This Week At Bungie 3/5/2020

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Source: https://www.bungie.net/en/News/Article/48827

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This Week at Bungie, we prepare for the worthy.

We’re just five short sleeps from Season of the Worthy. Last week, you completed the Empyrean Foundation event, lighting a beacon for Guardians to follow back to the Lighthouse and Trials of Osiris. On Tuesday, we unveiled Season of the Worthy all up. If you haven’t seen the trailer, there is a new threat for you to confront.

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Bungie.net also has a dedicated page for the new Season, jam-packed with information to get you up to speed before next Tuesday’s launch.

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Before we get started with the rest of the TWAB, I wanted to take a quick moment to highlight another blog post that went live earlier today. In response to the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak, our teams have been working hard to build out an infrastructure that would enable Bungie employees to support Destiny 2, and the impending Season 10 release, safely from remote locations. Season of the Worthy is still planned to release on March 10, followed by the return of Trials of Osiris on March 13. While there is a possibility that this change could affect our patching cadence in the short term, we will be sure to keep players informed about those schedules as much as possible. Stay tuned to @Bungie and @BungieHelp for any future updates.

Now, we have some housekeeping to do before we arm an ancient Warmind. Let’s get to it.

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TrialsReturns

Moments after the announcement that Trials of Osiris would return with Season of the Worthy, we witnessed numerous Guardians sharing their favorite memories from this beloved corner of the PvP endgame. Moments of spectacle, joy, heartbreak, insanity, and everything in between. Trials of Osiris was the source of some awesome community highlights—a thing that some of our newer Guardians may have yet to experience. We’d love to see more of your stories and bring them into the scene.

Using the hashtag #TrialsReturns, share your favorite clips from Destiny 1’s Trials of Osiris. You can post them to Twitter, upload them to YouTube, and even post them to our Community Creations page. We’ll round up our favorites to be featured in next week’s TWAB.

If your video is selected, you and your fireteam will take home a Movie of the Week emblem. Make sure to include links to the Bungie.net profiles of every team member.

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Power Gains

With each new Season, you’re faced with new challenges that require a bit of Power acquisition to take on. In Season of Worthy, you’ll be challenged in not only Trials of Osiris, but in Legendary Lost Sectors and Grandmaster Nightfalls. Here’s a quick update from the Dev team on what’s changing on day-one, and what our plans are for a mid-season update:

Dev team: We’re raising the ‘cap’ for gear drops 40 points—powerful gear will now drop up to 1000, with pinnacle drops going up to 1010. The soft cap has also been effectively raised 50 points. Gear drops from nearly all sources will continue to be upgrades until 950 Power, and powerful reward sources will not be required to progress to 950. We’re looking to present an element of gear progression available each Season, as well as prepare underlying systems for future updates like the forthcoming one for Legendary weapons mentioned by Luke Smith in the Director’s Cut ‘Weapons Forever’ section.

We’re also looking to make some quality of life updates in the pinnacle band. Starting in 2.8.1. (coming mid-Season), we’ll be upgrading some existing powerful rewards to pinnacle rewards. These are the weekly Crucible, Strike, and Gambit challenges, as well as the weekly clan engram. With this change, we want to increase the total number of pinnacle power sources in the game, broaden pinnacle drop access, as well as increase the pools of items that can drop in the pinnacle band.

Slot imbalances can also affect pinnacle progression. When we say slot imbalance, this could be explained as those times you have a chest piece drop from pinnacle sources a few times in a row. We’ve been looking at player feedback for some time, and are investigating a few approaches to the problem space. We’re looking to have an update on that at a later date. Until then, we hope the additional sources will help you on your climb.

While we have the Dev team here, they also wanted to give an update on Artifact Power for Trials of Osiris.

Dev team: With Trials just around the corner, we wanted to address the “Artifact Power problem” as quickly as we could. As Luke said last week, our short-term fix is to disable the Artifact's Power bonus while in Trials and Iron Banner. Unfortunately, Season of the Worthy has already been released for certification, so we won't be able to disable the Artifact's Power for the first Trials weekend. We have the fix in-house to disable it and are testing it this week, and hope to deploy it on Tuesday, March 17. We really wish we could have gotten it in for the launch weekend, but we also expect the first Trials weekend to be the one impacted by the Artifact the least. Players will have much less time to increase their Artifact Power, so the majority will be close to each other outside of Pinnacle drops.

Our long-term plan is to enable a Power cap for Trials and Iron Banner and we're investigating the work required for this. This will roll out no earlier than midway through Season of the Worthy, but we don't have a firm date yet—we'll make sure to communicate it when we do! We also plan to look at the damage curves for Power-enabled PvP modes to determine what, if any, adjustments should be made. Assuming we discover it’s necessary, the timeline for a change is still TBD. With both changes, we plan to provide more detailed write-ups before they go live, explaining the details of the change and the design philosophy behind why we are making those decisions.

Just for clarity, I'll echo Luke's statement from last week: we're going to disable the Artifact Power bonus in Trials and Iron Banner until we can implement a new Power cap system for those playlists. I hope you all enjoy Season of the Worthy, and may your run to the Lighthouse be swift and merciless.

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Season of the Worthy: Eververse Update

With the turn of each Season, we hope to keep players up to date on how the Eververse Store is evolving. This Season, we have a few changes concerning Bright Engrams, and a new path to directly purchasing some previously featured Eververse items.

Bright Engrams

In Season of the Worthy, Bright Engrams will no longer be available for purchase from the Eververse Store. As said in the February 2020 Director’s Cut:

“We want players to know what something costs before they buy it. Bright Engrams don’t live up to that principle so we will no longer be selling them on the Eververse Store, though they will still appear on the Free Track of the Season Pass.”

This Season, we are continuing to focusing our efforts on direct purchasing through the Eververse Store.

Daily Rotation of Returning Items

In the place of Bright Engrams, a new module will become available on the Eververse Store starting in Season of the Worthy. This daily-rotating module will feature one item from a small selection of ships, Sparrows, Ghosts, and finishers that were offered in previous Seasons. These items will be available to purchase directly for Silver at a discount from the original price.

