Bungie has announced major weapon sandbox changes for Destiny 2 that you’ll enjoy in The Final Shape. Many Exos are being adjusted and some of the most important mods are being removed. We’ll show you the details.
What has Bungie announced? Destiny 2 is gearing up for the release of The Final Shape soon, and as always, big changes are being made to the weapon sandbox before such a big release. This time, Bungie took a look at various mods that Guardians use on a daily basis against the enemies of the light.
Many will be removed with the upcoming DLC and on top of that some Exos will get a fresh coat of paint. You can find out here which mods are affected and which Exos will emerge as winners or losers after the update.
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Bye damage mods and hello weapon buffs!
What are the changes? Bungie has put out a huge list of changes that address three things:
Weapon archetypes
Exotic weapons
Perks
When it comes to weapon archetypes, five mods were examined that players can put into almost any weapon: Boss spec, Taken spec, Minor spec, Major spec, and Master Hardfall spec.
All of these mods provide damage bonuses to the equipped legendary weapons and were essential in PvE. However, with “The Final Shape” they are completely removed. You won’t be able to equip them anymore, but you don’t need to. Bungie plans to increase the base damage of many Legendary weapon archetypes. For details, open our box:
All weapon archetype adjustments
Increased PvE base damage against all fighters.
Pulse Rifles: 20%
Exceptions: Graviton Lance and Revision Zero Heavy Volley mode. (Both already have a PvE damage buff.)
Pellet Shotguns: 10%
Exceptions: Legend of Acrius, Tractor Cannon, Conditional Finality and The Fourth Horseman. (These weapons already work as intended.)
Bullet Shotguns: 9%
Fusion Rifles: 7%
Exceptions: One thousand votes. (This weapon only received a buff.)
Sniper Rifles: 7%
Exceptions: Honed Blade shots from Izanagi’s Burden and Storm from Cloudstrike. (Both perform well.)
Glaive Projectiles: 7%
Linear Fusion Rifles: 5%
Increased damage against weaker enemies (red bars) – stacks with PvE base damage increase.
Pistols, Trace Rifles, Scout Rifles and Bows: 20%
Automatic Rifles and Pulse Rifles: 15%
For Pulse Rifles, this is in addition to the buff mentioned above, and Graviton Lance and Revision Zero’s Heavy Volley mode are also included.
I.e. Pulse Rifles deal 1.2 x 1.15 = 38% more damage against red bars.
Submachine guns: 10%
Handguns: 5%
Increased damage against more powerful enemies (orange bars).
Damage has been increased across the board, including in PvP.
Machine guns: 7%
Swords: 7%
Explosion damage reduced by 10%. (Exos only)
Sunshot
Trinity Ghoul
Polaris lance
Graviton lance
Weapons with kinetic damage no longer cause bonus damage against bosses; Damage against other fighter levels remains unchanged.
As an example, a Kinetic Sniper Rifle and a Stasis Sniper Rifle from the same subfamily deal the same damage against a boss.
While the damage is generally increased, kinetic weapons should also not be able to do any more bonus damage when fighting bosses than their elemental variants. You can find more details about further weapon adjustments in the official TWiD from Bungie (via bungie.net).
Exotic weapon adjustments
What does Bungie plan to do with Exotics? Destiny 2 will also adapt its exotic weapons to “The Final Shape”. Many were improved, but some of them were far too powerful and were therefore nerfed. We have packed all the buffs, nerfs and adjustments into separate boxes that you can unfold:
All buffs for exo weapons
symmetry
Catalyst now gives +10 reload speed, +10 handling and the “Eddy Current” perk in addition to the existing effects
Malicious touch
The duration of the Orb of Darkness burn effect against fighters has been increased from 2 to 3.5 seconds.
Necrochasm
Intrinsic perk now grants increased reload speed after precision kills.
The duration of the burn effect from Cursed Thrall explosion against fighters has been increased from 2 to 3.5 seconds.
Catalyst has been recomposed.
Servants: Dealing damage to 3 fighters in quick succession increases damage, range, and aim assist for a specific time.
The colony
Now spawns additional insectoid robots on final blows. Stronger fighters create more robots (up to five).
Truth
Area of effect damage increased so he doesn’t lose any noticeable damage since he doesn’t deal impact damage.
Total reserve increased by 3. (This is in addition to the change to reserve values for high-yield rocket launchers in Update 7.3.5.)
The Queenbreaker
Damage against bosses, mini-bosses, champions and vehicles increased by 12%.
Reserve ammo increased by 3.
Eriana’s vow
Breaking an enemy shield or a champion’s barrier causes the target to ignite.
