Destiny 2 Iron Banner Armor Guide: Season 19 Edition

Destiny 2’s Iron Banner is back, and this season it features new weapons and armor, a new game mode, and massive improvements to its rewards systems. Plus, on top of rewarding four Pinnacle rewards, Iron Banner now 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 brand-new Iron Companion set.

Season 19 Iron Banner schedule

The official Iron Banner scheduled for November 2022 is the following:

• The event starts on Tuesday, January 3, 2023, at 10 AM PDT
• The event ends on Tuesday, January 10, 2023, at 10 AM PDT

This means you have an entire week to complete the seasonal quest and farm high-stat Iron Banner armor.

Updated as of Season of the Seraph (S19).

Iron Banner armor in Season 19

This season, Iron Banner features the brand-new Iron Companion set, reprised from Destiny 1 and released for the first time in Destiny 2 this season:

Iron Banner armor in Season 19, 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.

On top of having a new armor set this season, the Iron Companion set also features an intrinsic Armor perk.

The new Iron Banner Exotic perk

Every piece of the Forerunner armor 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 weekly Challenges is a good 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. seasonal Iron Banner quest as soon as possible.

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 Season 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 Season 19:

Good farming!