Iron Banner Drop Rates (Destiny)
by TheeChaos 
, Friday, October 16, 2015, 10:22 (3566 days ago)
Happy Friday all!
I have seen alot of things about people griping about the terrible Iron Banner drop rates (myself included). Before TTK, I was getting Spare Change .25 and Party Crashers like crazy. During Iron Banner I would get about 2 drops a night, which would be about 4 hours.
I randomly decided to see how many games I had played since the start of this Iron Banner. 56 is the magic number, which made my jaw drop when I added them up. From this you could probably assume that 5 or so were in progress joins. Also you have to take into consideration the fact that you have to be rank 2 to start getting drops, were probably sitting at about 40-45ish games that I had a chance to get drops. The pool of available Iron banner drops increases as your level increases. So far I have got 3 drops. 2 IronWreath-D's and the Warlock Bond. 3/40= 7.5% drop rate, roughly by taking into account the Rank requirements for some drops. It seems to me that this should be significantly higher. I would like to see about a 15-20% drop rate. I feel like 1 every 4 matches (25%) would be a little much, because I would have gotten 10 drops by now, and its not even the weekend.
All in all, I hope the fix is better, as this is supposed to be the primary way of obtaining gear from Trials/Iron Banner.
How have your drop rates been? I know some people I was playing with last night had just got their first drops, and have probably played more than myself.
Iron Banner Drop Rates
I played about 15 games after getting level 2, and had one drop of the class item. No joins in progress, all of them were full games.
Rank 3.5, have gotten 1 cloak so far.
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Over 20 games, no drops yet
by CruelLEGACEY , Toronto, Friday, October 16, 2015, 15:18 (3565 days ago) @ TheeChaos
I've also only scored 4 wins in that time. I'm done with IB for now, unless I end up online with friends. Matchmaking has been beyond useless for me.
Over 20 games, no drops yet
by slycrel 
, Friday, October 16, 2015, 15:49 (3565 days ago) @ CruelLEGACEY
I suspect it's unlikely to get drops when you lose too.
I've played maybe 10 games outside of what we did together the other night (tuesday and wednesday). Just enough to finish that weekly bounty really. I've only ever seen that warlock bond I got drop, I never saw anyone else get an IB piece. I think 2 legendary engrams and that's it. I might try some tonight and see how things go. Probably most of the drops are gated to rank 3 or 4.
Over 20 games, no drops yet
by dogcow , Hiding from Bob, in the vent core., Friday, October 16, 2015, 16:14 (3565 days ago) @ slycrel
I wonder if it's targeted for you to get 1-2 weapon drops & 1-2 armor pieces for a weeks level 5's worth of playing.
Over 20 games, no drops yet
by TheeChaos , Friday, October 16, 2015, 17:38 (3565 days ago) @ CruelLEGACEY
Yes the matchmaking is rough. I find that I do really good early morning before work, but there arent that many 6 mans running. Also, if you play with someone of lesser skill it helps out. Destroyoboy and I were playing the other night. we won like 5 in a row, he got alot better score than he used to, and I was getting like 30+ kills and insane points. He was lead, I am not sure if that makes a difference or not.