As if there wasn’t already sufficient new in Destiny 2: Shadowkeep, Bungie has dropped an accompanying set of patch notes particulars an entire host of quality-of-life and steadiness adjustments.
PvE adjustments function prominently within the Patch Notes, together with alterations to the way in which that harm numbers are proven to the participant in addition to tweaks to the balancing of enemies which might be a better degree than your Guardian.
Enemies which might be 10-40 ranges greater than you’ll now take much less time to kill and never deal as a lot harm to your character.
Tough enemies will get tougher and tougher up till they’re 100 ranges greater than the participant, at which level they grow to be immune to wreck.
Among the opposite adjustments are buffs and nerfs to quite a lot of Supers and talents for all three courses, in addition to completely different weapon varieties.
Many weapons – like Assault Rifles, Sniper Rifles, and Sidearms – have had their PvE harm considerably elevated, though rank-and-file baddies now not take extra precision harm than different kinds of enemies.
Also mentioned are among the new techniques which have been carried out with the Shadowkeep enlargement, such as the Gatelord’s Eye Artifact – which we have a full page on here – and the revamped armor mods system – which we have another page on here.
You can read the whole list of changes on the Bungie official post here, or in the full list below:
Destiny 2 Shadowkeep Patch Notes:
SYSTEMS
COMBAT SYSTEMS
Finishers
Finisher System added. Press the finisher button to complete critically wounded combatants.
PvE Damage Numbers Display
Goal: To present gamers with helpful and legible suggestions for harm dealt to enemy combatants throughout a few years of Power development.
Displayed harm numbers for harm dealt to non-Guardian enemy combatants are crunched
Damage dealt is displayed utilizing fewer digits to boost readability of harm output
Occurrences of displayed harm getting capped at 999,999 ought to be considerably diminished or eradicated
The exponential curve used to calculate harm numbers for show is changed with a brand new linear curve that’s constructed to final for a few years
As gamers develop in Power, displayed harm numbers enhance at a way more measured tempo than beforehand
This is a UI replace solely; participant harm output, whether or not measured as hits to kill, time to kill, or DPS, stays unchanged by this replace
PvE Difficulty Tuning
Goals: Widen the candy spot the place combating higher-level combatants offers a enjoyable, difficult, and rewarding fight expertise for a extra satisfying Power climb. Also, permit gamers searching for even better challenges to confront a lot higher-level enemies.
Combatants which might be 10–40 ranges greater take much less time to kill and deal much less harm
Higher-level combatants proceed to extend in issue as much as 100 Power ranges above the participant
When enemies are 100 Power ranges or greater above the participant, they’re immune to wreck
Nameplate icons on higher-level combatants have been up to date to mirror these adjustments
These adjustments have an effect on solely higher-level combatants; the at-level or over-level expertise stays unchanged
SANDBOX
ABILITIES
Buffs
Nightstalker Way of the Pathfinder (Bottom)
Goal: We need to lean into the fantasy of a speedy disruptor. Pathfinders want extra instruments to scout the battlefield and a talent primarily based solution to interact with that gameplay extra typically. We ought to reward this scouting and battlefield management gameplay, executed properly, with extra alternatives to do the identical. At the identical time shadow shot wanted some high quality of life enhancements for lengthy standing frustrations.
Vanish: Smoke bomb grants invisibility to allies
Gives 1 stack of Heart of the Pack (newly revamped) to all allies hit
Grants +34 to armor, restoration, and agility
Gives weapon reload velocity and dealing with
Max Three stacks
Increased invisibility length from 7 > Eight seconds
Provision: Killing tethered enemies creates tremendous orbs and will increase agility, armor, and restoration for allies
New Perk (previous perk advantages moved to be a part of Mobius Quiver)
Damaging enemies along with your grenades reduces the cooldown of your smoke bomb (6% per harm tick)
Making allies invis offers you grenade vitality (17.5% per ally)
Moebius Quiver: Fire tremendous a number of occasions and offers large harm to tethered targets
Added the previous Provision perk to naturally be a part of Mobius Quiver
Killing tethered enemies creates tremendous orbs and grants stacks of Heart of the Pack for allies
Expanded the vary of Heart of the Pack from 20 > 30 meters.
Shadowshot Super (Top and Bottom path)
Damage elevated from 150 > 250
One shot kill in PvP
Improved tether accuracy close to obstacles
Suppress on hit is extra constant
Sentinel Code of the Protector (Top)
Goal: This path is the primary assist position for Titans and focuses closely on melee kills whereas staying close to allies. We need to focus extra closely on buffing allies in order that gamers care concerning the timing of their buff utilization. With a loop which permits gamers to get their melee vitality again extra rapidly this can be a extra participating path to play. Additionally, Ward of Dawn is at present less than snuff, and desires a buff that ties in to the fantasy of buffing allies.
