Here's my problem with marks & iron banner (Destiny)

by TheeChaos , Wednesday, October 14, 2015, 13:04 (3594 days ago) @ CruelLEGACEY

I'm not a fan of the current setup because the currency used to buy IB gear (legendary marks) is something that cannot be earned while playing Iron Banner. Aside from the 75 marks you can get from the weekly IB bounties, you need to go outside the IB playlist. This is a huge pain for anyone who's time is limited. I only have a few days to try and get my IB rank up, but even if I'm able to do it I won't be able to buy anything because I won't have time to run dailies as well.

Really, I think this whole Lehendary Mark system needs a substantial overhaul. It's clearly painting some players into corners where they feel like they need to play activities they wouldn't otherwise play just to earn currencies. It's no better than the split vanguard/crucible currencies we had before... not yet, at least. If they awarded some small amount of marks for strikes and crucible matches, I think that would be a big help.

I think you could also go to the other side and say, that people have to play iron banner (activity they wouldnt otherwise play) to get gear. Before you could just get your marks by doing strikes/crucible/whatever you wanted and get the max marks. The problem was that you were restricted on where you could spend them. They did not set a cap, which is nice, but you are limited on how you can get them. I think they should keep the dailies the same, but just give you a set time a week you can earn marks by activities overall. For instance, instead of 3 strikes or 3 weekly crucible playlist wins, just give accounts 6 chances, applicable to either activity. During IB, You should be able to earn a capped amount (or count as your weekly playlist wins, since there isn't another weekly playlist) by winning in IB. I am not sure the exact numbers that would work, but it will be annoying to have to play something else, to earn gear for IB. Kind of defeats the purpose. At least before you could just farm the glimmer, but you were still doing another activity that NO ONE wanted to do.