Destiny 2 update 8.1.0 is rolling out on PS4(Version 3.3.40), PC, PS5, Xbox One, and PC players. According to the Destiny 2 update 8.1 patch notes, the latest update increases mobility for Lucky Pants users, Icefall Mantle now focuses on Frost Armor, and Sniper Rifles deal more damage against non-boss enemies. Apart from this, Destiny 2 patch 8.1.0 also adjusts Blight Ranger and Peacekeepers for broader utility.

Destiny 2 Patch 3.40 Notes (Version 8.1.0) – October 8, 2024

Activities

Crucible

General

• Reprised the map Solitude for our Control, Quickplay, and Competitive playlists (will return to Trials at a future date).
• Added several new UI features.
  • Class icons on enemy health bars.
  • “Assisted by…” message on the death screen.
  • Added Tools of Destruction to the teammate tombstone icon.
• Fixed an issue where matches would not end in mercy due to time elapsed, despite the delta in team score.
• Adjusted join-in-progress rules so that matches have a better chance of back-filling.
• Fixed an issue with our second version of the snake draft lobby balancer where fireteam members would sometimes be placed on separate teams; re-enabled the snake draft lobby balancer.
• Fixed an issue where the weapons portion of Not Swap was sometimes active in playlists other than Trials and Competitive.
• Fixed an issue where kills could sometimes drop an additional ammo brick for teammates.

Competitive

• Improved the placement match logic in Competitive to provide a smoother experience while finding your expected rank.
• Improved the way points are awarded after Competitive matches to make the values line up more appropriately with expectations.
• Fixed an issue where the placement series challenge could erroneously appear after completing the Competitive intro quest “Dividing the Ladder.”

Trials of Osiris

• Fixed an issue where players would sometimes be unable to claim their Trials rank rewards.
• Post-game standard (non-Adept) weapon drops will now focus on the weekly weapon, instead of exclusively being the weekly weapons.

Nightfall

• Nightfall activities on Expert difficulty or higher now feature combatants with Banes.

Dungeons and Raids

General

• Fixed an issue where some dungeons had a shorter-than-intended amount of time in the activity after completion.

Shattered Throne

• Fixed an issue where the second secret chest would occasionally not reward players.

Salvation’s Edge

• Fixed an issue where the Ignited Light Triumph was not tracking encounter challenges.

Vow of the Disciple

• Fixed an issue where Rhulk could catapult himself off the encounter space.
  • Fight him, you cowards.

UI/UX

Director

• When a raid or dungeon is featured, an icon will appear in the destination’s icon tray and the name of the raid or dungeon will appear in the destination’s tooltip.
• Rituals Pathfinder have been divided into distinct Vanguard, Crucible, and Gambit Pathfinders.
• When you are in a Vanguard, Crucible, or Gambit activity or PGCR, opening the Director will take you directly to the appropriate ritual screen in the Director to select your next activity or access their Pathfinder system.
  • This enables quickly opening the relevant rituals screen to easily access reputation, streaks, Pathfinder, and re-launch related activities
• The activity launch overlay has been adjusted to divide skulls (activity modifiers) into four categories to better inform player buildcrafting.

Heads Up Display (HUD)

• Waypoints for dead allies now include an indicator of the faction, ability, or weapon that downed them to improve situational awareness.
• When you are downed in PvP activities, the death screen will now include some information about player assists that contributed to your death.
  • Developer Note: We are hoping to expand this feature in the future to give players better tools for understanding the moment-to-moment PvP experience.

Fireteam Finder

• Fireteam Finder entry point is now grayed out in launch overlay when current activity is unsupported.
• Fireteam Finder auto-selects your current activity when entering through launch overlay.
• Fireteam Finder auto-returns players back to start when Fireteam Privacy is set to closed.
  • Reminds players they need to use a Fireteam when using Fireteam Finder.

Text Chat

• Text chat profanity setting received an update to better reflect changes with our moderation service.
• Fixed text chat bug that was causing commands in certain languages to say that the command was unknown.