Defensive Strike: Melee capability that creates an overshield for close by allies
All kills whereas the overshield is lively grant melee vitality for the participant with the protect (works for all allies you grant a protect to)
This is predicated upon enemy menace degree from 5% (minors) to 25% (gamers and executives)
Rallying Force: Melee kills heal close by allies
Heal buffed from 10 well being and 10 shields to 10 well being and 20 shields (50% enhance)
Ward of Dawn: Alternate tremendous that creates a protect bubble
Increase ward well being versus supers
Most supers would require the entire thing to be dumped on the ward to destroy it however will (normally) not kill the gamers inside
Ward grants weapons of sunshine buff when passing by means of it (35% weapon harm for 15 seconds)
Grants an extra tremendous orb (3)
Auto-generated orbs now grant the identical quantity of tremendous vitality as common tremendous orbs (beforehand the orbs gave much less tremendous vitality on par with masterwork orbs)
Sentinel Code of the Aggressor (Bottom)
Shield Bash: Shoulder cost that disorients close by enemies
Now suppresses the goal hit and any enemy inside 2 meters (must be mainly proper subsequent to them)
Voidwalker Attunement of Hunger (Bottom)
Vortex: Nova Bomb leaves behind a dangerous AoE pool
Initial explosion harm elevated 15%
Lingering harm elevated 15%
Dawnblade Attunement of Grace
Well of Radiance: Alternate tremendous that creates a therapeutic/buffing discipline for allies
Grants an extra tremendous orb (3)
Auto-generated orbs now grant the identical quantity of tremendous vitality as common tremendous orbs (beforehand the orbs gave much less tremendous vitality on par with masterwork orbs)
Nerfs
Nightstalker Way of the Trapper (Top)
Shadowshot: Fires an arrow that damages enemies and debuffs enemies close by
Damage sharing for the Nightstalker participant particularly diminished from 100% to 50%
Now all allied gamers have 50% harm sharing on tether
Nightstalker Way of the Wraith (Middle)
Flawless Execution: Headshot kills whereas crouched grant invisibility and truesight
Truesight now lasts Three seconds (down from 9)
Shattering Strike: After performing a Flawless Execution, your melee assaults have an extended lunge vary and weaken enemies
Advanced warning: When we made the change to Flawless Execution this additionally unintentionally nerfed this capability to solely final Three seconds (it was straight tied to the truesight). We have ready a repair for the 4.6.1 patch to revive the weaken and lunge vary enhance to final all the 9 seconds no matter truesight and invisibility standing.
Instant Reloading
Goal: In the start, Lunafactions and Rally Barricade did exist, however they had been clunky to make use of. They nonetheless had dramatic impression on gameplay even in that state, however finally we determined to make their results simpler to deal with. The issues they launched at all times existed within the game, however over time these have grow to be magnified resulting from new talents, perks, and weapons launched into the Destiny 2 sandbox. The impression of one thing that takes all reloading out of the equation implies that different perks or results just like the Hunter’s Marksman Dodge or the Sealed Ahamkara’s Grasps can merely fall to the wayside – Even swords take a success as compared, being one of many few weapons that naturally by no means must reload.
Reloading is a kind of mechanics which might be easy, however have extensive ranging penalties. Because the impact on gameplay of eradicating reloading is inversely proportional to the scale of your weapon’s journal and the way gradual your normal reload animations are, weapons like Rocket Launchers and Shotguns can profit vastly in comparison with different weapons. This, alongside the rise on the whole entry to wreck bonus results like Well of Radiance left us with the choice to take away this impact from these two sources, as they had been inflicting issues to rapidly snowball uncontrolled.
Titan Rally Barricade
This capability now offers a big enhance to reload velocity throughout the impact
This capability now not routinely reloads your weapons from reserves
Warlock Rift/Well of Radiance
Lunafaction Boots now offers a big enhance to reload velocity throughout Well of Radiance
This unique now not routinely reloads your weapons from reserves
Super Energy Regeneration
Goal: These adjustments will scale back the velocity with which gamers are in a position to earn their tremendous which helps issue and reduces the present capability to trivialize sure content material by means of excessively chaining supers. Systemically, we need to scale back base sources of supers on a big macro scale with out diminishing the sensation that your actions are gaining you a worthwhile vitality increase. By decreasing the velocity at which you acquire tremendous we will make mods and perks really feel extra worthwhile. We nonetheless need it to really feel like you may make significant progress not solely by means of regular play however by augmenting tremendous vitality by means of teamwork, class selections, gear, and skillful play.
New Energy Granted by Super Orbs:
Super Orb: 7.143% (50% discount)
Masterwork Orb: 2.5% (50% discount)
Kills: (25% discount)
Minor: 0.6%
Elite: 0.96%
Mini-boss: 1.8%
Boss: 3%
Player: 3%
Assists: (25% discount)
Minor: 0.3%
Elite: 0.48%
Mini-boss: 0.9%
Boss: 1.5%
Player: 1.5%
Damage Multipliers
Goal: At Destiny 2 launch, harm buffs had been pretty sparse – There was Empowering Rift for a small enhance, and you might mix it with a weakening impact reminiscent of Hammer Strike, however little or no else. As time has gone on, we launched Well of Radiance, Weapons of Light, Guiding Flame, Frontal Assault, and many others, and mixing these results has resulted in participant harm output far past what was beforehand out there. Even with only a small quantity of them, a participant can go from 1x harm to 3x and past, inflicting there to be a particularly giant hole between normal participant output and theoretical output.
