Destiny 2 Season 17 balance changes<\/span><\/h2>\n![\"season](\"https:\/\/cdn-cf.ginx.tv\/imgcdn\/HLenwvS6knMvxcJi1OLWPZPZbl3ZFndzUqh_hFUeBRY\/rs:fill:0:0:1\/g:ce\/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ2lueC50di91cGxvYWRzMi9EZXN0aW55XzIvZGVzdGlueV8yX3NlYXNvbl93ZWFwb25zLmpwZw\")
Season 17 will feel like a brand-new game. (Picture Bungie)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nGlaive changes<\/span><\/h3>\n\n- Increased melee damage vs PvE enemies (except for bosses and vehicles) by 25%. <\/span><\/li>\n
- Reduced energy drain speed while shielded by 30%. <\/span><\/li>\n
- Increased projectile speed dependent on the range stat: <\/span>\n
\n- At 0 stat: increased from 30 to 60 m\/s. <\/span><\/li>\n
- At 100 stat: increased from 80 to 100 m\/s.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\n- Titan Glaive, Edge of Action: players now gain a Void overshield while inside the bubble, Helm of Saint-14 now applies to this bubble as it does for Ward of Dawn. <\/span><\/li>\n
- Warlock Glaive, Edge of Intent: increased speed and acceleration of the healing turret projectiles. <\/span><\/li>\n
- Hunter Glaive, Edge of Concurrence: tripled the damage of the wave detonation, increased the number of enemies it can chain to from 4 to 8. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Global changes<\/span><\/h3>\n\n- 25%: Autorifle, Submachine Gun, Bow <\/span><\/li>\n
- 20%: Pulse Rifle, Scout Rifle, Sidearm, Machine Gun <\/span><\/li>\n
- 15%: Hand Cannon, Trace Rifle <\/span><\/li>\n
- 10%: Fusion Rifle, Shotgun, Sniper Rifle, Grenade Launcher (both Breech and Drum), Linear Fusion Rifle (both Special and Heavy versions), Rocket Launcher<\/span><\/li>\n
- The <\/span>Resilience <\/span><\/strong>character stat now grants flinch resistance of 0% at 0 stat, and 10% at 100 stat.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Airborne Gunplay <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nAdded a new weapon stat, “Airborne Effectiveness,” which is present on all weapons (except those where being airborne doesn’t have an effect, Swords for example), which maps onto aspects of airborne gunplay using these guidelines: <\/span><\/p>\n\n- With little to no investment (0-30 airborne stat), a character will have a smaller accuracy penalty than retail but will have significantly lower aim assist. <\/span><\/li>\n
- With minimal investment (31-50 airborne stat), a character will have around the same in-air accuracy as Icarus-equipped weapons do currently, but with noticeably lower aim assist. <\/span><\/li>\n
- With substantial investment (51-70 airborne stat), a character will have better accuracy than retail weapons with Icarus, with fewer misses due to randomness, but with reduced aim assist. <\/span><\/li>\n
- With specialized investment (71-99 airborne stat), a character will have no airborne accuracy penalty, with very slightly less aim assist. <\/span><\/li>\n
- With full investment (100 airborne stat), a character will have no airborne accuracy penalty, and the same aim assist. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
This stat has been hand-tuned on all Exotic weapons, everything that shipped in Season 16 or 17, and everything that’s ever shipped as Trials of Osiris or Nightfall loot. Older Legendary weapons have a default value, set per weapon archetype to a value just below the middle of the allowed stat range.<\/span><\/p>\n\n- Destiny 2 2022 Guardian Games – Schedule, rewards, how to play, more<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n
- Destiny 2 Season of the Risen Grandmaster Nightfall – Start, rotation, rewards, more<\/a>
<\/strong><\/li>\n- The best Pulse Rifles in Destiny 2 The Witch Queen<\/a>
<\/strong><\/li>\n- Destiny 2 Vow of the Disciple Adept weapons – How to get<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Note: <\/span><\/strong>This will be a hidden stat at Season 17 launch, similar to aim assist and recoil direction. You’ll be able to check the stat on a specific weapon through the API, and in Season 18 several previously hidden stats will be visible on the weapon inspection screen. <\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
This stat influences several aspects of airborne gunplay: <\/span><\/p>\n\n- Aim Assist cone penalty angles (i.e. auto-aim angle, reticle friction\/adhesion angle) – a high penalty to this angle at 0 stat, and a low or zero penalty at 100 stat. <\/span><\/li>\n
- Accuracy cone penalty angle for Primary weapons: a lower penalty than currently at 0 stat, zero penalty at 60-100 stat. <\/span><\/li>\n
- Accuracy cone penalty for Special weapons: a slightly lower penalty than currently at 0 stat, zero penalty at 100 stat. <\/span><\/li>\n
- Headshot aim assistance: 0 at 0 stat, 1 degree at 100-stat on Primary weapons, Slug Shotguns, Linear Fusion Rifles, and Machine Guns, 0.5 degrees on Sniper Rifles. <\/span><\/li>\n