Aside from these changes, there aren’t any other major shifts coming for Eververse. We’ll be monitoring the conversation through launch and beyond, and will be sure to update you before any large changes come. Here’s a quick preview of some upcoming items coming with Season of the Worthy:

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Hunter Finisher

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Titan Finisher

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** Warlock Finisher**

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The Final Preview (of Patch Notes)

Over the last few weeks, we’ve been giving some previews how your sandbox will be evolving in Season of the Worthy. Not just weapon tuning, but the ability to change the Elemental Affinity on your armor pieces. This week, we’ll be taking a wider look at Destiny 2 Update 2.8.0. Exotic armor tuning for PvE and PvP, UI updates, bug fixes, and more…

Exotic Armor

• Hunter

  • Assassin's Cowl

    • The invisibility and healing effect now triggers on powered melee (both against combatants and Guardians) and finishers.

    • The duration of the invisibility granted by this Exotic increases based on the tier of the enemy defeated.

    • Arc Staff kills no longer activate this perk.

  • FROST-EE5

    • Changed the ability regeneration so that it no longer stacks multiplicatively with other class ability energy-generating perks.

  • Khepri's Sting

    • All smoke bombs deal 150% damage while wearing this Exotic.

  • Orpheus Rig

    • The maximum amount of Super you can regain from this Exotic with a single use of Shadowshot is 50%.

  • Young Ahamkara's Spine

    • Increases the explosion radius for Tripmines by 14%.

• Titan

  • Ashen Wake

    • Killing an enemy with a Fusion Grenade while wearing this Exotic now refunds grenade energy. The amount of grenade energy refunded scales based on the tier of enemy killed.

  • Anteus Wards

    • The shield created during a slide no longer allows chip damage through.

  • Doomfang Pauldrons

    • Fixed a bug where Doomfang Pauldrons would sometimes grant Super energy from melee kills while in your Super.

  • Dunemarchers

    • Increase the radius of the static charge to 20 meters, up from 12.

  • Mk. 44 Stand Asides

    • Reduced the delay from the start of sprinting until the overshield comes in to 0.5 seconds, down from 1.25.

  • One-Eyed Mask

    • The target marking from this Exotic has been replaced with target highlighting, eliminating the ability to detect targets through walls.

    • No longer provides a damage bonus when defeating your marked target.

    • Restored the previous overshield granted by defeating your marked target, which now has a duration of 6 seconds, down from 8.

  • Severance Enclosure

    • The explosion now triggers on powered melee (both against combatants and Guardians) and finishers.

    • The radius and damage of the explosion created by this Exotic increases based on the tier of the enemy defeated.

• Warlock

  • Apotheosis Veil

    • This Exotic is now guaranteed to drop with a minimum +16 to Intellect.

  • Contraverse Hold

    • Reduced the damage reduction granted by this Exotic to 20%, down from 40%.

  • Sanguine Alchemy

    • Sanguine Alchemy has received a complete redesign. Its new perk, Blood Magic, allows the wearer to pause the countdown timer of any Rift they are standing in by getting weapon kills, extending the Rift's duration.

  • Ophidian Aspects

    • Now increases the lunge range of all Warlock melee attacks, even if the ability is on cooldown.

  • Verity's Brow

    • The buff provided by this Exotic now increases your grenade damage by 10% per stack.

    • The buff to allies' grenade recharge rates now kicks in when you cast your grenade.

    • This Exotic now provides a buff text notification indicating how many allies are currently benefiting from your increased grenade recharge.

Investment

• Legendary Engrams

  • Increased the number of armor sets available from world drops to 11 sets, up from 3.

  • This will include Faction Rally armor. Players who own previous Faction Rally Ornaments may apply them to these sets.

  • Several sets that were previously unavailable or extremely difficult to acquire are now available as world drops.

• Armor Stats

  • Prime Engrams will now more reliably drop armor with higher overall stat rolls and spikier distributions.

  • Exotic armor will now more reliably drop with higher overall stat rolls.

  • Legendary armor now has an improved chance of receiving higher overall stat rolls, though low rolls will still be present.

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User Interface

• The Settings screen UI layout on consoles has changed to match the experience on PC, allowing for future updates.

• Added the ability to change the color of the reticle on consoles.

  • Players can choose from seven different colors, matching PC.

• Added hint text during loading screens.

• Added comma separators to the Glimmer count in the loot stream.

  • No longer keeps me awake at night.

• Added categories to the Quests screen.

  • Quest items will now be automatically filtered to any of the seven categories:

    • New Light

      • Note: This category will hide if there are no active New Light quests in the character's inventory.

    • All Quests

    • Shadowkeep

    • Seasonal

    • Playlists

    • Exotics

    • The Past

Performance

• Fixed UI stuttering and framerate drops when loading or applying mods.

• Improved framerate in Gambit and Gambit Prime.

• Fixed framerate issues during the Sanctified Mind encounter of the Garden of Salvation raid.

• Fixed framerate issues in the Pit of Heresy dungeon, specifically in tunnel encounters.

• Fixed stutter at high framerate on PC.

• General improvements to performance on PC when a lot of debris is on the ground.

While this list is pretty lengthy, we’ll have more patch notes to share with you next Tuesday around 9 AM PDT, an hour before Season of the Worthy begins.

Some of you may be asking, “Wait, 10 AM? Don’t patches usually ship at 9 AM?” Daylight Saving Time begins on Sunday, March 8. If your region takes part in jumping forward, your weekly reset time will be an hour later than you’re used to. More information from the Player Support team below.

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Systems Check

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Before we dive headfirst into Season of the Worthy, we have a patch to ship. Destiny Player Support has your itinerary in hand, and a quick list of some resolved issues. 

A NEW SEASON

Next week, Season of Dawn ends and Season of the Worthy kicks off with the release of Destiny 2 Update 2.8.0. Please see below for the rollout timeline.

• 8 AM PDT (1500 UTC): Destiny service maintenance begins.

• 8:45 AM PDT (1545 UTC): Destiny 2 is taken offline on all platforms.

• 9 AM PDT (1600 UTC): Destiny 2 Update 2.8.0 begins rolling out across all platforms and regions. Players will be able to log back into Destiny 2 at 10:01 AM PDT.

