worse within Iron Banner if that's even possible. I know I ain't the only one to experience it either. Also guys trying to solo queue is horrendous. Running to full teams while playing solo is a real problem. Then running around together you suffering from team shots is an absolute nightmare and if you imagine but if my pal had to open 35 packages to get full gear that's 140 wins. If you are playing solo that would not be the case. You will get 2 per loss and that's around 350 games to get 35 packages. That's if you're constantly losing and if you've gone in against teams of 4 as a solo player that's probably going to be the case all the time and that in my opinion is just not right. Our power levels as well are one of the main problems here. It's within the lore of the Iron Banner. Why has Bungee disregarded it? What is power level actually useful nowadays? Is there anything? I don't think there is. Iron Banner is just a standard PVP reskin. It doesn't feel any different. It doesn't feel special. It's crazy how can play about 6 or 7 hours of Iron Banner and not enjoy it at all? Play Fortnite Battle Royale for an hour and absolutely have 10 times the amount of fun. That shouldn't be the case. I was also expecting upon the arrival of the Iron Banner some kind of quest or story telling us to worry about what happened during the attack but nope nothing at all. Iron Banner should have sticked to how it was before. A ranking system in place would have been much better. You have the emblem which states how many packages you've opened which is kind of 50% there but we need more than just an emblem like this. In my opinion that Iron Banner as much as I've played it and will continue to play it has fallen downhill. Nothing of what I thought it would be. How they can state on Twitter all seems fine is beyond me as well. Even after all the complaints people are making it's complete BS. Heads in the sand or what? I just hope they fix this game up within the near future. So many issues with what they are doing and more and more people are coming out and talking about it. I made this video because I feel I have a bigger voice than many other people within the community and I know I'm one of a select few who will call out Bungie on this matter. But guys down below let me know your experiences within the Iron Banner. Did you enjoy it? Did you not? Let me know. And on that note guys we have come to the end of the video. Thanks for stopping by as always. If you want to win some epic loot simply drop a like in the video, leave a comment down below and join my discord server linked within the video description. But thanks as always for stopping by and hopefully I will see you on that next video.