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Test your strength in the Iron Banner, a limited-time PvP event that occurs twice per season! To get started, visit Lord Saladin in the Tower Courtyard when this event is active!
IRON BANNER
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Test your strength in the Iron Banner, a limited-time PvP event that occurs twice per season! To get started, visit Lord Saladin in the Tower Courtyard when this event is active!
Enter the Iron Banner
- Twice a season, Lord Saladin – one of the last living Iron Lords now known as Valus Forge – visits the Tower to test Guardians in the old ways.
- Choose your weapons, enter the Iron Banner to prove yourself, and earn new rewards that are exclusive to the Iron Banner activity, including armour, weapons and shaders!
- Valus Forge and the Empress have recently reworked Iron Banner, shaping it into something new. Learn more about all of the changes in this guide!
Quick Lore − Lord Saladin
Lord Saladin Forge is a Titan Guardian and one of two known survivors of the original Iron Lords. He was one of the founders of the Iron Lords and helped end the Dark Age of Risen Warlords to establish the City Age. However, most of his comrades perished in a battle to contain SIVA, causing Saladin to dedicate his life to maintaining a watch on the Plaguelands to ensure SIVA never emerged again while also fighting to protect The Last City from threats. In time, he established the Iron Banner to keep the memory of the fallen Iron Lords alive and train the new Guardians in the ways of old.
After sitting out of the Red War due to lacking his Light, Saladin watched for several years as the Vanguard struggled against new threats and the Arrival of the Black Fleet. When the Cabal Empress Caiatl arrived and sought to subjugate humanity, Saladin was tasked by Zavala with leading a strike force to keep her from rallying her forces. After an alliance was eventually formed, the Vanguard and Caiatl worked together to face Savathûn’s Lucent Hive. This alliance, already in a fragile state, was nearly shattered when an incident occurred with Crow and Caiatl’s forces. When determining the fate of Crow, Saladin stepped in offering his life as tribute. Although the Empress spared his life, Lord Saladin was given the title of Bracus Forge and was bound to her forces until the end of time.
Bracus Forge, now Valus Forge, has become a notable member of the Cabal War Council. Recently, Valus Forge and Empress Caiatl reworked the Iron Banner and shaped it into something new…
Information extracted from Destinypedia and Ishtar Collective. To view lore entries from Ishtar Collective, click here.
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Iron Banner: Competitive PvP Event
The Iron Banner Reforged
During Season 17, the Iron Banner PvP mode was reworked. In addition to the upgraded rank system (similar to Core Activity vendors and Trials of Osiris), the following changes have been made:
- A one-time intro quest will be featured for this rework. No more Seasonal Quests!
- Power Level is disabled for Iron Banner.
- Iron Banner is now available only twice per season.
- Each season will feature a different game mode instead of Iron Banner only being Control.
- Iron Banner game modes will have slight modifications compared to the normal version to make it uniquely different
- Weekly Bounties have been replaced by Daily Challenges (see below)
- Reputation gains can be accelerated by the following:
- Play Iron Banner matches. Wins provide a small bonus.
- Wearing Iron Banner armour (or just IB Ornaments) and Weapons
- Having an Iron Banner Emblem equipped
- Completing Iron Banner Challenges (x4)
- A new Seal is now available that can be gilded!
Earning & Focusing Gear
- Each Season, Lord Saladin will offer either a new or reprised set of Armour and Weapons that you can acquire by playing Iron Banner matches.
- Once you have acquired Iron Banner gear, you have a chance of getting that loot to drop from completing Iron Banner matches and/or by completing daily challenges!
- You can also focus Iron Engrams into weapons or armour that you have already acquired in exchange for materials.
- Effective in Season 20, players can focus Legacy Gear, even if they haven’t yet obtained it!
- Items like shaders, emblems, Ghost projections, and other cosmetics that players could previously earn in the game, will be added to match rewards.
Legacy Focusing
Weapons & Armour Availability
- Iron Banner Weapons Available for Legacy Focusing:
- Archon’s Thunder
- Riiswalker
- Occluded Finality
- Forge’s Pledge
- Peacebond
- Frontier’s Cry
- Iron Banner Armor Sets Available for Legacy Focusing:
- Iron Forerunner
- Iron Will
- Iron Truage
- Iron Fellowship
- Iron Remembrance
Iron Banner Gear Focusing Cost
- If a player has NOT acquired a piece of Iron Banner gear previously:
- 7 Iron Engrams
- 100 Legendary Shards
- 10,000 Glimmer
- If a player has acquired a piece of Iron Banner gear previously:
- 3 Iron Engrams
- 25 Legendary Shards
- 25,000 Glimmer
Daily Challenges & Reputation Boosts
- A new ranking system, similar to other vendors, has been added for Iron Banner. Earn Iron Engrams while ranking up and unlock cosmetic rewards and materials by playing matches.