By stopping the bigger results from stacking, we’re in a position to hold every of them round with out having to do one thing in response like elevate boss well being to compensate for these ways, in addition to create extra of them. As an instance, Lumina wouldn’t have been created in world the place the harm bonus impact of Noble Rounds stacked with different harm results, and these adjustments are merely an extension alongside those self same strains.
While the weakening results by no means stacked, we additionally took a have a look at them and adjusted their values as lots of our extra {powerful} models would merely evaporate when touched by one among them, however we compensated for that in different methods, reminiscent of both extending the length of the impact or within the case of Shadowshot, making it have an effect on energy weapons.
Player Damage Buffs
Player Bonuses
Bonus harm results that apply to all of a participant’s weapons concurrently now not stack multiplicatively. The highest relevant bonus can be used as an alternative
This doesn’t have an effect on single weapon buffs reminiscent of Rampage, Kill Clip, or unique weapons that enhance their very own harm. These will nonetheless stack multiplicatively.
Buffs that present bonus harm will nonetheless exist concurrently on the participant, so within the occasion that the one with the best multiplier wears off the subsequent highest can be used as an alternative.
This change impacts the next weapons/talents (Empowering Rift, Frontal Assault, Guiding Flame, Sun Warrior, Inertia Override, Well of Radiance, Lumina/Noble Rounds, Weapons of Light)
Notable exceptions: Vengeance (One Eyed Mask)
Frontal Assault
Bonus harm is now +20% (Previously +25%)
Sun Warrior
Bonus harm is now +20% (Previously +25%)
Well of Radiance
Bonus harm is now +25% (Previously +35%)
Weapons of Light
Bonus harm is now +35% (Previously +25%)
Enemy Debuffs (Weakened)
Shadowshot
Incoming PvE harm is now +30% (Previously +35%)
Incoming PvP harm is now +50% (Previously +55%)
This impact now not excludes energy weapons
Tractor Cannon (Repulsor Force)
Incoming PvE harm is now +30% for all components (Previously +33%/50% for Non-Void/Void harm respectively)
Incoming PvP harm is now +50% for all components (Previously +33%/50% for Non-Void/Void harm respectively)
Hammer Strike
Incoming PvE harm is now +30% (Previously +50%)
Duration elevated from 6 to 10 seconds in PvE
Shattering Strike
Incoming PvE harm is now +30% (Previously +50%)
Duration elevated from 6 to 10 seconds in PvE
Reduced Super Damage Resistance
Goal: Since the launch of Destiny 2 we now have slowly launched buffs to supers, particularly roaming supers. While we consider supers ought to be {powerful} they shouldn’t be senseless. We need supers to be extra dangerous in each PvE and PvP. We need gamers to consider positioning and timing extra. Not so way back we experimented with Spectral Blades by reducing the harm resistance considerably. These adjustments had been usually properly obtained and improved the expertise of the tremendous for each the particular person operating it and the one who was operating from it. In PvE gamers shouldn’t really feel like their tremendous makes them invulnerable and casting one ought to name for situational strategic considering. In PvP gamers must really feel like they will problem an excellent and that with skillful play there’s an opportunity they will beat it.
Super Damage Resistance faraway from masterwork armor
Inherent Super Damage Resistance lowered by class (see beneath)
Low- 54% → 49%
Nova Warp
Thunder Crash
Blade Barrage
Nova Bomb
Well of Radiance
Medium – 56% → 51%
Hammer of Sol
Daybreak
High – 60% → 53%
Fist of Havok
Burning Maul
Sentinel Shield
Arc Staff
Arc Lightning
Shadowshot
Other (unchanged)
Spectral Blades – 52% / 54.4%
Golden Gun – 0%
Chaos Reach – 40%
ABILITY AND ARMOR GENERAL FIXES
Fixed a difficulty the place talents that dealt lingering harm had been dealing greater harm than supposed at greater framerates
This contains talents reminiscent of Nova Bomb, Vortex Grenades, Solar Grenades, Smoke Bombs, Fan of Knives, and Sun Spots
Fixed a difficulty the place the Hunter’s Tempest Strike melee capability couldn’t be carried out if the Sprint button/key was set to Hold
Fixed a difficulty the place the elevated maintain harm perk of the Stormtrance tremendous would break if a participant swapped their sub-class to Chaos Reach after which again to Stormtrance inside an exercise
Fixed a difficulty the place the Liar’s Handshake perk Cross Counter was intermittently failing to activate and set off therapeutic
Sealed Ahamkara Grasps perk Nightmare Fuel will now accurately reload weapons when utilized in tandem with Knife Trick and the Tractor Cannon
A Titan’s Burning Maul line assault will now not be blocked and detonate early if they’ve Telesto projectiles connected to them
Borealis and Hardlight now match the Prism modifier when altering components on reload, rotating by means of Void > Arc > Solar
