The Iron Banner Megathread - Guide in OP

Ill be hitting rank 5 on my warlock later.

Overall have to say i enjoyed it,starting to develop a bit of map awareness now which helps a lot.

That matchmaking though,very few close games. Either won by a lot or lost by a lot. Found the closer games to be more enjoyable for me.

gimli2112 wrote: »

My KDR was practically double what it normally is. Even hammered I was doing ok. Was down to the game mode and not trying to carry the spark. Although in one game when carrying it, at one point I was over 5000 points and the next nearest was 1300 (a game we lost)

Got a lot of boots which was grand as it got all 3 characters to 400. Strangely Rift seems easier soloing than other modes.

My KDR varied wildly.

If I played the objective I died a lot.
If I played for kills my KDR was much healthier - but where's the fun in that?

I've been trying to get somewhere in between. I'll often let other people take the spark and try to defend / clear the area. I think rushing to grab the spark as soon as possible is a mistake, you need to make sure you're clear before you grab it.

That was the least enjoyable Iron Banner for me. Found it hard to win and as a game mode it is just poison when you get spawn trapped - can be hard to fight out of it.

Wins Games Kills Assists Deaths K/d Ka/d Victory
14 34 542 284 389 1.39 2.12 41.18%

Clever Dragon Super Kills Palindrome Matador64 Finallas Peril Grenade Kills Melee Kills Jade Rabbit Silvered Dread Harrowed Quiliums Terminus
166 90 63 55 53 44 28 14 13 1

Employed run and gun tactics so stats are a little different from what I'd be used to seeing, actually enjoyed it after the massacre of the first night was left behind. That's all 3 to level 5.

Cant embed pic it as im on mobile but im pretty happy with my first iron banner. Felt like i played a lot more games of it than i did. Went from 388 to 394 LL over the weekend too so that helped me enjoy it more i think.

jonnycivic wrote: »

Gims you just need to get your raid on dude :P

No need all the guys are @ 400 now

Yeah i felt the hard light auto rifle was the only real gun that i was happy with. The fast fire rate allowed me to supress people a bit quicker than they could me. I have to stop just looking at LL,i keep dismatling/infusing everything so at any given time my loadout is all over the shop. Pretty much none of my gear was perked out for half of the IB.

Ive heard its boots and chest that will hold me back,stuff is starting to decode at 397 now though which is nice.

To my shame im 394 light and have never done a raid or nightfall:( Have to get over my hesitancy when you guys are offering to carry. I did want to look at a vid or two though so id have some idea whats going on.

Yeah i need to get onto that,been to long now without even trying a raid.

Has anyone worked out if it's faster to do the 4 bounties on an alt first before switching to your main? I have no evidence but I feel it's way faster than going to 5 on the main first.

gimli2112 wrote: »

AFAIK there's an xp buff when running your alts (don't think they've changed it) but it wouldn't effect bounty completion which is all about turning up, winning and killing.

No, but it would double the xp you get from them. On my main the 4 bounties took me a bit to three. On my alt the four bounties took me straight to 5. It took less time for the alt to get to 5 with the double xp than it did for my main to grind up from 3 to 5. Or at least it felt like less time.

jackrussel wrote: »

I think this has been the most fun IB I've played. Only played stormcaller for the duration, was that the reason? The change to matchmaking has been good in so far as hardly any redbars/lag, was that the reason? Along with the MM changes - the teams have been diluted more meaning more kills for most, was that the reason? Got mercy, got mercied(?), got owned by a 245 grimore player. On the whole, very enjoyable IB. Warlocks are fun but by Jesus Christ the amount of times that stiker Titans shut down my super wasn't even funny. My controller going dead just as I popped a super was a good one.

Pretty similar myself, played all my games as a solo player. Think I got beaten by a team of 6 one time, the 6 randoms then beat them the next round. A few redbars, but still good fun in both slamming the rift and stopping the runner.

Tazzimus wrote: »

Maxed my Warlock so completed that quest thankfully.
Bit of a mixed bag, some games we were co-ordinated and the spark runners actually waited for bodies to get ahead/clear the way, other games they'd grab it and go completely the wrong direction or sprint of ahead of you into 4 enemies.

Can't remember how many times I popped my Stormcaller super to make a path and the runner fecked off somewhere else or in front of me.

Also Striker Titans, god dammit.

Titans for life bro.

SolvableKnave wrote: »

This is an accurate depiction of my grenade throwing this IB

Decided to main my Hunter this IB and tried out Bladedance with Skip grenades and Tier 5 dis... Great fun but man those grenades are OP. I don't have Shinobis Vow, so couldn't get to proper nade spamming but I was doing well enough without them.

They don't half track with Shinobis Vow. It's like little mini truths. Glove is my Hunter PvP exotic of choice in PvP now.

I didn't say they were over powered. Trust me nothing I equip is overpowered.
Skips are really useful for chasing people out of cover or finishing them off.

I tend to pick something I like and then not consider alternatives. Overall I think the Hunter grenades are poor. The trip mines ones get a lot of love but I've never been able to use them and rarely killed by them. Would always go skip.

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Titan, I like the sticky ones Solar/Void but Lightning are my favourite.
Warlock, Scattar are great fun. See a lot of people using the Axion and I do like them but don't seem to have the same success rate. Again sticky solar are good. Does the Arc Warlock even have nades?

Generic Dreadhead wrote: »

Yeah, but what are you comparing them to for them to be "Overpowered"? Lots of other good grenades exist

AdamD wrote: »

There's not really a counter for them which is silly. Unless you run a lap of the map there's nothing you can do about one

Ya, there's pretty much no counter for them at the moment. If you land a grenade anywhere near someone it's pretty much going to deal 90% damage.

If you compare how tracking on scatter grenades works versus skip grenades, these things are lethal. Even with Nothing Manacles, there's no comparison. Throw a grenade in the general vicinity of someone - hunt them down and get a cheap kill, OP AF. Even without Shinobis Vow, I was using Frost-EE5s and couldn't believe how many grenades I was getting.

(Only really figured this out on Sunday - was using Gunslinger with tripmines up until then)

Hail 2 Da Chimp wrote: »

It's a good grenade to throw on the spark and deal damage to anyone hanging around / hiding in waiting to pick up the spark.

That was my main use for it if my team were taking there time getting to the spark. Gave us that extra couple of seconds to get organised and start clearing.