- This controls how forgiving headshots are while airborne – if this is zero, you must be pinpoint aiming <\/span>precisely <\/span><\/em>at the head to get the headshot, otherwise, you’ll get a body shot even if your aim assist cone overlaps the head. <\/span><\/li>\n
- Previously while airborne, players would get full aim assistance for headshots provided their aim assist cone overlapped the head <\/span>at all<\/span><\/em>. <\/span><\/li>\n
- Pellet Shotgun spread angle – +25% at 0 stat, 0 at 100-stat (i.e., more Shotgun spread at low Airborne Effectiveness stat). <\/span><\/li>\n
- What this means overall is that you’ll get fewer misses due to randomness from the accuracy cone while airborne, but reliance on aiming is much higher at low stat. To make this easier you will need to build into airborne. With a decent aim, you will land more body shots instead of crits. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
The Airborne Effectiveness stat comes from three sources: weapon, subclass, and armor.<\/span><\/p>\nWeapon: <\/span><\/p>\n\n- The weapon’s base Airborne Effectiveness stat, with ranges varying from 0 to 10, and 0 to 30 depending on the weapon archetype. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Exotic weapons typically get bumped up, i.e., higher stat than Legendary weapons in that archetype (unless they’re already extremely strong). <\/span><\/p>\n\n- The Icarus Grip\/Adept Icarus weapon mod: +15. <\/span><\/li>\n
- Certain weapon perks, such as the redesigned Air Assault. <\/span><\/li>\n
- Valid stat ranges for Legendary weapons (Exotics sometimes exceed these). <\/span><\/li>\n
- Hand Cannon: 0-25 <\/span><\/li>\n
- Sidearm: 0-30 <\/span><\/li>\n
- Auto Rifle: 0-25 <\/span><\/li>\n
- Pulse Rifle: 0-25 <\/span><\/li>\n
- Scout Rifle: 0-20 <\/span><\/li>\n
- Submachine Gun: 0-30 <\/span><\/li>\n
- Bow: 0-20 <\/span><\/li>\n
- Sniper Rifle: 0-5 <\/span><\/li>\n
- Shotgun: 0-5 <\/span><\/li>\n
- Fusion Rifle: 0-10 <\/span><\/li>\n
- Breech Grenade Launcher: 0-5 <\/span><\/li>\n
- Trace Rifle: 0-15 <\/span><\/li>\n
- Rocket Launcher: 0-10 <\/span><\/li>\n
- Machine Gun: 0-20 <\/span><\/li>\n
- Linear Fusion Rifle: 0-15 <\/span><\/li>\n
- Drum Grenade Launcher: 0-20 <\/span><\/li>\n
- Glaive: 0-15 <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Higher tiers of Legendary weapons (Trials, raid, Nightfall) use the upper end of these ranges, as with other stats.<\/span><\/p>\nSubclass: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n- The Heat Rises ability: +70 while Heat Rises is active (i.e., on consuming your grenade)<\/span><\/li>\n
- The Tempered Metal ability: +20 after getting a Solar weapon kill<\/span><\/li>\n
- The Whisper of Hedrons Stasis Fragment: +20 after freezing a target<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Exotic armor: armor that revolves around being airborne, or works on specific weapons, grants a bonus or penalty in the -50 to +40 range (or higher if conditional)<\/span><\/p>\n\n- Foetracer: +20 to all <\/span><\/li>\n
- Mechaneer’s Tricksleeves: +50 to Sidearms <\/span><\/li>\n
- Oathkeeper: +40 to Bows <\/span><\/li>\n
- Sealed Ahamkara Grasps: +50 to all for 5 seconds after a melee hit <\/span><\/li>\n
- Lucky Pants: +20 to Hand Cannons after readying a Hand Cannon <\/span><\/li>\n
- ST0MP-EE5: -50 to all <\/span><\/li>\n
- No Backup Plans: +30 to Shotguns <\/span><\/li>\n
- Actium War Rig: +30 to Auto Rifles and Machine Guns <\/span><\/li>\n
- Hallowfire Heart: +20 to all <\/span><\/li>\n
- Lion Rampant: +50 hipfire only <\/span><\/li>\n
- Peacekeepers: +40 to Submachine Guns <\/span><\/li>\n
- Peregrine Greaves: +20 to all <\/span><\/li>\n
- Eye of Another World: +15 to all <\/span><\/li>\n
- Astrocyte Verse: +30 to all <\/span><\/li>\n
- Ophidian Aspect: +10 to all <\/span><\/li>\n
- Necrotic Grips: +30 to Weapons of Sorrow <\/span><\/li>\n
- Wings of Sacred Dawn: +50 to all <\/span><\/li>\n
- Boots of the Assembler: +30 to Lumina <\/span><\/li>\n
- [redacted]: +30 to Fusion Rifles and Linear Fusion Rifles<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Stat Display Update <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n![\"destiny](\"https:\/\/cdn-cf.ginx.tv\/imgcdn\/Ft43XO3HhNSh-P-7KaHnkFDGIZAPAdfUyRQfOmhe864\/rs:fill:0:0:1\/g:ce\/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ2lueC50di91cGxvYWRzMi9EZXN0aW55XzIvZDJfd2VhcG9ucy5qcGc\")
Airborne effectiveness might change the meta in PvP. (Picture: Bungie)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nOne-hit Kills and Special Ammo<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n- Reduced the damage bonus for Empowering Rift, High Energy Fire, and Inertia Override from 20% to 15% against players (no effect in PvE).