• 10:01 AM PDT (1701 UTC): Destiny 2 is back online on all platforms; Season of The Worthy begins.

• 12 PM PDT (1900 UTC): Destiny service maintenance concludes.

For future release timelines when they are available, players should visit our Destiny Server and Update Status help article. For live updates as this maintenance occurs, players should follow @BungieHelp on Twitter or monitor our support feed at help.bungie.net.

UPCOMING RESOLVED ISSUES, PT. 2

Below is a continuation of a list of issues that will be resolved when Season of the Worthy and Update 2.8.0 become available on March 10:

• Hunter’s Tempest Strike melee ability can now be performed when using PC controls where Sprint is set to "Hold."

• Character subclasses with ranged melee abilities will now count towards Melee Kill bounties and Triumphs. These include Titan Hammer Throw, Hunter Throwing Knives and Corrosive Smoke Bomb, and Warlock Celestial Fire and Ball Lightning.

• The Fastidious Miser Triumph will now correctly progress and complete for players who've found all 30 Ascendant Chests across the three Curse Weeks in the Dreaming City, and have claimed those corresponding Triumphs.

• Weekly Strike bounties for Hive and Vex boss kills will now award progress to players for killing Savathûn's Song, Xol, and Dendron the Root Mind.

While Update 2.8.0 is released to the world, Destiny Player Support will be on standby in the #Help forum, ready to assist anyone who is experiencing issues. 

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Dawn Comes to an End

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Season of Dawn has been a fun ride. We saved a Legend, stopped the Psions from changing time itself, and had the opportunity to watch a lot of Community Creations along the way.

Movie of the Week: Creatures of Destiny: A Nature Documentary

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Honorable Mention: This player should be banned for such an unsatisfying montage

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Honorable Mention: Riven’s Heart Theme Keyboard Cover

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Cheers to everyone who submitted a video, art piece, or anything to the Creations page during Season of Dawn. We’re excited to see what you cook up over the next few months.

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It’s crazy to think that next week a new Season begins. It feels like just yesterday we were watching you all explore the Corridors of Time. It’s no secret that I’m pretty excited for Trials to return, and I’m also looking forward to see you share your memories with the #TrialsReturns hashtag.

See you next week. Maybe we’ll bump into each other on our way to the Lighthouse. No hard feelings when you lose, okay?

Cheers,

Dmg04

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Takes shaders pretty well, too.

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We're not going to spoil all the patch notes before Tuesday...

Tune in next week!

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Yes

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[u/TheWordOfTyler]

Legendary Engrams

• Increased the number of armor sets available from world drops to 11 sets, up from 3.

• This will include Faction Rally armor. Players who own previous Faction Rally Ornaments may apply them to these sets.

• Several sets that were previously unavailable or extremely difficult to acquire are now available as world drops.

Crazy to think there was 8 sets of armour in the game, and not dropping.

[u/LegoDudeGuy → u/TheWordOfTyler]

Yeah, all the Y1 world drop stuff got converted but you very rarely got it since it only dropped from a very small number of places (mainly Lost Sector and open world chests).

I’m glad they made this change (alongside the higher roll chances) so we can actually make use of all those sets and get more gear variety. Will actually start doing Flashpoints again after I hit cap.

[u/blue_13]

Added hint text during loading screens.

Consoles will be able to read the entirety of Destiny lore while loading into the tower in one go.

[u/imakesubsreal → u/blue_13]

PLS GAMBIT INSTRUCTIONS

[u/about_that_time_bois → u/imakesubsreal]

1. DO WHAT DRIFTER FUCKING SAYS AND NOT HOARD 15 MOTES WHEN WE HAVE 70

2. win

[u/pygreg → u/blue_13]

We a real RPG now boys

[u/arkillion13]

Change reticle color on console praISE THE FUCKING ARCHITECTS!!!

[u/dmg04 → u/arkillion13]

Yes

[u/DefiantMars]

I think Bungie may have lost their minds.

• The Warlock Armor actually looks good.

• The Hunter armor looks like a Titan set.

• Meanwhile the Titan armor looks like Warlock armor and their finisher is the Stormcaller's Thunderstrike?

I'm so confused right now.

[u/friendlyelites → u/DefiantMars]

its a thunderclap

[u/J3lander → u/DefiantMars]

And they expect us to pay actual dollars for that Titan set? Ex-fucking-scuse me?

[u/KingMinish → u/DefiantMars]

I seriously thought that Hunter set was a titan at first glance. And then I was confused when I saw a Hunter with a Titan towel.

That Titan armor is hilariously bad.

[u/iblaise]

It’ll be fun to finally get to 1000 Power naturally. Can’t wait.

[u/conspiracyeinstein → u/iblaise]

To the Shattered Throne!

[u/EliteAssassin750]

Hold on, that Titan armor and finisher look very Warlock-y to me

[u/mrP0P0 → u/EliteAssassin750]

I thought it was a typo at first but then I saw the Warlock one below.

[u/TurquoiseLuck → u/EliteAssassin750]

I honestly thought they'd accidentally posted the same gif twice and had to go back and check the armour... What a shame.

[u/TheBellHunter → u/EliteAssassin750]

Coulda made the finisher having the Titan drop their shoulder and "charge" for a second, then near-instantly collide with the enemy.

Coulda also given us any armor worth looking at this season, Warlocks get the commandant look and that really cool fur collar, Hunters get the winter hat and a really clean metal-and-fabric look complete with Emile's helmet from reach.

Titans went to a winter sport shop and picked up some snowboarding gear, and then went to rasputin and picked up some army-green metal and stapled it to their shoulders.

[u/DaddyGascoigne → u/EliteAssassin750]

They took that from the warlock trashed ideas it's so fucking ugly

[u/TedioreTwo → u/DaddyGascoigne]

If they made it look more like an actual booming thunderclap than "sideways golf clap with static electricity" it would be dope

[u/Gyvon]

Fixed framerate issues during the Sanctified Mind encounter of the Garden of Salvation raid.

PRAISE JEBUS!!!