- Guardians can focus Iron Engrams into any current Iron Banner Weapon or armour set that has been acquired thus far.
- In the future, legacy armour and weaponry will also be added
Completing Daily Challenges
- For the first four days of each Iron Banner week, Guardians will unlock a new daily challenge.
- These unlock regardless if you log in or not (they will all be available to complete if you log in on Friday)
- Completing these Challenges reward Pinnacle Iron Engrams.
- Rewards will also stack reputation bonuses for the remainder of the week.
- To view your Daily Challenges, hover over the Iron Banner playlist icon in the Crucible Directory. It will be displayed similar to Weekly Challenges.
Reputation Bonuses
- Play matches to earn base reputation gains. Small bonus for winning matches.
- As of Update 6.3.0.7 (January 31, 2023), reputation gains have been increased across the board!
- Wear Iron Banner armour (ornaments work) and weapons to max out your gear multiplier at 400%
- Complete all four daily challenges for an additional 50% multiplier.
- Use an Iron Banner emblem for an additional multiplier!
Seasonal Information
Featured Game Mode: Rotating
Schedule: March 21, April 4 & April 25
Game Mode Rules & Tips
- Learn more about the different game modes that Iron Banner has.
- In Season 20, Control, Eruption and Fortress are featured.
Control
- Game Objective: In Iron Banner: Control, the core gameplay is to capture zones and eliminate combatants.
- General Game Mechanics:
- Capture zones like you would in regular Control. Gain 2 points for each zone your team controls at each time interval.
- When your team controls 2 zones, your team will have zone advantage which will grant you 2 points per kill.
- When your team controls 3 zones, the hunt begins, which means zones are locked down for a short duration and all kills are 3 points each during this time.
Eruption
- Game Objective: In Iron Banner: Eruption, players are tasked with earning kill streaks, with each new elimination providing significant power-ups as a match goes on.
- General Game Mechanics:
- One kill earns you one point, but two kills in a row will apply the “Surging” buff to your Guardian.
- With this effect active, players will begin to glow and each new kill in their streak will generate 10% Super energy and 20% grenade, melee, and class energy.
- They’ll also earn three points per elimination, and on the fifth kill, will become “Primed.”
- Once Primed, everyone on your team will gain 5% Super and 10% grenade, melee, and class energy, while you’ll gain 12% Super and 5% grenade, melee, and class energy per kill, and three points per kill.
- The catch here is that you’ll have a 15-second timer applied which will cause you to “erupt” once it reaches zero, resetting your streak and ending the perks for your teammates…and also killing you.
- Notes:
- When primed, you’ll be visible to the opposing team on the map and they’ll gain three points each time they eliminate you.
- Your own team can also see you wherever you are on the map, and more than one player can be Primed at a time.
Fortress
- Game Objective: In Iron Banner: Fortress, the core gameplay is to score more points than your opponent by capturing and defending zones; the hunt will activate twice per match.
- General Game Mechanics:
- Capture zones like you would in regular Control. Gain 2 points for each zone your team controls at each time interval.
- When your team controls 2 zones, your team will have zone advantage which will grant you 4 points at each time interval.
- When your team controls all 3 zones, your team will have a power play. Your team will gain 6 points at each time interval.
- When the hunt is active, Empress Caiatl will send a high-value zone via Drop pod.
- This zone is quick to capture and awards a large number of points over a shorter period of time.
What's New
- Two Reprised Weapons are coming back in Season 20!
- You can now focus older Iron Banner Armour Sets, as well as weapons!
- This season’s game rotation:
- March 21, 2023: Control
- April 4, 2023: Eruption
- April 25, 2023: Fortress
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Origin Trait: Skulking Wolf
“While at low health, Guardian final blows with this weapon grant enhanced radar and remove you from opposing radar.”
Found on any new Iron Banner weapon obtained after Season 16.
Weapons outlined in red are leaving the loot pool at the end of the season. Weapons that are grey are currently unattainable. Weapons that are grey with white borders are being reprised or added in the upcoming season.
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