Subsequent season of Future 2 will see a number of modifications made to 2 dozen Unique armor items, and this week, Bungie has centered on which Unique weapons are getting fine-tuned in Season of the Deep. 17 weapons might be getting a variety of tweaks, some substantial, some incremental, and these modifications will have an effect on each legacy and newer Exotics.
For instance, Graviton Lance is getting an replace that’ll make it much less back-loaded. When it comes to efficiency, it will be just like Revision Zero’s Heavy Rounds two-burst mode, and injury output is being adjusted. The RPM is rising from 257 to 300, and the primary shot will do double the injury if it lands on the physique or a vital spot. The second shot, which was the place the majority of Graviton Lance’s base injury was centered, will now do round 30% much less injury on physique and important spots. The gun is price acquiring, particularly for its Unique perk and catalyst, which is superb for crowd management.
One other legacy weapon within the highlight is Candy Enterprise, which is getting a enjoyable issue improve. From Season 21, it will hearth an explosive spherical on each twentieth shot. Skyburner’s Oath is being buffed to use extra scorch stacks to a goal, and The Manticore is being tweaked to be extra rewarding, cellular, and sustainable.
The favored Jade Rabbit scout rifle will present extra rewards for precision hits in Season 21. Bungie says that subsequent season will see the Unique refund three pictures as an alternative of 1 if you shortly land three vital hits, and it is including buff textual content to indicate when Destiny of All Fools’ elevated physique shot injury is energetic. Dangerous Juju needs to be simpler to manage from subsequent season, as Bungie found that the Unique was initially arrange to make use of Auto Rifle recoil. Subsequent season, it will be set to have pulse rifle recoil attributes.
There are two notable nerfs on the listing, focused on the machine gun Thunderlord and the grenade launcher Preventing Lion. The discharge of Thunderlord’s catalyst and the Season 20 machine gun buff made the Unique much more highly effective, however it additionally shipped with a bug that allowed lightning strikes at the next frequency than meant towards Divinity bubbles, which Bungie is fixing subsequent season. As for Preventing Lion, a bug made it to do enhanced injury towards red-bar enemies, so this concern is being addressed.
You possibly can see the total listing of modifications under, and past the Unique upgrades, there’ll even be new reticle components to indicate off Unique perks and invaluable info subsequent season. Satan’s Smash and Salvation’s Grip might be getting cost meters, Quicksilver Storm will get a grenade depend, The Manticore will get a perk progress meter, and several other different Exotics will relay very important readouts in Season 21. Aggressive SMGs–and The Immortal in particular–will additionally obtain a slight nerf subsequent season.
Most significantly, Season of the Deep may also add an upgraded inspection display for weapons, permitting you to rotate your weapons and admire them in all their mechanical glory.
Season of the Deep Unique Weapon Adjustments
Eyes of Tomorrow
- Killing 4 targets with a missile volley will refund one ammo.
Graviton Lance
- Elevated RPM from 257 to 300 (diminished burst delay by 20%, now matches Revision Zero’s Hakke Heavy Rounds fee of fireside).
- Rebalanced injury per shot.
- Elevated first shot injury from:
- Physique: 9.5 to 19.
- Crit: 15.7 to 31.4.
- Decreased second shot injury from:
- Physique: 35.6 to 25.6.
- Crit: 58.7 to 42.3.
Jade Rabbit
- Added buff textual content to indicate when Destiny of All Fools elevated physique shot injury is energetic.
- Shortly hitting three vital hits now refunds three pictures as an alternative of 1.
The Manticore
- Elevated the catalyst’s injury resistance from tier three to tier 4.
- Elevated motion velocity throughout dangle time.
- Activating the catalyst perk (by an airborne kill or sustained injury following an airborne kill) now partially refills the journal.
Lumina’s cap
- Elevated Noble Rounds cap from 5 to 6.
Heartshadow
- Injury enhance now prompts faster whereas invisible, after 0.25s as an alternative of 1s.
- Heartshadow now weakens upon dealing any injury whereas the injury enhance is energetic.
Worldline Zero
- The sprinting Heavy assault can now be chained into itself as soon as.
- Sword guard power price from every sprinting heavy assault diminished from 100% to 50%.
- Decreased injury from a person sprinting heavy assault by 25%, to compensate.
Candy Enterprise
- Now fires explosive rounds each 20 pictures (fewer pictures whereas absolutely spun up).
Legend of Acrius
- Elevated complete ammo from 12 to 16.
- Elevated most projectile distance from 9 meters to 12 meters.
Tommy’s Matchbook
- Catalyst up to date
- Whereas overheated, sustained hearth scorches your goal.
- Each 5 pictures applies 14+7 (with the Embers of Ashes Fragment) scorch stacks.
No Time to Clarify
- Up to date drone to work with anti-barrier (will break Barrier Champion shields and over penetrate combatant shields).
- Up to date drone to work with Feeding Frenzy (from the NTTE catalyst).
- This additionally resolved a difficulty the place the suggestions for Feeding Frenzy would at all times play when the participant spawned after which by no means once more.
Skyburner’s Oath
- Elevated scorch stacks from three to 5 and 5 to 10 with the Embers of Ashes Fragment.
Salvation’s Grip
- Reworked to have two firing modes.
- Charged shot creates a sample of Stasis crystals (the place the variety of crystals is now not depending on cost time).
- Uncharged shot is a standard Grenade Launcher shot, which does extra injury to Stasis crystals and frozen targets.
- Added a brand new perk that reloads the journal from reserves if you shortly shatter not less than 3 crystals with the uncharged shot.
Dangerous Juju
- Mounted a difficulty that was inflicting the weapon to recoil like an Auto Rifle, making it tougher to manage.
- The recoil sample will now be just like different Pulse Rifles.
Preventing Lion
- Mounted a difficulty that was inflicting this weapon to do extra injury than meant to red-bar combatants.
Thunderlord
- Mounted a difficulty leading to hits towards a Divinity bubble counting as two crits as an alternative of 1.
Winterbite
- The influence injury has been eliminated and redistributed to the detonation injury.
- The self-damage scaling has been tuned to account for the elevated injury of the detonation.
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