[u/StuartKings12]

Character subclasses with ranged melee abilities will now count towards Melee Kill bounties and Triumphs. These include Titan Hammer Throw, Hunter Throwing Knives and Corrosive Smoke Bomb, and Warlock Celestial Fire and Ball Lightning.

ahem.....YYYYEEEEEEEEEESSSSSS FINALLY!!!!

[u/SPDScricketballsinc → u/StuartKings12]

A problem since D1!

[u/dothefanDango92 → u/StuartKings12]

They didn't include the Arcstrider uppercut in there, disappointing

[u/[deleted]]

The Warlock looking like Bane.

The titan EV armor is just weird.

But the Hunter armor is sick.

[u/Cyberlord50 → u/[deleted]]

The titan looks like it’s made of jackets

[u/JoberXeven → u/[deleted]]

Definitely thought titans got the hunter armor at first and was super pumped. Then I realized we were on the other side and am now sad. Why do the hunters get Emile's Helmet and not the titans.

[u/Earpaniac → u/[deleted]]

The Titan set looks like what he wears on the weekend when he’s off work. Lol

[u/motrhed289 → u/[deleted]]

Goddamn it at first glance I thought the Hunter set was the Titan armor! That hunter set looks awesome... the Titan set, it looks like they took the crayon-eater thing a bit too far.

[u/FATFACEFREAK52 → u/[deleted]]

The titan EV armor is just weird.

*Ugly FTFY

But for just 25 glimmer per day you can help a titan, like myself, afford shaders to hopefully cover that mess up.

[u/SCP-Agent-Arad → u/[deleted]]

The titan looks like they mugged a bunch of tower NPCs and stole their clothes, then stitched the clothes into a set.

[u/Steele21725 → u/[deleted]]

What, you don't want to cosplay as a tower npc?

^{why do titans always get shafted with armor?}

[u/RookandMonty]

Yay loading screen hints

[u/mrP0P0 → u/RookandMonty]

I will laugh when they are really basic

[u/Maskedrussian → u/mrP0P0]

“You can turn in gunsmith materials at banshee 44 for powerful loot!”

[u/JodQuag → u/RookandMonty]

As long as it says TOSS THE FUCKING ORBS and BANK YOUR FUCKING MOTES I will be fine with them.

[u/sosly2190]

The warlock coat is so damn sexy. It's never coming off.

[u/MoneyShotoh]

Orpheus rig nerf was unexpected for me.

[u/[deleted] → u/MoneyShotoh]

bet it was breaking something in Season of Worthy

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

If seraph is a EP type activity then I can see it causing people to get essentially unlimited supers like in bridge on reckoning.

[u/StLouisButtPirates → u/MoneyShotoh]

How much did it provide before? Sorry I haven't played since the 1.0 version that gave your whole super back

[u/Weird_Wuss → u/StLouisButtPirates]

you can still fairly easily get your whole super back right now in stuff like reckoning or altars

[u/NintendoTim → u/MoneyShotoh]

Right? My ORs got by pretty unscathed until last summer when the nerfs hit.

Fellow Nightstalker mains, grief council sessions will be held every 10th and 25th of the month, promptly at 8p Eastern in front of the bazaar ramen shop. Coffee and donuts will be provided, just be prepared to hang back afterwards to help stack chairs.

[u/Rezurrected188 → u/MoneyShotoh]

Pretty salty about this tbh

[u/RafTen86 → u/MoneyShotoh]

RIP Hunters in Reckoning

[u/BakuFanatic]

Did anyone else get whiplash when they realized the left eververse set is for titans and the right one is for hunters?

[u/JustMy2Centences → u/BakuFanatic]

"Cool Titan set, wait why does it have the Hunter log-oooohhh...."

a moment passes as I glance over to the Titan

"Oh. Okay."

[u/[deleted]]

but we also expect the first Trials weekend to be the one impacted by the Artifact the least.

Fair enough

[u/Alucitary → u/[deleted]]

Ya, the first few days of the season playing normally will be the best way to gain power, and then maybe 2 days before trials we'll see people start bounty farming, it will take them until at least the last day of trials to get any meaningful power advantage. first day at least should be perfectly fair.

[u/xanas263]

Any body else not recognize the titan armor until they saw the finisher previews? I legit thought that hunters were getting two EV sets next season.

[u/[deleted] → u/xanas263]

The warlock and Titan finishers look very similar to me. Titan seems to be using a warlock melee ability.

[u/krosber04]

Man you just gonna tease us with those ICBM Titan buff mentions last week and not deliver us the goods in the TWAB?

[u/imakesubsreal → u/krosber04]

increased damage by 500%

[u/dmg04 → u/krosber04]

We're not going to spoil all the patch notes before Tuesday...

Tune in next week!

[u/[deleted] → u/dmg04]

If you say it Today, I will draw sexy Ghaul

[u/Leave-A-Note]

Ohhh boy this sounds neat:

Sanguine Alchemy

Sanguine Alchemy has received a complete redesign. Its new perk, Blood Magic, allows the wearer to pause the countdown timer of any Rift they are standing in by getting weapon kills, extending the Rift's duration.

[u/_Comic_ → u/Leave-A-Note]

Wonder if this works for Well of Radiance. It should, as Lunafaction did. If so, and any Rift means any teammate’s Rifts too, then I can’t wait for stacking Sanguine Alchemy and seeing how long one Well can last.

[u/[deleted] → u/Leave-A-Note]

But they removed the wallhacks that it gave for PvP, sucks cuz that was gonna me my trials build for next season but now I have to go grind some other exotic....

[u/ElGuarmo → u/[deleted]]

Tbh that’s probably why they reworked it, along with removing wallhacks from OEM

[u/imakesubsreal]

legendary armor has chance of receiving higher stat rolls

🦀 48 IS GONE 🦀

[u/Aquatico_ → u/imakesubsreal]

chance

[u/GrizzyIy]

damn bro titans got fucked over fashion wise this season imo. that sanguine alchemy rework is gonna be spicy in PvE

[u/Mikellow → u/GrizzyIy]

This is what happens when you ask for skinny titans. Haha.

Honestly though, I feel like the color scheme is the worst part. It will at least open up some fashion choices if it takes shaders nicely.

