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Iron Banner is 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Destiny 2's monthly PvP event, allowing players to delve into a Power-enabled variant of Control to obtain Pinnacle Gear and exclusive weapons. Season of the Risen's loot pool added two new Iron Banner weapons: a Hand Cannon and Sword.
By completing this season's "What We Survive" quest, you can obtain a free roll of each weapon. This guide will go over how to start this quest, what you should have prepped before grinding Iron Banner, and provide tips on completing each quest step. Whether you're a PvP newcomer or a Crucible veteran, these steps should make completing this quest much easier.
How To Start What We Survive
"What We Survive" is a quest offered by Lord Saladin at the Tower. Whenever Iron Banner is active, speak to him to start the quest. This quest is character-bound, so you'll need to repeat each step on your alternate characters to receive additional rewards.
This quest has five steps:
- Flame In The Forest: Defeat Guardians with Solar and Void damage, and capture zones.
- Blood For Bread: Defeat Guardians with Hand Cannons, complete matches, and capture zones.
- Lessons Well-Earned: Capture zones, and defeat Guardians with Sniper Rifles and Glaives.
- Iron Will: Land Sword and melee final blows, and get Super kills.
- A Story Told: Talk to Lord Saladin.
Bear in mind that weapon-specific objectives aren't retroactive, so focus solely on what your current quest step is demanding. You have the entire season to finish this quest, so don't worry if you can't finish it this week. Iron Banner typically arrives three times per season, once per month.
Iron Banner Prep
If this is your first Iron Banner, you should know that Power Level advantage is enabled. Like PvE, your Power Level will dictate how much damage you dish out and take from others. W🎐e recommend that your Power Level be 1,55🦄0 or higher before jumping into the playlist.
Artifact Power is not enabled in Iron Banner.
Beyond that, here are a few recommendations to make yoꦰur Iron Banner experience a little eas🎃ier:
- Power Level: 1,550+
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Gear: Hand Cannons, Sniper Rifles, and a good melee subclass spec/build
- Hand Cannons: Palindrome, Fatebringer, Ace of Spades, and Cantata are good picks.
- Snipers: Frozen Orbit, Cloudstrike, and 1000-Yard Stare are great.
- If you're playing solo, use the Freelance playlist. Otherwise, get a team together.
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Destiny PvP is all about movement. Equip Exotic armor pieces that help you move faster, and consider subclasses with good mobility.
- Revenant (Hunter), Top Tree Dawnblade (Warlock), and any tree with Shoulder Charge (Titan) are good picks.
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Flame In The Forest
Objectives
- Defeat 30 Guardians
- Capture 10 Zones
- Defeat 15 Guardians with Solar or Void damage
Defeating Guardians and capturing zones will passively happen as you play Iron Banner. Just remember to capture objectives whenever you're near one. Landing Void or Solar kills can prove difficult if you aren't sitting on a large arsenal of guns. Any Solar/Void damage counts for this quest step, not just abilities.
Some good options include:
- Telesto: This weapon deals great damage, is ammo efficient, and can be used to rig capture points to explode when an enemy touches them.
- Jotunn: Each projectile from Jotunn tracks targets, leading to some easy kills.
- Le Monarque: Deals excellent damage from afar, inflicts a poison DoT, and can one-shot Guardians if you're overleveled or have a 20% damage buff active.
- Bottom Dollar: A solid Hand Cannon that deals Void damage. You can obtain this by playing Gambit or focusing Gambit Engrams.
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Blood For Bread
Objectives
- Complete 6 Iron Banner Matches
- Capture 20 Zones
- Defeat 15 Guardians with Hand Cannons
You should be able to land 15 Hand Cannon kills in six matches. Hand Cannons are all about pacing your shots, lining your reticle up with the enemy's head before pulling the trigger. Spam-firing Hand Cannons with little aim discipline will get you killed.
This season's Artifact has a Hand Cannon Targeting mod that only costs one energy on your armor. Equip two copies of this mod on your helmet to make your Hand Cannons much more accurate.
If you don't have a good Hand Cannon and need some recommendations, here's what we suggest:
- Ace of Spades: The king of Hand Cannons. It hits hard, maintains your radar while aiming down sights, and can even two-tap Guardians with a little setup.
- The Last Word: Controller users might gel with this Hand Cannon. It has one of the fastest time-to-kill values in the game, provided you land your shots.
- Palindrome: Available from Nightfalls, this Hand Cannon has excellent stats, great range for its archetype, and feels great to use.
- Cantata-57: Keep your eyes peeled for a roll with Timed Payload. Enemies will struggle to hit you mid-gunfight.
- Eyasluna: If you can play the Grasp of Avarice dungeon, this weapon is S-tier. Excellent stats, good perks, and it has a clean sight.
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Lessons Well-Earned
Objectives
- Defeat 100 Guardians
- Capture 30 Zones
- Defeat 10 Guardians with Sniper Rifles or Glaives
Unless you love using Glaives, we recommend using Sniper Rifles for this step. Glaives require excellent game sense to be any good. Sniping can be intimidating if you don't play PvP much, but don't panic. There are a few ways to cheese this step:
- Equip a 72 RPM Sniper Rifle + a damage buff: Warlock's Empowering Rift and High-Energy Fire are good damage buffs. A 20% damage buff will cause Aggressive Frame Sniper Rifles to one-shot Guardians to the body.
- Use Izanagi's Burden: A x4 Honed Edge shot will instantly kill a Guardian.
- Equip Cloudstrike: At the start of a game, run towards the enemy's capture point. Land a single headshot to spawn a lightning strike, killing multiple targets. You can kill up to six people this way.
Beyond that, sniping is all about pre-aim. You want to aim your Sniper Rifle where enemies will come from. Once someone appears on your scope, make slight corrections to your aim and fire. If you're trying to make major flicks to hit someone, you're likely to miss. It takes a ton of practice 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:and the right Sniper Rifle to get good at this, but getting good 🤪at sniping will make you a nightmare to꧅ fight against in PvP.
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Iron Will
Objectives
- Defeat 15 Guardians with your Super
- Capture 40 Zones
- Land 5 Sword or melee final blows
We recommend melee final blows for this final objective. Swords are tough to use with the existence of Gjallarhorn and other powerful Heavy weapons. Melee attacks like Shoulder Charge, Celestial Fire, and Precision Throwing Knife are great for getting those five ki🤪lls. You can also use a slug Shotgun to weaken a target, then follow up with a melee to get a melee kill.
As for the Super kills, here's what we recommend you use:
- Hunter: Golden Gun, Arc Staff (Middle Tree), Spectral Blades
- Warlock: Daybreak, Winter's Wrath
- Titan: Thundercrash, Hammer of Sol
Just remember to pop your Super whenever it's available. Keeping your Super means less Supers per game, and that means slower progress for this objective.
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A Story Told
Objective
- Speak with Lord Saladin
There's nothing worth guiding here. Talk to Saladin at the Tower to receive your rewards. If you wish to receive these rewards again, you can complete this quest on your alternate characters.
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