<\/span><\/li>\n- Disabled ammo scavenger armor mods in PvP. <\/span>\n
\n- No matter how much ammo a player was carrying on death, if you pick up a Special brick you can only get one ammo for a Shotgun\/Sniper Rifle (or “one kill’s worth of ammo” for weapons that require more than one shot to kill, e.g., Forerunner, Trace Rifles) <\/span><\/li>\n
- Retuned several Special weapon archetypes and Exotic weapons (see below), with the general goal of reducing the effectiveness and uptime of Special weapons. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Special Weapons<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n- Special Weapons have a slightly larger airborne accuracy penalty than Primary weapons at 0 Airborne Effectiveness stat, reduced to 0 at 100 stat. <\/span><\/li>\n
- Special Weapons have a similar airborne aim assist cone penalty to other weapons (around 50% at 0 stat), and this penalty can be reduced but not entirely removed by investing in Airborne Effectiveness. <\/span><\/li>\n
- Sniper Rifles are fairly slow to ready, stow, and aim down sights, which has made Snapshot feel mandatory for many players. <\/span><\/li>\n
- Reduced Stow, Ready, and Aim Down Sights times by 10%, i.e., all snipers are now snappier (there’s a matching change to Snapshot below).<\/span><\/li>\n
- Sniper Rifles have less access to ammo than Shotguns and Fusion Rifles (where kills drop ammo right in front of you), so we think ammo scarcity will prevent Sniper Rifles from spiking.<\/span><\/li>\n
- Reduced damage falloff start and end by 1m. <\/span><\/li>\n
- Reduced aim assist and magnetism falloff start and end by 2m.<\/span><\/li>\n
- Reduced damage falloff near distance. <\/span><\/li>\n
- 2m at 0 range (~2.7m when ADS with a 15-zoom stat) <\/span><\/li>\n
- 1.3m at 100 range (~2.275m when ADS with a 15-zoom stat) <\/span><\/li>\n
Glaive changes<\/span><\/h3>\n\n- Increased melee damage vs PvE enemies (except for bosses and vehicles) by 25%. <\/span><\/li>\n
- Reduced energy drain speed while shielded by 30%. <\/span><\/li>\n
- Increased projectile speed dependent on the range stat: <\/span>\n
\n- At 0 stat: increased from 30 to 60 m\/s. <\/span><\/li>\n
- At 100 stat: increased from 80 to 100 m\/s.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\n- Titan Glaive, Edge of Action: players now gain a Void overshield while inside the bubble, Helm of Saint-14 now applies to this bubble as it does for Ward of Dawn. <\/span><\/li>\n
- Warlock Glaive, Edge of Intent: increased speed and acceleration of the healing turret projectiles. <\/span><\/li>\n
- Hunter Glaive, Edge of Concurrence: tripled the damage of the wave detonation, increased the number of enemies it can chain to from 4 to 8. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Global changes<\/span><\/h3>\n\n- 25%: Autorifle, Submachine Gun, Bow <\/span><\/li>\n
- 20%: Pulse Rifle, Scout Rifle, Sidearm, Machine Gun <\/span><\/li>\n
- 15%: Hand Cannon, Trace Rifle <\/span><\/li>\n
- 10%: Fusion Rifle, Shotgun, Sniper Rifle, Grenade Launcher (both Breech and Drum), Linear Fusion Rifle (both Special and Heavy versions), Rocket Launcher<\/span><\/li>\n
- The <\/span>Resilience <\/span><\/strong>character stat now grants flinch resistance of 0% at 0 stat, and 10% at 100 stat.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Airborne Gunplay <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nAdded a new weapon stat, “Airborne Effectiveness,” which is present on all weapons (except those where being airborne doesn’t have an effect, Swords for example), which maps onto aspects of airborne gunplay using these guidelines: <\/span><\/p>\n\n- With little to no investment (0-30 airborne stat), a character will have a smaller accuracy penalty than retail but will have significantly lower aim assist. <\/span><\/li>\n
