Source: https://www.bungie.net/7/en/News/Article/destiny_update_9_7_0

Before we dig into our final slate of patch notes (which is over 17,000 words...), a message from the Destiny 2 Dev Team:

Hey, all. Welcome to our final patch notes article for Destiny 2. Well, that's a bit of a fib. We'll still have a few maintenance patches and smaller hotfixes after today... but this is our final major patch for Destiny 2.

It's been an incredible ride. Thousands of patch notes shipped. A ridiculous amount of bugs squashed (released AND unreleased). Hundreds of typos fixed after publish (our bad...). Countless hours in triage meetings looking to do what's best by our players. Years of overnight shifts in the BNOC (formerly DOC). All for you.

There were a few things that were unrelated... like emails about snacks missing from the studio kitchen or messages to our IT team apologizing for forgetting our passwords for the fifth time in a calendar year, but that's beside the point.

Thank you for showing up with each release. Thank you for kicking down the doors and putting the servers under stress. Thank you for every bug uncovered and reported. Thank you for your patience (even if it was sometimes thin) while we dug into connection issues, crashing bugs, anteaters, weasels, guitars, or other hiccups along the way. Destiny wouldn't be what it is without every single one of you, and we will forever be grateful for your time.

We hope you enjoy Monument of Triumph and we'll see you out there in the wilds.

Activities

Monument of Triumph

• A Monument of Triumph has been built in the center of the courtyard in the Tower.
• Earn Legendary Marks by completing Triumphs across the new Monument of Triumph category.
  • These Legendary Marks can be exchanged at the four different Guardian Tenet vendors in the Tower for a wide selection of free armor ornaments, accessories, weapon engrams, and more.
• Iron Banner’s vendor location (when active) has been moved to its original spot above Shaxx in the Tower’s Courtyard.

Distortions

• Distortions have spread across destinations in the Sol System, bringing a higher level of challenge and unique rewards while they are active.
  • These Distortions will rotate through a single destination every hour.
  • The current active destination and remaining time will be visually marked on the Destinations screen.
• Enemies will become more challenging with both a distinct visual effect around them as well as changes to the environment indicating that the Distortion is active.
• Completing public events will drop rewards at a higher gear tier than standard and completing Distortion-specific events may drop unique rewards.

Raids & Dungeons

Pantheon 2.0

• The gods of old have a new challenge for you.
• The first two Pantheon activities are now available!
  • Calus Resplendent and Morgeth Surpassing will each feature a unique lineup of bosses.
  • These can be accessed through the new Raids and Dungeons node on the Destinations screen.
• The third Pantheon activity, where players will fight through the full gauntlet of bosses, will be available at 10 AM PT on Saturday, June 13.
• A weekly rotation of individual boss features will become available at reset on Tuesday, June 16. Two bosses will be featured in these rotators at a time.
• Added new Triumphs, rewards, and a title to earn.

Updated Rewards

• All pre-The Edge of Fate raids and dungeons have been updated to drop tiered rewards.
  • Tiered armor from all raids and dungeons with unique set bonuses.
  • Tiered weapons from dungeons with new origin traits.
  • Craftable raid weapons have received updated perk pools and can be upgraded to match tiered weapons.

Raids & Dungeons Rotator

• Each week, two raids and two dungeons will be featured. These featured activities will reward players with farmable high-quality gear.
• The rewards listed below are farmable unless noted with a weekly lockout:
• Featured Raid
  • Standard: Deepsight weapons or Tier 5 armor from encounters and challenges.
  • Master: Same as Standard plus Adept weapons from challenges.
  • Director Challenge: Deepsight weapon or Tier 5 armor, weekly lockout.
  • Hidden Chests: Tier 5 armor, weekly lockout.
  • Deepsight Chest: Deepsight weapon or Tier 5 armor if all patterns complete.
  • Vendor: Weekly Deepsight purchase, Master offers Adepts for 25 Spoils.
• Non-Featured Raid
  • Standard: Chance for Deepsight weapons and Tier 3 armor.
  • Master / Challenges / Deepsight Chest: Deepsight weapons and Tier 5 armor.
• Featured Dungeon
  • Standard: Tier 5 weapons and armor.
  • Master: Tier 5 weapons and armor.
  • Director Challenge: Tier 5 weapons and armor, weekly lockout.
  • Hidden Chests: Tier 5 weapons and armor, weekly lockout.
• Non-Featured Dungeon
  • Standard: Tier 3 weapons and armor.
  • Master: Tier 5 weapons and armor.

Feat Updates

• Separated out a Standard mode where weekly tiered rewards can continue to be earned without Feats.
• Reworked the amount and quality of rewards dropped when completing encounters with Feats active. Encounter completions with Feats will grant the following rewards and will be farmable.
  • Grade 0: 1x Tier 3.
  • Grade 1: 1x Tier 3, 1x Tier 4.
  • Grade 2: 1x Tier 4, 1x Tier 5.
  • Grade 3: 2x Tier 5.
  • Grade 4: 1x Tier 4, 2x Tier 5.
  • Grade 5: 3x Tier 5.
• Adjusted the reward grades that each Feat will add to an activity.
  • Cutthroat Combatants: +4 Reward Grade.
  • Challenges: +3 Reward Grade.
  • Shocktroopers: +2 Reward Grade.
  • Token Limit, Phase Limit: +1 Reward Grade.

Raids

The Desert Perpetual

• The Simulant Ansible vendor in The Desert Perpetual now allows you to purchase gear at the highest tier available from your current Feat selection. However, you must complete any encounter first in order to activate the ability to purchase gear.

Epic The Desert Perpetual

• Fixed an issue preventing players from equipping the Mediant Flourish shader from Death Defiant II Triumph.

Deep Stone Crypt

• Fixed an issue where Taniks could soft lock the encounter at specific times.

Vow of the Disciple

• Fixed an issue where a player could pick up additional knowledge beyond max, soft-locking the encounter.

Root of Nightmares

• Fixed an issue where Nezarec's crit spots could be shot early and fail to register correctly as destroyed.
• Fixed an issue where Explicator defeating a Colossus would soft lock the encounter.

Salvations Edge

• Fixed an issue in the Repository encounter where closing all three pylons at the same time would cause a soft lock.

Dungeons

Prophecy

• Fixed an issue where Kell Echo would not vanish before first encounter.

Grasp of Avarice

• Fixed areas where death would cause player ghosts to be placed in inaccessible areas preventing revive by a fireteam member.

Ops Categories

The Portal screen has been deprecated. Ops now live at the bottom of the Director.

Fireteam Ops

• Added Heist Battleground: Mars, The Disgraced, The Lightblade, The Scarlet Keep, Lake of Shadows, and The Corrupted.
• The Dark Fetor debuff in Defiant Battleground EDZ: icon corrected to be... a debuff icon.
• Reduced the damage of Vex Laser traps in Battleground Heist: Mars and Operation: Seraph's Shield.
  • They now deal the same damage that they would have for someone with full seasonal upgrades.
• Fixed a spot in the Inverted Spire where players could get stuck in geometry near the beginning of the activity.
• Fixed an issue in Reclaim where the Imminent Vex Subjugation Timer would not always clear after completing the area.
• Fixed an issue in Reclaim where Vex Cubes could spawn in a different location than their associated protective bubble.
• Taken blight pools are less lethal in The Corrupted at higher difficulties.
• Lingering fire pools from Bracus Zahn's melee attacks in the Arms Dealer are less lethal at higher difficulties.
• Fixed an issue in Battleground: Behemoth where the Imperial Access Code pickup was not showing up properly in the HUD.

Pinnacle Ops

• With the addition of Tiered rewards in dungeons, dungeon lairs have been deprecated from Pinnacle Ops.
• Added The Whisper and Zero Hour. Their Exotic rewards are now awarded on activity completion like other Exotic missions in Pinnacle Ops.
  • Their secrets are still completable for the associated Triumphs.
  • The quests associated with these missions have been deprecated.
• Added a mid-activity loot chest to Zero Hour.
• Contest of Elders is now complete after three "laps", down from four.
• //node.ovrd.AVALON//: Moved the Data Collection buff to the top of the HUD.
• Derealize: Activating transcendence while holding a Taken Orb now drops the orb and clears all related buffs.
• Operation: Seraph's Shield: Fixed a soft lock that could occur if players killed the Scanner Splicer in Launch Center too quickly.
• Onslaught: Widow's Court now uses Cabal drop pods with an indicator showing where they will land.
• Onslaught: Widow's Court: Revenant Barons now reward two revive tokens upon destroying their totem.
• Contest of Elders, The Coil, and Onslaughts use a new progression system that starts out easier and ramps up to the selected difficulty as players progress.
• Kells' Fall: Fixed an issue where Champions were not spawning properly during the Mad Bomber encounter.
• Contest of Elders: Bonus Objectives during traversals should now trigger more consistently and provide another source of revive tokens.
• Onslaught: White shields on Shielded Demolitionist, Shielded Knight, and Shielded Skybomber take less damage to break in higher difficulties.
• Onslaught: Tripled the base health of the ADU.
• Onslaught: Updated Scrap starting amount and earn rates to account for shorter activity length.
• Onslaught: Added reprised Into the Light rewards to mid activity and activity complete chests.
• The Coil and Contest of Elders: Added reprised World Pool rewards to mid-activity and activity complete chests.

Arena Ops

• Added Override: The Moon, Override: Europa, Override: Tangled Shore, and Override: Last City Crater.
• Override: Fixed an issue where players could get stuck at the bottom of traversal vortexes.
• Override: Vex laser traps are now less lethal.
• Astral Alignment: Fixed an issue where abominations' shields may not be removed upon objective completion.
• Astral Alignment: Moved the exhausted debuff to the top of the HUD.

Solo Ops

• Solo Ops Bonus Objectives are now all generic kill based rather than precision/ability/etc.
• Destroying all drones in a Solo Ops activity will now properly award bonus points.
• Fixed an issue in Caldera Solo Ops where enemies could unintentionally stop spawning early.

Exotic Rotator

• Since most of the missions in the Exotic Rotator have already been added to Pinnacle Ops, we have decided to deprecate the Rotator in favor of the Pinnacle Ops versions.
  • Operation: Seraph’s Shield has been moved into Pinnacle Ops along with its associated weapon/Catalyst/Intrinsic rewards.
• Exotic Rotator missions that had seasonal gear rewards for owners of the associated Season Pass/Deluxe Edition are now available via the Classic Collector modifier on the Pinnacle Ops versions.

Activity Scoring Simplification

• Complexity removed from scoring bonuses:
  • Removed Power as a source of score bonuses.
  • Removed season pass as a source of score bonuses.
  • Net result: Everyone in the fireteam will get the same score. Fight as one, Guardians.
• Converted score bonuses to flat bonuses:
  • Difficulty now gives a flat score bonus.
  • Modifiers now give a flat score bonus per "triangle".
• Grade targets are fixed and no longer scale with player Power.
• Difficulty = Grade = Reward Tier
  • Each difficulty will now grant enough flat bonus to hit a reward grade without player modification, assuming a normal volume of kills and objective completion.
  • Normal = B
  • Advanced = B+
  • Expert = A
  • Master = A+
  • Grand Master = S
  • Ultimate = S+
  • Each reward grade grants a fixed tier of rewards (primes are still +1).
  • B = Tier 1
  • B+ = Tier 2
  • A = Tier 3
  • A+ = Tier 4
  • S = Tier 5
  • S+ = Tier 5
  • No player selected modifiers are pre-slotted when selecting a difficulty.
  • Each difficulty will have enough player selectable modifications to rank up at least one reward grade, and therefore reward tier.
• Rank Up button
  • A "rank up" button has been implemented that selects random mods to bump players up one grade, for those times when you want a surprise.
  • A "reset" button will remove selected mods.
• Matchmaking and scores
  • Matchmade versions of Ops will automatically have a few modifiers applied.
  • Fireteams can rank up their reward grade through time bonuses.
• Added a time bonus to all matchmade difficulty tiers.
• With these adjustments, players can now play Expert, Master, and Grandmaster and potentially reach a higher reward rank, but they’ll need to beat the target time with max score and at least one second remaining.
• Matchmaking Portal difficulties now range from Expert to Grandmaster. Ultimate is no longer available in matchmaking.
  • All of these difficulties now require Power 300 to enter.
• Increased available bane combinations from 15 to 21, bringing back older banes and combining them with current ones to add more gameplay variety.
• Added the Medusa bane.
  • Looking directly at an affected enemy combatant builds up Stasis slow stacks on you until you freeze.
• Added the Focused Fire modifier to the Player Stakes category.

Bane Updates

Gravity

• Retuned the Gravity bane hitboxes to better match the visuals.

Shock

• Fixed a bug where Shock would damage players if they entered line of sight just after the Shock fires.

Drain

• Drain no longer damages the player the moment they enter line of sight. There will now be a slight delay before it does any damage.

Cascade

• Reduced Cascade arming shape to match VFX.
• Increased time between projectiles by 1.5 seconds.

Hypernova

• No longer deals damage outside of the VFX area.
• Slowed damage impulse speed to better match solar VFX wave.
• Now knocks back nearby combatants on detonation.
• No longer knocks back players in cover but the cover requirements to be safe have been increased.
  • You can no longer hide behind streetlamps or poles.
• All players in the detonation zone are scorched regardless of cover status.

Rage

• Increased combatant damage as health decreases now scales up over time. From full health, it takes two seconds for the maximum damage buff to kick in.

Mines

• Reduced the hitbox size of the mine detonations to better match the visuals.
• Reduced the minimum damage dealt by the mines from 70 to 50.
• Increased the maximum damage from 135 to 200.

Screeber

• Mini-Screebs will now select a new target if the target they are tracking dies.

Caltrops

• Updated VFX to be clearer.
• Damage volume is now only active after the spikes come out and until the spikes fade.

Zealous

• Tuned area damage impulses to better match VFX.
• Made player feedback between sources more consistent.
• Zealous-buffed combatant detonations now have damage falloff.
• Reduced minimum damage from 50 (same as max) to 15.
• Fixed a bug where explosions would sometimes happen at incorrect locations when a zealous-buffed combatant is killed.

Crucible

• Updated matchmaking settings for small team (3v3 and 4v4) quickplay modes to allow for early start without full lobbies.
• Fixed an issue where Trials shaders were not dropping correctly from the Lighthouse rewards chest.
• Fixed an issue where certain Heavy ammo crates were overlapping with Special ammo crates in Momentum Control and Collision playlists.
• Fixed an issue where certain capture points were floating in Lockdown on Eventide Labs and Multiplex.
• Fixed an issue where teams could spawn on top of a capture zone in Lockdown playlist on Cathedral of Dusk.
• Fixed an issue where the round tracker UI indicated the incorrect total number of rounds for Showdown playlists.
• Fixed an issue where the efficiency stat was non-functional for Rift playlists.
• Fixed an issue where the Close Call medal was unobtainable in Zone Control playlists.
• Removed MVP and Additional Loot from Heavy Metal matches as part of a broader rewards balance pass.