The Hunter’s Combination Blow capability buff will now accurately be eliminated when switching sub-classes whereas the buff is lively
The Phoenix Protocol Hearth perk will now not award bonus tremendous vitality on kills and assists to Warlocks inside a Well of Radiance who don’t even have the Well of Radiance (Attunement of Grace) sub-class geared up
The Enhanced Momentum Transfer perk now shows the proper icon
The Mad Warden will now not get frozen in time when destroyed by a Hunter’s Golden Gun
Fixed a difficulty the place Warlocks couldn’t carry out their Well of Radiance tremendous throughout the reload animation for breach loaded Grenade Launchers
If interrupted, the reload animation will full after the tremendous is forged
Fixed a difficulty the place allied Golden Gun projectiles weren’t going by means of Banner Shields
Fixed a difficulty the place the Queen’s Wrath perk for the unique Wish-Ender bow wasn’t accurately highlighting gamers if their protect was depleted
The Warlock’s Arc subclass capability ‘Pulsewave’ buff will now not clear the Quickdraw perk bonus granted from a weapon upon its expiration
The Warlock’s ‘Alchemical Etchings’ perk buffs from Lunafaction Boots will now accurately be eliminated if/when their Well of Radiance is destroyed
Khepri’s Sting will now not eat the proprietor’s melee capability vitality cost when hit by a pleasant Hunter’s smoke bomb
WEAPON CHANGES
Weapon mods are actually handled as reusable unlocks as an alternative of consumables. Any mods you have got in your stock can be transformed to unlocks
This offers gamers the chance to play with completely different mods extra incessantly
If the one copy of a mod you have got is already in a gun, you will have to reacquire one to unlock it
Minor enemies (Rank-and-File) now not take extra precision harm than different enemies
These enemies beforehand took twice as a lot harm to their precision hit areas than enemies of upper ranks
You will nonetheless deal precision harm, however that is now solely depending on the weapon, as it’s for greater ranked enemies
The period of time allowed between kills to generate a masterwork orb has been reworked per archetype:
2.5 seconds for shotguns, hand cannons, scout rifles, machine weapons, and pulse rifles
Three seconds for auto rifles and hint rifles
Four seconds for bows, fusion rifles, rocket launchers, and grenade launchers
5 seconds for sniper rifles, linear fusion rifles, sidearms, submachine weapons, and swords
Auto Rifles
PvE harm elevated between +30% and +25% relying on combatant rank
Bows
PvE harm elevated by +31% towards minor enemies, and +26% towards main enemies
Fixed a difficulty the place bow draw occasions had been displayed incorrectly within the inspection display
Hand Cannons
PvE harm towards minor enemies elevated by 30%
Lightweight and Adaptive hand cannons use a brand new firing animation whereas aiming down sights
This change was made to extend weapon accuracy when firing these weapons as quick as doable
Ex: Currently, gamers can shoot quicker than the recoil animation of 140/150 archetypes – so whereas the Hand Cannon appears to be like to have totally reset from recoil, the next projectile can be shot as if the weapon was nonetheless in a recoiled state
Reduced the impact the vary stat has on harm vary falloff (efficient vary) for this weapon archetype
Machine Guns
PvE harm towards minor enemies elevated by 25%
Increased the consequences of harm vary falloff on this weapon archetype
Pulse Rifles
PvE harm towards minor enemies elevated by 28%
Increased the consequences of harm vary falloff on this weapon archetype
Archetype particular harm adjustments (impacts each PvE and PvP gameplay)
Rapid-Fire Pulse Rifles now deal 14/23.Eight base/precision harm (Previously 13/21.4)
High Impact Pulse Rifles now deal 21/33.6 base/precision harm (Previously 20/32)
Scout Rifles
PvE harm elevated between +36% and +18% relying on combatant rank
Sidearms
PvE harm elevated to minor and main combatants by 16%
Sniper Rifles
PvE harm elevated by +47% towards minor enemies, +20% for others
Exotic sniper rifle perk harm bonuses have been modified to compensate for this variation and they won’t obtain the total advantages because of this
Submachineguns
PvE harm elevated by 22.5% towards minor/main combatants
Aggressive Frame
Removed the intrinsic impact of “Deals bonus damage at close range.”
This bonus was 10%, however was unintentionally at all times lively
The bonus harm has been moved to the bottom harm for 750 RPM Submachineguns, leading to no harm change
As a consequence, Tarrabah and The Huckleberry acquire 10% harm in each PvE and PvP
Exotics
Sweet Business
Increased journal measurement from 100 to 150.
Increased PvE harm by 15%.
High Caliber rounds have been changed with Armor Piercing rounds.
Damage modified to 15/21.2 base/precision (Previously 13.21/21.14)
This weapon now not requires you to be firing while you decide up ammo to have it routinely reload.
