Review

This past week in Destiny was another Iron Banner week. Once again, I played each character until all four of the weekly bounties were done, and tracked the games in a Google Docs spreadsheet.  The four bounties this week were Defeat Opponents, Defeats with Zone Advantage, Capture Zones, and Assisted Defeats.  All of my matches were solo queue and on the Xbox Series X.  The assisted defeat bounties took the longest.

It took 45 matches to complete all of the bounties, as compared to 78 matches last IB.  I played 17 on Hunter, 12 on Warlock, and 16 on Titan.  One third of the matches ended in mercies, similar to last IB.  My team won 23 and lost 22 games overall, and won 9 and lost 6 of the mercies.  

I actively dodged stacks, either abandoning the queue before it filled if I saw one or leaving the game immediately if I didn’t until I flew in.  Even with three stacks if they were on the other team I would check destinytracker.com and leave if it was basically three good players.  

Once again I enjoyed my IB experience this week.  I tried to learn Duality and felt like I improved over the course of the week.  Certainly I had some tough games, but I also had some good ones.  Avoiding stacks helped make it a better experience.

Raid Team Fabulous did the Templar challenge without cheesing it and without major trouble.  It was excellent.  We then did a regular run and were flawless until we messed up at Gorgons.  I think if we tried we could get a flawless run done.

I also joined pStabs’ Thursday raid team for their first try at master VoG.  Their team did great for their first try–we got all the way to Gatekeeper, completing the Templar challenge with no cheese.  We went back in on Sunday and completed Gatekeeper too.  It was really fun and I’m glad I was invited to join.

I’ve stopped doing the seasonal event because I think I have enough of the currency to focus the engrams I want to in the remaining two weeks.

Preview

This week the season’s story wraps up (or at least begins to wrap up) with Epilogue.  I am looking forward to it and to seeing what the next season has in store.  It is also the return of the Gatekeeper challenge in master VoG, and completing that will complete the Fatebreaker challenge for me.  Beyond those two things I am just hoping to continue having fun and trying to improve in the crucible and reading This Week at Bungie which is going to tell us about armor and mod changes for season 15.