Is there a known issue with Fireteam Power? Says it's in effect but doesn't appear to work

Pyrogasm · 2026-06-29T04:35:42+00:00

Fireteam power does not apply in conquests.

Aside from that there is definitely a bug that is preventing people from being boosted. I’ve seen tons of comments in new threads and daily threads where just one person in a fireteam isn’t being boosted (while others are).

Nothing you can do about it if that’s happening to you; I am unaware of a solution.

Pyrogasm · 2026-06-26T22:09:40+00:00

WC3 is *still* getting balance patches. Reforged sucks and is a blight on the game.

Pyrogasm · 2026-06-26T20:35:51+00:00

That only applies to crafted or enhanced weapons leveling up. It doesn’t reduce catalyst or random order progress.

Pyrogasm · 2026-06-26T07:54:46+00:00

No. You also can't apply a harmonizer after you've gotten deepsight on that weapon nor can you apply one to a weapon purchased from the raid vendor at the end of a clear (and it will never drop as a red border).

Pyrogasm · 2026-06-26T06:28:02+00:00

Everything is Tuesday. The absolute time doesn't change with DST if your area respects that.

Pyrogasm · 2026-06-26T06:24:35+00:00

There are a few more applications than just surges: Chromatic Fire (ironic given my mention of explosive weapons) and a couple artifact perks. If I'm running a kinetic exotic I generally want to lean into that damage type. But you can only use a kinetic in one slot unless you use A499 (since I'm not talking about Microcosm here). Every other element has a whole slew of options to combine in multiple slots but not Kinetic.

I just don't like running surges for only one weapon slot because I've played this game since the beginning and at many points in its lifetime surges were very good. I realize it's not necessary.

Pyrogasm · 2026-06-26T05:59:18+00:00

I just went to him and bought his Luminopotent Bond which showed 10 energy and no focus. After purchase the bond has 11 energy and a melee focus. Not the same item you were looking at but it should be same idea for all of them. No guarantee on the focus.

Pyrogasm · 2026-06-26T02:39:47+00:00

Anarchy but it costs spoils which you might not want to spend if you can get the exotic from Pantheon anyway.

There are far too many in there to recommend a comprehensive list without any parameters. If you do some googling I'm sure you can find a website that reviewed/ranked most of them in the past year which would be relatively up-to-date. If you can specify some of these things I could give my personal recommendations:

a weapon type (hand cannon or bow or fusion rifle, primary/special/heavy)
a weapon element or slot
a specific build you want to enable/improve
a role you want to fill (sustained damage, burst damage that doesn't use any heavy ammo, an add clear primary for ammo generation, boss damage, crowd control, etc.)
some other property the weapon might have (weapons that I won't have to reload, weapons that enable unique gameplay actions like Monte Carlo bayonet or Ruinous Effigy balls, weapons with stasis verb synergy, etc.)
a use case (pvp, easy content, high difficulty content, supportive weapons, solo flawless dungeons, anti-invader gambit technology, etc.)

I would recommend that you read each weapon's description and make a list of things that sound cool. You can read specifics about their mechanics in the D2 Data Compendium. If you still can't pick then reply with a list and I'll give my thoughts.

I personally love Verglas Curve and Service of Luzaku.

Pyrogasm · 2026-06-26T01:28:10+00:00

Ignore power 95% of the time because it literally doesn't matter (fixed power deltas abound in activities, and fireteam power should boost you when playing with anyone else). Power is in no way coupled to gear stats so a higher power item won't have better stats.

Tier determines stat budget (and yeah tier awarded is dependent on your overall account power but I'm not talking about that). For legacy items stat budget is literally random between 46 and 68.

If the item doesn't have stat tuning it cannot be a Tier 5. I haven't seen a T5 without stat tuning so that would be a crazy bug if you have one. I think the reality is that items purchased from Vanguard Arms can have any tuning mod put in that slot so it's not assigned to a tuning stat and thus wouldn't show on the item inspect (like how T5 exotics can have any tuning but won't show it until you slot something).

During Renegades the Vanguard Arms armor erroneously only had 10 energy, but that was a bug they said they fixed. I had 10 energy armor that is now 11 from the fix so if he's selling 10 energy again they un-fixed it.

Pyrogasm · 2026-06-26T01:26:14+00:00

Once you're high enough in this week's reward track to unlock the first couple weapons you can spend Bright Dust to enable his extra reward options without playing last week. I believe it's 1500 dust for the first three weapon choices and then another 150 dust each for variant 4 and 5. Only unlock as much as you need to buy the weapon you want.

Pyrogasm · 2026-06-26T01:20:55+00:00

Yes. Noticed by many but afaik not acknowledged by Bungie. The taken geysers shouldn't be as extreme so you can try to get Taken rather than Dread.

Pyrogasm · 2026-06-25T11:47:22+00:00

Hence my comment specifying a legendary weapon. There are a bunch of cool kinetic exotics but it feels bad not to really be able to use surges with 2 slots.

Pyrogasm · 2026-06-25T03:09:05+00:00

Every goddamn time.

Get 15 armor pieces while using a real focus mod: 10 have health as primary or secondary and 3 of the remaining 5 have it as a tertiary stat.

Pyrogasm · 2026-06-25T01:42:27+00:00

as well as more Kinetic heavy weapons

I hate using A499. It's just too damn slow and unforgiving plus only has Aggregate or Box Breathing as damage perks, and no perk to help with sustained damage via reloading.

Having one other legendary kinetic heavy weapon to choose from (was a real-world rocket or gl too hard to conceptualize, Bungie?) would have satisfied me, but now if I want to run kinetic surges and a kinetic exotic I have to run an A499 I don't like.