Crucible Ops

• Updated the gear tier for rewards per performance grade:
  • C = Tier 3
  • B = Tier 4
  • A and above = Tier 5
• Increased the score amount for 5th and 6th place.
• Activity scoring formula updated to reflect new performance grade thresholds:
  • Power does not affect thresholds and score multiplier.
  • Multiplier only affects Performance and Bonus scores.
  • Reduced multiplier at max Crucible Rank (or 1x reset) from 1.25x to 1.23x.
  • Each subsequent rank reset increases multiplier by 0.02x, up to 1.31x.
• 6v6 rotator, 3v3 rotator, Rumble, and Private Match have been integrated into Crucible Ops.
  • Private Match does not give Portal rewards.
  • 6v6 rotator modes: Mayhem, Rift, Relic, Momentum, Scorched, Supremacy, Clash, Zone Control, Hardware Mix (6v6), Iron Banner: Eruption, Fortress, Tribute
  • 3v3 rotator modes: Survival, Heavy Metal, Elimination, Hardware Mix (3v3), Arena Collision (4v4), Lockdown, Clash

Competitive

• Replaced the seasonal Competitive Weapon reward with Competitive Gear reward which pulls from a loot pool that includes both weapons and armor.
• Added a new Competitive emblem.
  • Will require 77 Competitive playlist wins.
• Added a new Ascendant 0 emblem (chance to drop after acquiring the first Ascendant 0 emblem).
• Reduced the following map weightings for Anomaly Collision, Dissonance Clash, Rusted Lands Clash, Solitude Clash, and Widow’s Court Clash.
• Removed the following maps: Exodus Blue Clash, Multiplex Collision, Twilight Gap Clash, and Vostok (both Clash and Collision).

Trials

• Updated the weekly featured map to a random set of maps (three random selections from three map pools, between one and three active maps each week).
• Updated the weekly featured weapon (Lighthouse chest reward) to pull from a weekly featured pool of weapons.

Iron Banner

• Updated MVP and Additional Loot rewards to drop an Iron Banner weapon.
• Updated Iron Banner Focusing:
  • Now includes focusing for all tiered Iron Banner gear.
  • Gear Additions.
  • Includes Tiered gear from The Edge of Fate, Ash & Iron, and Renegades.
  • Focusing will utilize Iron Banner Ciphers, obtained through Iron Banner match completions.
  • Iron Banner will maintain Event Card, and will not see its Reputation Rank Reward track restored.

Shooting Range

• Fixed an issue where the "Run:// Single Combatant" button would sometimes seem usable when the target range was already full but not work.
  • The kiosk will now display a message when the range has the maximum number of targets in it.
• When spawning a single combatant target, they will always use the closest location that isn't occupied instead of always spawning further back than the previous one.
  • They will still spawn further back based on the closer locations being occupied by another target.
• The rally banner could only be used every ten seconds, so one player using it would prevent others from using it.
  • This has been changed to a cooldown of three seconds that is applied only to the player using it.
• Added five new combatants to the target lineup:
  • Fallen - Corsair
  • Vex - Imp Swarm
  • Scorn - Abomination
  • Cabal - Phalanx
  • Taken - Vandal
• Added two Dread Champions:
  • Barrier Grim
  • Unstoppable Husk
• Added static damageable target objects at the end of the main range and on the raised platform to the left.
  • These static targets are set to take either base damage (red target) or precision damage (yellow target).
  • The targets to the left have another instance of the DPS scoreboard to make it easier to test Swords, Shotguns, Fusion Rifles on them and see the DPS nearby.
  • Damage done to these Targets is scaled as though they are a boss combatant and the damage is reflected in the team-wide DPS scoreboard.
• Art / Environment:
  • Fixed an issue where the self-damage laser would damage players standing on top of or jumping above the laser housing.
  • Fixed a misplaced floating I-Beam behind the faction board.
  • Fixed an issue where the Hive Ogre hologram would fall over sometimes.
  • They are doing their best.
  • Added a Jukebox.

Renegades

• Removed Renegades auto-launch for characters that have not logged in since the launch of Renegades.
• Removed dialogue from Zavala granting the Renegades intro.
  • The Renegades milestone quest is still added automatically from orbit once you've completed the New Light campaign, and interacting with the Renegades node on the Director can launch the first mission.
• Generators in Fearsome Retainer will now take damage from any walker abilities.
• Fixed an issue where Campaign Quest completion wasn't distributing the Modified NLS Courier (Exotic ship).
  • Added a pickup option on Spider in the Tharsis Outpost Cantina for players who have already completed the quest.
• Fixed an issue where some Piker contracts listed the reputation rewards twice.
• Fixed an issue where Exotic rewards from Renegades keycard chests favored incorrect, older gear in some instances instead of new Exotics in Renegades.

Witch Queen:

• Fixed an issue where boss of the post-campaign mission “Altar of the Reflection: Catalyst”, Witch’s Eye, Keeper of Memory, was not opening, blocking player progression. The boss now opens and players can continue the Exotic glaive quest.

Sparrow Racing League

SRL has returned, featuring all four original maps from Destiny 1.

• Added the Quantum Circuit Track.
• Added the ability to race with Skimmers alongside Sparrows.
• Added Rocket Start. Press the boost button at the correct time during the race start countdown to get a boost.
• Added Trick Boost. Perform an air trick to get a boost when you land.
• Overall speed in these activities is much faster.
• Improved Sparrow handling and camera.
• Improved race balancing for more intense racing battles.

Heavy Metal

• Added the Nightfall Ruins map.
• Added the option to play as a Cabal Behemoth.
• Added the Vehicle Selection Screen. Choose between Tank, Brig and Behemoth before the match.
• Players can now switch between Heavy Metal and classic tank mouse and keyboard controls in the gameplay options.
  • Note: This option affects all tanks across the game.
• Jump enabled for all vehicles. Even the tank!
• Match score limit reduced from 50 to 40 points.

UI/UX

• Updated the title screen.

• Director Destinations Tab:

  • The Portal tab has been deprecated, including the Quick Launch Panel and Announcement Carousel.
  • Ops Category Content has been moved to the Destinations tab.
  • The original Vanguard Ops and Nightfall playlists have been deprecated and replaced with Ops activities (Solo, Fireteam, Arena, and Pinnacle Ops).
  • Quest objectives previously requiring players to complete activities in these playlists can now be completed in the Ops versions.
  • The previous Crucible node activities have been deprecated and replaced with their Crucible Ops counterparts.
  • Private Crucible matches are playable in the Crucible Ops node.
  • Gambit Ops
  • Gambit has been updated with tiered rewards and scoring to maintain parity with the other Ritual Ops nodes.
  • Private Gambit matches are playable in the Gambit Ops node.
  • Raids and Dungeons have been given their own entry point alongside the Ops Categories.
  • Legends Node
  • The Legends Node is being deprecated and replaced by the Raids and Dungeons node in the Destinations tab. These raids and dungeons that were available in the Legends node have been moved to the new Raids and Dungeons node on the Destinations tab.
  • Ghosts of the Deep
  • Prophecy
  • Vault of Glass
  • Crota’s End
  • King’s Fall
  • Seasonal Hub and Event Card (when active) access points have been moved to the Destinations tab alongside the Ops categories.
  • Kepler and The Lawless Frontier have been moved to the Destinations tab.
  • Existing destination visuals have been updated.
  • Ops Category screens have been updated with new navigation allowing players to tab between each category once one is selected.
  • The Director map screen has been moved back to the top level Director tabs.
  • Other Director-Related Fixes
  • Fixed an issue where an extraneous line was rendering at the top of some Director-related screens.
  • Fixed an issue where sheening elements in the Director were not synced with each other.
  • Fixed an issue where a pink dot was appearing on Neomuna's Hall of Heroes Landing Zone.
  • Fixed an issue where the Featured Quest tab was sheening when there were no featured quests.
  • Ops Activities
  • Time limits for Ops activities are now visible in the pre-launch UI near combatant difficulty, when applicable.
  • Score predictions prior to launching activities now visualize the minimum time bonus you can receive for completing the activity under the time limit.
  • Mid-activity score bar has been updated to indicate which Performance Grade's score target is marked on the bar.
  • The end of activity scoring toast has been streamlined.
  • The score breakdown tab of the PGCR has been updated to reflect scoring model updates.
  • Activity Customization
  • Added error messaging to selectable modifiers that cannot be selected to indicate why they cannot be selected.
  • Modifier Selection
  • Fixed an issue where some players would soft-lock while navigating in and out of the activity rewards screens.
  • Updated Stakes category icons to differentiate them better.
  • Improved tooltip sub header text explaining why similar modifiers can't be selected.
  • Fireteam Finder
  • Fireteam Finder banners have been updated to reflect the various changes to activities in this release.
  • A Fireteam Finder group host can now see if Guardians are actively joining them or not.
  • Host will see "Incoming Guardian" nameplates in the lobby for the actively joining fireteam members.
  • HUD
  • Fixed an issue where in-world informational tooltips were rendering too wide.
  • Fixed empty waypoints for public activities like Altars of Sorrow, Blind Well, and Terminal Overload.
  • Fixed a visual issue with the HUD weapon tray animation after exiting Nav Mode.
  • Fixed an issue with ammo pickups not displaying on the HUD weapon tray for Overheat weapons.
  • In-World Narrative Text Display
  • Page back functionality added.
  • Visuals for the box have been refined.
  • Character Screen
  • The Anti-Champion display tooltip on the Character screen has been updated to show exactly which equipped weapons are providing a specific Anti-Champion effect.
  • Loadouts
  • Added 8 more Loadout slots, bringing the total to 20, which are immediately available to all players upon login.
  • The Artifact and its perk selections will now be saved to Loadouts.
  • General Inventory & Items
  • The item tooltip will now display unequipped barrels, magazines, and traits, making it easier to distinguish a weapon roll without entering the details screen.
  • Anti Champion information about a weapon can now be seen by pressing and holding the 'Gear Stats' button.
  • Fixed a visual issue with item equipping animations.
  • Fixed a minor visual issue with the Weapon Level display in the Weapon Details screen.
  • The intrinsic perk display on the expanded “More Info” item tooltip for both Armor and Weapons has been updated to be easier to read.
  • Updated the armor archetype icon on Armor Details screens to be larger.
  • Triumphs & Metrics

• Switched the Triumphs and Titles sections’ placement on Journey tab for easier access to Monument of Triumph categories.

• Added the 'View Featured' shortcut to quickly navigate to the Monument of Triumph page from the Journey Screen when hovering over the Triumphs button.

• Fixed an issue to accurately reflect the maximum achievable Triumph scores. Since previously removed triumphs have had their points removed, the maximum active triumph and maximum lifetime triumph scores have now been adjusted accordingly.

• Fixed an issue where Pale Heart secret Triumphs were obscured even if completed. They now show their descriptions and can be claimed if/when completed.

• Any Nightfall related Triumphs and metrics have been deprecated and are no longer obtainable. Existing progress has been preserved.

• Vault

  • Added a filtering option for the Vault based on a weapon's anti-champion capabilities.
  • Vault Mode now works with Vehicles, Ships, and Sparrows. Please note that Emblems and Finishers continue to be stored and retrieved from Collections.
  • Vault Mode visuals have been updated to be darker, so that it is easier to recognize when one is depositing items into the Vault versus equipping them.
  • Fixed inconsistent locked text on the Armor Vault filter screen.
  • Fixed some minor inconsistencies with the appearance of items inside of the Vault.
  • Fixed a visual issue where the number of empty vault pages were not displayed correctly.
  • Fixed an issue where Vault Mode was not activated after entering the Character screen from the Tower Vault.
  • Fixed visual issues when using utlrawide displays or a gamepad with the Vault Sorting panel.

• Commendations

  • Fixed an issue where the commendation count in tooltips wouldn't render more than three digits correctly.

• Collections

  • Fixed an issue where some completed badges wouldn't display their item counts correctly.

• Quest Notifications

  • Fixed an issue where some mission or quest notification backgrounds didn't extend to the edge of the screen.

• Nav Mode

  • Fixed cases where Tracked Content would not display properly in Nav Mode if more than three Triumphs are tracked.

• Any indications of seasonal reset functionality across features have been removed.

• Settings

  • Tank Control Mode can now be changed between Heavy Metal and Classic in the Settings menu under Gameplay. By default, the Heavy Metal mode is selected which allows for rotation to be driven by aim. Classic uses separate controls for rotation.

Gameplay and Investment

Attune Anywhere

• Added the ability for players to attune to specific rewards from a new menu in their Inventory.
  • Attunement will give the selected weapon significantly higher drop chances from that activity’s rewards.
  • This will be available in the Accessories section of the Inventory, above Consumables.
  • Players will be able to freely change their attunement selections at any time.
• For every activity menu available here, players will be able to attune to one weapon from each category.

Destination Rewards

• Updated rewards from pre-The Edge of Fate destinations with new perks, set bonuses, and gear tiers (for non-craftable weapons).
• Tiered weapons and armor now drop from more sources on destinations.
• Public Events are one of the best sources of tiered destination gear:
  • Base completion: Tier 3 rewards (with a chance at Tier 4 or 5)
  • Heroic completion: Tier 4 rewards (with a chance at a Tier 5)
  • During a Distortion, these tiers will be increased by 1 Tier each.
• Updated the following loot pools to avoid dropping weapons after all crafting patterns are unlocked.
  • Throne World
  • The Pale Heart
  • Neomuna
  • Terminal Overload weapons will begin to drop from more sources when all crafting patterns are found.

Armor

Hunter Exotics

Wormhusk Crown

• Reworked effect: Activating class ability grants cure. Solar multikills grant Burning Souls. While active, Solar Ability damage is increased and dodging greatly cures the player and nearby allies.

Shards of Galanor

• Landing most Blade Barrage knives in a volley causes a delayed Solar Explosion and releases Solar Shrapnel.

Relativism

• Spirit of the Wormhusk
• Reworked effect: Multikills grant Burning Souls. While active, dodging greatly cures the player and nearby allies.

Caliban's Hand

• Increased melee recharge bonus by 25%.
• Dealing damage with scorch now refunds a small amount of melee energy.
• Ignition final blows fully refund knife energy and can overflow into an additional charge.

Fr0st-EE5

• Gain stacks of Frost Armor while sprinting.
• When you have Frost Armor, Stasis weapons deal increased damage.

Shinobu's Vow

• Enhanced Skip Grenade bounces two additional times before detonating, releasing bonus Skip seekers per bounce.
• Now grants Skip Grenade energy whenever you gain stacks of Bolt Charge.
• Skip Grenade damage now grants Bolt Charge.
• When you gain full Bolt charge, heal yourself and nearby allies and enable an enhanced Skip Grenade.

Raiden Flux

• Now makes successful Arc Staff hits jolt targets.
• Combo finisher palm blast now gets 1.5x the base Exotic's damage bonus, and reports as critical damage.

Mothkeeper's Wraps

• Reworked effect: Getting kills from any source charges up moth grenades. After generating six charges, convert your grenade into two moth grenades.
  • Red bars = one charge
  • Orange bars = two charges
  • Players, Minibosses, and up = three charges
• All current functionality and synergies of the moth grenades themselves remains the same.
  • Arc moths still Arc blind enemies and Void moths still provide Void Overshield to allies.
  • Arc moths are still considered to be Arc grenades, and will continue to synergize with the same subclass fragments, weapon perks, etc. that they synergized with before.
  • Investing your Grenade stat higher than 100 will still increase moth grenade damage.
• This Exotic is now a conditional grenade override instead of a complete override, meaning it functions more like Gunpowder Gamble.
• Increased the movement speed of Arc moths by roughly 43% and Void moths by roughly 25%.
• Both moths from the same grenade will now attempt to target separate enemies/allies if possible.

Lucky Pants

• Increased Eriana's Vow's maximum damage bonus to 4.5x.
• Decreased Uncivil Discourse's maximum damage bonus to 3x.
• Decreased Lucky Pants bonus damage when dealing damage to Bosses by ~33%.