Voice Chat

• Now correctly plays audio cue when swapping voice channels.

Roster

• Fixed nameplate bug that would cause names with certain emojis to flicker.

Objective Tracking

• No longer reset tracked records at the start of each Episode.
• Fixed an issue where the tracking icon would stick around after objective was completed.

Gameplay and Investment

Exotic Armor

Hunter

• Lucky Pants
  • No longer requires the Hand Cannon to be matched to the Super damage type or Kinetic to receive the damage buff.
  • Out of Luck cooldown will only trigger if you reach seven stacks before swapping off the weapon or time expires.
  • Maximum damage has been decreased from 600% to 450%.
  • Now provides movement bonuses including increased slide distance and sprint speed when a Hand Cannon is equipped.
  • Airborne Effectiveness bonus is active whenever a Hand Cannon is equipped, not just when the Illegally Modded Holster buff is active.
• Raiju’s Harness
  • Fully reworked behavior of its Exotic trait, Mobius Conduit, inspired by its lore tab.
    • Activating Gathering Storm calls down lightning on all nearby targets, jolting them while also amplifying allies.
    • Defeating Arc debuffed targets grants a small amount of Gathering Storm energy.
• Blight Ranger
  • Added the ability to cancel your Arc Staff Super while equipped, damaging and blinding nearby enemies and granting a Tier 4 Arc weapon damage boost.
    • Damage dealt by this effect scales based on the number of projectiles reflected prior to cancelling.
  • No longer creates Orbs of Power when reflecting projectiles with Arc Staff.
    • Reflecting projectiles now instead directly refunds Super energy, extending the duration of your Super.
• Young Ahamkara’s Spine
  • Once again provides Tripmine Grenade energy for ability damage (changed from ability final blows).
    • Provides +33% grenade energy in PvE and +8% in PvP.
  • Celestial Nighthawk
    • Reduced Super damage against bosses by 5%.
  • Solipsism
    • Spirit of Synthoceps
      • Reduced the melee damage bonus provided when both Bionic Enhancements and Stylish Executioner are active by 50%.

Titan

• Icefall Mantle
  • You now gain a stack of Frost Armor for rapid Stasis final blows.
  • Each time you gain a stack of Frost Armor you will heal for a small amount.
  • The unique class ability granted by Icefall Mantle now provides maximum stacks of Frost Armor, instead of its custom overshield.
    • It will provide additional stacks of Frost Armor if you have Whisper of Rime equipped.
    • You will also immediately heal for each stack that gets added.
    • It no longer prevents sprinting or jump abilities, and it now works when Thruster is equipped.
    • Class ability energy now begins to recharge immediately after using Icefall Mantle’s class ability.
  • No longer provides bonus Stasis weapon damage.
  • Now requires a Stasis Super to be equipped to benefit from its Exotic effects.
• Cadmus Ridge Lancecap
  • Removed the Stasis weapon requirement. Now any final blows or rapid precision hits while behind a rally barricade (and with a Stasis Super equipped) will create a Diamond Lance near you.
  • Directly hitting any powerful combatant with a Diamond Lance will now create three Stasis crystals (previously only bosses and vehicles would create additional crystals).
• Ursa Furiosa & Spirit of the Bear
  • Increased maximum Super energy gain for Unbreakable in PvE from 15% to 20%.
  • Fixed an issue where you were gaining more Super energy from Unbreakable in PvP than intended. Now provides a maximum of 10% per Unbreakable use.
• Cuirass of the Falling Star
  • Melee final blows while amplified now grant Super energy.
  • Reduced the damage bonus from Cuirass to Thundercrash from 2x to 1.55x.
    • When combined with the buff to Thundercrash base damage, this results in the same damage as it did previously.
  • Replaced the overshield after impact with damage resistance (50% in PvE and 10% in PvP).
• Pyrogale Gauntlets
  • Increased damage of the super cyclone explosions by 10%.
• Peacekeepers
  • Dealing damage to combatants with an SMG increases SMG damage for a short time. Maximum of 20 stacks (100% bonus damage), lasts for 1s, each hit adds a stack and refreshes the timer.
• Mask of the Quiet One
  • With a Void Super equipped, rapid final blows and final blows while at critical health will now grant Devour.
• Hazardous Propulsion
  • Fixed an issue where destroying certain objects, such as Stasis crystals, was being counted as a final blow for loading Exodus rockets.
    • Final blows caused by shattering crystals created via the weapon perk Headstone will still have a chance to load rockets.
• Stoicism
  • Spirit of the Star Eater
    • Reduced the benefit granted Twilight Arsenal from 70% to 25%.
    • Reduced the benefit granted to Thundercrash from 70% to 50%.
  • Spirit of the Horn
    • Activating Thruster now leaves a ball of Solar energy behind, exploding and applying scorch to enemies caught in the blast.
  • Spirit of Alpha Lupi
    • Activating Thruster now heals you and nearby allies.
  • Spirit of Hoarfrost
    • Activating Thruster now creates a pair of Stasis crystals.