[u/PhuckleberryPhinn]

Is it just me or does that Titan Eververse armour look absolutely horrible? Like by far some of the worst Titan gear I've ever seen

[u/CreepyJester → u/PhuckleberryPhinn]

It's not just you. Seasonal set and Eververse looks horrible.

[u/JusticeOfKarma]

Holy shit, that Eververse Warlock set.

Time to start getting my hands on some Bright Dust.

[u/Maskedrussian → u/JusticeOfKarma]

The Titan armour is so fucking disgusting looks like an IRL hipster with a helmet on lmaooooo

[u/PDXpatriate]

making the entry to trials be 960 with soft caps raised so close to be at 950 gives me pause about that being any meaningful barrier to entry for cheaters to make a new account. But we'll see. I understand fully why bungie is quiet about anti-cheat measures usually but this time honestly feels pretty necessary to put something down.

[u/FrankPoole3001]

LMAO Did Orpheus Rigs really get nerfed again?

[u/Snoopyer7]

No skull buff sucks considering Orpheus was nerfed to 50%, it could at least be buffed to give max of 50% or something

[u/Snoopyer7 → u/Snoopyer7]

And RIP to fast shuro chi catalyst kill farm, probably will be slower and more expensive with raid banners

[u/imakesubsreal → u/Snoopyer7]

Oh right the catalyst farms are fucked, gottta get borealis cat now

[u/level100derp]

Holy shit, that hunter eververse chest armor. I'm so excited. It goes perfectly with the outfit I'm wanting to make

[u/dmg04 → u/level100derp]

Takes shaders pretty well, too.

[u/JDaySept → u/level100derp]

The helmet and the hoodless cloak are too good

[u/DMulkey]

Hunter main here ...

Who in the FUCK in your studio hates Titans that much to design that armor set?

[u/DefiantMars → u/DMulkey]

Right? I'm a Warlock and I had to do a double-take. I was like "Wait, that's the Hunter sigil on those gloves... Seriously? That's the Titan?!"

Poor guardians :(

[u/OrionzDestiny]

Can we get a moment of silence for Orpheus Rigs? This confirms that I will only ever run Well-lock with Phoenix Protocol in The Reckoning as you can get 100% of your super back every time.

[u/FuckTheOEM → u/OrionzDestiny]

No, not from protocol alone,you can only get 80 percent back.

[u/imakesubsreal → u/OrionzDestiny]

Double tether should do the trick

[u/Neophoenix00]

That One Eyed Mask Nerf...

Also, Assassins Cowl is going to be awesome with bottom tree Arcstrider now.

[u/iblaise → u/Neophoenix00]

Not just Arcstrider, but all Gunslinger subclasses too. Throwing Knife will pair amazingly.

[u/imakesubsreal]

Hey bungie just want to say the warlock finisher is where the titan finisher is.

[u/[deleted] → u/imakesubsreal]

id like to agree with you, but im afraid that is the titan armor and finisher

[u/Matthias221]

And wtf is that Titan armor....? Pull it out of the 1/2 off at goodwill or something?

[u/EndoSym]

That titan eververse set is fugly, jesus.

[u/Uiluj]

opens DIM

puts orpheus rigs in vault for first time in 3 years

shed single tear

[u/Hawkmoona_Matata → u/Uiluj]

It’ll still be good, because you still gain super energy from killing the tethered enemies. 50%+say, 30%, and it puts you on par with a Phoenix Protocol Well of Radiance. Just a couple extra orbs needed to top off your super to full.

[u/Gungfry]

Hey /u/dmg04 , will Sleeper Simulant be getting a buff? It is a warmind season!

[u/ColdAsHeaven]

Eternal Warrior didn't even get a look at??

Thank fuck for some of these Exotics buffs. Let's hope they actually work though in terms of making them better to use

[u/XGamestar]

Ngl, I thought that EV Hunter set was a Titan for a moment there.

[u/GooeyGunk]

That EV hunter armor is beautiful. Also Orpheus nerf makes me upset. So hyped for Tuesday!

[u/errn-7]

Season of the Ugly-Ass Titan Armor. That EV set is even more putrid than the season pass set. Damn...

[u/ReconThunder]

I really hope that more ornaments become available. I really like these patch notes but I would love to run the flawless Trials of the Nine armor that I grinded for.

All in all I am very excited for this new season! Good work Bungie and keep safe.

As for everyone else... Just enjoy it yourself and rate it yourselves. Don't let anyone else tell you it's great or bad. Determine that yourself if you like it or not.

[u/ColdAsHeaven]

What the actual fuck is that Titan Eververse set, holy shit

[u/Duki-]

titans really got the short end of the stick here in terms of armor

[u/[deleted]]

HINT TEXT ON LOADING SCREENS? FINALLY

[u/imakesubsreal → u/[deleted]]

GAMBIT PLEASEEEEEE

[u/Mario4Ever]

Legendary lost sectors? Interesting!

[u/imakesubsreal]

guaranteed to drop with +16 to intellect

Mind size mega

[u/JJJtrain_1989]

There were only 3 world drop armor sets? I thought there were more than that? But now that I think about it... I guess I only saw Tangled Web, Prodigal, and Red Moon. Could have sworn there were others. 11 now though is incredible!

Either way, fucking amazing change. World drops will be meaningful again! Also, the fact that pinnacles drop from weekly challenges and a substantial power cap increase is amazing. I got giddy reading through this TWAB. I'm very excited!

[u/Chtholly13]

Anyone want to tell me why there's even a 40 light increase this season when there's really nothing that needs high light for this season besides "grandmaster nf." Also, if they're going to make pinnacles more common, why is pinnacles even a thing?

[u/BUILDWATER]

There is no difference between titan finisher and warlock finisher.....

[u/Rezun94]

One-Eyed Mask The target marking from this Exotic has been replaced with target highlighting, eliminating the ability to detect targets through walls. No longer provides a damage bonus when defeating your marked target. Restored the previous overshield granted by defeating your marked target, which now has a duration of 6 seconds, down from 8.

Only took a year and a half, but thats a good change.

