I wish I'd had your IB week :) (Destiny)

by CruelLEGACEY , Toronto, Monday, October 19, 2015, 17:58 (3590 days ago) @ Up North 65

Glad you had a good time :)

For me, IB didn't go so well this week. Not to sound hyperbolic, but I actually thought it was a bit of a train wreck this time around. Keep in mind that I spent the majority of my IB time this week playing Solo, which will obviously affect things. Still, I've always been able to go into IB solo and have a good time in the past.

* Matchmaking was abnormally bad for me in terms of team balancing. 15 wins and 26 losses. Keep in mind that all but 3 of those wins came during the 2 nights that I played with friends. Almost all of my games with randoms ended in losses, and not close ones. I don't mind losing a close, exciting game. But get matched into blowout after blowout is no fun, especially when I'm often the only player on my team doing remotely well.

* Since I went days at a time without scoring a win, my only way to progress my IB rank was by completing bounties. With only 3 daily bounties at a time, I'd be maxed out after 2 or 3 games. I could play another 2 hours and make little-to-no progress.

* Drops were far worse than they used to be. During the HoW days, a week of Iron Banner would give me 2 or 3 IB weapons plus a half-dozen other legendaries. This week, I got 1 legendary weapon drop in 46 games. It was the IB Pulse rifle.

* Buying IB gear with marks seems like a bad idea to me, given that playing IB yields very few marks (you can get 75 by doing all the weekly bounties). I don't understand the logic of forcing players out of the Iron Banner to earn currency to buy Iron Banner rewards. At least with glimmer we could trade materials or store glimmer items and cash them in as needed.

* Sunbreakers... oooooh sunbreakers. They just about ruined every single game I played. They were everywhere, chaining supers off each other. The number of times I got smashed by a hammer, and respawned only to get smashed by another hammer from the same player... maddening.

I don't mean to be a debby-downer... but IB this week really bummed me out. I usually love it, so it was disappointing to have such a rough time with it this time around. I'm glad others had some fun with it, but I doubt I'll play it again in the future unless they make some changes.