In Destiny it was last possible to purchase the rewards in the Iron Banner, even if you didn’t play it. Is it possible again this time?
On Tuesday, March 17th, at 10:00 AM, the next Iron Banner begins and there is speculation again. Last time, during the February Iron Banner, players were able to purchase rewards as long as they had achieved a high rank in the January Iron Banner, without having to play the Iron Banner again.
It was a trick from last February that hardly anyone thought would work: And then it did. With a relatively simple method, players could exploit Destiny’s “sticky ID switch,” which had cost some players their loot in the Nightfall Strike, to their advantage and stock up on items that they technically weren’t entitled to.
To do this, they had to be in orbit just before the ID switch at 10:00 AM and go to the Tower two or three minutes after the ID switch. Players received a message stating that they did not meet the requirements. However, this seemed to be just a patchy attempt by Bungie to address the issue. By swapping armor pieces, Guardians were still able to enter the Tower. Here, they could purchase heavily from Lord Saladin with the old reputation rank. This allowed Guardians to bypass playing the Iron Banner in Destiny and still purchase the coveted rewards.
An even better and safer method was said to be joining a friend’s instance.
At the moment, Guardians are puzzling on reddit whether this will be possible again this time or if Bungie has fixed this exploit since it became popular in February.
Update 10:10: According to initial reports, the exploit has worked again and players were able to obtain the two current Iron Banner weapons, Silimar’s Wrath and Jolder’s Hammer, without participating in the Iron Banner.
Here we are dealing with the likely rewards in the Iron Banner on March 17.; and in this article just before the last Iron Banner, we report about the reputation-“exploit”: In the comments, you can see how our readers reacted back then.