- With minimal investment (31-50 airborne stat), a character will have around the same in-air accuracy as Icarus-equipped weapons do currently, but with noticeably lower aim assist. <\/span><\/li>\n
- With substantial investment (51-70 airborne stat), a character will have better accuracy than retail weapons with Icarus, with fewer misses due to randomness, but with reduced aim assist. <\/span><\/li>\n
- With specialized investment (71-99 airborne stat), a character will have no airborne accuracy penalty, with very slightly less aim assist. <\/span><\/li>\n
- With full investment (100 airborne stat), a character will have no airborne accuracy penalty, and the same aim assist. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
This stat has been hand-tuned on all Exotic weapons, everything that shipped in Season 16 or 17, and everything that’s ever shipped as Trials of Osiris or Nightfall loot. Older Legendary weapons have a default value, set per weapon archetype to a value just below the middle of the allowed stat range.<\/span><\/p>\n\n- Destiny 2 2022 Guardian Games – Schedule, rewards, how to play, more<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n
- Destiny 2 Season of the Risen Grandmaster Nightfall – Start, rotation, rewards, more<\/a>
<\/strong><\/li>\n- The best Pulse Rifles in Destiny 2 The Witch Queen<\/a>
<\/strong><\/li>\n- Destiny 2 Vow of the Disciple Adept weapons – How to get<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Note: <\/span><\/strong>This will be a hidden stat at Season 17 launch, similar to aim assist and recoil direction. You’ll be able to check the stat on a specific weapon through the API, and in Season 18 several previously hidden stats will be visible on the weapon inspection screen. <\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
This stat influences several aspects of airborne gunplay: <\/span><\/p>\n\n- Aim Assist cone penalty angles (i.e. auto-aim angle, reticle friction\/adhesion angle) – a high penalty to this angle at 0 stat, and a low or zero penalty at 100 stat. <\/span><\/li>\n
- Accuracy cone penalty angle for Primary weapons: a lower penalty than currently at 0 stat, zero penalty at 60-100 stat. <\/span><\/li>\n
- Accuracy cone penalty for Special weapons: a slightly lower penalty than currently at 0 stat, zero penalty at 100 stat. <\/span><\/li>\n
- Headshot aim assistance: 0 at 0 stat, 1 degree at 100-stat on Primary weapons, Slug Shotguns, Linear Fusion Rifles, and Machine Guns, 0.5 degrees on Sniper Rifles. <\/span><\/li>\n
- This controls how forgiving headshots are while airborne – if this is zero, you must be pinpoint aiming <\/span>precisely <\/span><\/em>at the head to get the headshot, otherwise, you’ll get a body shot even if your aim assist cone overlaps the head. <\/span><\/li>\n
- Previously while airborne, players would get full aim assistance for headshots provided their aim assist cone overlapped the head <\/span>at all<\/span><\/em>. <\/span><\/li>\n
- Pellet Shotgun spread angle – +25% at 0 stat, 0 at 100-stat (i.e., more Shotgun spread at low Airborne Effectiveness stat). <\/span><\/li>\n
- What this means overall is that you’ll get fewer misses due to randomness from the accuracy cone while airborne, but reliance on aiming is much higher at low stat. To make this easier you will need to build into airborne. With a decent aim, you will land more body shots instead of crits. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