Warlock

• Skull of Dire Ahamkara
  • Added “Weapon final blows while Devour is active grant Super energy,” with more energy provided for defeating powerful combatants.
• Ballidorse Wrathweavers
  • Adjusted the perk to increase the shatter damage of targets frozen by Shadebinder Super projectiles.
    • This means even allies breaking enemies out can activate the perk as well.
  • Added “Granting Frost Armor to your allies with Frostpulse or Winter’s Wrath grants you Super energy,” with more energy provided for aiding multiple allies.
• Sanguine Alchemy
  • Now marks targets you damage while standing in a Rift. You deal 10% extra damage from any source against marked targets.
  • Now provides Surge x4 to weapons that match your Super damage.
• Verity’s Brow & Spirit of Verity
  • Increased PvE grenade damage for the first stack of Death Throes from 20% to 40%. Each additional stack now provides +15% grenade damage, up to a max of +100% at five stacks.
    • PvP bonus damage is unchanged.
• Cenotaph Mask
  • The changes to the target marking have been reverted so that the applying player can once again see the marker.
• Osmiomancy Gloves
  • Reduced the increased seeker distance and speed by 50%.
• Speaker’s Sight
  • Orb of Power generation has been reenabled in PvP, where it now requires six instances of healing against a damaged ally to create an Orb.
    • PvE behavior is unchanged.
• Promethium Spur
  • Fixed an issue where Promethium Spur would grant class ability energy without a Solar Super equipped.
• Essentialism
  • Spirit of the Star Eater
    • Reduced the benefit granted to Nova Bomb from 70% to 50%.

Armor Mods

• The Emergency Reinforcements armor mod has been updated to no longer overwrite other sources of damage resistance.
• Changed the order of Momentum Transfer and Impact Induction to group with the other mods they better align with when looking at Gauntlet mod inventory.
• Fixed an issue where Font of Agility would display its perk description instead of its name in some tooltips.
• Fixed an issue with all seven Siphon mods that caused them to generate extra Orbs of Power when swapping helmets.
• Fixed an issue with the Harmonic Reserves armor mod where it would not reliably function while a Prismatic subclass was equipped.