Deterministic chaos
It is now inherently an anti-barrier weapon.
The positions and behavior of the Heavy Metal and Vexadecimal perks have been swapped.
Heavy Metal now makes targets unstable every 4th bullet.
Vexadecimal now also weakens targets every 16th bullet.
All Exo Weapon Nerfs
divinity
Number of shots required to create the dome against fighters increased by 75% (unchanged in PvP)
Osteo Striga
Now has a 4 second cooldown on the poison explosion on kills. (Cooldown is not applied to Continuous Damage Poison Blasts.)
The lawsuit
Healing effect reduced by 20%.
While this weapon receives the flat 7% buff for swords, we have reduced the damage at the top of the chained heavy attack by 20% from this point onwards.
This means that combos with lower stacks will be less affected by this change than combos with higher stacks.
All customizations for exo-weapons
Rat King
The firing animation is now the same as other automatic pistols.
The devil’s ruin
Fixed an issue that caused the Fiend’s Ruin firing animation to transfer to other equipped pistols when switching to the other weapon during the firing animation.
Gjallarhorn
The graphical representation of the pack projectiles has been adjusted to the damage type of the weapon. For example:
With “Gjallarhorn” they use solar effects.
The Void Rocket Launcher “Royal Entry” buffed by “Gjallarhorn” uses Void effects.
Tale of a dead man
Initial value:
Cranial Pin stacks now provide stability (+2 per stack) in addition to aim assist and range.
Increased the reload speed benefit of Cranial Pen stacks.
With Hip Fire Catalyst:
Precision advantages slightly reduced.
Magnetism decay scale increased (from 1.6 to 1.7).
Base rate of fire increased from 130 spm to 140 spm.
Removed PvE-only damage buff that increased with stacks of Cranial Pen. Added 15% damage bonus at maximum stack amount of Cranial Pen.
Cerberus+1
Fire Focus now activates on special reloads after a kill and no longer negatively affects range or rate of fire.
bastion
Fists of the Saint perk reworked: Damage dealt by melee hits increases charge rate, damage, and reload speed for a short duration. If the majority of bullets in a volley hit, melee damage increases.
Borealis, Hard Light, Dead Messenger
The Basics perk now retains the selected damage type after death or respawn.
Perk adjustments
What does Bungie plan to do with the perks? The perks are also at stake. Bungie looked at a lot of weapon perks and eliminated some entirely while adjusting others. For a detailed view, open our new box:
All perk adjustments
Haste
No longer works in Rumble.
Archer’s Gambit
Tension time buff reduced from 66% to 60%.
Buff duration reduced from 8 to 4 seconds (but can now stack up to 8 seconds).
Grave robbers
Now activates when dealing damage with charged melee attacks, not just standard melee kills.
Chain reaction
Special Ammo: Approximately 15% smaller area of effect and 20% less damage.
Heavy Ammo: Same area of effect as before and 30% more damage.
Eddy current
Now activates after sprinting for 1.5 seconds, rather than 3 seconds.
Also grants a handling bonus and a 5% scalar to each base value.
When amplified, the perk activates immediately with maximum efficiency.
Underdog
“Underdog” has been replaced by “heart rate monitor”.
Osmosis and permeability
The effect no longer wears off when you summon your spirit or perform similar actions.
Now partially refills the weapon’s magazine when activated.
Chill clip
Adjusted the number of slow stacks applied based on weapon characteristics.
In this case, rapid-fire fusion rifles like Riptide still require 3 shots to freeze targets, while slower-firing fusion rifles only require 2.
All other archetypes have had their debuffs removed so they only require 2 shots to freeze.
Upper hand
Now grants a stacking damage bonus when getting kills in any context (e.g. rampage). Instantly grants the maximum possible number of stacks when dealing damage to enemies from an elevated position.
Maximum bonus in PvE increased to 25% damage bonus, maximum bonus in PvP increased to 15%.
Kill tally sheet
Updated to match the version of random rolls weapons.
Perks that currently correspond to your equipped focus have been changed as follows:
Osmosis and Area Shot now match the damage type of your equipped grenade.
Permeability and Elemental Coupler now match the damage type of your equipped Super.
Disassemble
Now replenished from reserves instead of just appearing out of nowhere, and should fire more reliably on all weapon types.
These were all the adjustments you can expect for the release of “The Final Shape”. Which change can you understand and which buff are you most looking forward to? Let us know! You can find out more about the release of “The Final Shape” in our overview: Destiny 2: “The Final Form” DLC – Everything about the release, new abilities, weapons, enemies and editions
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