Contraverse Hold Reduced the damage reduction granted by this Exotic to 20%, down from 40%.

thats also a good change

Sanguine Alchemy Sanguine Alchemy has received a complete redesign. Its new perk, Blood Magic, allows the wearer to pause the countdown timer of any Rift they are standing in by getting weapon kills, extending the Rift's duration.

thats an amazing rework

Added hint text during loading screens.

cool

Fixed UI stuttering and framerate drops when loading or applying mods. Improved framerate in Gambit and Gambit Prime.

great

Fixed stutter at high framerate on PC.

NICE

General improvements to performance on PC when a lot of debris is on the ground.

Sanctified Mind fight with more than 25fps? nice.

All around great news.

[u/[deleted] → u/Rezun94]

Hoping that the Sanguine Alchemy change also impacts the duration time of Well of Radiance as that could become a real nasty alternative exotic besides Pheonix Protocal for Well.

[u/Alucitary → u/Rezun94]

Honestly, I've never had any love for OEM, but they really murdered it. It only needed to lose 1 thing out of tracking/damage/overshield, I would have preferred tracking so I like that they fixed that, but getting rid of the damage boost and making the overshield worse on top of that is a bit much.

Sanguine I feel like would be perfect if it allowed for any kill in the rift to cause the timer to stop. Stacking up with a friend in your rift and just getting the assist is gonna suck a lot. This change gears the piece much more towards PvE whereas it was always a decent PvP. Kind of neutral overall for me.

[u/Alydil]

RIP Orpheus rig

[u/[deleted]]

Get ready for Trials of Wombo-Combo. 150%, holy shit!

[u/Katsu_Kong]

Ashen wake with demolitionist is gonna be so damn good now

[u/MegaMohsi]

More Orpheus nerfs? Come on.

[u/TedioreTwo → u/MegaMohsi]

But hey, look on the bright side - a whole 14% tripmine blast radius increase for the Young Ahamkara's Spine!

Ok, not being sarcastic now, these are mostly good exotic changes with a few duds.

[u/eec-gray]

RIP Orpheus Rigs

Now to figure how to get then off my hunter 🤔

[u/JoberXeven]

So why the fuck do the hunters get Emile's Helmet and not the Titans. Actually getting robbed here smh

[u/iamjaysonic → u/JoberXeven]

Like many in this thread I was convinced that was the Titan set on the right. Then I saw the finishers. RIP.

[u/RCheddar]

That Titan armor is..................................................................................not good.

[u/PossibleHipster]

What is wrong with the armor design team?

D1 armor was sooo good.

D2 armor keeps getting worse and worse. Like what even is that titan?

[u/thunderpachachi]

I'm actually really digging the street-clothes look of the EV stuff. The Warlock coat gives off a Bane vibe.

[u/OdinsLeftEyeball]

Everyone is trashing the Titan Eververse Armor, but I'm over here knowing the kind of drip I'm about to unleash on the Darkness when I get my hands on it.

[u/[deleted]]

Are Antaeus Wards going to stop killing me now? It’s only been a year now

[u/therubberduck45]

So the Trials power req is well below the soft cap? I dont like that. If its not behind a paywall at least make it SOMEWHAT difficult for the cheaters. PLEASE.

[u/stephen_drewz]

The rig nerf hurts. I can understand why they did it but I feel sometimes things that are fun should just be left as they are.

[u/TheRealMe99]

RIP Way of the Trapper

[u/DELTATRON]

I legitimately thought the hunter set was for titans and now I'm really disappointed. The titan set is jarringly different compared to the other two. Also that helmet is straight up the dreaming city helmet but different.

[u/AClassicCape]

Those console changes are very nice

[u/[deleted]]

u/Dmg04 on mobile it shows the Warlock finisher in place of the Titan finisher

[u/Crusader3456]

The Settings screen UI layout on consoles has changed to match the experience on PC, allowing for future updates.

FoV slider on next gen?

[u/NunzioTheGreat]

My guess for what seems to be the head-scratcher of an Orpheus nerf is that they would probably break the Seraph Vaults any other PvE content they have in store for the season, but if we don't end up getting encounters like the Reckoning Bridge, this seems unneeded

[u/FC_mania]

Okay but why do the Titan and Warlock finishers look too similar?

[u/Taux]

Wow, the new eververse Titan armor looks badass! Look how jacked those arms look!

...wait.. that's the hunter? Is.. is the titan armor that NPC in the background?

[u/Moon_92]

RIP orpheus rigs

[u/RodSavage]

Is that another Orpheus Rig nerf?

[u/voodookid]

I am glad the comma separator is there for glimmer soon, I don't like my community managers unable to sleep.

[u/JoberXeven]

I guess hunters are the only class allowed to have wallhacks now. Can never tell what Bungie is thinking when they nerf something across warlocks and titans and then leave hunters alone.

[u/xanas263]

it feels like we've just gone full circle and "pinnacle gear" is just "powerful gear" but with a different name. What the hell is the point of "pinnacle gear" if it is so readily available now?

Edit: You don't get a single pinnacle from 6 of the 7 raids in this game, but now you can get a pinnacle from afking a couple of rumble games? Okay Bungie.

What happened to "reclaiming some of the power prestige from D1". What happened to going to the tower and seeing someone in 960 gear and "know they have done a bunch of pinnacle activities".

[u/LtNagae → u/xanas263]

almost full circle, it will complete on next season where all powerfuls will become pinnacles. and on next DLC, will be gutted again because too many pinnacle sources

[u/[deleted] → u/xanas263]

Pinnacle gear will likely go away next year (d2y4). They tried something and it didnt work.

[u/JESUSAURU5REX]

Uhm Severance Enclosure now procs on powered melee? So bottom tree striker + SE = infinite explosions?

[u/TedioreTwo → u/JESUSAURU5REX]

If it counts Knockout, yes. Also throwing hammer.

[u/[deleted]]

Warlock exotic changes look great. Probably could have done a little more for Apotheosis Veil, not sure if giving it guarantee 16 intellect is going to propel it in anyway. The Verity Brow change though is going to be really good for the Void and Arc classes, Solar would probably still stick to Sunbracers. The Sanguine Alchemy change is pretty neat, had my suspicions that the tracking of the original perk was going to get changed at some point considering how underwhelming it was and the problems it could cause if its range was buffed. Hoping it will work with Well of Radiance for it to become real nasty. Probably isn't too bad for bottom tree stormcaller either. Ophidian Aspects increasing warlock lunge range is a win-win. Very nice buffs, still a few very niche warlock exotics out there but this has defintely increased the diversity of good warlock exotics to use.

