RNG iron banner

[Anywhey]

What’s the RNG for this new grenade launcher?? I’ve played 35 games now and 0 GLs.

[Mez Koo]

Games played is almost irrelevant towards getting the drops directly but games played do increase your Iron Banner rank to get engrams to turn in for weapons.

Use iron banner gear along with using an iron banner emblem (you can also wear iron banner ornaments over any armor) and do the challenge objectives to max out your reputation gains and claim engrams from Saladman and reset your rank if needed to continue gaining iron banana engrams, once you get a specific weapon drop you can use the engrams to directly choose or "focus" the grenade launcher in exchange for engrams.

[DakotaThrice]

Originally posted by Mez Koo:

Games played is irrelevant,

Games played certainly isn't indicative of the chances of getting a certain drop but it's disingenuous to say it's irrelevant when you can get the weapons from match completions.

[Lil C]-[ew C]-[ew is ☂д☂]

If you read the description of the weapon, you need first to unlock through engrams. I have found one by random after 9 engrams.

[Mez Koo]

Originally posted by DakotaThrice:

Originally posted by Mez Koo:

Games played is irrelevant,

Games played certainly isn't indicative of the chances of getting a certain drop but it's disingenuous to say it's irrelevant when you can get the weapons from match completions.

I mean you could but if you are only completing matches to try and get a specific drop that is probably the worst thing you can do to get it especially if you're not even trying to increase your IB rank or worse not even bothering to reset it and not gaining anymore more engrams.

The intention wasn't to be disingenuous but more trying to emphasis the fact that they're almost certainly not going to get the new gun just by hoping for a match completion drop but I edited to be more clear about it.

If they meant to say "after playing 35 matches and turning in engrams I still haven't gotten the weapon to drop" then that would be an entirely different story but personally my metric for getting the drop would be counting engrams not matches because matches aren't where I'll be getting the weapon from.

[DakotaThrice]

I totally agree with you that they should be trying to maximise their rep gains then even if they wait till they get a drop to focus for a specific roll they maximise their chances. I've just seen slot of confusion with people thinking the new weapons can only be obtained from one of the two sources and your original comment could easily have been misinterpreted as saying you could only bet them from engrams.

Will also say that you're by far one of the most helpful users here and as a fellow Destiny veteran I appreciate all the time you put in.