Destiny 2 Iron Banner Armor Guide: Season 21 Edition

Destiny 2’s Iron Banner is back, and it features exclusive weapons and armor, a new game mode, and improvements to its rewards systems. Plus, on top of rewarding four Pinnacle rewards, Iron Banner also offers an armor set featuring an intrinsic perk and other rank bonuses.

This guide covers every Iron Banner armor set in Destiny 2, including the returning Iron Companion set.

Iron Banner schedule

Iron Banner is now live in Destiny 2. It started on May 30, 2023, and will be available to all players until June 6, 2023. The Iron Banner mode this time around is Control.

• Iron Banner starts on Tuesday, May 30, 2023, at 9 AM PDT
• Iron Banner ends on Tuesday, June 6, 2023, at 9 AM PDT

Updated as of Season of the Deep (S21).

Iron Banner armor in Season 21

This season, Iron Banner features the returning Iron Companion set, reprised from Destiny 1 and released for the first time in Destiny 2 last year:

Iron Banner armor in Season 21, Destiny 2

Granted, this set isn’t technically new, as it was first released in Destiny 1, but we can all agree it looks amazing. Plus, Destiny 1 was a long time ago, and I’m always happy to see a great-looking armor set become available in-game, reprised or not.

Destiny 2 Iron Banner Armor Collection

Armor Set	Released	Titan Preview	Hunter Preview	Warlock Preview	Source	Obtainable?
Iron Companion Iron Banner	Season 19				Iron Banner	Yes
Iron Forerunner Iron Banner	Season 15				Iron Banner	Yes
Iron Will Iron Banner Focusing	Season 08				Iron Banner Focusing	Yes
Iron Symmachy Iron Banner	Season 06				Iron Banner	No
Iron Fellowship Iron Banner Focusing	Season 05				Iron Banner Focusing	Yes
Iron Remembrance Iron Banner Focusing	Season 04				Iron Banner Focusing	Yes
Iron Pledge Ornament Iron Banner	Season 02				Iron Banner	No
Iron Truage Iron Banner Focusing	Season 01				Iron Banner Focusing	Yes
Iron Truage Named Lords Ornament Iron Banner	Season 01				Iron Banner	No

An exclusive Iron Banner Exotic perk

Every piece of the Companion set comes with the following perk: Iron Lord’s Pride

Grants a chance to receive an Enhancement Prism as a reward at the end of Iron Banner matches. Each piece of armor you are wearing with this perk on it increases the chance of receiving an Enhancement Prism, to a maximum of 4 items.

Iron Banner is definitely looking up, with new weapons, armor, and exclusive armor perks.

Farming 60+ stat armor

Of all the sources of high-stat armor in the game, Iron Banner is one of the most reliable. Looking at all the Iron Banner armor pieces I have accumulated this past year, many had 62+ base stats. That may not sound like a lot, but it’s still better than most of the armor you’ll find elsewhere. More importantly, armor pieces with more than 62+ base stat points are quite common. This is all but one example:

Prime engrams can also drop 60+ stat armor pieces, but you cannot farm Prime engrams as directly as you can farm Iron Banner gear.

How to farm it: Iron Banner Challenges

Completing the four Daily Challenges is an excellent way to add the new weapons and armor set to the loot table, allowing you to farm them more easily. For that reason, I definitely recommend you complete them before the end of the week.

To farm Iron Banner armor as quickly as possible, you’ll have to save materials to focus Iron Banner engrams:

Destiny 2 Iron Banner armor sets

Iron Banner armor generally comes with high-stat armor, but even if the sets you collected weren’t impressive stats-wise, they could still be useful now that Transmog is a thing.

These are all the Iron Banner armor sets that have been offered since the release of Shadowkeep in 2019:

As you can see, the situation of having the same old armor sets every season was becoming harder to swallow, especially when some excellent Iron Banner sets from Destiny 1 could be easily recycled instead. But now that the Iron Companion set is here, the frustration around this mode is diminishing.

In case you’re curious, these are all the Iron Banner armor sets (2.0 versions) available in Destiny 2:

Iron Truage: 2.0 version reprised for Seasons 9 and 13:

Iron Remembrance: 2.0 version reprised for Season 10:

Iron Fellowship: 2.0 version reprised for Season 11:

Iron Will: 2.0 version reprised for Seasons 8 and 12:

Iron Forerunner for Seasons 15, 16, 17, 18:

Iron Companion for Seasons 19, 20, and 21:

Before you go…

If you’re looking for more great-looking yet accessible armor sets, seasonal armor, such as Guardian Games ornaments, is a great place to start.