Graviton Lance
PvE harm elevated by 30%
Sunshot
Increased journal measurement to 12
Vigilance Wing
PvE harm elevated by 25%
Crimson
Damage modified to 19/30.5 base/precision (Previously 13.76/24.75)
Fixed a difficulty that was inflicting this weapon to deal greater flinch than supposed
Merciless
Fixed the lacking intention help stat for this weapon
Ace of Spades
Memento Mori’s harm bonus is now affected by vary falloff
Lumina
Noble Rounds ought to apply their buff to allies extra reliably now
The Colony
“Serve the Colony” now features as Auto Loading Holster does
Perks
Subsistence
Reduced the impression of this perk on complete reserves
Ricochet Rounds
Removed the hidden bonus to wreck falloff
Swashbuckler
Perk now prompts when getting a kill with Ball Lightning
Grave Robber
Perk now prompts when getting a kill with ranged melee talents (ie: Ball Lightning, Explosive Knife)
One-Two Punch
Reduced the effectiveness of stacking One-Two Punch and Cross Counter (Liar’s Handshake)
Ex: Players gained’t have the ability to defeat Riven in lower than three seconds after Shadowkeep launches utilizing the combo of One-Two Punch and Liar’s Handshake, however we all know lots of you’ll attempt different builds… and doubtlessly even succeed.
Weapon General Fixes
Fixed a difficulty the place AI combatants in Gambit primarily based actions had been utilizing PvP values as an alternative of PvE values
Fixed a difficulty on Jade Rabbit the place elements of the decoration had been showing on the unique weapon artwork
Fixed a difficulty the place masterworked weapons would generally spawn a considerable amount of orbs off a single kill
Fixed a difficulty the place killing Vex Harpies with precision harm from Outbreak Perfected wasn’t spawning Nanites as anticipated
Added lacking Thunderlord Killfeed and Obituary icons
Infusing Thunderlord now accurately requires a vacation spot materials (EDZ Dusklight Shards)
PLAYER IDENTITY SYSTEMS
TRIUMPH STEPS
Triumphs can now be damaged into steps with every step granting Triumph rating
Some Triumphs have been prolonged with further steps that grant further Triumph Score
Some Triumphs have had their present necessities damaged into steps and the unique Triumph Score has been cut up between these steps
SEASONAL ARTIFACT
Each season there’ll a brand new pursuit, the seasonal artifact
For Season of the Undying it’s The Gate Lords Eye
At the tip of the season the artifact will go away, and get replaced by a brand new artifact
The seasonal artifact has two progressions:
Artifact Power:
Gain an uncapped bonus to your energy by incomes XP. Each level of energy takes extra XP to earn than the final
Artifact Mods
Earn as much as 12 factors by gaining XP
Spend factors to unlock seasonal mods for Armor 2.0
ARMOR CHANGES
Character Stats
Discipline, Intellect, and Strength stats return from the unique Destiny game
Your Discipline determines your grenade recharge fee
Your Intellect determines you tremendous recharge fee
Your Strength determines your melee capability recharge fee
All stats now go from Zero to 100
For Discipline, Intellect, and Strength, a stat of 30 is the equal recharge fee to the pre-Shadowkeep recharge fee with no mods affecting that recharge fee utilized
A stat of 100 is the equal of getting 5 of the suitable recharge rate-affecting mod utilized
Each piece of armor now offers you with contributions to every of your six stats
Armor that drops on the earth, from engrams, and exercise rewards have randomized stats
Armor 2.0
All unique and legendary armor will drop to make use of the brand new armor system
Armor 2.Zero variations of unique armor items will be pulled out of your Collection offered you have got collected that unique
All Armor 2.Zero armor items have an vitality kind (Arc, Solar, Void) and an vitality capability
Energy capability will be upgraded by spending currencies and supplies, to a most of 10
Armor with 10 vitality is taken into account to be masterworked and offers a +2 bonus to all six character stats
All armor mods have an vitality value and an vitality kind (Arc, Solar, Void, or Any)
Arc, Solar, and Void mods can solely be socketed into armor of the matching vitality kind; mods with an Any vitality value will be socketed into any armor
Each piece of armor comes with a number of armor mod sockets, into which your mods will be utilized
A socketed armor mod occupies an quantity of the armor’s vitality capability equal to the mod’s vitality value; you have to have sufficient armor vitality out there to have the ability to socket a mod
Armor mods are now not consumable, and are as an alternative unlocked and resuable throughout all relevant armor items as soon as acquired
Armor mods will be acquired from gunsmith packages, direct buy from the gunsmith, world engrams, and pinnacle exercise engrams
Armor 2.Zero mods and pre-Armor 2.Zero armor perks don’t stack
Masterworks
Fully masterworked armor now not present bonus harm discount when utilizing your tremendous
Exotics
Ttian
Actium War Rig
Now works with heavy machine weapons
Warlock
Lunafaction Boots
Removed the impact of routinely reloading allies’ weapons whereas they occupy your rift