The Airborne Effectiveness stat comes from three sources: weapon, subclass, and armor.<\/span><\/p>\nWeapon: <\/span><\/p>\n\n- The weapon’s base Airborne Effectiveness stat, with ranges varying from 0 to 10, and 0 to 30 depending on the weapon archetype. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Exotic weapons typically get bumped up, i.e., higher stat than Legendary weapons in that archetype (unless they’re already extremely strong). <\/span><\/p>\n\n- The Icarus Grip\/Adept Icarus weapon mod: +15. <\/span><\/li>\n
- Certain weapon perks, such as the redesigned Air Assault. <\/span><\/li>\n
- Valid stat ranges for Legendary weapons (Exotics sometimes exceed these). <\/span><\/li>\n
- Hand Cannon: 0-25 <\/span><\/li>\n
- Sidearm: 0-30 <\/span><\/li>\n
- Auto Rifle: 0-25 <\/span><\/li>\n
- Pulse Rifle: 0-25 <\/span><\/li>\n
- Scout Rifle: 0-20 <\/span><\/li>\n
- Submachine Gun: 0-30 <\/span><\/li>\n
- Bow: 0-20 <\/span><\/li>\n
- Sniper Rifle: 0-5 <\/span><\/li>\n
- Shotgun: 0-5 <\/span><\/li>\n
- Fusion Rifle: 0-10 <\/span><\/li>\n
- Breech Grenade Launcher: 0-5 <\/span><\/li>\n
- Trace Rifle: 0-15 <\/span><\/li>\n
- Rocket Launcher: 0-10 <\/span><\/li>\n
- Machine Gun: 0-20 <\/span><\/li>\n
- Linear Fusion Rifle: 0-15 <\/span><\/li>\n
- Drum Grenade Launcher: 0-20 <\/span><\/li>\n
- Glaive: 0-15 <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Higher tiers of Legendary weapons (Trials, raid, Nightfall) use the upper end of these ranges, as with other stats.<\/span><\/p>\nSubclass: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n- The Heat Rises ability: +70 while Heat Rises is active (i.e., on consuming your grenade)<\/span><\/li>\n
- The Tempered Metal ability: +20 after getting a Solar weapon kill<\/span><\/li>\n
- The Whisper of Hedrons Stasis Fragment: +20 after freezing a target<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Exotic armor: armor that revolves around being airborne, or works on specific weapons, grants a bonus or penalty in the -50 to +40 range (or higher if conditional)<\/span><\/p>\n\n- Foetracer: +20 to all <\/span><\/li>\n
- Mechaneer’s Tricksleeves: +50 to Sidearms <\/span><\/li>\n
- Oathkeeper: +40 to Bows <\/span><\/li>\n
- Sealed Ahamkara Grasps: +50 to all for 5 seconds after a melee hit <\/span><\/li>\n
- Lucky Pants: +20 to Hand Cannons after readying a Hand Cannon <\/span><\/li>\n
- ST0MP-EE5: -50 to all <\/span><\/li>\n
- No Backup Plans: +30 to Shotguns <\/span><\/li>\n
- Actium War Rig: +30 to Auto Rifles and Machine Guns <\/span><\/li>\n
- Hallowfire Heart: +20 to all <\/span><\/li>\n
- Lion Rampant: +50 hipfire only <\/span><\/li>\n
- Peacekeepers: +40 to Submachine Guns <\/span><\/li>\n
- Peregrine Greaves: +20 to all <\/span><\/li>\n
- Eye of Another World: +15 to all <\/span><\/li>\n
- Astrocyte Verse: +30 to all <\/span><\/li>\n
- Ophidian Aspect: +10 to all <\/span><\/li>\n
- Necrotic Grips: +30 to Weapons of Sorrow <\/span><\/li>\n
- Wings of Sacred Dawn: +50 to all <\/span><\/li>\n
- Boots of the Assembler: +30 to Lumina <\/span><\/li>\n
- [redacted]: +30 to Fusion Rifles and Linear Fusion Rifles<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Stat Display Update <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nAirborne effectiveness might change the meta in PvP. (Picture: Bungie)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nOne-hit Kills and Special Ammo<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n- Reduced the damage bonus for Empowering Rift, High Energy Fire, and Inertia Override from 20% to 15% against players (no effect in PvE).
