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In the next Iron Banner, Lord Saladin will offer players the option of Reforging any Iron Banner weapon (including those from the last event.) This will re-roll all of the upgrades, but will also reset any progression. The cost for each Reforge will be a small number of Motes of Light, so set some aside next time Xur arrives in the Tower.

Very interesting. Get a cool weapon, but not cool upgrades, spend some Motes to get another chance at the cool upgrades without having to find a whole new weapon.

Now, uh... can we get this for everything else as well, please? :D

The Iron Lords respect perseverance and tenacity. In the next Iron Banner, players will receive a Medallion of Iron on a loss. Upon their next win, each Medallion they carry will convert into a reputation gain almost equal to a win.

That's very interesting too. Personally I saw no point in quitting IB since I was still getting CruRep at the same rate. But hopefully this'll stop the idiots from bailing and at least be a meat shield for me.

In the next Iron Banner, new exclusive reward Armor will be bumped to Level 30, but will still only be available in two slots.

They mean, will be Legendaries that can be upgraded to carry +30 Light, right? Because all the equipment maxes out at 'requires level 20.'

Anyone remember what two pieces were available? I badly need boots and gloves.

Once we’re 100% sure we can meet that deadline, we’ll let know.

I suspected this, but this is more confirmation that Bungie is operating on the 'don't give an estimate until it's no longer an estimate' model. So I wish people (coughbnetcoughreddit) would stop going on about "wen r bad hoohoo getin fixt? it r so looong tiem!"

I'm looking forward to this one. Looks like some good changes coming down the road.

These changes to IB are good, but Bungie's hints at "unexpected surprises" is what I like best. The game is already (sadly) getting old to me, and feels very, very grindy. Hopefully this means an actual content push is coming (and not just new bounties. For the love of God let's see some story content to give us an in-game reason for what we're doing.

I mean, WHEN DO I BECOME LEGEND?

Right now I'm just a guy who has started out in the same way as every other guy and has had exactly the same adventures as every other guy. I'm not a legend; I'm literally nobody special.
I have "exotic" armor but it's actually more common than legendary gear thanks to Xur.
I have "legendary" gear but there's no legends about it in the game, EVER.

Deej keeps saying he wants to hear the stories of how we got our gear. Mine is this: I killed Phogoth 27 times and that last time I got a purple engram which the cryptarch decoded into a cloak. What an awesome story. I'm totally going to regale my grandchildren with "The Legend of that one Purple Cloak that I got by Doing the Exact Same Thing Twenty-Seven Times in a Row."

I don't think I'm alone here when I say that nothing in this game feels important. Nothing feels epic. Nothing I do in Destiny matters.

To date the only player action that resulted in any tangible impact to the game world was farming the goddamn disco cave.

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Please let the "surprises" be actual improvements to the story, background of our characters, and some degree of uniqueness which permeates the game world in a way that actually makes our stories interesting.

Also, replace Peter Dinklage's VO with literally any other actor. Keanu Reeves would be less wooden.