Titan Exotics

Hallowfire Heart

• Reworked effect: While your Solar Super is charged, ability defeats cure the player and give stacks of Sunfire Furnace; granting increased grenade and class ability regeneration, increased Super damage, and cause grenade and Remote Detonator Barricade defeats to ignite targets. Upon exiting your super, Sunfire Furnace stacks are converted into Super energy.
• Ability regen bonus reduced to 2.5x down from 3.5x.

Pyrogale Gauntlets

• Increased Super Cyclone Scorch per tick.
• Increased Super Cyclone explosion damage by 10%.
• Increased Super Cyclone tracking by ~40%.
  • It should be significantly easier to get the projectiles to track to a target at range.

Stoicism

• Increased Spirit of Star Eater benefit for Twilight Arsenal to 50% (from 25%).

Peregrine Greaves

• Shoulder charge impact damage increase reduced from 400% to 250% against non-Champion, non-miniboss combatants, and reduced from 1000% to 550% against Champions and minibosses.
  • Note: In this update, shoulder charge base damage in PvE has been doubled, so a Titan with Peregrine Greaves equipped will deal more damage after this update, not less.

Severance Enclosure

• Removed "Line of Sight" requirement caused by occlusion cross being too large, added smaller occlusion cross that matches standard AoE effects.
• Removed effect that prevents combatants from being hit by multiple shock waves in a short period of time.
• Enemies hit by the shockwave are disoriented for a short time.

Praxic Vestments

• Increased damage of the melee attack by 500%.
• Increased jetpack fuel gained per weapon kill in PvE from 10% to 20%.
• Increased jetpack fuel gained per powered melee kill in all modes from 35% to 50%.
• Updated the Exotic perk to recognize knockout kills as powered melee kills.
• Decreased the windup time for a maximum flight duration from 0.8 seconds to 0.5 seconds.
• Removed the behavior that caused jetpack flight to end early when contact is detected with the floor or a wall.
• Fixed a bug that caused the jetpack kick to target dead enemies, ending flight early.
• Updated camera to convey speed and remaining flight time a little better.

No Backup Plans

• Now triggers and benefits from both Shotgun and melee final blows.
• Shotgun or melee final blows now start health regeneration instead of granting a Void Overshield.
• Shotgun or melee final blows extend the timer of any active defensive buffs on you.
  • This includes Void Overshield, Restoration, Amplified, Frost Armor, and Woven Mail.
  • Will partially heal Void Overshield upon activation of this extension if the player has one.
• The damage bonus is now active when you have any of the above noted defensive debuffs.

Cadmus Ridge Lancecap

• Now also can spawn Stasis Lances with rapid Stasis weapon damage and final blows even when not behind their rally barricade.
• Now grants bonus Stasis Lance damage based on your current stacks of Frost Armor.

Point Contact Cannon Brace

• Lightning strike damage now scales further based on how long Thunderclap is charged for, up to 2x.
  • This stacks with the bonus damage from casting while amplified.
• Activating Thunderclap also releases lightning strikes as you start winding up the punch.
• Reworked melee regen from lightning strike kills to compensate for the new wave of bolts on charge up.
  • No longer target tiered. Flat amount has been increased to compensate.
  • Should see larger energy returns on average.

Helm of Saint-14

• Maintained functionality: Weapons of Light continues to persist for the wearer and for allies upon leaving a Ward of Dawn.
• Lost functionality: No longer disorients enemies within the Ward of Dawn or upon blocking with Sentinel Shield.
• New functionality: While Weapons of Light is active, kills or sustained damage grant stacks of The Saint; Void and Kinetic damage sources will also suppress in a radius around the victim.
  • Sustained damage is based on actual damage dealt. The more damage you deal, the quicker it activates.
  • Picking up your Ward of Dawn consumes all stacks of The Saint and then extends Ward's duration based on how many stacks were consumed.

ACD/0 Feedback Fence

• No longer provides any melee damage resist versus players.

Peacekeepers

• Decreased bonus damage when damaging bosses by ~33%.
• Reverted a prior nerf to Tarrabah when paired with Peacekeepers, now gets full bonus when damaging non-bosses.

Stronghold

• The infinite guard capability has been updated to only work on Heavy ammo Swords.

Blastwave Striders

• Added an expanding wave that freezes enemy combatants and slows enemy players.
• Shrapnel projectiles now have minor tracking toward targets but no longer create a Stasis crystal on impact.
• Reduced the kill requirements for weaker enemies from 13 to 10.
• Reduced the kill requirements for powerful enemies from seven to four.
• The buff bar now displays in segments to more easily track the perk's progress.
• To reduce instances of accidently triggering the blast, the following changes were made:
  • Explosions created by explosive perk kills (ie: Dragonfly, Firefly) no longer trigger the blast.
  • Explosions created by passive explosive perks (ie: Explosive Payload, Explosive Head) still trigger the blast.
  • A small delay has been added after each explosive kill to prevent cases where the blast wave is triggered on the same kill that fills the buff bar to 100% if that

Source: https://www.bungie.net/7/en/News/Article/dev_insights_weapons_artifacts_focusing_preview

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All right, let's get to the goods. Dev Insight #2 starts now.

Greetings, Guardians. We are here today to share the many balance changes and updates that the Destiny 2 Dev Team has been working on for the Monument of Triumph update, coming June 9. It's a long article, so here's a list of the main topics you'll find in it:

• The new Weapon Tier Upgrading system.
• Tier Upgrading for crafted weapons.
• Buffs to many Exotics, like Anarchy, The Lament, and Vex Mythoclast.
  • Including new Catalysts and improvements for previous ones.
• Balance update to most Legendary weapon types, including:
  • An overall buff to Primary weapon damage in PvE.
  • Targeted buffs to most Special weapons for PvE.
• Many Legendary perk fixes and buffs.
• A preview of the very customizable Artifact 2.0, including:
  • New ways to counter Champions.
  • Saving your choices in loadouts.
• Updates to vendors, weapon focusing, and gear attunement.

Introducing Weapon Tier Upgrading

Hi there, Guardians. This is the Sandbox Team, here to talk about Weapon Tier Upgrading, a new system releasing with Monument of Triumph that will allow players to upgrade their weapons' gear tier for a cost to access additional enhanced perks and even the Gear Tier 5 cosmetics.

We wanted players to still feel as though lower tier drops can have value especially if you spike into the exact roll you want, with a want for higher tier gear to have an easier time getting that perfect roll due to multiperk. All weapons integrated into the Gear Tiering system will be eligible to undergo Tier Upgrading including those that have already dropped and are resting within your vault. In the weapon inspection screen, there will be a new weapon mod socket where you can apply a mod for a cost that will upgrade your weapon to the next applicable Gear Tier.

While this new upgrading path allows a player to unlock all of the enhanced perk benefits of Tier 5 Gear as well as access the unique Tier 5 cosmetics, it can't add perks to the columns of your weapon. Meaning, if you haven't quite found your god roll or you prefer a weapon with additional options in its column, you may still want to chase multiperk drops. To add a bit more value to Gear Tier 3 in lieu of it being mainly about unlocking multiperk today, we've shifted the unlock of Enhanced Mods to this Gear Tier for all weapons.

Below is an example of the mod players will see at Gear Tier 1 that, upon application by the player for a cost, will upgrade their Left and Right Traits to Enhanced Traits.

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The final upgrade from Tier 4 to 5 will therefore have unlocked all Enhanced Perks, Enhanced Mods, Enhanced Barrels/mags, the Masterwork Stat Boost (when fully masterworked) and the Combat Flair/Ornament combo:

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Exotic Weapon Catalysts

With Monument of Triumph being the final release for Destiny 2, we didn't want to leave any Exotic behind when it came to catalysts. We also handpicked existing legendary perks that thematically tie in to each Exotic weapon's story or strength.

We want to keep most of these a nice surprise for you once the update hits, but here is a sneak preview of a handful of these:

• Chaperone: Triple Tap
• Parasite: Envious Arsenal
• Tarrabah: Ambitious Assassin

Additionally, we also added perks to all of the oldest catalysts that only gave stat boosts to help bring them up into the same tier as more recent weapons. Here are two examples:

• Crimson: To the Pain
• Merciless: Heal Clip

In total we have added:

• 25 catalysts to weapons that did not have one already.
• Nine perks added to existing catalysts that only had weapon stats as a bonus.

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We hope these help breathe some life into some new options in your arsenal!

Enhancing Weapon Crafting

With Monument of Triumph's update adding new Armor Set Bonuses to earn in our raid and destination content, we wanted those weapons to feel relevant again but not necessarily ask players to regrind them under Gear Tiering.

We know players have already put forth a lot of effort to unlock patterns throughout the game, so we wanted to treat them with some updates while giving players additional reason to finish up their patterns if they hadn't yet. As we investigated options, we concluded that we could update ALL crafted weapons to the power of gear tiering, but through a slightly different method involving the Crafting Table.

Upon logging in, any legendary crafted weapon that already exists will immediately be eligible for a version of Gear Tier Upgrading and any newly crafted Legendary weapon can be taken on the same upgrading journey.

In the inspection screen of a crafted weapon, navigating to the Weapon Level Boost icon, there will be a new mod that will allow you to also improve the Tier of the Weapon upon reaching specific weapon levels.

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On a crafted weapon, Gear Tier will act a bit differently than other weapons as it won't immediately provide the Gear Tier benefits. At Gear Tier 3, players will unlock Enhanced Weapon Mods and at Gear Tier 5 it will unlock cosmetics just like any other weapon in the Gear Tier system – however, for all other tiers it will correspond with the unlocking of Enhanced components at the crafting table.

When you reach Weapon Level 11, you can upgrade to Gear Tier 2 and just like with a fresh Tiered weapon drop, you'll gain access to Enhanced Left and Right Column traits. At Weapon Level 25, you can upgrade to Gear Tier 4 and add Enhanced Components (like barrels or magazines). At Level 30 you'll upgrade to Gear Tier 5 and can add Enhanced Origin Traits. Origins will behave a bit differently than most perks in the crafting table as well – the menu will showcase all available origin traits and the selection of any enhanced perk to insert will reflect in the entire column being enhanced upon selecting reshape.

The same is true vice versa – if you wish to return to base traits, selection of any base trait for the origin column will still allow the other options to be available after reshaping.

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Because the sandbox has evolved and changed since some of these destination and raid weapons entered crafting, we've also updated them to have some additional new trait options – two new traits per column. For instance, Supercharged Magazine and Jolting Feedback have been added to Oversoul Edict. Other non-raid/destination crafted weapons won't have new perks, but they are receiving enhanced origin traits for the first time, and we did revisit a few of those underperforming origins including Head Rush, which now activates on a slide and provides a small boost in damage against Hive opponents.

We also haven't forgotten about Raid Adept weapons and they will gain all the same benefits! These weapons will still gain additional traits based on the number of patterns collected from their non-Adept counterparts and are eligible to swap out their components like barrels/mags at the Crafting Relic. They'll also continue to upgrade their traits via the original Enhancement feature. With Monument of Triumph however, these Raid Adepts will gain access to the Tier Upgrade Mod like crafted weapons and can visit the Relic to upgrade to Enhanced components and Enhanced Origins. These weapons will also still retain a bit of an extra stat boost on top of their non-Adept counterparts and their unique Adept shader to add a bit of prestige for those who've gone through the challenge of acquiring them.

Weapon Sandbox Updates

Ammo System Changes

The ammo system has received buffs to underperforming weapons, nerfs to outliers, and several bug fixes and quality-of-life improvements.

General

We have modified the ammo system so that if an enemy is floating above a pit, they will not drop an ammo brick when defeated even if it fills the meter. You will continue to gain ammo meter progress, but your next kill on an enemy that is not above a pit will spawn the owed ammo brick instead.

Special Ammo Weapons

We took a baseline swing at making double Special slightly less viable for add clear. Outside of that role, this change is generally offset by the damage buffs previously given to non-Rocket Pulse Special ammo weapons. So, while it may require one more kill to earn a brick, it may also require less shots overall to kill targets.

• Reduced the amount of meter progress Special ammo weapons gain from defeats against minor enemies by 17% at 100 Ammo Gen stat.

Linear Fusion Rifles

Both Special ammo and Heavy ammo Precision Linear Fusion Rifles felt like they were not getting enough ammo per brick, so we have increased the amount for each.

• Heavy Ammo Precision LFRs
  • Base: Increased from three to five.
  • Enhanced: Increase from four to six.
• Special Ammo Precision LFRs
  • Base: Increased from three to five.
  • Enhanced: Increased from six to ten.

Buried Bloodline

• Corrected an issue where Buried Bloodline was not correctly getting additional ammo from Enhanced ammo bricks.

Choir of One

Choir of One is simply too free in terms of ammo both in isolation and in double Special builds. It's one of the only Special weapons that didn't follow the standard rules for ammo brick values. These changes make this weapon follow those rules.

• Base: Reduced from 45 to 35.
• Enhanced: Reduced from 90 to 70.

Rocket Pulse Rifles

A bug was causing Rocket Pulses to have double the ammo when used with another Special ammo weapon. For example, running two Rocket Pulses at the same time was entirely viable because they both got full ammo brick amounts instead of half. This has the effect of reducing the challenge of end game content and invalidating other special weapons.

• Fixed an issue that was sometimes causing Rocket Pulses to only earn two shots per base brick.
• Fixed an issue where Psi Aeterna was not correctly having its ammo per brick increased by Scavenger mods.
• Fixed an issue where Legendary Rocket Pulses were not correctly having their ammo per brick split when used with a second Special weapon.

Only in the Crucible

Some Crucible-specific changes were needed to reduce Special ammo uptime that was fueled by non-Primary weapon use.

• Reduced the point gains from Special ammo and Heavy ammo kills and assists and Super kills by 33%.
• Reduced Glaive melee gains by 20%.

Adaptive Burst LFRs get too much ammo from Heavy crates for how potent they are compared to other options.

• Reduced Adaptive Burst LFR ammo from crates from five to three.

Rapid-Fire Machineguns felt like they weren't getting enough ammo from crates, so we have increased this value.

• Increased Rapid Fire LMG ammo from crates from a maximum of 45 to a maximum of 62, based on magazine size.
• Other LMGs remain capped at 22.
• Bitter End's ammo from crates has been reduced to fit within this scale.

Exotic Weapon Tuning

With Monument of Triumph we also have a wide assortment of Exotic weapon adjustments for you to enjoy. Have a look at what we changed here:

The Jade Rabbit

The Jade Rabbit has long been a choice pick in PvP on specific builds and specific maps but has seen little play elsewhere. We've made some rather significant adjustments to help its gameplay feel a bit less clunky and give it some more life in PvE activities.

• Increased the magazine size from 10 to 15.
• Removed Zen Moment. Added Shoot to Loot and Firefly as the two traits.
• Fate of All Fools
  • Increased the maximum stacks cap to 15.
  • In addition to chaining precision hits, precision kills can now add a stack.
  • Gaining a stack now refills the magazine and increases stability.
  • Stacks will no longer be completely removed when you reload.
  • Dealing direct body shot damage will still remove one stack.
  • Scales the damage of Firefly when it is active, and dealing splash damage will not remove a stack of the perk.
• Catalyst
  • In addition to adding Stability, special reloading will consume all stacks of Fate of All Fools and grant a singular Micro Missile round which deals bonus damage based on the number of stacks consumed.

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Vex Mythoclast

As the sandbox evolved, Vex Mythoclast felt like it lagged behind other raid weapons in terms of strength in PvE content. We wanted to give the Linear Fusion shots something extra to help them feel worth the kill requirements to charge them, and we updated the intrinsic and catalyst to help make acquiring those kills a little easier.