<\/span><\/li>\n- Disabled ammo scavenger armor mods in PvP. <\/span>\n
\n- No matter how much ammo a player was carrying on death, if you pick up a Special brick you can only get one ammo for a Shotgun\/Sniper Rifle (or “one kill’s worth of ammo” for weapons that require more than one shot to kill, e.g., Forerunner, Trace Rifles) <\/span><\/li>\n
- Retuned several Special weapon archetypes and Exotic weapons (see below), with the general goal of reducing the effectiveness and uptime of Special weapons. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Special Weapons<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n- Special Weapons have a slightly larger airborne accuracy penalty than Primary weapons at 0 Airborne Effectiveness stat, reduced to 0 at 100 stat. <\/span><\/li>\n
- Special Weapons have a similar airborne aim assist cone penalty to other weapons (around 50% at 0 stat), and this penalty can be reduced but not entirely removed by investing in Airborne Effectiveness. <\/span><\/li>\n
- Sniper Rifles are fairly slow to ready, stow, and aim down sights, which has made Snapshot feel mandatory for many players. <\/span><\/li>\n
- Reduced Stow, Ready, and Aim Down Sights times by 10%, i.e., all snipers are now snappier (there’s a matching change to Snapshot below).<\/span><\/li>\n
- Sniper Rifles have less access to ammo than Shotguns and Fusion Rifles (where kills drop ammo right in front of you), so we think ammo scarcity will prevent Sniper Rifles from spiking.<\/span><\/li>\n
- Reduced damage falloff start and end by 1m. <\/span><\/li>\n
- Reduced aim assist and magnetism falloff start and end by 2m.<\/span><\/li>\n
- Reduced damage falloff near distance. <\/span><\/li>\n
- 2m at 0 range (~2.7m when ADS with a 15-zoom stat) <\/span><\/li>\n
- 1.3m at 100 range (~2.275m when ADS with a 15-zoom stat) <\/span><\/li>\n
- \n
- At 0 stat: increased from 30 to 60 m\/s. <\/span><\/li>\n
- At 100 stat: increased from 80 to 100 m\/s.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
- \n
- Titan Glaive, Edge of Action: players now gain a Void overshield while inside the bubble, Helm of Saint-14 now applies to this bubble as it does for Ward of Dawn. <\/span><\/li>\n
- Warlock Glaive, Edge of Intent: increased speed and acceleration of the healing turret projectiles. <\/span><\/li>\n
- Hunter Glaive, Edge of Concurrence: tripled the damage of the wave detonation, increased the number of enemies it can chain to from 4 to 8. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Global changes<\/span><\/h3>\n
- \n
- 25%: Autorifle, Submachine Gun, Bow <\/span><\/li>\n
- 20%: Pulse Rifle, Scout Rifle, Sidearm, Machine Gun <\/span><\/li>\n
- 15%: Hand Cannon, Trace Rifle <\/span><\/li>\n
- 10%: Fusion Rifle, Shotgun, Sniper Rifle, Grenade Launcher (both Breech and Drum), Linear Fusion Rifle (both Special and Heavy versions), Rocket Launcher<\/span><\/li>\n
- The <\/span>Resilience <\/span><\/strong>character stat now grants flinch resistance of 0% at 0 stat, and 10% at 100 stat.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Airborne Gunplay <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n
Added a new weapon stat, “Airborne Effectiveness,” which is present on all weapons (except those where being airborne doesn’t have an effect, Swords for example), which maps onto aspects of airborne gunplay using these guidelines: <\/span><\/p>\n
- \n
- With little to no investment (0-30 airborne stat), a character will have a smaller accuracy penalty than retail but will have significantly lower aim assist. <\/span><\/li>\n
- With minimal investment (31-50 airborne stat), a character will have around the same in-air accuracy as Icarus-equipped weapons do currently, but with noticeably lower aim assist. <\/span><\/li>\n
- With substantial investment (51-70 airborne stat), a character will have better accuracy than retail weapons with Icarus, with fewer misses due to randomness, but with reduced aim assist. <\/span><\/li>\n
- With specialized investment (71-99 airborne stat), a character will have no airborne accuracy penalty, with very slightly less aim assist. <\/span><\/li>\n
- With full investment (100 airborne stat), a character will have no airborne accuracy penalty, and the same aim assist. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
This stat has been hand-tuned on all Exotic weapons, everything that shipped in Season 16 or 17, and everything that’s ever shipped as Trials of Osiris or Nightfall loot. Older Legendary weapons have a default value, set per weapon archetype to a value just below the middle of the allowed stat range.<\/span><\/p>\n
- \n
- Destiny 2 2022 Guardian Games – Schedule, rewards, how to play, more<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n
- Destiny 2 Season of the Risen Grandmaster Nightfall – Start, rotation, rewards, more<\/a>
<\/strong><\/li>\n- The best Pulse Rifles in Destiny 2 The Witch Queen<\/a>
<\/strong><\/li>\n- Destiny 2 Vow of the Disciple Adept weapons – How to get<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Note: <\/span><\/strong>This will be a hidden stat at Season 17 launch, similar to aim assist and recoil direction. You’ll be able to check the stat on a specific weapon through the API, and in Season 18 several previously hidden stats will be visible on the weapon inspection screen. <\/span><\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