This unique armor piece now grants a reload velocity bonus for allies occupying your rifts
ECONOMY
ARMOR MASTERWORKING COSTS
Masterworking Armor prices and ranges have been up to date to incorporate two new supplies: Enhancement Prisms and Ascendant Shards
Both these supplies will be obtained through the next sources:
Nightfall: The Ordeal rewards
Purchased from the Gunsmith for a rotating number of forex and sources
Other particular reward sources such because the Season Pass
Enhancement Prisms and Ascendant Shards are capped at 50 and 10 respectively to restrict hoarding, and to maintain gamers unfamiliar with this method from sinking all their sources right into a single merchandise
INFUSION MATERIAL COSTS
Infusion between two gadgets of any rarity now requires solely a single materials to finish: Upgrade Modules
Upgrade Modules will be obtained through the next sources:
Each of the Gunsmith Weekly Bounties award one Upgrade Module per week
Purchased from the Gunsmith for a rotating number of forex and sources
Season of Undying free observe Season Pass rank rewards
Upgrade Modules are capped at 25 to restrict hoarding, and to maintain gamers unfamiliar with this method from sinking all their sources right into a single merchandise
Discarding an Enhancement Core now not deletes all the stack
BRIGHT DUST
Bright Dust is now earned by finishing Crucible, Gambit, and Vanguard weekly and repeatable bounties
We selected to grant all of Bright Dust from ritual weekly bounties somewhat than spreading it out throughout the weekly and each day bounties so gamers may extra simply earn Bright Dust with out having to verify they full each single each day
Players will have the ability to do the repeatable bounties as many occasions as they like
Any Crucible, Gambit, or Vanguard accomplished bounties must be turned in earlier than upkeep begins on 9/30 as these adjustments will reset them; different bounties—Gunsmith, clan, Eververse, and many others.—can nonetheless be claimed after Oct 1
Eververse gadgets now not dismantle into Bright Dust, and as an alternative grant legendary shards and glimmer
New Eververse gadgets for Season of the Undying will grow to be out there for Bright Dust two weeks into the Season
Eververse gadgets now not require Bright Dust to reacquire them(or re-roll perks) from Collections; as an alternative, they value the identical supplies that reward gadgets of the identical kind/rarity use
Fireteam Medallions have been faraway from the shop, deprecated into Fizzled Fireteam Medallions, and may now be dismantled into Bright Dust to get better their buy value (50 Bright Dust)
Gleaming Boon of the Vanguard value has been lowered to 150 Bright Dust
Gleaming Boon of the Crucible value has been lowered to 500 Bright Dust
EVERVERSE
The Season 7 Best of Year One Engram has been retired, and as a substitute, gamers can now receive the brand new Season 8 Nostalgic Engram
The Seasonal Milestone now not grants a bounty; as an alternative, it straight grants a Bright Engram
The Season 8 Nostalgic Engram is now not earned at degree up
Instead, the Bright Engram is now included within the free rewards of the Season Pass which might be seen earlier than degree 100; it’s additionally awarded each 5 ranges after degree 100
The Eververse storefront is now out there through the Director
Eververse bounties (normal and IGR variations) have been deprecated; any remaining bounty notes will be damaged down into Bright Dust
You can nonetheless full and switch in any excellent Eververse bounties till they expire
GLIMMER
Players can now retailer as much as 250,000 Glimmer
Glimmer rewards from nearly all of sources within the game have been rebalanced
Most open world sources (public occasions, Lost Sectors, chests) have been considerably elevated
Passive Glimmer acquire on kill has been diminished
In addition to straight awarding Glimmer on kill, combatants will generally drop further Glimmer chunks
Weekly bounties award a considerable amount of Glimmer along with their different rewards
SPIDER’S EXCHANGE
The Spider welcomes new alternatives with 4 arms open and now offers in supplies from all planets
However, the Spider has famous adjustments in market worth, and has adjusted his trade charges accordingly:
Glimmer trade now prices 10 Legendary Shards or 20 supplies, and yields 10,000 Glimmer
Tangled Shore each day bounties now not award Glimmer, offering as an alternative Etheric Spirals (in step with his competitors)
Weekly needed bounties now not award gear, however now present between 3,000 and 15,000 Glimmer along with the Enhancement Cores at present provided
XÛR
Xûr’s stock pool and Fated Engram now embody world-drop Exotics from Year 2
UNIVERSAL ORNAMENTS
Select armor units now operate as Universal Ornaments. Once unlocked, these ornaments can be utilized to alter the looks of any Legendary Armor 2.Zero merchandise. Note armor gadgets that correspond to transformed Universal Ornaments haven’t been faraway from participant inventories; already owned armor gadgets nonetheless exist of their present state.
All beforehand bought Eververse armor items will unlock a corresponding Universal Ornament of the identical look and slot on all Armor 2.Zero gadgets
Past Eververse units have been transformed to Universal Ornaments, and can be out there in Silver bundles through the Eververse archive
Pricing for these bundles can be diminished for each bit within the bundled set already owned on the account
Seasons 1 and three units can be out there when Shadowkeep launches – further seasonal units can be added at later dates
GUNSMITH
Weekly bounties now award an Upgrade Module as an alternative of an Enhancement Core
Banshee-44’s mod stock has been refreshed
Banshee-44 is now promoting Upgrade Modules for infusion, in addition to Enhancement Prisms and Ascendant Shards for armor Masterworking
Players who obtained a Legendary set of Solstice armor in Season of Opulence will discover a bundle out there on Banshee containing an Armor 2.Zero model of the set
You have to be logged in on the related class to see its bundle on Banshee (when you obtained that class’s Legendary Solstice set)
REWARDS POWER AND PROGRESSION
All non-powerful rewards now drop Three to Zero factors beneath your highest equippable Power degree, up from 15 to 20 beneath
Year 2 {powerful} reward sources have modified to Legendary rewards
These sources now not have an opportunity to drop a random Exotic as an alternative of the Legendary gear
Bonus Exotics that drop from Nightfall: The Ordeal will drop on the character’s highest equippable Power degree
Under- and over-leveling actions now not alter how a lot Power is obtained from the rewards
Experience now not fuels a participant’s character degree, which has been modified to be degree 50 for all characters
Experience as an alternative progresses the Season Pass, Seasonal Artifact mod, and Power progressions, in addition to the unlocking of locations for brand spanking new characters
Experience rewards have been rebalanced with the introduction of the Season Pass and Seasonal Artifact progressions
The Power granted from the Seasonal Artifact is additive with the Power of the participant’s equippable gear, however doesn’t enhance the Power of substances drops
All present gear has had its Power elevated to a minimal of 750; new characters will start Destiny 2 at Power 750 as properly
The Power bands for Season Eight are as follows
Floor: 750
Soft Cap: 900
All drops up so far can be upgrades to essentially the most {powerful} merchandise in your stock or vault
Beyond this level, solely {powerful} and pinnacle rewards will enhance a participant’s Power
Powerful Cap: 950
All non-powerful/pinnacle rewards are capped at 950
Pinnacle rewards are the one solution to elevate Power above this level
Powerful rewards are equal to the character’s highest-equippable Power past this level
Pinnacle Cap: 960
This is the best Power at which gear drops; often known as the “hard cap”
The Seasonal Artifact bonus Power permits characters to achieve values above this degree
Prime Engrams
Prime Engrams now acquire fees extra rapidly, drop extra incessantly, and have a better most cost cap (9 fees, up from six throughout Year 2)
The Power positive factors have been rebalanced for the elevated frequency, offering +3 Power, down from a spread of +Four to +7
Players who’ve accomplished the “Prime Example” quest previous to Shadowkeep’s launch will earn fees, however these fees gained’t drop till the character has reached 900 Power
This will assist gamers keep away from spending fees early for positive factors which might be most useful throughout the Soft Cap to Powerful Cap vary
BOUNTIES
Reworked Tower bounty swimming pools, and added a brand new ‘Repeatable Daily Bounty’ which will be bought by gamers for a big quantity of glimmer as many occasions as they like
ACTIVITIES
VANGUARD
Added new exercise on the Vanguard display – Nightfall: The Ordeal
Renamed Nightfall to Weekly Nightfall and adjusted base energy degree to 820
Added Rally Banner consumables to Hawthorne’s stock
Updated Nightfall scheduling to cut back lengthy streaks with out sure Strikes or duplicate Strikes.
CRUCIBLE:
Director
Playlists Removed:
Quickplay
Competitive
Playlists Added:
Control 6v6
6v6 Rotator
4v4 Rotator
Survival 3v3
Survival 3v3 Freelancer (solo queue)
Crucible Labs: Elimination 3v3
Classic Mix 6v6 (connection-based matchmaking)
Maps Removed:
Dead Cliffs
Retribution
Solitude
Legion’s Gulch
Added:
Widow’s Court
Twilight Gap
Fragment
Ranks
Players can not lose Glory ranks beneath Fabled I
Losing a match reduces Glory streak by 2 as an alternative of resetting
Losing a match reduces Valor or Infamy streak by 1 as an alternative of resetting
Glory adjusts extra rapidly to match participant talent
Matchmaking:
Skill-matching algorithm adjusted to permit for better variance of matches
General
Power Ammo crates are actually shared in all 6v6 modes
Added physics to the Pacifica Crucible map to forestall gamers from with the ability to navigate into an unfairly advantageous place within the surroundings
CHALLENGES
Moved Nightfall challenges from Weekly Nightfall exercise to Nightfall: The Ordeal, and retuned completions
Removed Daily Heroic Story Mission, Strike, Gambit, and Crucible challenges
Removed Ikora Weekly Bounty Completion problem
Removed Petra’s weekly problem
Added Weekly Bounty Completion challenges to Shaxx, Banshee, Zavala, and Drifter
RAIDS AND DUNGEONS
Added rally banners to Leviathan, Eater of Worlds, and Spire of Stars
“The Shattered Throne” Dungeon is now out there always as an alternative of on a three-week cycle
It can be launched and reset from the Director
DESTINATIONS