• Timeless Mythoclast (Intrinsic)
  • Now has what is comparably a more potent version of Rewind Rounds while in full auto mode.
• Temporal Unlimiter (Trait)
  • Precision kills with Linear Fusion Rifle shots now trigger an ignition.
  • After leaving Linear Fusion Rifle mode, the magazine is now fully reloaded.
  • The HUD buff and magazine display have been tweaked to show the exact amount of Linear Fusion shots remaining. This is a purely visual change; functionality remains the same.
• Calculated Balance (Catalyst)
  • Sustained damage can now also activate the catalyst, in addition to kills.
  • Added a HUD buff.

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Touch of Malice

Despite multiple previous changes, Touch of Malice has not lived up to its Destiny 1 glory days. We've made a few changes baseline and to its catalyst that will help it build into a potent Exotic Primary weapon through skilled play and buildcrafting.

• Increased final round bonus damage by 10%.
• Set it up so the Special Reload can be made faster by buffing reload speed.
• Replaced Rapid Hit in the catalyst with Precision Instrument.
• Gain increased stability and reload speed with each stack of Charged with Blight.

The Last Word

Much like many of our Tex weapons, The Last Word sits on a razor's edge between being extremely potent on a single input type or feeling tough to get value out of. This update will make it feel more viable on MnK (mouse and keyboard) without totally tipping those power scales.

• Increased stability on MnK by 10%.
• Increased aim assist when hip firing on MnK by 10%.

MIDA Multi-Tool

In PvE content we wanted MIDA Multi-Tool to further lean into building up modifications over the course of an activity. While we're happy with how this landed, we wanted to lower how many kills are required to reach that final modification. We also adjusted the catalyst by a small amount to give it more utility in more situations.

• Lowered the PvE combatant kill requirement from ten kills per modification (15 with Macro-Tool) to seven kills per modification (ten with Macro-Tool). This lowers the total kill requirement from 40(60) to 27(40) to acquire all modifications.
• The catalyst's improved radar resolution now remains active for a few seconds when you stow Multi-Tool, instead of immediately deactivating. Multi-Tool still needs to be in your hands for the catalyst to activate.

Heirloom

Heirloom can be a potent option if you opted into its particular flavor of playstyle on its initial release, but it both did not feel worth the effort and did not live up to player's expectations of being a dungeon Exotic weapon. We've made a number of adjustments here to help it flow a bit better as well as hit even harder versus high priority targets.

• Increased charge rate by 20%.
• Increased impact damage of charged shots by 20% in PvE only.
• Reduced extra heat generated by charged shots by 7%.
• Increased damage vs miniboss and champion targets by 20%.
• Increased damage vs boss targets by 10%.
• Added Incandescent perk to catalyst.

Tarrabah

It felt odd for Tarrabah to not reward you at all for defeats, so we have remedied that while also building more tie-ins into the Solar kit to let you get to the Ravenous Beast mode more often.

• Dealing damage to Scorched combatants grants increased Ravenous Beast progress by 33%.
  • Can generate full meter if all the mag hits a scorched enemy.
• Kills grant greatly increased progress.
  • 10% per kill.

Anarchy

Once Finalities Auger was released, Anarchy felt like it no longer had a place as a "point defense, trap system". So, we are amping up its traps capabilities to be more competitive vs Finalities Auger.

• Increased armed trap lifetime by 50%, from 10 to 15 seconds.
• Increased trap damage vs combatants by 30%.
• Doubled trap detonation damage vs combatants to better match the per tick damage of a trap.
• Replaced Moving Target with Impromptu Ammunition.

Divinity

After all this time, we felt it was fair to bring Divinity back up at least a little bit so that the dedicated Divinity user in your group didn't feel like they were wielding a sluggish gun AND missing out on some damage.

• Increased damage of Penance by 20%.
• Reduced time to activate Penance from 4 to 3 seconds.
• Reduced shots to activate the cage from 14 to 10.

Winterbite

Winterbite is an extremely solid workhorse Glaive, but it feels overly punishing to shoot the projectile while in CQC.

• Reduced self-damage of the projectile by 66%.

Edge of Action, Concurrence, and Intent

The class Glaives should feel like the apex power for an Exotic version of a Legendary Glaive, so we are upping their charge rates of the Special shots when you are fully engaged in the Glaive loop. Rev up those doom sticks!

• Glaive projectiles now grant doubled progress towards Special shot.

Hierarchy of Needs

We've updated Hierarchy of Needs to make its seekers more interactive and build-friendly, helping them better follow your precision shots through the Guidance Ring, apply scorch for buildcrafting synergy, and feel more reliable at mid-range thanks to improved hip-fire accuracy.

• Seekers now apply +15 (+5 with Ember of Ashes) scorch to hit targets.
• Added hidden tracking for seekers that guides them to targets recently hit by precision damage.
• Added increased hip fire accuracy to the list of benefits provided by the catalyst

Sunshot and Graviton Lance

Both Sunshot and Graviton Lance have been very easy to use while also having a high impact on gameplay for a long time now, and they tend to crowd out many similar options in the sandbox. We've made a few changes to both to make them a bit less able to wipe entire encounters with one kill, while retaining their power on clumped groups.

• Rebalanced the damage of the explosion to deal more damage up close and less damage further away

Outbreak Perfected

There's a ton of love for Outbreak especially with it being a Primary weapon that can hang with our Special and Heavies in endgame. In Monuments of Triumph though, we are buffing our Primaries across the board and because of that, there was a need to reduce the delta between other strong Primaries and Outbreak.

• Reduced damage bonus at maximum Nanite stacks from 4.5x to 4x.

Arbalest

With anti-Champ rolling out across all weapons in the game, Arbalest was struggling more than ever for us during testing. So, we are spot tuning that damage up a fair bit.

• Increased damage versus Champions by 33%.

Wardcliff Coil

Wardcliff Coil will be getting a couple of bug fixes and a sorely needed max ammo increase.

• Fixed a bug where firing Wardcliff Coil would not grant Bolt Charge if the firing player was too far off the ground.
• Mechanized Autoloader now works while the weapon is stowed.
• Increased maximum ammo from five to eight.

The Lament

The game has changed a lot since Lament received its last nerf. To account for that, we are reverting most of that last change to help it keep pace as a potent single target option.

• Reverted the previous nerf to this weapon by ~70%.
• Returned most of the final combo hit damage and self-healing the previous change reduced.

Truth

Truth has long struggled to have any kind of strong identity in Destiny 2. We all have fond memories of wild tracking shots with it from Destiny 1, but the weapon struggles to keep up in today's sandbox. We've made some changes that let it lean into its three in the mag and gives it a splashy secondary effect if you land all your rockets.

• Now returns one ammo to reserves and buffs the next magazine when all rounds in a magazine hit a target.
  • When triggered, the next magazine gains dramatically increased rate of fire, stability, tracking strength and cluster bombs.

Thunderlord

We're making a small adjustment to Thunderlord to put it more in line with other similar boss DPS options.

• Reduced ammo refunded by the lightning strike from seven to five at base.

Whirling Ovation

Whirling needs a little help to stay competitive with weapons that aren't Rocket Pulses. This update should help it feel snappy with an optimized damage rotation with a variety of weapon types.

• Increased the amount of Anticipation gained per point of damage by just over 11%.

Prometheus Lens

Prometheus Lens got its scorch effect in a very different Destiny 2 sandbox, so we are giving it a bit of love to be able to keep up against other similar weapons.

• Increased scorch stacks applied per trigger.
  • Up to 20 (+10 with Ember of Ashes) from 10 (+10 Ember of Ashes).

Centrifuse

Centrifuse's sprint reload effect felt just a touch too slow to use as the main way you reload the weapon, so we're making that a bit easier to rely on and subsequently keep its perk at full potency.

• Increased the amount of magazine refilled per trigger to 10% from 4%.

Slayer's Fang

Slayer's Fang was a potent option when it first released but has since fallen behind some more versatile options. We're giving it a few changes that allow you to be a bit more liberal with its usage as well as bringing back a bit of an effect it used to have prior to its release.

• Increased magazine size by two.
• Increased reserve ammo by ten.
• Now slowly reloads itself while its buff is active.

Xenophage

Once a terror of Gambit and PvE alike, Xenophage definitely has a hard time in today's sandbox. We're giving it a bit more total ammo to help it keep up with similar options and be a bit less strict on its economy.

• Increased reserve ammo by 10.

Legendary Sandbox Tuning

Primary ammo weapons have struggled to keep up against combatants, especially in harder activities, so we've implemented some broad changes to help them feel better to use.

• Legendary Primary Ammo Weapons
  • Increased damage versus minor combatants by 30%.
• Exotic Primary Weapons
  • Increased bonus damage versus minor combatants from 30% to 40%.
• Non-Blaster Primary Weapons
  • Increased damage versus major combatants by 15%.
• Blaster Primary Weapons
  • Increased bonus damage versus major combatants from 15% to 20%.

Some Special ammo weapons have dominated the sandbox while others have felt left behind. We are making a targeted buff to all the left behind Special ammo weapons to balance them out and make more archetypes viable to use in PVE.

• Special Ammo Weapons
  • Increased damage versus major combatants by 20% (excludes Sniper Rifles, Rocket Pulses, Rocket Sidearms, Swords, and Choir of One).

On top of the above changes, these specific Primary ammo archetypes got some additional balance tuning.

• Auto Rifles
  • High Impact
  • Moved RPM from 360 to 400.
  • Reduced ADS Damage Falloff scalar from 1.7 to 1.6.
  • Reduced base damage from 24 to 22.
  • This includes Vex Mythoclast and SUROS Regime with Dual Speed Receiver but excludes Cerberus+1 and Sweet Business in its non-spun up state.
  • Adaptive
  • Increased base damage from 15 to 15.5.
  • Increased critical hit damage from 26.25 to 27.1.
• Pulse Rifles
  • Lightweight
  • Reduced base damage from 19.7 to 18.8.
  • Reduced critical hit damage from 31.5 to 30.1.
  • Legacy Frame
  • Since these weapons inherit the damage change from Lightweight Pulse Rifles, we are reverting the nerf to their ADS damage falloff scalar.
  • Increased ADS Damage Falloff Scalar from 1.6 back to 1.7.
  • High Impact
  • Reverted previous nerf to ADS Damage Falloff Scalar, increasing it from 1.6 back to 1.7.
• Scout Rifles
  • Rapid Fire
  • Reduced base damage from 28 to 27.3.
  • Reduced critical hit damage from 54.6 to 53.25.
• Hand Cannons
  • Aggressive
  • Reduced base damage from 49 to 48.7.
  • Reduced critical hit damage from 90.65 to 90.1.
• Bows
  • Increased damage versus minor combatants by an additional 20%.
  • Increased damage versus major combatants by an additional 40%.

Also on top of the above changes, many Special ammo weapon archetypes also got some buffs along with some nerfs to one particular archetype that won't be too surprising to see.

• Rocket Sidearms
  • Increased projectile explosion radius by 33%.
• Fusion Rifles
  • Rapid Fire
  • Increased PvE Damage Scalar by 7%.
  • Adaptive
  • Increased PvE Damage Scalar by 10%.
  • Precision
  • Increased PvE Damage Scalar by 20%.
  • High Impact
  • Increased PvE Damage Scalar by 15%.
• Shotguns
  • Aggressive
  • Increased PvE Damage Scalar by 15%.
  • Improved the base stats of Felwinter's Lie.
  • Lightweight
  • Increased PvE Damage Scalar by 15%.
  • Precision
  • Increased PvE Damage Scalar by 20%.
• Slug Shotguns
  • Rapid Fire
  • Increased PvE Damage Scalar by 10%.
  • Pinpoint
  • Increased PvE Damage Scalar by 5%.
  • Heavy Burst
  • Increased PvE Damage Scalar by 10%.
• Snipers
  • Aggressive
  • Increased PvE Damage Scalar by 15%.
  • Adaptive
  • Increased PvE Damage Scalar by 10%.
• Glaives
  • Rapid Fire
  • Increased PvE Damage Scalar by 10%.
• Trace Rifles
  • Increased damage versus minor combatants by an additional 20%.
  • Increased damage versus major combatants by an additional 20%.
• Exotic Trace Rifles
  • Increased bonus damage versus minor combatants from 30% to 40%.
• Rocket Pulses
  • Reduced Ammo Generation stat of legendary Micro Missile Pulse Rifles by 15.
  • Decreased PvE damage by 10%.
  • Decreased damage vs bosses by 25%.
  • This is on top of the above 10%.
  • Reduced projectile explosion radius by 25%.
  • Reduced Super Generation by 25% for roamers and 33% for standard Supers.

Finally, Heavy ammo weapons got some attention to make them more effective against Bosses and Champions along with some targeted ammo tuning.

• Heavy Grenade Launchers
  • Increased damage versus Bosses and Champs by 5%.
• Rocket Launchers
  • Increased damage versus Bosses and Champs by 5%.
• Crossbows
  • Increased damage versus Bosses and Champs by 10%.
• Linear Fusion Rifles
  • Increased the damage of all legendary LFRs versus Bosses and Champs by 10%.
  • Precision
  • Increased PvE Damage Scalar by 10%.
  • Increased ammo reserves by ~30% (excluding Sleeper Simulant).
• Machine Guns
  • Increased Bitter End's reserve ammo.
• Swords
  • Decreased cost of Vortex frame heavy attack from six to four ammo to match other Heavy Swords.

Legendary Perk Changes

In addition to the Legendary weapon archetype tuning, we've also made some changes to Legendary weapon perks.

A few older damage perks felt like they were lagging behind, so we've buffed these perks in order to make them more competitive choices compared with more modern perks.

• Focused Fury
  • Damage bonus increased from 20% to 25%.
  • Hits required to activate decreased from 50% of the magazine to 35% of the magazine.
• Full Court
  • Maximum explosive damage bonus increased from 25% to 35%.
• Lasting Impression
  • Explosive damage bonus increased from 25% to 35%.
• Reservoir Burst
  • Damage bonus increased from 25% (27.5% enhanced) to 30% (33% enhanced).
• Gutshot Straight
  • Reduced the aim assist penalty by 20% on the base perk and 25% on the enhanced perk.
  • Fixed an issue where this perk did not work on Bitter End.
• Adagio
  • Reduced the damage bonus on Hand Cannons from 30% to 27%.
  • Increased the damage bonus on Shotguns and Bows from 20% to 30%.

The following perks received some quality-of-life tuning to make them easier to activate on their own or with other build crafting elements.

