How to complete Destiny 2 Iron Banner daily challenges

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Destiny 2 Iron Banner challenges are back for the first Crucible event of Season of the Witch, which sees the Fortress mode and two classic weapons return. As ever, this season’s challenges task you with playing Iron Banner matches while using any of the eligible Sublclasses. This time it’s all three Light Subclasses, so Strand and Stasis are out for these Destiny 2 challenges. Pinnacle Legendary gear drops and Iron Banner reputation multipliers are up for grabs with each challenge, so here’s what you need to do to complete this week’s Destiny 2 Iron Banner daily challenges.

How to find Destiny 2 Iron Banner daily challenges

Each Iron Banner daily challenge for the first Destiny 2 Season of the Witch Iron Banner event requires you to complete matches while using an Arc, Void, or Solar Subclass:

  1. Complete 3 Iron Banner matches using an Arc, Void, or Solar Subclass
  2. Complete 4 more Iron Banner matches using an Arc, Void, or Solar Subclass
  3. Complete 5 more Iron Banner matches using an Arc, Void, or Solar Subclass
  4. Complete 6 more Iron Banner matches using an Arc, Void, or Solar Subclass.

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With progress carrying over from each challenge, that’s 18 Iron Banner matches in total. You can find out how many matches you’ve played for the Iron Banner daily challenges by opening the Destinations page, selecting The Crucible, and then hovering your cursor over the Iron Banner activity node. Select the Iron Banner node and you can check out your current Rank boost multiplier too.

To get more Iron Banner daily challenges, you’ll automatically receive a new one with the daily reset for the first four days of an Iron Banner event – that’s from the Destiny 2 weekly reset on Tuesday to Friday. Confusingly, they are marked as ‘Weekly’ challenges and don’t expire until the end of the Iron Banner event on the following Tuesday. It's also important to note that these Iron Banner daily challenges and their rewards are character-based, not account-based, so you can complete all of the above on your other characters too for more Destiny 2 Iron Banner loot.

Iron Banner daily challenge rewards

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Playing Iron Banner matches should also get you plenty of Bait for Destiny 2 fishing.

Once you’ve completed a daily challenge, you’ll immediately get your rewards: a Pinnacle Iron Banner loot drop, which will help you reach the current power cap of 1810, and a 50% boost to your Iron Banner Rank gains. Use up to 5 pieces of Iron Banner gear – that’s any Iron Banner weapon, armor piece, or armor ornament – and any Iron Banner emblem to boost your rank multiplier even further. I recommend wearing a piece of Iron Banner armor with a different Iron Banner ornament on top as these count as two pieces of gear.

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A new season means Lord Saladin has new armaments on offer too. By playing Iron Banner during Season of the Witch, you can unlock the reprised Point of the Stag bow and Guiding Sight Scout Rifle, which is now a Strand weapon. Make sure you also collect any Iron Banner engrams to get random loot, or spend them on Lord Saladin’s focused decoding to get any current and legacy Iron Banner gear.

Will Sawyer
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