Weekend Iron Banner Tips (Destiny)

by Kahzgul, Saturday, December 20, 2014, 08:49 (3867 days ago)

Hi Gang,

Here are some quick tips to help you out if you decide you want to hit rank 5 iron banner this weekend:

1) Pay for Tempered. Seriously. The bonus is enormous these last couple of days.
2) The Iron Banner bounty to get 10 kills in a row is totally doable. First, hang back a little. Keep another player between you and the front line. Second, it continues counting from one game to another, so if you finish a game merciless, and then start the next game merciless, congrats - 10 kills without dying bounty complete!. Last, garbage time kills count, so when a game ends, pop your super and kill someone who isn't paying attention anymore. Did I mention heavy machine guns? So much better than rockets for gathering killstreaks.
3) You get bonus reputation gains from wearing the class item, emblem, and shaders from iron banner, so if you got them in the past, wear them in the present!
4) The level curve isn't really noticeable if you're within 2 levels of someone, so a level 30 player is basically on even footing with a level 32 player (but also with a level 28 player... which a level 32 would have a considerable advantage over).
5) You will almost always be more successful playing with friends than randoms. Party up!
6) Cover choke points rather than control zones.
7) If you don't have Murmur, you may want to step into the early Crota quests until you get it as your reward - it's excellent in IB.
8) Don't panic if you lose a few games. The matchmaking is actually much better this time around, and the longer you stay in your lobby, the more likely you are to be matched with more even teams.

Good luck, guardians.