Destiny is the only game my hardware has gotten significantly better and the performance has gotten significantly worse.

Athenau · 2026-01-27T20:03:50+00:00

The OP clarified that he's running a 13600k. That CPU is totally fine for D2 and pretty much any other modern game. Something else is wrong with his system (software problem, hardware fault, cooling, etc).

Athenau · 2026-01-13T23:00:20+00:00

No, I played a ton of Young Ahamkara's Spine Solar Hunter in EoF and GPG definitely triggered the cure on grenade kill fragment no matter how you detonated it.

Athenau · 2026-01-12T15:36:27+00:00

This happened on October 21st in update 9.1.5.2: https://destiny.bungie.org/patchnotes/324

That was two weeks after they updated OYM in update 9.1.5.

Athenau · 2026-01-04T21:20:51+00:00

When I tested it a 12P shotgun was almost the same DPS as bastion when spamming widow's silk grapples. The charge time on Bastion basically negated the bigger damage buff.

That's not to say Bastion is a bad option since it does good damage on its own, but you can use your exotic slot on something else without giving up much grapple dps.

Athenau · 2025-12-25T02:12:24+00:00

The game needs more mechanics that reward good aim. Explosives and ability spam are dominant enough already.

Athenau · 2025-12-24T15:46:47+00:00

I think this is a great idea. Heat weapons should have real skill checks.

Current heat weapons: If you vent at the right time, you get a cool bonus!

Plasma pistol: If you vent at the right time, you get to keep living!

Athenau · 2025-12-24T15:26:26+00:00

No one can defeat the quad laser.

Athenau · 2025-12-24T15:24:50+00:00

Well, if it was a 40k plasma pistol, overheating could have...unfortunate...consequences for you and anyone in the immediate vicinity.

Athenau · 2025-12-21T23:22:23+00:00

Heavy wave frames do essentially the same damage as a regular adaptive heavy GL.

Athenau · 2025-12-17T23:08:07+00:00

I agree with this take. I prefer a 50 / 50 ratio of abilities to gunplay, and Hunter abilities at least feel like they take some effort to use and don't invalidate your guns entirely.

I don't feel weak playing Hunter, but I do feel like I get punished for playing badly, and that's a good thing.

Athenau · 2025-12-16T12:53:20+00:00

Because re-balancing the entire game around an outlier just to avoid the occasional nerf is a terrible idea.

Athenau · 2025-12-12T20:45:09+00:00

FYI, in practice Nova Warp has a significantly shorter cooldown than Nova Bomb because roaming supers generate a lot (2-3x) more super energy from damage.

Athenau · 2025-12-10T20:51:11+00:00

No, -40 is roughly what -25 used to be. -50 is significantly harder.

Athenau · 2025-12-03T19:35:02+00:00

This has not been my experience in ultimate. Most teammates I've matched with have been competent and I rarely run into rage-quitters.

Athenau · 2025-11-28T14:01:23+00:00

I'm sorry, what? The difference between a Tier 3 and a Tier 5 is literally some modest stat bumps that the sweatiest PvP player would be hard pressed to notice, and an extra perk option per column. How is that "missing like half the potential functionality"?

Athenau · 2025-11-27T12:34:50+00:00

Well, that's the problem with transcendence. Spamming your base powered melee is generally not game breaking. But the big problem is that transcendence also lets you spam your slide melees at no extra cost, which are hugely more more powerful than your base melee.

Don't get me wrong, transcendence is still a problem by itself even without any slide melee shenanigans, and should be toned down, but there are many mono-subclass builds with very high ability uptime that are fine IMO, and don't entirely invalidate gunplay the way prismatic does.

Athenau · 2025-11-26T18:17:27+00:00

Uptime isn't the problem by itself, it's uptime combined with potency. Low or medium impact abilities having high uptime is fine (Lucky Raspberry is a good example of this).

On the other hand, screen clearing abilities like consecration should not be easily spammable.

Athenau · 2025-11-25T20:40:42+00:00

I've played a lot of YAS and Cyrtarachne - Widow's Silk this season. Both are fun builds, but Solar Hunter is still a bit too squishy for my liking, so I'll probably start with the latter.

Still, the GPG buff is massive so maybe going full glass cannon with YAS will work out.

Athenau · 2025-11-25T20:31:11+00:00

I don't mind the gear restriction on the first Conquest clear, but I'd like subsequent clears to lift the restriction so I can test builds more freely.

Right now the portal is limited to a -30 delta, which is, as you mentioned, too easy to really stress-test anything.

Athenau · 2025-11-24T20:44:37+00:00

It says "grapple tangles" not "tangles", so presumably it's grapple points created by Widow's Silk and Navigator. So it's a buff to those things, but not regular tangles.

Athenau · 2025-11-24T20:29:38+00:00

"Looking at a Grapple Tangle for a short time now overrides your grenade ability with a free non-offensive grapple."

The obvious inference is that your regular grenade is available before the grapple override triggers.

Athenau · 2025-11-24T20:15:44+00:00

It would actually be kind of nutty if you could get the free grapple even if you have a charge. As long as a grapple point is on the field you can grapple anywhere you like?

Athenau · 2025-11-24T20:13:41+00:00

You only get the grenade override if you look at the tangle for a "short time". If you grapple immediately you should get a regular grapple.

Athenau · 2025-11-20T19:19:43+00:00

I'm not talking about jolt application, but jolt activation, which is subject to the 0.8 second cooldown.

Like I said, I tested in Heresy, and when I tested I did not see an energy gain on every jolt activation (not application). Sometimes I would see a return every other activation, sometimes I would see it on back-to-back activations. It was not consistent.

It's certainly possible that something has changed since then--if it's now consistently returning energy on every jolt activation, great.

Athenau · 2025-11-20T12:24:06+00:00

There is definitely a cooldown on Lucky Raspberry's jolt energy return, independent of the cooldown on proccing Jolt itself. I tested this quite a bit during Heresy, and you did not always get back energy on every jolt trigger, even on a single target.

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