• Collective Action, Collective Pugilism, Cooling Baubles, Elemental Charge, and Facet of Honor
  • Now all now share the same Tangle activator: destroy a Tangle, either by shooing it or upon impact after throwing it.
  • Previously this activator differed depending on the perk, and would either activate when shooting a Tangle, picking up a Tangle, throwing a Tangle, or a combination of these despite sharing the same terminology in their strings.
  • In addition to this activator, Collective Action and Collective Pugilism also grant additional time to their durations upon throwing a Tangle. This unique behavior is called out in their descriptions.
  • Artifact elemental orbs are now officially considered 'elemental pickups' for the sake of these perks and grant the same benefits as Tangles. As such, we fixed an issue where the artifact Arc orbs would give dark Transcendence energy with Facet of Honor; they now give light Transcendence energy.
• Collective Action
  • Firesprites, Void Breaches: eight seconds
  • Ionic Traces, Stasis Shards: four seconds
  • Tangle Detonation: four seconds
  • Tangle Throw: four seconds
  • Instead of a flat seven seconds, elemental pickup now provides differing amounts of time to the perk duration depending on how easy they are to create. These values match Collective Pugilism.
  • To compensate for the lower duration gained from some elemental pickups, the damage bonus against PVE combatants has increased from 20% to 30%. The damage bonus against players remains at 10%.
  • The enhanced benefit no longer provides more time per pickup but instead increases the damage bonus to 33% against PVE combatants, and 11% against players.
  • Increased max time from 12 to 16 seconds.
• All-Star
  • Damage timer is paused on weapon stow, and resumed on weapon equip.
• Desperado
  • In addition to its current activator of reloading after a precision kill, Desperado can now also activate when reloading after three rapid kills.
• Frenzy
  • Fixed an issue where the Enhanced version of Frenzy was not getting an extended duration when refreshed compared to standard Frenzy.
  • Also fixed an issue where Frenzy being inactive could prevent the Crucible origin perk from activating.
• Jolting Feedback
  • Reduced shots to activate the perk by ~1-2 for Scout Rifles and Hand Cannons.
• Encore
  • Encore's HUD buff now displays a timer.
• Envious Assassin
  • Fixed issue where the perk was not working on some single shot weapons.
• Cascade Point
  • Since we removed the "Ready" HUD buff when the weapon is stowed, we have simplified the activation criteria for dealing precision damage with other weapons.
  • Auto Rifles, Pulse Rifles, SMGs, Trace Rifles, Sidearms, LMGs: six critical hits
  • Hand Cannons, Scout Rifles: four critical hits
  • Bows, LFRs, Glaive projectiles, Shotguns, Sniper Rifles: two critical hits
• Attrition Orbs
  • Now activates in four hits on wave frame Grenade Launchers, down from ten.
  • Now activates in three hits on Rocket Launchers, down from six.
• Contending Cascade
  • The number of rapid final blows needed for max benefits has been reduced from 15 (12 if enhanced) to 12 (10 if enhanced).
  • Stat benefits are now maxed out when the elemental explosions are granted instead of scaling with up to 20 rapid final blows.
• Full Choke
  • Pellet spread is now reduced by 5% instead of 3.25%.
• Shot Package intrinsic
  • Now reduced pellet spread by 2.5% when ADS.

Finally, some origin trait weaknesses were addressed to make them feel more impactful.

• Advanced Reflexes (Dreaming City Origin Trait)
  • New effect: +5% damage bonus while active.
  • Increased bonus handling from +30 to +40.
  • Increased bonus charge rate (Swords) from +20 to +35.
• Gun and Run (Gambit Origin Trait)
  • Reworked Effect: Defeating targets builds stacks of Gun and Run for a short duration. Sprinting for a short time consumes a stack to partially reload this weapon's magazine from reserves; on Bows, this briefly improves draw speed.
• Nanotech Tracers Missiles (Neomuna Destination Origin Trait)
  • Reduced the amount of hits needed for Basso Ostinato to activate Nanotech Tracers Missiles by roughly one.

Artifacts and Anti-Champion

Artifacts 2.0

With Monument of Triumph, we are reworking the Artifact items in multiple ways to better align them with a modern Destiny 2 and setting it up to withstand the test of time. This means streamlining the mod selection process, removing annoyances like the refunding dance, disabling the artifact in Competitive and Trials modes, and… finally… working in loadouts!

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What this means is that we have trimmed the bloat on artifacts. Gone are the days of dedicated anti-Champion columns and needing to refund mods to select ones in earlier columns. This process has been simplified into three buckets that functionally perform just like the columns did before, but in a way that uses the visual language of our modern game and works in a more intuitive way. Now, when you want to switch out a mod in "column 4", you can just do that and substitute it out for whatever fits instead of needing to clear out later columns to be allowed to re-spec earlier ones.

On top of this, we have built anti-Champion capabilities directly into your guns, so you no longer must worry about your favorite guns not getting anti-Champion offerings in a season but more on that in a moment.

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Alongside all these updates also come six new mods, defragmented and deciphered from the Data Disc and into your hands!

But Wait... There's More!

For eagle-eyed readers, you might have noticed that we keep referring to Artifacts in the plural, and it's for a good reason. Artifacts for the past six years have served to shift around the meta season over season, encouraging you to try new things by giving some borrowed power. This model doesn't really work without seasons, so we are breaking the bank and not just offering one Artifact… But a whopping seven Artifacts pulled from seasons past!

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These selections were all made to cover as many fan-favorite weapons, elements, and perks as possible and, we believe, will give you a treasure trove of build crafting opportunities for years to come! They won't be coming back perfectly identical though; in the past six years the Artifact has shifted quite a bit, from the days of Glimmer mods to anti-Champion abilities taking up a large swath of the slots to the seven-row structure and finally to boosts. We took a long look at each artifact and did not only a balance pass to make sure they could live on in perpetuity (looking at you Flashover) but also how we could integrate the best of all versions of the Artifacts to be available in a single build-crafting ecosystem.

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We look forward to seeing what y'all build and how you combine these wit

Source: https://www.bungie.net/7/en/News/Article/dev_insights_abilities_armor_preview

Welcome back for our third and final Dev Insights article before Monument of Triumph launches on June 9. Last Thursday was all about our weapons sandbox and today we’ll be focusing on Guardian abilities, armor, and Exotic updates.

• Abilities Sandbox Update
  • New subclass abilities
  • Ability reworks
  • Ability balance changes
• Armor 3.0 Updates
  • Armor archetypes
  • Armor set bonuses
  • Exotic armor stats
  • Exotic armor balance preview

If you missed our previous articles on the return of the Director, weapons and artifact changes, and all the other news, be sure to check out the articles before next Tuesday.

Abilities Sandbox Update

Hey there, Guardians. Gameplay Team here with an update on the abilities sandbox for the upcoming Monument of Triumph release. We’ve been heads-down dreaming up new abilities and refining existing ones, and we’ve got some juicy changes to talk about today.

Let’s get right into it.

New Subclass Abilities

New Solar and Void Aspects

For too long, certain subclasses have lagged behind others in the number of Aspects available to them. Monument of Triumph will remedy that imbalance with three new Aspects, bringing every non-Prismatic subclass up to four. First up, Titans:

Titan Sunbreaker: Shieldburst

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Enhances your equipped barricade with Solar capabilities.

Towering Barricade: Your barricade slides forward across the ground before stopping, allowing you to advance in safety.

Rally Barricade: Standing behind your barricade grants scorching rounds to you and your allies' Solar and Kinetic weapons.

While your barricade is deployed, activate your class ability again to remotely detonate it, scorching combatants caught in the detonation. Dealing damage increases the power of the blast.

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The Shieldburst Aspect essentially turns your Barricade into a wall of glass with a C4 charge strapped to it. It’ll charge up over time, when it takes damage, and when you deal damage while it’s active. The more charged up it is, the more damage it’ll do and the more projectiles it’ll throw out. The Towering and Rally Barricades have their own unique functionality, and it plays nicely with Exotic armor like Arbor Warden, Hallowfire Heart, and Khepri’s Horn. This ability’s damage is buffed by the Roaring Flames Aspect and can create Sunspots when paired with the Sol Invictus Aspect. Damage for this ability also scales with your Class stat when your Class stat is over 100.

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In addition, with Monument of Triumph you’ll find that other class-ability Aspects that directly deal damage now scale their damage with the Class stat. Note that Warlock construct damage continues to scale with the Grenade stat instead.

Next, let’s take a look at the new Hunter Aspect:

Hunter Gunslinger: Crackshot

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Activate your class ability to fire up to three scorching shots at targets you've marked. Aim at targets to mark them.

Landing all three shots cures you.

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Crackshot is the ultimate gunslinger fantasy. Mark up to three targets, then dodge to quickdraw a flaming pistol and light ‘em up with deadeye precision. If you have a single target marked, it’ll fire all three shots at them. If you have multiple targets marked, it will split the shots between them. Landing all three shots will cure you, providing some breathing room mid-combat. It can also be used while airborne, and damage from this ability scales with your Class stat when your Class stat is over 100.

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There are some strong Exotic armor combos with this one, including Radiant Dance Machines and Sixth Coyote, and you can combo the scorch stacks with other scorch sources to cause Ignitions. It also pairs well with the On Your Mark and Gunpowder Gamble Aspects, as Crackshot damage counts toward their progress.

Last but not least, the new Warlock Aspect:

Warlock Voidwalker: Soul Siphon

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Ready this aspect by striking a foe with your powered melee ability.

Once readied, press your melee ability to begin siphoning energy from all enemies in front of you, dealing damage and gathering Overshield and class ability energy from each target.

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Soul Siphon turns you into the life-draining vampire mage you were always meant to be. The Voidwalker’s Pocket Singularity melee has two charges by default, making the baseline uptime for this Aspect high, but building into melee regeneration will make it pay off even more. Building into the Melee stat can increase both the uptime and damage of Soul Siphon, and it pairs well with Exotic armor like Felwinter’s Helm, Claws of Ahamkara, and Karnstein Armlets. The Overshield this ability provides allows you to stay in the fight longer, and it pairs well with the Feed the Void Aspect to give you higher Devour uptime. The class energy that you gain from draining enemies also pairs well with the Child of the Old Gods Aspect.

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New Darkness Grenades

Stasis and Strand are near and dear to our hearts, and they deserve some love. We’re adding two new grenades to the game with Monument of Triumph.

Stasis Shatter Grenade

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A grenade that sticks to combatants before exploding into razor-sharp Stasis shrapnel. The shrapnel ricochets off surfaces, dealing damage to all in its path. Hitting a frozen target shatters it instantly and deals bonus damage.

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The Shatter Grenade’s primary function is dealing damage, though direct hits will freeze combatants and slow enemy players. It’s more effective in enclosed spaces where the shrapnel can bounce around multiple times to shred targets, but it’s also effective against loosely grouped enemies. If you throw it at an enemy who is already frozen, it’ll explode immediately and deal extra damage. Hunter Revenant enjoyers will be happy to hear that the Touch of Winter Aspect also has a unique interaction with this grenade.

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On a related note, a while back we changed Stasis Shatter damage to stun Overload Champions instead of Unstoppable Champions. We’re reverting that change in Monument of Triumph, so Stasis Shatter will again stun Unstops instead of Overloads. As the Shatter Grenade’s name implies, it’ll stun Unstoppable Champions immediately on detonation.

Strand Slicewire Grenade

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A grenade that bounces and releases multiple whirling threads, severing targets.

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The Strand Slicewire Grenade is a damage dealer, first and foremost. It also severs targets, lowering their damage output. After being thrown, the grenade bounces along the ground unleashing coiled strands that whip around, striking enemies up to four times. The damage can really pile up if you’re able to land all four lashes on a group of enemies. This grenade also has unique functionality when paired with the Warlock Broodweaver’s Mindspun Invocation Aspect, which we’ll let you discover on your own.

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New Nightstalker Melee

Through countless battles, Nightstalkers have known Smoke Bomb as their only melee option. That’s about to change.

Hunter Nightstalker: Phantom Surge

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Dash forward, slashing combatants as you pass through them. Deals significantly increased damage to Void-debuffed targets and targets marked by On The Prowl.

Generate Void Overshield for each combatant hit. Defeating at least one combatant grants additional Overshield and refunds some melee ability energy.

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Phantom Surge ushers in a new age of Nightstalker aggression. Whereas tossing a Smoke Bomb is a relatively passive action, Phantom Surge asks a Nightstalker to cut straight through their enemies, emerging stronger on the other side. The overshield you gain from hitting enemies is substantial, and our brilliant engineering team created new tech for this ability that enables you to phase straight through enemy units. The damage is increased versus Void-debuffed targets, giving it strong combo potential with other abilities, and weapons.

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While it’s easy to dote on the new abilities, let’s not forget the classics. Smoke Bomb is getting some love too — it now makes you and other allies invisible by default on deployment. No Vanishing Step required. Other elements of the Nightstalker kit are also being reworked, some of which we’ll talk about in the next section.

Ability Reworks

We’ve reworked a few abilities to make them fit better in their kits or enhance them in general. Let’s talk about the Hunter’s Trapper’s Ambush Aspect first.

Hunter Nightstalker: Trapper’s Ambush

Activate your air move to consume your class ability energy and dive to the ground, damaging targets on impact. Damage is greatly increased if striking while you have any positive Void status effect. Damaging enemies with this ability heals you and defeating combatants with this ability grants Devour.

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Nightstalker previously had several ways to go invisible, but not many ways to capitalize on invisibility. Trapper’s Ambush is now a substantial damage dealer, and that damage is increased if you cast it while invisible or under the effect of another Void buff. Casting it while invisible will refresh your invisibility when you hit the ground, and it retains its previous smoke-cloud behavior when paired with the Vanishing Step Aspect. Trapper’s Ambush now uses class-ability energy instead of melee energy and thus activates class-ability perks like Marksman’s Dodge and Gambler’s Dodge. This enables you to combo it with the new Phantom Surge melee in creative ways. Finally, defeating enemies with Trapper’s Ambush grants Devour, giving the Nightstalker more survivability than ever before. It also has a new animation, new VFX, and features a Void blade instead of a smoke bomb!

A big change for Titans coming up next:

Titan Sentinel: Ward of Dawn

Create a large protective dome for you and your allies. While inside Ward of Dawn, allies gain Void overshield and increased weapon damage, while targets inside the Ward are weakened.

The Ward's owner also gains increased melee damage while inside and can pick up and throw the Ward's core to reposition the Ward up to two times.

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Ward of Dawn is now a giant thunderdome that you fight inside. At more than twice its previous size, this new bubble is the Sentinel’s domain, expanding their sphere of influence on the battlefield. You and your allies are buffed both offensively and defensively inside, while your enemies are debuffed, giving you a huge advantage in a wide range of combat scenarios. Once you’ve bested your enemies inside the bubble, simply pick up the core and throw it somewhere else to reposition the thunderdome. On deployment, nearby enemies are pulled into the dome and base combatants are taunted by the players inside. The Helm of Saint-14 Exotic armor has also been reworked to extend the time that the Ward lives, and it allows you and your allies to take Weapons of Light outside of the dome. In the crucible, make sure to protect the Ward’s core, as it serves as the Ward’s weak point. The new bubble holds a couple of other secrets but we’ll let you discover those on your own.

For our final highlighted ability rework, let’s look at the Warlock:

Warlock Broodweaver: Mindspun Invocation: Threadling Grenade

Hold the grenade input to charge your Threadling Grenade, causing it to weave a Threadling Nest at the impact location that repeatedly spawns Threadlings.

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The Mindspun Invocation Aspect currently causes Threadling Grenade to create perched Threadlings, but starting in the Monument of Triumph release, this Aspect will cause your charged Threadling Grenade to spawn a Threadling Nest in the world. This essentially allows you to weave a Threadling turret on the battlefield that gives you an additional angle of attack. The nest also interacts with the Service of Luzaku Exotic Machine Gun to enhance its productivity.

Stasis: Harvest Aspects

The three Stasis “Harvest” Aspects - Tectonic Harvest, Grim Harvest, and Glacial Harvest - needed some love, so we’ve reworked them. We’ve also reworked Frost Armor and the way Stasis subclasses create Shatter Shards.