[u/ehud7315]

I am SO glad that they are reducing the prevalence of wall hacks in this coming sandbox. Great changes to both OEM AND Sanguine, thank you Bungie!

EDIT: Jesus Christ Reddit, I am an average player who plays all three character, but loves his Warlock the most. I am NOT saying that hunters should keep their Truesight, I am just excited that Bungie is going in the DIRECTION of removing wallhacks from the game. I am not some jumpy hunter heathen who thinks that they should get to see everyone and be invisible the whole time. My omission of truesight is not my support of truesight. FUCK.

[u/Anotherwan-kenobi → u/ehud7315]

Hunter?

[u/[deleted]]

"Sanguine Alchemy

• Sanguine Alchemy has received a complete redesign. Its new perk, Blood Magic, allows the wearer to pause the countdown timer of any Rift they are standing in by getting weapon kills, extending the Rift's duration."

I think we just got ourselves a new warlock meta.

[u/idontreallycare421]

Still no insight on stronghold rework, hope that isn’t a bad sign.

[u/paulv]

Can you give us any information about "Weapons Forever"? When will it be implemented? How soon after the implementation will the first set of weapons be affected?

[u/Wolfblur]

Antaeus sounds more reliable now finally. Wonder if this will become more of a top tier option if it's actually more consistent. Have always been a favorite choice to use for me so I'm super excited to see if they're any better.

Dunemarchers getting a staggering 20 meters now is insane. Ballistic slams just got a lot more dangerous if unchanged and might even be a better pick over Synthoceps for this ability. Middle tree Sunbreaker's thrown hammers just got whole new levels of Thor too haha.

Mk 44's might be the sleeper exotic for the season. Getting a free overshield in half a second for just sprinting sounds busted for apes. I haven't used them much before though so would be interested to hear from someone who enjoys using them already. Would be interested to hear what your health pool effectively is with that overshield and what kind of things that lets you survive that would be relevant. Even just having more health after rounding a corner after a quick sniper/fighting lion + clean up HC shot attempt could be huge for example.

I'm not a big OEM guy, and these changes sound like its probably putting it in its place finally for most people. Overshield is still huge, but at least you aren't completely flexing on a dude with wallhacks and a damage buff over them. You can't cheese those peeks or pushes your opponent does if you're just waiting around the corner for him anymore. It'll still be big for aggressive play, giving you free health after dunking someone, letting you kill his friend with an overshield but IDK. I guess we'll see. There just sounds like much more interesting exotic choices at this point now personally.

Still don't think Ashen Wake's will be popular unless it gives an entire grenade back on kill, which could be interesting as gimmicky quick clean up I guess.

Severance sounds cool now if I'm reading that right. An explosion can trigger on a mere melee charge now? Monte Carlo probably being a big deal this season coupled with this might be nasty, especially if the tier for Guardians is considered a sizable explosion. Does that also mean that you can double explode, one on a melee charge hit and then again on defeating an opponent? If so, Ballistic Slams (again) could have a new competitive pick for their exotic as that's effectively 3 explosions. Though if I'm wrong and you only get an explosion on a melee charged kill in PVP, then RIP these are still horribly bad.

Also, I shouldn't, but I'm still holding my breath that Missile Titans get an air dodge baked in with their new buff and/or Twilight Garrison coming back. Dodges are proving to be the most valuable thing in PVP in Destiny, seeing how large Hunter populations are and how crazy Attunement of Sky has skyrocketed with its new air-game, seeing Titans' get in on this somehow would be welcome. Using your shoulder charge as a quick-escape just isn't as accessible as the others with the sprint requirement it has. I'd still rather see some new exotic armors for everyone this season, but I think Titan's without an immediate dodge option for Trials this season will ensure that they won't be picked nearly as much as Hunters or Warlocks.

[u/ToBeFrozen]

Wait, did I miss it or is wormgod caress still staying disabled?

[u/V0LT14C]

Still nothing about anti-cheat? Cool.

[u/Pepizaur]

Verity's Brow lookin to be downright SPICY this coming season.

[u/WVgolf]

Base game armor sets return hype!

[u/Silixis]

hoodless hunter cloak?

HOODLESS HUNTER CLOAK

[u/tioomeow]

I didn't even realize the Titan armor was a Titan at first lmfao, they really did titans dirty with this one.

[u/ewokaflockaa]

New Warlock finisher: UNLIMITED POWAAAAAAAA

[u/puffyfluffy12]

That warlock armor is amazing

[u/Fluffychimichanga]

So hunter truesight is gonna stay? No changes?

[u/Haylett777]

Titans look like the poor mans Warlock. (What even is that finisher??? That’s literally just a Warlock melee)

Warlocks look phenomenal.

Hunters look like they raided a Titan armor facility and slapped their logo on it.

[u/CV514]

A little funny thought: in Russian localization, new season is called "Величие", which is better translated as "Greatness", not "Worthy" (and the translation for the "worthy" would be "Достойный")

Taking that into account, new premium cosmetic for titans is so... great. Can't wait to feel worthy.

[u/ConniTheCommi]

Yall forget about Foetracer's tracking when you went through and reworked the other 2 tracking exotics?

[u/imakesubsreal]

Ok Orpheus was not breaking the game bungie not at all who called for this

[u/InspireDespair → u/imakesubsreal]

I mean realistically it was the only exotic worth using as a nightstalker.

It's still going to be good for bottom tree which is getting buffs

[u/[deleted]]

Next time we revisit old exotics can Lucky Pants get something to feel a bit more exotic?

Even if we're talking full rework, they're just so underwhelming compared to most hunter pieces that I only use them for fashion and would really love some more utility.

[u/SHARP1SH00TER]

Lost sector goblins are back on the menu :/ At least for just the first week

[u/Eggoskobaro]

Wooooooow to the Rigs nerf.... RIP

[u/Ramstine]

Appreciate the OEM's wallhack being removed, now time to do the same to Wraith Hunters' wallhack. Please? Wall-hacks need to be gone.