This stat influences several aspects of airborne gunplay: <\/span><\/p>\n
- \n
- Aim Assist cone penalty angles (i.e. auto-aim angle, reticle friction\/adhesion angle) – a high penalty to this angle at 0 stat, and a low or zero penalty at 100 stat. <\/span><\/li>\n
- Accuracy cone penalty angle for Primary weapons: a lower penalty than currently at 0 stat, zero penalty at 60-100 stat. <\/span><\/li>\n
- Accuracy cone penalty for Special weapons: a slightly lower penalty than currently at 0 stat, zero penalty at 100 stat. <\/span><\/li>\n
- Headshot aim assistance: 0 at 0 stat, 1 degree at 100-stat on Primary weapons, Slug Shotguns, Linear Fusion Rifles, and Machine Guns, 0.5 degrees on Sniper Rifles. <\/span><\/li>\n
- This controls how forgiving headshots are while airborne – if this is zero, you must be pinpoint aiming <\/span>precisely <\/span><\/em>at the head to get the headshot, otherwise, you’ll get a body shot even if your aim assist cone overlaps the head. <\/span><\/li>\n
- Previously while airborne, players would get full aim assistance for headshots provided their aim assist cone overlapped the head <\/span>at all<\/span><\/em>. <\/span><\/li>\n
- Pellet Shotgun spread angle – +25% at 0 stat, 0 at 100-stat (i.e., more Shotgun spread at low Airborne Effectiveness stat). <\/span><\/li>\n
- What this means overall is that you’ll get fewer misses due to randomness from the accuracy cone while airborne, but reliance on aiming is much higher at low stat. To make this easier you will need to build into airborne. With a decent aim, you will land more body shots instead of crits. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
The Airborne Effectiveness stat comes from three sources: weapon, subclass, and armor.<\/span><\/p>\n
Weapon: <\/span><\/p>\n
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- The weapon’s base Airborne Effectiveness stat, with ranges varying from 0 to 10, and 0 to 30 depending on the weapon archetype. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Exotic weapons typically get bumped up, i.e., higher stat than Legendary weapons in that archetype (unless they’re already extremely strong). <\/span><\/p>\n
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- The Icarus Grip\/Adept Icarus weapon mod: +15. <\/span><\/li>\n
- Certain weapon perks, such as the redesigned Air Assault. <\/span><\/li>\n
- Valid stat ranges for Legendary weapons (Exotics sometimes exceed these). <\/span><\/li>\n
- Hand Cannon: 0-25 <\/span><\/li>\n
- Sidearm: 0-30 <\/span><\/li>\n
- Auto Rifle: 0-25 <\/span><\/li>\n
- Pulse Rifle: 0-25 <\/span><\/li>\n
- Scout Rifle: 0-20 <\/span><\/li>\n
- Submachine Gun: 0-30 <\/span><\/li>\n
- Bow: 0-20 <\/span><\/li>\n
- Sniper Rifle: 0-5 <\/span><\/li>\n
- Shotgun: 0-5 <\/span><\/li>\n
- Fusion Rifle: 0-10 <\/span><\/li>\n
- Breech Grenade Launcher: 0-5 <\/span><\/li>\n
- Trace Rifle: 0-15 <\/span><\/li>\n
- Rocket Launcher: 0-10 <\/span><\/li>\n
- Machine Gun: 0-20 <\/span><\/li>\n
- Linear Fusion Rifle: 0-15 <\/span><\/li>\n
- Drum Grenade Launcher: 0-20 <\/span><\/li>\n
- Glaive: 0-15 <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Higher tiers of Legendary weapons (Trials, raid, Nightfall) use the upper end of these ranges, as with other stats.<\/span><\/p>\n
Subclass: <\/strong><\/p>\n
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- The Heat Rises ability: +70 while Heat Rises is active (i.e., on consuming your grenade)<\/span><\/li>\n
- The Tempered Metal ability: +20 after getting a Solar weapon kill<\/span><\/li>\n
- The Whisper of Hedrons Stasis Fragment: +20 after freezing a target<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Exotic armor: armor that revolves around being airborne, or works on specific weapons, grants a bonus or penalty in the -50 to +40 range (or higher if conditional)<\/span><\/p>\n
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- Foetracer: +20 to all <\/span><\/li>\n
- Mechaneer’s Tricksleeves: +50 to Sidearms <\/span><\/li>\n
- Oathkeeper: +40 to Bows <\/span><\/li>\n
- Sealed Ahamkara Grasps: +50 to all for 5 seconds after a melee hit <\/span><\/li>\n
- Lucky Pants: +20 to Hand Cannons after readying a Hand Cannon <\/span><\/li>\n
- ST0MP-EE5: -50 to all <\/span><\/li>\n
- No Backup Plans: +30 to Shotguns <\/span><\/li>\n
- Actium War Rig: +30 to Auto Rifles and Machine Guns <\/span><\/li>\n
- Hallowfire Heart: +20 to all <\/span><\/li>\n
- Lion Rampant: +50 hipfire only <\/span><\/li>\n
- Peacekeepers: +40 to Submachine Guns <\/span><\/li>\n
- Peregrine Greaves: +20 to all <\/span><\/li>\n
- Eye of Another World: +15 to all <\/span><\/li>\n
- Astrocyte Verse: +30 to all <\/span><\/li>\n
- Ophidian Aspect: +10 to all <\/span><\/li>\n
- Necrotic Grips: +30 to Weapons of Sorrow <\/span><\/li>\n
- Wings of Sacred Dawn: +50 to all <\/span><\/li>\n
- Boots of the Assembler: +30 to Lumina <\/span><\/li>\n
- [redacted]: +30 to Fusion Rifles and Linear Fusion Rifles<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Stat Display Update <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n
Airborne effectiveness might change the meta in PvP. (Picture: Bungie)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n One-hit Kills and Special Ammo<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n
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- Reduced the damage bonus for Empowering Rift, High Energy Fire, and Inertia Override from 20% to 15% against players (no effect in PvE).