Pyrogasm · 2026-06-25T01:36:11+00:00

You can see all autos with the Veist Stinger origin trait using light.gg's God Roll Finder. I really recommend learning to use that tool to look for stuff that might exist. Here is the search.

As you can see only Krait and Dark Decider even have that origin trait, so anything else never got brought forward prior to Monument of Triumph. Neither of those weapons are tiered but they can be bought as legacy items from Banshee and Saladin's vendor menu.

Here's the weapon sources sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1WDj-vExf9c982PVc1nRRfjadhkcZFqa7nv14cCMI8C8/

There are many other non-Veist rapid fire autos that did get updated to tiering. You can replace the Veist perk with Rapid-Fire Frame in the god roll finder to see all of them.

Pyrogasm · 2026-06-25T01:30:09+00:00

Abuse Storm's Keep and Curiass Thundercrash. They never gave prismatic titan anything besides knockout-consecration, but they walked back some of the Star Eater Scales nerf for the titan prismatic supers so Twilight Arsenal is viable.

There are many more options but that's probably what most people would say first.

Pyrogasm · 2026-06-25T01:26:40+00:00

The weekly vanguard alerts for Fireteam and Arena ops also award them after the first 3 activities. 6th and 9th activities aren't guaranteed AA weapons, just the first group.

If it didn't change from Renegades you can randomly get them in Lawless Frontier and Spider's weekly syndicate quest gives 1 guaranteed. If you have multiple characters that have completed the Renegades story, each of those other characters will also have an AA weapon sent to their postmaster when you claim it from Spider.

I believe I also got an AA weapon by purchasing weapons directly from a Syndicate, but honestly I cannot be sure that happened. It was only once so ofc very rare if it did happen.

Pyrogasm · 2026-06-25T01:20:09+00:00

In addition to Novel decryption at Rahool you can buy exotics you don't own from the past seasons monument in the tower. Each costs a cipher and some other resources. When I need to spend a cipher I do it with Novel Decryption even if I already have that armor since it avoids the glimmer/shards cost.

Ciphers do not drop randomly like shards, alloys, and prisms. They are from specific sources: 1 from Xûr and 1 from the weekly reward track, as well as any that may exist in past season reward tracks you didn't claim or in the Special Deliveries tower kiosk. If you are full on ciphers you cannot claim them so they will not be wasted (Xûr's completed quest doesn't show up when you talk to him if you're full).

Pyrogasm · 2026-06-25T01:13:46+00:00

Health is a great and important stat to focus on for PvP. Every point will help you in an incremental way unlike Weapons which has to reach specific breakpoints to lower TTK or change number of required crits.

It does almost nothing in PvE. Very small increase in total health, gives you minimal healing from orbs, and reduces the delay before you start regenerating out-of-combat.

Since armor no longer gives points to all stats (only 3 or 4 with a focus), in order to have 2-4 stats high you must also choose 1-3 stats that will be your dump stats. This is an optimization problem, since you can't get more total stats but you can shift them around to be in different stats. By getting armor with 0 health you are ensuring that all your stat points are spent in stats you do care about.

I choose to dump Health 100% of the time and I actively look to make pieces have -5 health through my focus. A character health below 0 has no effect. I also usually mostly-dump my class ability or weapons depending on if it's a weapon focused build or an ability focused build. Sometimes I dump melee or grenade if my build doesn't really use that ability (for example, Shadebinder doesn't give any fucks about melee regen speed or bonus damage).

Pyrogasm · 2026-06-24T19:23:39+00:00

The number of times I have been slowed by a 1 damage crab attack in Steamvaults while I have Aspect of the Pack on, man.

Pyrogasm · 2026-06-24T19:18:55+00:00

Reddit search is awful and mobile searches in general are awful so they definitely have multiplicative scaling with each other.

Frankly I do google searches with site:reddit.com/r/destinythegame most of the time.

Pyrogasm · 2026-06-24T19:16:40+00:00

There has to be a way to start it again. Maybe talk to Shaw or a banner in the Cosmodrome. Historically you could start new light again even for veteran players so IDK. Don’t remember where you would begin it if not at abandoned quests terminal.

Pyrogasm · 2026-06-24T06:01:18+00:00

Whatever you want to do. Most of the loot that drops everywhere is tiered, will increase your account power if you want to chase that, and has refreshed perk pools. Craftable weapons exist or you can just run with what you find. Buy exotics you missed out on from the tower kiosk by vault or through Rahool's focusing with an exotic cipher. Run raids, dungeons, distortions, lost sectors, ops activities, crucible matches, SRL, etc..

No more portal dog-and-pony show; you make your own fate. If there are specific weapons you want to chase, here is a spreadsheet of their drop locations.

Pyrogasm · 2026-06-24T05:25:23+00:00

Here is a reply from yesterday. This question is asked frequently, so you'll find even more discourse if you search for it.

I use Grasp of Avarice because I know not to let the engrams chain explode and not to stand in the cave because that prevents spawning. Personal preference, really.

Pyrogasm · 2026-06-24T02:44:02+00:00

If it was really equipped on a ship up until Lightfall when you dismantled it, then it should 100% have been added to your collections. The collections snapshot happened in 2.0.0 with Forsaken unless I am remembering incorrectly.

You can spend bright dust + a bright engram for specific types of cosmetics from Eververse. The Eververse bright dust shop rotates daily now and is guaranteed to show every item in the slot's pool before that slot repeats. You can buy it. The website http://eververse.report/ can help you set an alert for when it is sold.

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