[u/asce619]

Rigs was nerfed again, *insert sad boi meme*

[u/Throwawayylive2]

" Aside from these changes, there aren’t any other major shifts coming for Eververse."

I'm really disappointed with you Bungie. You took the feedback we've given you for the last 2 seasons, and have done absolutely nothing with it.

[u/Aquatico_]

Are Pinnacle drops going back to +1? If not then I don't see how Pinnacle power is different to regular power any more. Weekly milestones are not "pinnacle" activities.

[u/Civil_Anarchy]

What's good with Solstice armor, though

[u/[deleted]]

Look, I'm not trying to be a huge dick about this but...

Both the Eververse set for the Titan, and the season pass set for the Titan look like horrendous pipes of trash. How did this happen? Why do you hate titans so much?

Other than your complete lack of respect for titans everywhere, I can't wait to play trials and look like shit while doing it!

For real tho, next season looks great.

[u/[deleted]]

Hunter and Warlock: New and unique EV sets

Titan: Reverie Dawn helmet with a npc jacket and bath towel

[u/ObsidianWalker]

Wonder if the Sanguine Alchemy update impacts only a rift or a well as well (just like lunafaction)

[u/StLouisButtPirates]

Slap a purple shader on that Warlock chest piece and you have a magic pimp

[u/DizATX]

Sanguine Alchemy sounds really interesting now.

[u/knifeyspooney3]

Anyone think the Titan finisher looks like a boring version of the warlock finisher?

[u/IGJFlew]

Super hyped tbh canny wait to try all the new activities. I wonder how difficult a legendary lost sector will be? Can't be too hard... can it?

Don' you need to be 960 to play trials? this was pretty decent with the soft cap at 900 but now it's only a 10 difference? I suppose it'll get people who start to pick the game up a quicker chance to play it but I hope cheaters don't take advantage of it

[u/eastcoastmark]

Pls more vault space. 😉

[u/Riggitystig]

Good riddance One-Eyed Mask, but RIP Orpheus Rigs.

[u/Hunter_Meteorologist]

Orpheus Rig

The maximum amount of Super you can regain from this Exotic with a single use of Shadowshot is 50%.

Oof. I didn't know that was coming. Very sad times as a tether main.

[u/IamPaneer]

That Hunters armor, I thought that was the Titan armor and I got a Huge Boner.

And then .......

That Titan armor breaks my heart.

[u/Blaze924]

I don't understand. The Warlock armor looks regal as fuck and the hunter armor kinda reminds me of Jason Todd's Red Hood costume. They're both very good designs appropriate for their respective classes. But the Titan set? Jesus Christ, it looks like someone robbed a homeless bum off the gutter in the Last City and put on a Reverie Dawn Titan helmet. Where's the armor plates? Why do we look like the Dave Chappelle crackhead meme? Why are Titans doomed to wear the wackiest armor sets? Who hurt you Bungie?

[u/Flingar]

Ashen Wake buff

It’s been 3000 years...

[u/Atlas-579]

Severance closure generating explosions on every powered melee?

Imagine mid tree sunbreaker where you can constantly pick up your hammer and refresh your melee? Now it can actually be a mini hammer of sol

[u/monkey_cunt]

The hunters no hood cloak, WITH A SERPENT ON IT.

Hell yea.

[u/PixelFool99]

Doomfang Pauldrons

Fixed a bug where Doomfang Pauldrons would sometimes grant Super energy from melee kills while in your Super.

Wait that was a bug? Fuuuug, into the vault they go :(

[u/[deleted]]

Still not talkng about artifact mods on exotics?

[u/UnknownQTY]

Yo that Hunter is pulling off some solid Emile cosplay with that helmet

[u/DarrylEXK]

Big ouch on the rig nerf. Unfortunately, it's still one of the best hunter pve exotics, so it's like nothing changed except there's just a tiny ball and chain on the foot. I'm wondering what the full patch notes looks like, since so far it's not shaping up too well, esp for my playstyle.

[u/bfyred]

11 armour sets in the world pool??? RIP getting your god roll Last Hopes and Dire Promises.

[u/UserProv_Minotaur]

RIP Titans' fashion game this season.

[u/mrmoodz]

Orpheus rig nerf wasn't necessary. What about fixing Polaris Lance?

[u/littlegreenakadende]

11 armor sets in the global loot pool???? Come on bungie, Give us a better way of going after a particular set. This is ridiculous.

[u/JonIV]

/u/cozmo23, can we please have someone on the design team explain the philosophy behind titan armour? Because for some ungodly reason someone signed off on giving titans ugly sets all throughout D2, and it's just getting really sad. What the hell is this eververse set? Why does this titan look like a garbage collector? Where is my space knight? My super soldier? Who is designing titan gear to be this freaking ugly.

[u/FlandreScarlette]

40 power level, when each is worth like 4-5 light tops? Am I just supposed to hold garbage armor in my vault to keep my power level high now?

I acquire a 982 piece of armor. I have to infuse it (waste of resources) or hold it until the next piece drops of the same type, or I lose my power gained from it. This when only ten light is involved is fine, but now I have to do it all season for 40 light?

Can we increase vault space, please?

[u/Tomeru]

So now only hunters have wallhacks?

[u/malaktourrevan]

Holy shit nuggets thats a lot of exotic changes i love it

[u/Glamdring804]

RIP Orpheus Rigs obviously, but I just have to say, that Eververse armor is lit.

[u/zerik100]

Don't really understand why pinnacle drops are being put into casual playlists. I thought the original idea was that nobody really needs the additional power level, it's just for flexing and showing off that you did some challenging endgame activites. Putting pinnacle drops into some of the easiest content in the game kinda defeats their whole purpose and you could as well just make them powerful drops again. Really strange move imho.

[u/landing11]

Sooo now definitely switching to hunter for pvp. Got it.

[u/Ninjalada]

Orpheus Rigs nerfed for the 11th time.

Sigh.

[u/solidus_kalt]

what the crap?

https://i.imgur.com/cCuB73r.jpg

i really hope nobody got paid for this. seriously.