/u/DeeJ_BNG & /u/Cozmo23 - this needs immediate addressing.

IB TTK as it stands is a bust, back to IB 1.0 pointlessness.

1) the reward system is worse than normal crucible due to the exclusion of crucible legendary drops (I'd like a party crasher right now more than any of the IB gear), a clearly reduced, not increased drop rate over HoW (surely this is a mistake?), and gear that is largely useless to those actually playing in IB.

2) Vendor gear is worthless except for the pulse. 280 gear is below 90% of IB players, and even less appealing now that most of us can't afford the weapons parts to infuse it. For this IB in particular - boots are only appealing to collectors (to be fair that's been a problem with IB armor since TDB), and sidearms as they stand are all the same, and equally ineffective in most fights.

3) the damage curve is not an improvement, aside from the punishment of wide differences it doesn't make much sense or impact the dynamics of the gameplay beyond exclusion of low level players - something which the HoW curve did better. The steeper curve at the top actually encourages players to be 290+ to feel like they can compete fully in IB, further increasing the uselessness of the rewards.

4) poor matchmaking, lag, cheating (omg the tethers) are all still miserably rampant and have seen almost no improvement over HoW aside from the moderate decrease in full team lagginess due to the increased population - but with the points above, that's not going to last long. Once people realize they aren't even getting any gear it may not even last until Sunday.

Personally, once I hit rank 5 on one character I'm quitting playing PvE for engrams because for the first time since the game started, I can't afford to upgrade my own guns, and it's not because of planetary materials. Then I'll go into normal crucible for guns I actually need.