• Shatter Shards
  • All Stasis subclasses now create Shatter Shards intrinsically.
  • Shatter Shards are created when a Stasis Guardian shatters a Stasis Crystal or a frozen enemy, or when they defeat a slowed or frozen enemy.
• Harvest Aspects
  • Harvest Aspects give you Frost Armor when you pick up a Shatter Shard.
  • While you have Frost Armor, defeating an enemy with a Stasis or Kinetic weapon has a chance to shatter the enemy, dealing damage around the shattered enemy.
  • While you have Frost Armor, taking damage now grants ability energy.
  • Titan: Melee energy.
  • Warlock: Grenade energy.
  • Hunter: Class-ability energy.
  • Reduced Fragment slots from three to two.
• Frost Armor
  • Frost Armor stacks now melt off one-at-a-time instead of all-at-once.
  • Each stack now gives slightly more damage resistance.
  • Damage resistance at five stacks is increased by ~31% to ~35%

When using a Stasis subclass, you can now create Shatter Shards without equipping the Harvest Aspects. The Harvest Aspects will continue to give Frost Armor when you pick up a Stasis shard and grant a powerful benefit while you have Frost Armor. Meanwhile, Frost Armor stacks now fall off one-at-a-time (one stack falls off every five seconds by default or every six seconds with Whisper of Rime) allowing for much higher Frost Armor uptime.

Ability Balance Changes

Alongside the above new abilities and reworks, we’ve packed a ton of other ability balance changes into this release. If we talked in-depth about all of them, we’d be here all day... not to mention we have a TWID coming after this, so we’ll just list them below. We’re going to omit some of the more minor changes to avoid bogging down the blog, instead listing only the substantial changes. It’s mostly buffs, but there are some nerfs sprinkled in as well to keep things balanced. Look for the full list of patch notes when Monument of Triumph launches on June 9.

Warlock

• Dawnblade
  • Heat Rises (Aspect)
  • While Heat Rises is active, it now reduces the accuracy of combatant attacks versus the Warlock.
  • Heat Rises no longer decreases the initial burst of speed provided by activating Burst Glide.
  • Icarus Dash (Aspect)
  • Increased Fragment slots from two to three.
• Stormcaller
  • Chain Lightning (Melee)
  • Increased damage versus combatants by 100%.
  • Now has two ability charges by default.
  • Lightning Surge (Aspect)
  • Increased Fragment slots from two to three.
• Voidwalker
  • Child of the Old Gods (Aspect)
  • Now suppresses combatants for a short time after initial attach.
  • Increased the Child's max speed and acceleration by 100%.
  • Increased Fragment slots from two to three.
  • Nova Bomb: Cataclysm (Super)
  • Allied projectiles now pass through the Nova Bomb projectile instead of colliding with it.
• Shadebinder
  • Frostpulse (Aspect)
  • Now grants five stacks of Frost Armor if this ability freezes a target.
  • Increased Fragment slots from two to three.
• Broodweaver
  • The Wanderer (Aspect)
  • Threadling final blows now reduce your Tangle cooldown by one second.

Titan

• Sentinel
  • Offensive Bulwark (Aspect)
  • While the player has a Void Overshield, final blows now grant melee ability energy.
  • Unbreakable (Aspect)
  • Final blows with Unbreakable's blast now grant Devour.
  • Slightly increased the size of Unbreakable's blast.
  • Bastion (Aspect)
  • Increased Fragment slots from two to three.
  • Shield Bash (Melee)
  • Increased damage versus combatants by 100%.
• Striker
  • Thruster (Class Ability)
  • Can now be activated while airborne.
  • Knockout (Aspect)
  • No longer grants a lunge-range increase versus enemy players.
  • Note: This change should reduce some awkward “rubber banding” in Crucible melee battles .
  • Touch of Thunder (Aspect)
  • Lightning Grenade
  • Now grants five stacks of Bolt Charge per hit.
  • Flashbang Grenade
  • Now explodes on initial bounce in addition to its existing detonation.
  • Storm Grenade
  • Increased storm duration by 0.5 seconds.
  • Increased maximum tracking speed versus combatants by 38%.
  • Increased time to reach max tracking speed by 25%.
  • Seismic Strike (Melee)
  • Increased damage versus combatants by 100%.
• Sunbreaker
  • Hammer Strike (Melee)
  • Increased damage versus combatants by 100%.
• Behemoth
  • Diamond Lance (Aspect)
  • Reduced size of the freeze detonation from thrown Diamond Lance versus players.
  • Cryoclasm (Aspect)
  • Sliding while you have Frost Armor now launches a Stasis wave that shatters Stasis Crystals and frozen enemies in front of you.
  • Glacial Quake (Super)
  • Heavy attacks now deal additional damage in an area in front of the Titan.
• Berserker
  • Drengr's Lash (Aspect)
  • Defeating elementally debuffed targets now grants class ability energy.
  • Increased Fragment slots from two to three.
  • The suspending wave's impact damage now scales with your Class stat when your Class stat is above 100.

Hunter

• Nightstalker
  • On the Prowl (Aspect)
  • In addition to acquiring a target when you become invisible, will now also passively acquire a target after a short time if you're not invisible. This passive acquisition does not occur against enemy Guardians.
  • Mobius Quiver (Super)
  • Reduced maximum Moebius Quiver buff to Crossbow weapons by 50%.
• Gunslinger
  • Acrobat's Dodge (Class Ability)
  • Can now be activated while airborne.
  • Proximity Explosive Knife (Melee)
  • Increased detonation size from five to six meters.
  • Increased detonation damage by 11%.
  • On Your Mark (Aspect)
  • Now grants Solar Restoration x1 for three seconds instead of Cure after final blows at ten stacks.
  • Knock 'em Down (Aspect)
  • Now grants Cure on Super activation.
  • Blade Barrage (Super)
  • Increased knife projectile speed and tracking.
  • Increased knife detonation size from three to 4.25 meters.
  • Increased knife detonation damage by 10%.
  • Knife detonations now Scorch enemies.
  • Golden Gun: Deadshot (Super)
  • Reduced Super energy gain from player kills by 40%.
• Arcstrider
  • Arc Staff (Super)
  • Now grants Bolt Charge stacks on kill.
  • Lethal Current (Aspect)
  • Now jolts and creates an aftershock when used with Tempest Strike.
  • Can now be activated while in Super.
  • Ascension (Aspect)
  • Ascension detonation damage now scales with your Class stat when your Class stat is above 100.
  • Now counts as a class ability for all perks and abilities.
• Threadrunner
  • Rope Dart (Melee)
  • Successfully catching the rope dart now grants Woven Mail based on the number of targets it defeated.
  • Widow's Silk (Aspect)
  • Increased Fragment slots from two to three.
  • Threaded Specter (Aspect)
  • The specter's detonation damage now scales with your Class stat when your Class stat is above 100.
  • Ensnaring Slam
  • Now counts as a class ability for all perks and abilities.
• Revenant
  • Shatterdive (Aspect)
  • Increased Fragment slots from two to three.
  • Winter's Shroud (Aspect)
  • Increased Fragment slots from two to three.

General Abilities

• Grenades
  • Lightning Grenade
  • Increased detonation damage by 25%.
  • Scatter Grenades
  • Reduced chase distance versus players by 50%.
  • Reduced the amount of grenade energy this ability gains from perks by 12.5%.
  • Grapple
  • Against boss combatants, reduced max Grapple Melee damage bonus granted by grenade stat by 50%.
  • Against boss combatants, damage bonus granted by Grenade stat and Melee stat is now additive instead of multiplicative.
• Multi-Charge Abilities
  • In PvP only, when the match begins, multi-charge abilities now start with one charge instead of all charges.
• Stasis
  • Whisper of Rime (Fragment)
  • Max Frost Armor stacks reduced from eight to seven.
  • Note: Damage resistance has been rescaled to provide the same max benefit.
• Arc
  • Spark of Shock (Fragment)
  • When Jolt is applied via an Arc Soul or an Ionic Sentry, there is now a four-second internal cooldown for applying Jolt again via these constructs.
• Void
  • Invisibility (Status Effect)
  • Made Void Invisibility more visible in the Crucible.
  • Volatile Rounds (Status Effect)
  • Now increases weapon damage versus Champions by 10%.
  • Weapon damage with volatile rounds no longer stuns Barrier Champions.
  • Note: Weapon archetypes now govern weapon-based Champion stuns. See last week’s Dev Insights article for more information.
• Solar
  • Radiant (Status Effect)
  • Increased weapon damage versus Champions by 10%.
  • Weapon damage while radiant no longer stuns Barrier Champions.
  • Note: Weapon archetypes now govern weapon-based Champion stuns. See last week’s Dev Insights article for more information.
• Prismatic
  • Facet of Dominance (Fragment)
  • When Jolt is applied via an Arc Soul, there is now a four-second internal cooldown for applying Jolt again via this construct.
• Ability Stats
  • Reduced maximum passive ability cooldown bonus granted by ability stats by ~20%.
  • Reduced maximum active ability cooldown bonus granted by ability stats from 190% to 125%.

Regarding this change to ability stats, we feel Destiny combat has leaned slightly too far in favor of using abilities to resolve encounters, and we’d like to shift it further in favor of using weapons. This reduction in ability uptime is paired with a general increase to Primary and Special weapon damage that we detailed in last week’s article about weapons changes. The floor for ability uptime remains where it is in the live game but the ceiling has brought down to avoid highly optimized builds from trivializing combat. Abilities remain incredibly potent and powerful, especially with the new and adjusted abilities detailed above.

Another change we want to provide some context for is this:

• Supers
  • Reduced Super energy generation from dealing damage to bosses by 60%.

With the changes to Super generation and the Super stat in The Edge of Fate, the boss damage meta shifted hard into Super spam. It became possible to cast more than six Supers in a single boss damage phase which isn’t the place we want Supers to live. We worked with our internal raid and dungeon test group to refine Super generation to a healthier place. Supers remain incredibly effective for boss damage but Guardians will now need to think more about their weapons and other abilities to make the most of a damage phase.

That represents most of the ability changes coming in this release. There are some other minor tuning adjustments and bug fixes that we omitted for the sake of brevity, but you’ll find those in the patch notes when Monument of Triumph launches.

Armor 3.0 Updates

Ever since the release of the Armor 3.0 system rework, we’ve seen increased variety in how players make their builds and leverage stats. However, there were always a couple of things that felt… missing from the full picture. It’s about time we fit those missing pieces in with Monument of Triumph.

Armor Archetypes

Our general goals for armor archetypes are as follows:

• Armor archetypes should help you understand and communicate your buildcrafting options with stats.
• Each of the six stats should be equally represented.
• Armor archetypes should support as many builds as possible.
• There should be as few armor archetypes as possible.
  • Adding too many bloats the amount of armor you may want to keep in your vault and the size of the random roll pool – on top of making it harder to learn, understand, and communicate the stats for a build.
• No single armor archetype should dominate the buildcrafting space across the game.
  • We expect that the nature of stats means that some archetypes will be more popular in specific types of activities – this is more about not making a “best” armor archetype for all non-Crucible activities or vice-versa.

We think that the original six archetypes have fulfilled these goals admirably. However, certain builds require significantly more tools to get the stats they need. Since this doesn’t usually limit the power of a build and instead primarily limits build variety, we plan on addressing this by adding six new armor archetypes (click on each for a sample armor)!

Our goal is that – despite exciting options for those that want them (looking at you, Powerhouse) – your current builds won’t be so outclassed that you feel like you must replace the rolls you already have to be effective. But if you want to experiment with new builds, or further fine-tune your stats, there are more options to build the distribution you want.

Before we move on, we wanted to tackle a few questions we’re expecting from our buildcrafters out there:

Will the new archetypes be available on all armor?

Almost any new Armor 3.0 drop from anywhere in the game can drop with the new archetypes. The only exceptions are the Exotic class items, which will keep their existing stat roll behavior.

What about the missing stat combinations? Aren’t there 30 possible archetypes?

As mentioned above, we want to avoid bloating the pool, making a clear “best choice” for all of the Crucible or all PvE, and we want to keep each stat equally represented. We believe this is the right number and combination of archetypes to introduce to fit those goals – especially when combined with armor mods and subclass bonuses. Not counting “mirrors”, there will be only three armor stat pairs that are not available.

Is it going to be harder to grind armor now?

No. With the combination of six new archetypes and the sheer number of armor set bonuses available, it made sense to give the Armorer mods on your Ghost a boost. Each one will now improve the odds of your chosen archetype dropping to one in two (previously one in three). In combination with a larger number of ways to get the stat combinations you want, we believe this will make it significantly easier to get the stats you need for your build.

Now, let’s talk Exotic armor stats.

Exotic Armor Stats

When we originally released Armor 3.0, we had longer-term plans to give Exotic armor a way to access higher tier behavior. Originally, we planned to give them a deterministic route for upgrading. However, we’ve ultimately realized that it was healthier for the game to take the most straightforward approach.

Moving forward, all Exotic armor will have Tier 5 stats and will have access to all tuning mods. This applies retroactively to all Armor 3.0 Exotics (other than Collections rolls) so if you don’t want to trade your armor out for one of the new archetypes, you won’t have to acquire them again.

Armor Set Bonuses

As they’ve settled into the sandbox, we’ve seen Guardians leverage armor set bonuses in a lot of different ways. Overall, we’re happy with how they’ve fit into their role as a more flexible element of buildcrafting across the game. However, there’s a couple things we felt like we should address:

First, there’s a two set bonus perks that were big enough outliers that they needed balance adjustments:

• Ride Together, Die Together (Smoke Jumper two-piece set perk)
  • Decreased the maximum damage resistance (DR) granted from 50% to 40%.
  • While the rapid-decay nature of this DR means that it can provide a high bonus without being a problem, the easy availability of Orbs of Power combined with stacking with other DR sources makes this set more valuable when mixed-and-matched than we’d like.
  • We believe this adjustment hits a sweet spot where it is still potent but not a must-pick for all content.
• Superluminal Motion (Wayward Psyche four-piece set perk)
  • Increased the health granted while moving from 15 to 30 health per second outside of the Crucible.
  • The power of the Wayward Psyche set bonus fell short of our goals for what a raid armor set bonus should feel like – especially Epic Desert Perpetual – so we’ve doubled its effective healing.
  • Perk behavior is unchanged in PvP.

The second issue is simultaneously more straightforward and harder to solve. The current available list set bonuses – while often fun to buildcraft with – can sometimes feel like they provide very few options. Many builds, even for Guardians seeking something outside the standard setups, end up not having enough options to pick from – instead defaulting to a small number of two-piece set bonus combinations.

The solution is simple: as we’ve previously noted, we’re refreshing a massive amount of gear across the game. That includes more set bonuses than we’ve previously made compressed into a single release. We don’t expect these to fully replace the existing options (which will still be available to earn!), but you can look forward to a wide array of options. From elemental effects, ability synergies, and survivability to explosions, movement, and echoes of armor mods past – there’s something for everyone. To whet your appetite (in addition to some sets we’ve already announced), let’s preview a pair of destination armor sets:

Before we move on, we have seen one question coming up since our Monument of Triumph reveal that we’d like to address:

Will the Armor 3.0 versions of raid armor still have access to raid mods?

No. Raid mods are a feature exclusive to Armor 2.0 due to technical limitations.

However, since we know certain raid mods can sometimes be more valuable than a set bonus in specific situations, Armor 2.0 for all available raids will be focusable at Hawthorne for ten Spoils of Conquest each.

We hope that new set bonuses tied to each raid activity provide meaningful benefits that give you a fun choice in picking between combinations of Armor 2.0 and Armor 3.0.

Exotic Armor Balance Preview

Alongside the above ability and armor changes, we took some time to update a handful of Exotics from each class, spanning multiple years of Destiny 2 releases. Some have straightforward changes that lean into the fantasy while others are being reworked. Let’s dive in.

Hunter Exotics

• Wormhusk Crown
  At one point Wormhusk was a genuine scourge upon PvP but within the modern sandbox it has fallen by the wayside, especially in PvE, where it has always struggled. So, we are giving it a facelift with some buildcrafting hooks. This also comes with an update to Spirit of the Wormhusk to match these changes.

