Bungie final night time kicked off Destiny 2‘s ‘Arc Week’, which is generally fancy theming round a steadiness patch addressing underpowered electrical skills and pointlessly uncommon drops. It additionally introduced an precise shock: gamers had been getting Wavesplitter, a top-notch weapon that has up to now been unique to PlayStation 4. Had Bungie escaping the clutches of Activision additionally meant they’d evaded the exclusivity deal? Are we getting the unique mission subsequent? Naw, Wavesplitter was a mistake, now ‘fixed’, and we’re again to ready. Boo. On the intense facet, the replace’s meant adjustments are fairly deece.
Wavesplitter’s unintentional launch appears to have come about from one real shock, the Exotic travelling salesman Xûr beginning to promote objects from the Forsaken growth in his ‘Fated Engram’ seize luggage of goodies. That’s one change Bungie had stored up their sleeve till the replace launched. Many gamers who visited Xûr within the one-hour interval between the patch hitting and Xûr vanishing for the week discovered, hey what, they acquired Wavesplitter out a Fated Engram. That mustn’t have occurred.
Along with one cooperative ‘Strike’ mission and three outfits, Wavesplitter launched unique to the PlayStation Four version of Forsaken in September. Activision have signed PS4 scloosie offers with a number of games, see, as a result of they nonetheless suppose it’s 2009. The exclusivity received’t final perpetually buuut sadly they’ll final some time longer.
“We’re currently working on a fix,” Bungie said last night. “In the meantime, Xbox and PC players who acquired the weapon will be able to use it. After the fix goes live, they will still have it in their inventories, but will not be able to equip it until this weapon enters the general Exotic loot pool in September 2019.”
Boooo. Hisss. That’s directed extra at Ian Vision for signing these scloosie offers, I suppose. It’s nonetheless a disappointment.
Anyway, onto issues Arc Week did on goal. As the theme of Update 2.2.1 would possibly counsel, it improves quite a few Arc skills throughout the courses. Two of the Hunter Arc subclasses at the moment are higher brawlers, dodging and weaving and giving Titans a run for his or her punchmoney. Warlock Arc subclasses are improved throughout the board, and over within the Void power tree improved Nova Warp a bit following the current savage nerf. Titans get some Arc love too, although curiously Bungie haven’t carried out something to make Thundercrash not rubbo in PvE.
They do have some unusual blind spots, Bungie do. They observed that the Dawnblade’s Everlasting Fire tremendous might be prolonged a ridiculous quantity and stuck that, but someway the Hunter’s Spectral Blades tremendous remains to be tearing up PvP because it has for months. Bungie mentioned last week that they’re planning to repair Spectral however it’s been an enormous downside for therefore lengthy.
As promised, the replace additionally fixes quite a few irritating points associated to shortage. The Ghost shells, spacebikes, and ships from The Dreaming City and its Last Wish raid have obtained huge boosts to their drop charge. These objects are largely beauty however their rarity has stored many from claiming the respective Titles to point out off. The shells, and a few others, solely had a 2% probability to drop earlier than, which was… daft. Now they’re all 20%.
The elusive laser-screaming dragonbonegun One Thousand Voices has obtained a wee bump too, from 5% to 10%. Bungie not often state laborious numbers, and it’s good to grasp why I acquired my screaming skullgun lengthy earlier than these trinkets and baubles. Weird.
Ada-1, the custodian of the Black Armory, now presents all of their weapon frames every week fairly than a rotating choice. You’ll nonetheless solely be capable to choose two weapon sorts to repeat and forge time and again in the hunt for these godrolls, however you received’t have to attend weeks for a selected body to return again round.
Lots of the lore drops are extra frequent now too.
ALSO Bungie have added weapon Catalysts to enhance the Prospector, Rat King, Hard Light, and Suros Regime. The Regime Catalyst can solely be discovered as a random PvP reward, whereas the remainder are from Strikes and Nightfalls. None are mega-amazing however they do carry good little bonuses.
AND Banshee-44, the forgetful gunsmith, has eliminated world drops from his inventory and now solely presents gunsmith weapons. Basically, it’s time to money in your stash of Gunsmith Materials within the hope of getting an excellent Erentil FR4, the fusion rifle that’s the PvP flavour of the month. I discovered this video from YouTuber “Fallout” most informative:
FURTHERMORE now you can get Reckoning weapons as Gambit Prime rewards, and vice versa. Odds improve every time you don’t get one too. The new goodies have been frustratingly uncommon in order that’s good.
PLUS in case you missed the hunt to get the zappy Thunderlord machinegun, hey, that’s reside once more now. Thunderlord was become a random drop after the hunt was eliminated however that is assured and does result in revisiting someplace from the primary Destiny.
Basically, the patch does numerous small-but-good stuff. And some issues. Bungie have temporarily disable getting Season 6 Pinnacle weapons cos folks may get masses and dismantle them for Weapon Cores galore – which wouldn’t be a priority if we didn’t have that entire awful grindy Core system bottlenecking weapon upgrades. And I’m undecided about among the steadiness adjustments, significantly in Gambit Prime; I’ll have to see how they shake out. And god, please repair Spectral Blades already.
Anyway. See the Destiny 2 update 2.2.1 patch notes for full particulars on the whole lot.
What am I as much as this Arc Week? Not going wherever close to Arc power. Bungie have made Mayhem the present PvP showcase mode, so everybody can spam their improved zapbeams with homosexual abandon, however I’m utilizing this to complete the lengthy and painful Pinnacle quest for the Mountaintop. You’ll discover me spamming Shadowshot and grenade launchers to get these closing few double-kills. As a bonus, all of the tethers actually shut down the countless roaming Supers. Call me a killjoy, however quickly I’ll be joyfully killing you with my Mountaintop.