<\/span><\/li>\n- Disabled ammo scavenger armor mods in PvP. <\/span>\n
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- No matter how much ammo a player was carrying on death, if you pick up a Special brick you can only get one ammo for a Shotgun\/Sniper Rifle (or “one kill’s worth of ammo” for weapons that require more than one shot to kill, e.g., Forerunner, Trace Rifles) <\/span><\/li>\n
- Retuned several Special weapon archetypes and Exotic weapons (see below), with the general goal of reducing the effectiveness and uptime of Special weapons. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Special Weapons<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n
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- Special Weapons have a slightly larger airborne accuracy penalty than Primary weapons at 0 Airborne Effectiveness stat, reduced to 0 at 100 stat. <\/span><\/li>\n
- Special Weapons have a similar airborne aim assist cone penalty to other weapons (around 50% at 0 stat), and this penalty can be reduced but not entirely removed by investing in Airborne Effectiveness. <\/span><\/li>\n
- Sniper Rifles are fairly slow to ready, stow, and aim down sights, which has made Snapshot feel mandatory for many players. <\/span><\/li>\n
- Reduced Stow, Ready, and Aim Down Sights times by 10%, i.e., all snipers are now snappier (there’s a matching change to Snapshot below).<\/span><\/li>\n
- Sniper Rifles have less access to ammo than Shotguns and Fusion Rifles (where kills drop ammo right in front of you), so we think ammo scarcity will prevent Sniper Rifles from spiking.<\/span><\/li>\n
- Reduced damage falloff start and end by 1m. <\/span><\/li>\n
- Reduced aim assist and magnetism falloff start and end by 2m.<\/span><\/li>\n
- Reduced damage falloff near distance. <\/span><\/li>\n
- 2m at 0 range (~2.7m when ADS with a 15-zoom stat) <\/span><\/li>\n
- 1.3m at 100 range (~2.275m when ADS with a 15-zoom stat) <\/span><\/li>\n
- Special Weapons have a similar airborne aim assist cone penalty to other weapons (around 50% at 0 stat), and this penalty can be reduced but not entirely removed by investing in Airborne Effectiveness. <\/span><\/li>\n
- Retuned several Special weapon archetypes and Exotic weapons (see below), with the general goal of reducing the effectiveness and uptime of Special weapons. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
- Disabled ammo scavenger armor mods in PvP. <\/span>\n
- Mechaneer’s Tricksleeves: +50 to Sidearms <\/span><\/li>\n
- The Tempered Metal ability: +20 after getting a Solar weapon kill<\/span><\/li>\n
- Certain weapon perks, such as the redesigned Air Assault. <\/span><\/li>\n
- The Icarus Grip\/Adept Icarus weapon mod: +15. <\/span><\/li>\n
- Accuracy cone penalty angle for Primary weapons: a lower penalty than currently at 0 stat, zero penalty at 60-100 stat. <\/span><\/li>\n
- Destiny 2 Season of the Risen Grandmaster Nightfall – Start, rotation, rewards, more<\/a>
- With minimal investment (31-50 airborne stat), a character will have around the same in-air accuracy as Icarus-equipped weapons do currently, but with noticeably lower aim assist. <\/span><\/li>\n
- 20%: Pulse Rifle, Scout Rifle, Sidearm, Machine Gun <\/span><\/li>\n
- Warlock Glaive, Edge of Intent: increased speed and acceleration of the healing turret projectiles. <\/span><\/li>\n
- At 100 stat: increased from 80 to 100 m\/s.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n