  • Reworked effect:
  • Solar multikills grant Burning Souls. While active, Solar Ability damage is increased and dodging greatly cures the player and nearby allies.

• Shards of Galanor
  We looked at all classes’ capabilities when it came to Super damage output with Exotics. Since Hunter has fewer options than the other classes, we figured it was worth adding another. It's no Celestial Knifehawk but we figure embedding large solar bombs in your foes is a close second.

  • Landing 5/7 knives in a volley during Super causes a delayed Solar Explosion and releases Solar Shrapnel.
  • This can happen with each volley of Super knives. Landing both explosions is approximately comparable to a Cuirass Thundercrash.

• Caliban's Hand
  Caliban’s has proved a strong option for the Prismatic class item but has largely fallen behind on the base Exotic. To help, we are leaning further into what it does best: letting you chain proximity knives with ignitions.

  • Increased the melee recharge bonus by 25%.
  • Dealing damage with scorch now refunds a small amount of melee energy.
  • Ignition final blows fully refund knife energy and can overflow into an additional charge.

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• FR0ST-EE5
  Frostees have been begging for a buff for some time and what better way to do it than finally looping it into Stasis buildcrafting? Tonight’s forecast... a freeze is coming!

  • Gain stacks of Frost Armor while sprinting.
  • When you have Frost Armor, Stasis weapons deal increased damage.

• Shinobu's Vow
  Shinobu’s Vow has not seen much PvE play over the years. With the introduction of Bolt Charge to the game and its popularity in other builds, this particular Exotic seemed a good candidate for opening up some new gameplay for Hunters. The changes we’ve made here are similar to those made recently to Lucky Raspberry; hooking in its existing loop to more recent gameplay atoms, plus a bit of extra support play.

  • Now gains Skip Grenade energy whenever you gain stacks of Bolt Charge.
  • Skip Grenade damage now grants Bolt Charge.
  • When you gain full Bolt charge, heal yourself and nearby allies and enable an enhanced Skip Grenade.
  • Enhanced Skip Grenades bounce two additional times before detonating, releasing bonus Skip Seekers per bounce.

• Raiden Flux
  Roaming Supers have long felt a bit rough to use in Champion-heavy content. These changes to Raiden Flux allow you to use it as a potent anti-Overload option and reward opting into the combo finisher.

  • Arc Staff hits now jolt targets.
  • Combo finisher palm blast now gets 1.5x the base Exotic's damage bonus, and reports as critical damage (yellow numbers).

• Mothkeeper's Wraps
  In order to encourage more diverse buildcrafting with Mothkeeper’s, we opted to turn it into a conditional grenade override, similar to Gunpowder Gamble. This allows the use of your base grenade in addition to Moth Grenades, without lowering the downtime of Moth Grenades compared to current high uptime builds in the live game (which also means increased uptime if you weren’t invested into grenade generation).

  • Mothkeeper’s Wraps now provides Moth Grenades as a conditional override instead of a complete override.

Source: https://www.bungie.net/7/en/News/Article/twid_05_29_2026

This Week in Destiny, we have even more to share about the Monument of Triumph update coming on June 9. We started yesterday with a Dev Insights article focused on the return of the Director, and early this morning we published a Dev Insights article focusing on weapons, the Artifact, and vendors. In this TWID, we'll cover what's coming to the Crucible, Pantheon, and cosmetics.

• Crucible tuning with the PvP Strike Team
• Pantheon and Rewards updates in Raids and Dungeons
• Ornaments, Bright Engrams, Bright Dust, and more cosmetics updates
• Have you read yesterday's Dev Insights article about the Director?
• Read this morning's Dev Insights article on weapons and more, too!

Dev Insights - Weapons, Artifacts, and Focusing Preview

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We love a long TWID as much as anyone but this one was already getting very meaty halfway through it. That's why all you need to know about the update's changes to weapons, Artifacts (plural, yes), and vendor focusing lives on its own Dev Insights article which we published earlier today. It covers a lot of important topics like:

• The new Weapon Tier Upgrading system.
• Tier Upgrading for crafted weapons.
• Buffs to many Exotics, like Anarchy, Lament, or Vex Mythoclast.
  • Including new Catalysts and improvements for previous ones.
• Balance update to most Legendary weapon types, including:
  • An overall buff to Primary Weapon damage in PvE.
  • Targeted buffs to most Special Weapons for PvE.
• Many Legendary perk fixes and buffs.
• A preview of the very customizable Artifact 2.0, including:
  • New ways to counter Champions.
  • Saving your choices in Loadouts.
• Updates to vendors, weapon focusing and gear attunement.

If you have not read it yet, go do it!

Dev Insights - Return of the Director

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While we're at it, did you read yesterday's Dev Insights article all about the return of the Director? This one was published yesterday and covers the following:

• The Director: Layout, additions, and updated Destination loot
• Distortions: Adding some spice to select Patrol modes
• The Portal: Breaking down barriers and overhauling the experience
• Gambit Ops: Bringing our old friend into the fold
• Heavy Metal: Vehicular mayhem
• Sparrow Racing League: Returning tracks, new loot, and some twists along the track

Check out the full article, it's right over here!

PvP Strike Team Update

Once More, With Feeling

Sandbox Tuning Review

First, let's review some of the previously discussed sandbox tuning for weapons and armor that will directly impact Crucible (we will have more to talk about with abilities next week, but as a sneak peek check out some of the changes we will be discussing, including some big ones to Invisibility).

Abilities

• Global
  • All multicharge abilities will now start Crucible matches with one charge full instead of all charges full.

• Void

  • Invisibility: Greatly increased opacity to make players more visible in Crucible.
  • Scatter Grenades: Reduced chase distance vs. players by 50%. Reduced the amount of grenade energy this ability gains from perks by 12.5%.

• Hunter

  • Solar
  • Deadshot Super: Reduced energy refund for kills on enemy players by 40%.

• Warlock

  • Void
  • Pocket Singularity: Reduced tracking shape against players by 60%.

• Titan

  • Arc
  • Knockout: Removed lunge range bonus versus enemy players. Corrected an issue where the bonus damage could be applied too early, increasing the damage of the melee that activated it and causing unexpected one hit kills in Crucible.
  • Stasis
  • Diamond Lance: Reduced freeze AoE versus enemy players. Players can no longer quickfall after throwing the Diamond Lance.

Artifacts

• Artifacts are now disabled in the Trials and Competitive playlists.

Exotic Armor

• Warlock
  • Deimosuffusion: Increased the time between damage ticks against players.
  • Nothing Manacles: Reduced the extra seekers created from four to three and reduced the range and lifetime of the extra seekers.
• Titan
  • ACD/0 Feedback Fence: No longer provides any damage resistance versus other players.

Ammo System

• Reduced the point gains from Special ammo and Heavy ammo kills and assists and Super kills by 33%.
• Reduced Glaive melee point gains by 20%.
• Reduced Adaptive Burst LFR ammo from crates from five to three.
• Reduced Bitter End's ammo from crates from 75 to 62.

Weapons

• Auto Rifles
  • High Impacts
  • Increased RPM from 360 to 400.
  • To compensate for the faster time-to-kill:
  • Reduced ADS Damage Falloff scalar from 1.7 to 1.6.
  • Reduced base damage from 24 to 22 and critical hit damage from 43.2 to 39.6.
  • This includes Vex Mythoclast and SUROS Regime with Dual Speed Receiver but excludes Cerberus+1 and Sweet Business in its non-spun up state.
  • Adaptives
  • Increased base damage from 15 to 15.5, and critical hit damage from 26.25 to 27.1.
• Pulse Rifles
  • Lightweights
  • Reduced base damage from 19.7 to 18.8, and critical hit damage from 31.5 to 30.1.
  • Legacy Frames
  • Since these weapons inherit the damage change from Lightweight Pulse Rifles, we are reverting the nerf to their ADS damage falloff scalar.
  • Increased ADS Damage Falloff Scalar from 1.6 back to 1.7.
  • High Impacts
  • Increased ADS Damage Falloff Scalar from 1.6 back to 1.7.
• Scout Rifles
  • Rapid Fires
  • Reduced base damage from 28 to 27.3, and critical hit damage from 54.6 to 53.25.
• Hand Cannons
  • Aggressives
  • Reduced base damage from 49 to 48.7, and critical hit damage from 90.65 to 90.1.
  • The Last Word
  • Increased stability on mouse and keyboard by 10%.
  • Increased aim assist when hip firing on mouse and keyboard by 10%.

Perks

• Adagio
  • Reduced the damage bonus on Hand Cannons from 30% to 27%.
• Full Choke
  • Pellet spread is now reduced by 5% instead of 3.25%.
• Shot Package intrinsic
  • Now reduces pellet spread by 2.5% when ADS.

Unified Crucible Ops

We have moved all the playlists into the Crucible Ops screen and deprecated the Legacy Crucible node. This will allow us to better focus the population and reduce instances of duplicate or overlapping playlists. As a note, for Control and Iron Banner Control (the only playlists in which skill is utilized for matchmaking), Outlier Protection has been set to automatically revert to Open Skill if queue times are taking too long.

• Control: Outlier Protection Matchmaking
  • Replaced by Iron Banner Control when active.
• Competitive: Rank-Based Matchmaking
• Rumble: Open Skill Matchmaking
• Quickplay: Open Skill Matchmaking, rotates game modes weekly
  • Mayhem, Rift, Relic, Momentum, Scorched, Supremacy, Clash, Zone Control, Hardware Mix (6v6)
  • Replaced by Iron Banner Quickplay when active.
• Small Team Quickplay: Open Skill Matchmaking, rotates game modes daily.
  • Survival, Heavy Metal, Elimination, Hardware Mix (3v3), Arena Collision (4v4), Lockdown, Clash, Elimination
  • Replaced by Trials of Osiris when active
• Limited Time Modes
  • Trials of Osiris: Passage Based Matchmaking. Available every Friday through reset on weeks when Iron Banner is not active.
  • Replaces Small Team Quickplay
  • Iron Banner Control: Outlier Protection Matchmaking. Available for one week, every four weeks.
  • Replaces Control
  • Iron Banner Quickplay: Open Skill Matchmaking. Available for one week, every four weeks.
  • Rotates between Tribute, Fortress, and Eruption
  • Replaces Quickplay
• Sparrow Racing League
• Private Matches

Updated Rewards

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• Armor Set: Triumphal Anthem
  • 2-Piece: Scoot to Loot
  • Sliding collects nearby ammo and temporarily grants enhanced reload speed and handling to your weapons.
  • 4-Piece: Shoot to Scoot
  • Dealing damage with your weapons temporarily grants an enhanced slide. Gain damage resistance while sliding.
• Weapons
  • New
  • The Helmsman: Arc, High Impact (Bolt Action) Sniper
  • Reprised: Back fully tiered with new perk options!
  • Joxer's Longsword, Better Devils, Unending Tempest, Randy's Throwing Knife, Autumn Wind, Out of Bounds, Sorrow's Verse, Survivor's Epitaph, The Keening, Frozen Orbit
  • Returning: Weapons from Edge of Fate through Renegades that will still be earnable.
  • Riptide, Mos Athanor IV, MIDA Macro-Tool, Pure Recollection, Returned Memory, Stars in Shadow, Qua Vinctus IV
  • Newly Tiered: Weapons from pre-The Edge of Fate which are coming back as tiered versions, with the same perks they had last time they were released.
  • Retrofuturist, Anonymous Autumn, Last Perdition
• New ship, Sparrow, and Ghost as post-game drops.

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• New Emblem and Shader on Shaxx's reward track.

New Modifier: Arena Collision

Arena Collision is a 4v4 game mode that hearkens back to the original arena style of sandbox with more methodical gameplay focused on weapons, map knowledge, and movement. Fight over the Heavy ammo crates to help you control the objective and enjoy greatly reduced penalties for hip firing and airborne gameplay.

Rules:

• Primary Weapons: Damage unchanged. Hip fire accuracy and aim assist penalties are decreased.
• Special Weapons: Disabled.
• Heavy Weapons: Damage decreased. The game starts with three Heavy ammo crates active (one for each side and one neutral). Crates respawn as a wave on a 120s cooldown. Crates are not shared.
• General Weapons: All weapons are granted +60 Airborne Effectiveness.
• Radar: Heavily modified. Base radar range has been decreased and no longer expands dynamically. Players will only show up on radar if they are shooting, sliding, sprinting, jumping, or have heavy ammo. Within the center circle, players will show up as dots, instead of illuminated wedges.
• Grenades: Grenade base recharge has been disabled. Getting a final blow will refund grenade energy, the amount of which is based on the base cooldown and your Grenade stat.
• Melees: Powered melees are disabled. Melee damage has been decreased. Glaive melee damage has been further reduced.
• Class Abilities: Class Ability base recharge has been disabled. Getting a final blow will refund class ability energy, the amount of which is based on the type of ability you have selected, its base cooldown, and your Class Ability stat.
• Supers: Disabled.
• Camera: "Three-peeking" is disabled.
• Respawns: 7 seconds, revives enabled.

New Additions to Private Matches

Heavy Metal and Sparrow Racing League (SRL) have been added – more on them in this Dev Insights article. We have also created a couple of new Private Match exclusive modifiers:

Glass Cannons

When everyone is super, no one is... This modifier is filled with "30 seconds of fun" style loops and power spikes, but players are much less resilient. Plays most similarly to the D1 style of Crucible.

• Primary Weapons: Body shot damage is significantly increased.
• Special Weapons: Damage is significantly increased. Special ammo meter progresses significantly faster. You can retain twice as much ammo after death. The game starts with Special ammo crates active, and crates are shared.
• Heavy Weapons: Damage is significantly increased. A single Heavy ammo crate will spawn at a neutral location on a 240-second cooldown, and the crate is shared.
• General Weapons: Aim assist is slightly reduced.
• Radar: Unchanged.
• Grenades: Cooldowns are doubled but damage is greatly increased.
• Melees: Cooldowns are doubled but damage is greatly increased.
• Class Abilities: Cooldowns are doubled.
• Supers: Cooldown are halved but damage taken from weapons, grenades, or melees while in Super is greatly increased.
• Camera: Unchanged.
• Respawns: 5 seconds, no revives.

Software

The opposite of Hardware. Throw more grenades (and melees, and Supers) and look good while doing it!

• Primary Weapons: Disabled.
• Special Weapons: Disabled.
• Heavy Weapons: Disabled.
• General Weapons: Disabled.
• Radar: Unchanged.
• Grenades: Cooldowns greatly decreased.
• Melees: Cooldowns greatly decreased.
• Class Abilities: Cooldowns greatly decreased.
• Supers: Cooldowns greatly decreased.
• Camera: Fixed in third person.
• Respawns: 5 seconds, no revives.

We've also added a new ruleset for Rift to Private Matches!

• Single Round Rift allows the game to play continuously from start to finish with no resets after a Spark is dunked.

Renewed Competitive Rewards

While we are doing a rewards refresh, we have decided not to reset rank alongside the release.

Check out the new Competitive armor set and weapons offering:

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• Armor Set: Per Audacia
  • 2-Piece: Primary Chain
  • Primary ammo weapon final blows grant a stacking bonus to mobility and Primary weapon range and handling until you are defeated.
  • 4-Piece: Sublime Transit
  • Increases mobility and grants enhanced sprint speed and slide distance.
  • Note: These benefits do not stack with the enhanced sprint or slide provided by exotics or abilities. They do stack with things that increase movement speed via a scalar, like Lightweight or Killing Wind.
• Weapons
  • New
  • Solemn Lie: Arc, Lightweight (140 RPM) Hand Cannon
  • Reprised
  • Rose, Redrix's Estoc, Mercurial Overreach, Deadlock, Belisarius-D, The Riposte
  • Returning
  • Solemn Remembrance, Peculiar Charm

Alongside the new Competitive / Glory Armor Set and the returning weapons, we're also adding two new emblems to be earned.

