One of Destiny 2‘s oft-forgotten Exotic weapons, the Wish-Ender bow, has been unusually popular this entire season thanks to a bug. Since the Season Of Dawn started in December, Wish-Ender has been dealing almost triple its intended damage, making it deadlier than most weapons in many modes. After an odd silence, Bungie now say they’ll repair it subsequent week.
Some gamers aren’t finest happy as a result of bows are a bit blah and this made Wish-Ender really feel particular. Me, I’ll be glad to see this blight cease dominating Destiny’s PvEvP mode, Gambit.
Wish-Ender is an Exotic bow added again within the Forsaken growth, obtained by means of a quest tied to The Dreaming City’s Shattered Throne dungeon. It has three distinguishing perks: holding the bow totally drawn permits you to see outlines of close by enemies by means of partitions; it offers further harm to the Taken enemy race; and its piercing arrows deal harm on each entry and exit. This Season, it’s weirdly been dealing pierce harm further instances. This bug boosts Wish-Ender’s harm to the extent of chunkier weapons, ones which use the restricted Special ammo and even rarer Heavy ammo somewhat than plain ol’ Primary ammo.
While the bug solely works in opposition to NPC enemies, not different gamers, it cuts by means of numerous PvE actions and is an actual nuisance in Gambit, the place two groups race to summon then squish an enormous Taken boss. Wish-Ender is the strongest Gambit weapon proper now and single-handedly adjustments the tempo of matches, shredding rando swarms and Taken massive’uns with ease. I’m typically seeing over half the gamers in a Gambit Prime match wielding Wish-Enders. I can (and often do) select to not use it myself however I do know I’m harming my workforce’s likelihood to win. If you’re up in opposition to a workforce of 4 Wish-Enders, welp, I hope you discover some satisfaction in your ethical superiority whilst you lose the match.
“This will be fixed in next weeks update,” a Bungie neighborhood supervisor stated on Reddit final night time.
“I totally perceive this can carry some damaging emotions to gamers, as they loved the unintentional enhance to break. We’ve introduced this suggestions to the workforce, which may very well be thought of for future updates when taking a look at Bows total.
“Again, not a promise, but wanted to give more info.”
I’m glad it’s being mounted. Bows are underpowered within the present meta however that’s an issue with bows, not Wish-Ender. This bug is just too robust and has too giant an impression on Gambit. I do know that Wish-Ender’s drawback is comparatively contained and I do know that many gamers dislike Gambit, however one of many game’s core modes has been outlined by this bug for weeks. I’m in opposition to any single weapon being wildly overpowered generally, feeling pushed to make use of it to succeed. The reign of The Recluse was boring and I particularly discover little satisfaction in wins boosted by bugs.
It is irritating that different balance-busting bugs induced Bungie to disable Telesto earlier this season and disable Wormgod Caress this week, but Wish-Ender may have been left for 5 weeks. The hurt has been clear. Gambit and Gambit Prime want extra care and tuning from Bungie generally, and this bug has made it really feel like a dismally low precedence. Particularly as somebody who does play Gambit Prime for funsies, I’ve discovered it an actual disgrace.