Black Armory forges are actually accessible by means of a director launched playlist on EDZ
NEW LIGHT
GENERAL
The Power degree of all gamers’ present gear can be set to 750 at launch. All new characters will begin at Power 750
Black Armory Forges, Gambit, Gambit Prime, the Reckoning, and the Menagerie can be found for all gamers
Leviathan raid lairs Eater of Worlds and Spire of Stars can be found for all gamers
All gamers can enter Free Roam on all locations, together with the Moon (as soon as the vacation spot has been unlocked)
Many beforehand quests can now be picked up on varied distributors
NEW GUARDIANS
New characters are now not required to play by means of Red War, Curse of Osiris or Warmind (a.okay.a. Classic) campaigns earlier than accessing varied actions and quests
New characters can purchase the traditional marketing campaign pursuits from Amanda Holliday
If the participant acquires a marketing campaign pursuit for a mission on a planet they haven’t but unlocked by incomes XP, that planet will grow to be unlocked
For instance, if the participant has solely unlocked the EDZ and Titan, after which they purchase the Curse of Osiris marketing campaign pursuit, the Mercury vacation spot will grow to be unlocked
New characters have speedy entry to all playlist actions (however they nonetheless won’t meet the Power necessities for greater tiers of Player Elected Difficulty, or they may want a particular merchandise like a Mote Synthesizer to play the Reckoning)
New character can be granted the New Light major quest. This quest will lead them by means of most ritual actions, Year 1 seasonal content material, and Year 1 locations
For new characters, Zavala, Shaxx, and Drifter will initially have simplified inventories. Players should full a brief intro quest for Strikes, Crucible, and Gambit to unlock the total stock of bounties and pursuits on these distributors
BLACK ARMORY
Quests
The Black Armory space of the Tower Annex is now accessible to all gamers
Simplified the Black Armory intro quest
Removed the quests wanted to Unlock the Izanami and Gofannon forges
Exotics
Le Monarque and Jotunn are actually first unlocked through pursuits discovered on Ada-1
The quest for Izanagi’s Burden can now even be acquired from Ada-1
Forges
Introducing the Forge Rotator
Found on the EDZ Director Screen
Launch straight right into a forge by choosing the node
Which Forge is playable rotates each day
Forges are now not launched from EDZ or Nessus
Rewards
Weapon frames now not require particular forges in an effort to be accomplished
WARMIND
Escalation Protocol entry is now not gated on any marketing campaign completion necessities
GENERAL
Fixed a difficulty the place the “Cross Save Enabled” messaging was displayed for gamers who didn’t have Cross Save enabled.
Players can now use the Right-Stick and/or Mouse Wheel to scroll up and down on the Lore Tab with out having the cursor centered on the scroll bar
Removed the Seasons Node on the Director (all seasonal info will be seen through the Seasons tab)
Added Key Mapping choices for the Store, Quests and Seasons tabs
Added a small “You are here” indicator round a vacation spot node (and a string within the tooltip) when the participant is in that vacation spot
The character degree on the character nameplate has been changed with the character’s Class Icon
Fallen Spider Tanks are now not using stealth expertise on their entrance mini-guns
Players who’ve obtained the Salute emote previously can now accurately choose it of their assortment and assign it to their Emote wheel
The EDZ Region Chest Triumph now has a requirement of 20 chests for completion
Activating the Fist Bump and Handshake multiplayer emotes will now accurately announce to the Battlefeed
Removed a replica “Iron Truage Suit” armor set entry present in Hunter Collections
Runefinder buff will now solely award Runes to the participant with the buff and never have an opportunity to grant Runes for different fireteam members
REWARD SYSTEMS
Apply actions will work on the primary try
Huginn will now not promote Tinctures to gamers who’ve full inventories (no free area)
Fixed a difficulty the place some gadgets wouldn’t seem within the loot stream if a number of gadgets had been awarded on the similar time
Multiplayer (Buddy) emotes will now have a visual indication of the place a participant can stand to have the ability to work together and provoke the emote
Players who full Gambit Prime Civic Duty bounties (which don’t require enjoying Gambit) will now accurately retain their Infamy factors when returning to Orbit from locations/actions
The final shipments of the Vestian Dynasty sidearm have been recalled from all sources and distributors and despatched to Spider for disposal
The Queen of Hearts unique ship now dismantles in Four seconds, like different exotics, and now accurately makes use of the unique acquired SFX
Fixed a difficulty the place Gambit Prime envoys didn’t rely in the direction of the Envoy While It Lasts bount
Failing the primary encounter for any Black Armory Forge will now not award planetary vacation spot supplies
Fixed a difficulty the place gamers would lose rewards in the event that they claimed a bounty in non-public matches
The timer for Timed Activities (such because the Heroic Whisper of the Worm mission) will now activate after 5 minutes if a minimum of one participant has loaded into the exercise
Fixed a difficulty the place the “Bank This!” Gambit medal was not being accurately awarded when Invaders killed opposing Guardians holding motes close to their Bank, which was stopping the related “Bank This!” Triumph from progressing
Source
