This Weekend in Destiny 2 – Xûr and Trials of Osiris (Week 11)

Bungie provided details about weapon tuning changes coming in Season 23.

WEAPON ARCHETYPES 

GENERAL 

• Updated Drang and Zaouli’s Bane to load ammo at the correct point in the animation. 

AUTO RIFLES 

• Increased damage against minor (red bar) combatants by 10%. 

PULSE RIFLES 

• Increased damage against minor (red bar) and major (orange bar) combatants by 12.5%. 

GLAIVES 

• Projectiles:
  • Increased projectile speed by 30%. 
  • Increased projectile damage in PvE by 25%. 
  • Decreased projectile damage in PvP.
    • Aggressives: 123 (edited 10/25/2023 at 1:15 PM PDT) 
    • Adaptives: 113 
    • Rapid-Fires: 101 
• Melee:
  • Reduced the delay after firing before you can melee from 0.75 seconds to 0.2 seconds.  
• Shields:
  • Made the shield energy now recharge passively when the Glaive is held at a rate of 1% per second. 
  • Set up the base Glaive shield damage resistance to be tiered in PvP.
    • Base Glaive shield damage resistance remains at 50%. 
    • Damage resistance against Primary ammo weapons and melee attacks has been reduced to 30%. 

SNIPER RIFLES 

• Increased Sniper Rifle PvE damage with a flat buff of 15%. (This also applies to Exotic Sniper Rifles that use Heavy ammo.) 

EXOTIC WEAPONS 

VEX MYTHOCLAST 

• Increased damage versus:
  • Minor (red bar) combatants by 10%. 
  • Bosses by 25%. 
  • Champions by 200% when in the Linear Fusion Rifle mode. 

REVISION ZERO 

• Increased damage versus Champions by 100%. 

THORN 

• Picking up a Remnant can overflow the magazine, up to 40 rounds max. 
• Catalyst:
  • +20 range 
  • +10 stability 
  • Getting kills or picking up a Remnant grants additional range, handling, and mobility. 

CLASS GLAIVES 

• Grant 1 ammo when you activate the perk, so you can use it even if you are out of ammo. 
• No longer passively drains shield energy when you special reload to activate the perk. 
• No longer deactivated by reloading or stowing the weapon. 

EDGE OF INTENT (WARLOCK) 

Edge of Intent seemed like it was begging for some Solar 3.0 interaction instead of the previous generic healing effect. A larger area of effect (AoE) helps it reach more nearby allies, too. 

• Changed the effect of the healing turret projectiles to grant cures and provide restoration.  
• Increased the AoE radius to 8 meters to benefit more nearby allies. 
• Increased its magazine size from 4 to 5. 

EDGE OF ACTION (TITAN) 

We wanted to make the baby-bubble more effective in endgame content, so it now provides some benefits to weapons just for passing through it, even if you do not remain inside.  

• Passing through the bubble now grants bonus reload speed, handling, and a small amount of stacking bonus damage in addition to the overshield. 
• Reduced the health of the bubble from 8000 to 2400 to account for the increased uptime and improved effects. 

EDGE OF CONCURRENCE (HUNTER) 

The Glaive changes mentioned above already made this quite solid, but we felt that Lightning Seeker presented a fun opportunity for an Arc 3.0 interaction. 

• Lighting Seeker now jolts targets on impact. 
• Reduced the direct hit damage of Lightning Seeker to account for the free ammo granted.  

OSTEO STRIGA 

• Removed the SMG damage bonus scalar that was affecting the poison damage. This brings Osteo Striga poison down to match standard Necrotic Grip poison, though as an Exotic, it will still deal 40% bonus damage against minors. 

SALVATION’S GRIP 

Placed a speed limit on the detonation when damaging Stasis crystals. This will help prevent the detonation from being able to shatter too many crystals on a single frame, which would sometimes kick the player to orbit with an error code. 

WINTERBITE 

We did not want to leave Winterbite out of the Glaive improvement pass, so we made it a little stronger and a little bit less lethal to the user.  

• Increased the detonation damage of the large projectile by 25%. 
• The self-damage blast radius has been halved, and the self-damage has been reduced. 

PERKS 

• Danger Zone: Tweaked the functionality of Danger Zone on Rocket Launchers.
• Heavy Grip: Heavy Grip was removed because it caused more flinching than intended.
  • • To differentiate Precision Instrument from Enhanced Precision Instrument, we increased Enhanced Precision Instrument’s max stack damage bonus from 26% to 30%.
• Kinetic Tremors:
  • Pulse Rifles: Common reduced from 12 to 11. Enhanced increased from 9 to 10. 
  • Non-burst Sidearms: Common reduced from 12 to 8. Enhanced reduced from 9 to

FUTURE

Here is a preview of changes coming with the Season 23 mid-Season patch and the patch that will launch with The Final Shape.

Near future:

1. Bow tuning in PvP. 
2. Additional weapon tuning for Checkmate, aimed at promoting a better diversity of weapons. 

Far future:

1. Necrochasm will be getting a buff to extend the duration of the poison damage-over-time effect it applies from the Cursed Thrall explosion. It will also have a new catalyst called One for Thrall, which grants a moderate period of increased damage, range, and aim assist after you damage three enemies in quick succession. Damaging three more enemies while the perk is active refreshes the timer. 
2. Buffs to Truth, Colony, and Dead Man’s Tale as well as other Exotic weapons. 
3. Heavy Grenade Launchers will get a substantial inventory buff. 

Source: Bungie