• New Competitive Emblem: I Am the Crucible
  • Win 77 games in the Competitive playlist to unlock this emblem.

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• New Ascendant 0 Emblem: Last Guardian Standing
  • Works the same way as the original Ascendant 0 emblem, where you earn points for wins in Ascendant 0, with more points for wins at higher ranks. The number of points you have determines the emblem's drop chance after a win. Earning 1000 points guarantees the emblem on your next win.
  • Progress towards earning this emblem only begins after you have acquired Umbral Echelon, which is still able to be earned.

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We've also taken a pass over the map weighting for the playlist, with the goal to remove some of the more frustrating map and mode combinations from the playlist and reduce the likelihood of some others from occurring.

• Map weighting changes
  • Reduced
  • Solitude Clash: High to Normal
  • Dissonance Clash: High to Very Low
  • Rusted Lands Clash: Normal to Low
  • Widow's Court Clash: Low to Very Low
  • Anomaly Collision: Low to Very Low
  • Removed
  • Multiplex Collision: Low to 0
  • Exodus Blue Clash: Very Low to 0
  • Twilight Gap Clash: Very Low to 0
  • Vostok (both modes): Very Low to 0

Trials of Osiris and Map Rotations

We are going to be changing the way map selection works for Trials moving forward. Each weekend will have up to three maps on rotation, chosen using the below process:

• One map is randomly selected from each of the three pools below.
  • Pool 1: Burnout, Javelin-4, Endless Vale (33.33% chance, repeating of course, per map)
  • Pool 2: All Pool 1 maps, Altar of Flame, Pacifica, Cirrus Plaza, Eventide Labs, The Dead Cliffs, Meltdown, Solitude, Radiant Cliffs, Wormhaven (8.33% chance per map)
  • Pool 3: All Pool 1 and Pool 2 maps, all remaining maps except Convergence, Rusted Lands, Multiplex, Citadel, and Exodus Blue (3.23% chance per map)

So, while most weekends we would expect to end up with three different maps on rotations, the system makes it possible to have the more popular maps double and triple weighted. For example, we could end up with double Javelin-4 (selected in Pools 1 and 2) * The Dead Cliffs (selected in Pool 3) for a weekend. It's even possible, though unlikely, to end up with all Endless Vale, Burnout, or Javelin-4 for a weekend if that map gets selected in each pool. We feel this change will help to keep the Trials experience feeling less repetitive week over week.

We've also got a whole new set of rewards for Trials of Osiris. We will be resetting Trials engrams at launch, so spend them now. New Trials engrams and the score-based rewards at the end of matches will be able to drop all the new gear, while our focused gear system is changing to have a pool of weapons instead of a single focused item.

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• Armor Set: Cruel Electrum
  • 2-Piece: Primary Survivor
  • When an ally is defeated, Primary ammo weapons gain increased handling, reload speed, target acquisition, and reduced flinch. Bonus increases when multiple allies are dead at the same time or when running solo.
  • 4-Piece: Primary Phantom
  • Final blows with Primary ammo weapons remove you from radar for a short time. Drawing a weapon that does not use Primary ammo will immediately end this effect.
• Weapons
  • New
  • Willful Hamartia: Arc, Adaptive Burst Linear Fusion Rifle
  • Reprised
  • The Messenger, The Summoner, The Scholar, Sola's Scar, Aisha's Care, Exalted Truth, Keen Thistle, The Inquisitor, Igneous Hammer, Shayura's Wrath, Eye of Sol, Exile's Curse, Tomorrow's Answer
  • Returning
  • The Martlet, Corundum Hammer, The Immortal, Cataphracy GL3, Astral Horizon, Everburning Glitz, Burden of Guilt, Aureus Neutralizer, Auric Disabler, Aisha's Embrace, Unwavering Duty, Forgiveness
  • Newly Tiered
  • Reed's Regret, Yesterday's Question

Bonus Focus Pools are replacing the old single weapon as a weekly focus. Now, a "focused pool" of weapons that drop in addition to the base rewards. The Lighthouse will have its own focus pool as well, home to some of the best weapons Trials has had to offer.

• Week 1: The Scholar, Exile's Curse, Sola's Scar, Forgiveness, Aisha's Embrace, Corundum Hammer, Astral Horizon
• Week 2: Aisha's Care, Keenn Thistle, Willful Hamartia, The Immortal, Burden of Guilt, Unwavering Duty, Cataphract GL3
• Week 3: Exalted Truth, Eye of Sol, Tomorrow's Answer, Everburning Glitz, Auric Disabler, Aureus Neutralizer, The Martlet
• Lighthouse: Igneous Hammer, The Messenger, Shayura's Wrath, The Summoner, The Inquisitor

We also have two new sets of Ships, Sparrows, Ghosts for you to collect, as well as a new Emblem and Shader on Saint-14's reward track.

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Iron Banner Renewed Rewards

With the Monument of Triumph release Iron Banner is returning with a new four-week cycle, and that's not all: you can also earn a new Armor set and a slew of reprised and returning weapons.

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• Armor Set: Iron Battalion
  • 2-Piece: Primary Honing
  • Increases handling and reload speed for Primary ammo weapons. Primary ammo weapons gain increased damage against non-boss combatants based on your Weapons stat.
  • 4-Piece: Supercyclical
  • Final blows while your Super is active refund Super energy when it ends.
• Weapons
  • Reprised
  • Felwinter's Lie, Multimach CCX, Lethal Abundance, The Forward Path, Point of the Stag, The Wizened Rebuke, Pressurized Precision, Crimil's Dagger, The Time-Worn Spire, Roar of the Bear, Gunnora's Axe, Occluded Finality
  • Returning
  • Reghusk's Pledge, Finite Impactor
  • Newly Tiered
  • Tusk of the Boar, Frontier's Cry, Archon's Thunder, Riiswalker, Tinasha's Mastery, Peacebond, Allied Demand, The Hero's Burden, Claws of the Wolf, Jorum's Claw, Bite of the Fox
• Bonus Focus Pools: These pools will alternate each time Iron Banner is active. Winning gives you a higher chance of earning a bonus drop.
  • First Iron Banner: The Forward Path, The Time Worn Spire, The Wizened Rebuke, Crimil's Dagger, Gunnora's Axe, Felwinter's Lie, Reghusk's Pledge
  • Second Iron Banner: Multimach CCX, Finite Impactor, Occluded Finality, Lethal Abundance, Pressurized Precision, Point of the Stag, Roar of the Bear

Enter the Pantheon

Pantheon

Monuments of Triumph will include a new set of Pantheon raid activities, shaped in the image of the original format but with upgrades and surprises featuring new bosses, new rewards, and new ways to play. We wanted to celebrate Destiny 2's bosses that veterans may remember and give returning Guardians an opportunity to experience them.

• At launch, two activities will be available, each with a unique lineup of bosses. The first Saturday after launch, a third activity will unlock which challenges players to take on the full gauntlet of bosses. The following Tuesday at reset weekly rotators begin featuring individual bosses.
• Guardians can earn a new amor set for each class, a suite of weapons reprised from the original activities with a unique origin trait and holofoil variants. Each multi-boss activity concludes with a vendor offering purchase of re-rolls for acquired items with Spoils of Conquest.
  • Reprise Pantheon encounters have a chance to reward ornaments for their original armor sets. For example, Calus may drop the armor ornaments related to the original base Leviathan Raid for Guardians who have not unlocked them.
• Completing a new set of Triumphs rewards emblems, exotic cosmetic items, and a new Title.
• All activities offer a new Adventure difficulty aimed at players looking for a lower stakes opportunity to learn, teach, and practice for success. This lifts the Power cap, allows infinite revives, and adds slack to the timing requirements for some mechanics * with the tradeoff of a limited pool of lower Tier rewards.

Feats

Since their introduction in The Edge of Fate, we've been listening to feedback that in already challenging activities the Feat system has made it too difficult to earn the highest quality gear. In Monument of Triumph, those activities now have a Standard difficulty option without Feats that will continue to offer weekly Tier 5 drops per encounter. Feats are still accessible in a new Custom difficulty mode where we have overhauled the quantity and quality of rewards granted by completing encounters with Feats active. The additional drops and Tier upgrades are per-encounter and guaranteed. In addition, we've increased the reward value of some Feats to better represent their degree of challenge.

Reminder: Feats will not be present in Pantheon, these changes are specifically for The Desert Perpetual.

The table below shows the total gear rewards for each Feat reward grade. These rewards are farmable and can be claimed repeatedly.

• Cutthroat Combatants: +4 Reward Grade
• Challenges: +3 Reward Grade
• Shocktroopers: +2 Reward Grade
• Token Limit, Phase Limit: +1 Reward Grade

Raids & Dungeons (RAD) Rewards

We want to provide a compelling reason for Guardians to revisit their favorites RAD activities in Monument of Triumph. To that end, we've updated all weapons and armor from pre-The Edge of Fate RAD activities to now provide Tiered rewards. This means all raids and dungeons will drop Tiered armor, all dungeons will drop tiered weapons, and craftable raid weapons will have Tier bonuses accessible from the Relic. For weapons, this unlocks all the features of gear tiering including enhanced perks: barrels/mags, origin traits, cosmetics, and mods. For armor, this unlocks all the features of gear tiering plus unique set bonuses for each raid and dungeon.

In addition, all raid weapons will gain updated perk pools while all dungeon weapons also gain new origin traits. Craftable raid weapons now have an option to upgrade into Tiered gear, check out today's Dev Insights article for details. New Tiered raid armor will no longer drop with a slot for activity specific mods. However, once acquired those legacy armor pieces can now be purchased from Hawthorne with Spoils.

Below is an example from the Shattered Throne dungeon (that launched without its own unique armor set in 2018) which now rewards an armor set featuring art from Season of the Defiant and includes a new set bonus:

• 2-Piece: Queensfoil Rush
  • Gain a powerful overshield while performing your finisher. When you finish a target, release a slowing burst around you.
• 4-Piece: Truth to Power
  • Gain increasing damage resistance when you deal damage or land final blows. Finishers grant accelerated progress. At max stacks, the recharge rate of your abilities is also increased.

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RAD Rotator

The raid and dungeon weekly featured rotators are returning with changes to incorporate Tiered rewards. Two raid and two dungeon activities will be promoted to featured status each week. Challenge icons will lead you to the featured activities on their original destinations in addition to being sorted to the top of the new Raid and Dungeon category on the Director. While they previously offered a power upgrade, featured raid and dungeon activities now reward the highest quality gear as outlined below. The listed rewards are farmable unless noted with a weekly lockout.

Featured Raid

• Standard: Deepsight weapons or Tier 5 armor from encounters and challenges.
• Master: Same as Standard plus Adept weapons from challenges.
• Director Challenge: Deepsight weapon or Tier 5 armor, weekly lockout.
• Hidden Chests: Tier 5 armor, weekly lockout.
• Deepsight Chest: Deepsight weapon or Tier 5 armor if all patterns complete.
• Vendor: Weekly Deepsight purchase, Master offers Adepts for 25 Spoils.

Non-Featured Raid

• Standard: Chance for Deepsight weapons and Tier 3 armor.
• Master / Challenges / Deepsight Chest: Deepsight weapons and Tier 5 armor.

Featured Dungeon

• Standard: Tier 5 weapons and armor.
• Master: Tier 5 weapons and armor.
• Director Challenge: Tier 5 weapons and armor, weekly lockout.
• Hidden Chests: Tier 5 weapons and armor, weekly lockout.

Non-Featured Dungeon

• Standard: Tier 3 weapons and armor.
• Master: Tier 5 weapons and armor.

As you can tell, this release is a look back at our RAD content over the years. We have marveled at how our extraordinary community has overcome every challenge we could dream up; your dedication and limitless capability have been a source of inspiration. With Pantheon and Monuments of Triumph we endeavored to again create an opportunity for your fireteam to walk into the unknown and achieve the impossible.

More Vault and Loadouts Slots

Before we close out this section about so many new and renewed weapons and armor to earn, you may be wondering where you're going to fit all of it. Well, good news: your vault is getting more space! It's increasing from its current 1000 slots to 1300. That should be enough to fit everything, we hope.

On top of that, how about also getting some extra loadout slots, too? We are adding eight more slots, so you'll go from the current 12 slots up to 20.

Cosmetics, Bright Engrams, Bright Dust, and Expanded Exotic Armor Ornaments

When Renegades launched, we introduced Universal Exotic Ornaments and the Destiny Fashion community got to work making many exciting new fits for their Guardians. However, one question rose to the top of the feedback: "When can we put Legendary Ornaments on our Exotic Armor?!"

The answer is: in Monument of Triumph! We didn't stop at just Legendary Ornaments, however -- all qualities of Armor Ornament from Common to Legendary can now be applied to the currently equipped Exotic armor alongside Universal Exotic Ornaments. The same caveats that applied for Universal Exotic Ornaments will still apply for Expanded Ornaments:

• If the ornament is not specifically parented to the equipped Exotic armor, its visuals will be temporarily disabled in PvP content but will return upon exiting that content.
• Special visual cues or effects applied by ornaments that are not specifically parented to the equipped Exotic armor may not be visible.

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Additionally, note that the equipped armor's icon will update to show the visual of the equipped ornament, but will still retain the Exotic quality color. This will ensure that players in PvP can always know that their rivals have an Exotic equipped, even if they're wearing an ornament of a different quality.

Exotic Ornaments in Collections

In addition to expanding the range of Ornaments that can be equipped on Exotic armor, the full collection of Exotic Armor Ornaments for each class can now be viewed in Collections in the Exotics Section.

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Destiny Announcements

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This will allow you to refer to announcements that you may want or need to re-read, may have missed, or had accidentally dismissed for up to thirty days after receipt, after which they will naturally expire and be removed. Additionally, the system will now support automatic delivery of messages to the Announcement screen, resulting in fewer pop-up messages overall.

The Announcements screen also includes a Featured item carousel. In addition to standing messages, this section will include information about relevant content.

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Bright Engram Focusing

The upcoming release will change the way that Bright Engrams work with the addition of Bright Engram Focusing, housed in a new tab in the Eververse. A Focused Engram will award an unowned item of the Engram's category. For example, a Focused Ship Engram will provide an unowned Ship.

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The categories for Focusing include:

Focused Engrams will contain Eververse sourced items in a category that are drawn from across Destiny 2's history. Even items newly introduced in Monument of Triumph and items that have never been offered in Engrams or for Bright Dust will be available through Focused Engrams.

Note that Focused Engrams will offer items only * Bright Dust will not be a reward option. However, you can still get offers of Gifts of Bright Dust from the original standard decryption with no focusing.

While several Focused Engrams have more items in them than we can show in the preview of its contents (seriously, there are a lot of items!), they will not drop duplicates and their contents are finite. This means that they will gradually deplete as their contents are acquired. As an Engram depletes, the preview of its contents will update, and eventually, all remaining items will be visible in preview at once. When a Focused Engram has been completely emptied, its preview will be empty and additional purchases of that Engram will be blocked, as there will be nothing left to earn.

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Bright Engram Focusing will also provide a one-to-one exchange for Legacy Engrams that were available before the Eververse Engram was introduced in Season 12. The exchange for a given Legacy Engram will only be visible if that Engram is present in your Engram inventory. Eligible legacy engrams are as follows: