In Destiny 2’s upcoming Season of Wish, Guardians can expect drastic changes. The popular Titan class in particular is hit by a nasty 5x nerf, which the community is already criticizing as an overcorrection and ridiculous. MeinMMO tells you what’s waiting in Bungie’s “Go Slow” update.
Hard Nerfs to Popular Abilities: As Bungie announced in the weekly TWiD (“This Week in Destiny”) on November 22nd, players can expect significant melee and survival nerfs as well as adjustments to many exotic armor pieces in the upcoming Season 23.
MeinMMO has looked at all the changes and explained why your powerful abilities will come with significant costs in the future and how much it will affect your ability to survive.
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This is how hard the 5x nerf will be
This is why Titans are shocked right now: Changes for all classes were presented in the information about the upcoming patch. But Guardians with a Titan in particular quickly realized that they would be hit particularly hard with a 5x nerf.
For the Solar Titan, the cooldown of the small “Bonk” hammer, the healing-based solar verb “Restoration”, sunspots, the armor exotic “Synthoceps” and popular mods are being nerfed. The latter affects all three classes.
Why is this being adjusted? Bungie believes these changes will help bring back meaningful choice in both ability usage and the armor loading system, while also opening up the opportunity for each armor mod to have a valuable effect.
No more sliding, shooting, killing
The new motto is “Go Slow!”: The age of quick melee attacks in PvP is also coming to an end, which was long the preferred way for the Titans in particular to eliminate their opponents. First slide, then fire the weapon and also perform a shoulder attack or a sliding melee.
Why is this attack being adjusted? According to Bungie, the reason for the adjustment is that, among other things, such quick kills are extremely difficult for other Guardians to detect and understand.
However, the arc aspect “Storm Strike” will receive a slight improvement in the upcoming update. This includes an increase in base damage, more accurate tracking at longer ranges, and improved accuracy.
“They really want us to suffer!”
It’s all about balance: The Guardians have become increasingly stronger over the last few seasons, meaning that hardly anything feels challenging anymore.
It became increasingly difficult for Bungie to put combat pressure on players with optimal builds. However, Destiny 2 should feel fair to all audiences, including those who may not use builds. At the same time, however, there should be well-coordinated difficulty levels for top-equipped players.
In short: the survivability of the Guardians at the top end is too high and that’s why your survival skills will be put to the test in Season 23. This includes the “Braided Armor”, “Restoration”, “Devouring” but also the “Banner of War”.
Just a minor change: While some Guardians here have seen their lives dwindle massively, we don’t expect these changes to have a significant impact. The refund would have had to be halved to achieve a noticeable effect in the game. Bungie also explicitly mentioned that this is only “a small change.”
In addition, the currently most popular strand aspect “Banner of War” will also be adjusted.
You will certainly feel these changes in the game. It will make it more difficult for you to achieve maximum healing with the Titan’s War Banner aspect in the future.
Bubble and fountain nerfs are being planned
The question that remains is what Bungie plans to do with Destiny 2’s two best options for healing and protection, the Warlock’s healing Fountain of Glory and the protective Titan Bubble Ward of Dawn.
The cooldown nerf is still aimed at PVP and does nothing in PVE. But Bungie also wants to fundamentally reevaluate the place of these two options in PvE in the future.
Why does Bungie want to adjust these options? In the developer’s opinion, the “Fountain of Splendor” in particular offers too much. His effective invulnerability is not something the sandbox can or should continue to support.
Content creator Saltagreppo also believes that Bungie needs to be even tougher with these two ultimates because otherwise nothing will change. You don’t need an average damage reduction of 10% like you would with Braided Armor.
So bask in the protection for a while until further changes come in Season 23, which will then also adjust the dominance in PvE.
And what about stasis? With the coolest of all abilities, expectations fell somewhat short. Bungie mentioned changes, but the big “Wow!” wasn’t there yet.
Weapons with special ammo also receive a stronger damage bonus from 5% to 10% against frozen targets, aiming to make smashing enemies more consistent.
This is what the community says about the adjustments
The community immediately reacted to these announcements and many players expressed their dissatisfaction with the supposed over-correction. Some are even calling the changes ridiculous, arguing that the popularity of the Titan class doesn’t mean it’s too strong, but that it’s enjoyed by many players.
The Destiny editorial team at MeinMMO also believes that the changes are solid and fair. On paper, this may feel bad to some players. But without trying them, it’s hard to say whether these changes are really over the top or not. These new cooldowns with dynamic regeneration might still be intuitive enough.
When can you test the changes? You can play the new season 23 from November 28th. And from then on, most of these changes will go live in the game so that you can try them out and evaluate them.
While Bungie emphasizes that this is the first step in a long-term process to improve balance in the game, community reaction will determine whether these changes have the desired effect or if further adjustments are needed.
What do you think about the drastic changes to Titans in Destiny 2 “Season of Wish”? Does that affect the way you play? And do you think Bungie’s ability nerfing decisions will have the desired effects? Feel free to tell us in the comments.
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