*30 gear. Let me teach you a thing. Back in the day, there was this raid called the Vault of Glass. This was when the highest level was 30, and you could only get there by doing the raid. Unfortunately, there were literal problems in the loot matrix, so there was one piece of gear people just wouldn't get. Hence the forever 29. Here, Bungie introduced the Iron Banner, with gear that dropped at Light 30, meaning strictly pvp players could hit 30. Immediately when they hit level 30, they would take a stab at the Vault. Any smart raider is going to take a level 30 over 29, which made finding raid teams almost impossible. On top of it all, these Iron Banner 30s had [u]no experience[/u], making the raid very frustrating and take a long ass time. A lot of resentment grew towards these Iron Banner 30s, so people started calling them fake.