Weapons

Weapon Archetypes

• Auto Rifle, Scout Rifle, Pulse Rifle, Submachine Gun, Sidearm, Hand Cannon
  • Rebalanced how PvE damage is dealt to slightly prioritize critical hits.
    • Increased critical hit damage by between 5% and 7% depending on subfamily.
    • Decreased body shot damage by between 5% and 7% depending on subfamily.
• Pulse Rifle
  • Heavy Burst (includes Graviton Lance and Revision Zero’s Heavy Burst)
    • Increased RPM from 300 to 324.
    • Decreased damage in PvE by 18% for Legendary weapons in this subfamily.
      • Graviton Lance and Revision Zero Heavy Burst mode reduced by 8%.
• Sniper Rifle
  • Reduced flinch received from enemy AI by 50%.
  • Reduced camera roll received from players by 10%.
  • Increased damage against:
    • Minors – 60%
    • Majors – 75%
    • Minibosses – 35%
    • Champions – 25%
• Glaive
  • Corrected an issue where perks that change magazine size could sometimes display incorrect preview values.
• Shotgun
  • Increased minimum damage after falloff from 0% to 40% vs AI only.
• Rocket-Assisted Sidearm
  • Reduced reserve ammo by 25%.
• Trace Rifles
  • Increased base PvP ammo from 25 to 29.
• Machine Gun
  • High Impact
    • Increased critical hit damage by 4%.
• Heavy Ammo Grenade Launcher
  • General
    • Decreased damage from the detonation by 5% against combatants
    • Increased projectile impact damage correspondingly, globally.
    • In PvE, total damage is the same, just split differently between detonation and impact.
    • In PvP, Heavy GLs now deal approximately 7% and 26% more impact damage, depending on the Blast Radius stat.
  • Rapid Fire
    • Increased impact and detonation damage by 7%.

PvP Weapon Tuning

• Sidearm
  • Rapid-Fire: Critical Hit Damage – 39.9 to 40
  • Adaptive: Critical Hit Damage – 57.45 to 57.6
  • Precision: Critical Hit Damage – 63.85 to 64
  • Adaptive Burst: Critical Hit Damage – 36.5 to 37
  • Heavy Burst: Critical Hit Damage – 47.9 to 48
  • Lightweight: Critical Hit Damage – 49.5 to 49.6
• Submachine Gun
  • Lightweight: Base Damage – 10.5 to 10.6
  • Adaptive: Base Damage – 10.9 to 11.5
  • Aggressive – Critical Hit Damage – 23.6 to 23.8
  • Precision – Base Damage – 16.5 to 16.7, Critical Hit Damage 26.8 to 26.7
• Auto Rifle
  • Rapid-Fire: Base Damage – 13.4 to 13.5, Critical Hit Damage – 22.9 to 22.95
  • Adaptive: Critical Hit Damage – 26.5 to 26.25
  • Precision: Base Damage – 19 to 19.4, Critical Hit Damage – 33.6 to 33.95
  • High-Impact: Base Damage – 22 to 23, Critical Hit Damage – 40.1 to 41.4
• Hand Cannon
  • Precision: Base Damage – 40.4 to 45.3, Critical Hit Damage – 70.25 to 70.22
  • Adaptive: Base Damage – 44.7 to 44.5, Critical Hit Damage – 80.3 to 80.1
  • Heavy Burst: Base Damage – 23.8 to 24, Critical Hit Damage – 49.6 to 52.8
  • Aggressive: Base Damage – 47.5 to 47.6, Critical Hit Damage – 88.1 to 88.05
• Pulse Rifle
  • Rapid-Fire: Critical Hit Damage – 27.25 to 27.55
  • Lightweight: Critical Hit Damage – 31 to 31.45
  • Adaptive: Base Damage – 20 to 22, Critical Hit Damage – 36.5 to 36.3
  • Heavy Burst: Critical Hit Damage – 41.95 to 42.55
  • High-Impact: Critical Hit Damage – 40.1 to 39.6
  • Aggressive: Critical Hit Damage – 30 to 30.2
• Scout Rifle
  • Rapid-Fire: Critical Hit Damage – 54.25 to 54.6
  • Lightweight: Critical Hit Damage – 63.85 to 64
  • Precision: Base Damage – 38 to 38.5
  • Aggressive: Critical Hit Damage – 91.1 to 91.8
  • High-Impact: Critical Hit Damage – 83.8 to 84
• Bow
  • Lightweight: Base Damage – 77.1 to 77, Critical Hit Damage – 123.3 to 123.2

Exotic Weapons

• Choir of One
  • Reduced base reserves from 250 to 200.
  • Reduced max reserves from 384 to 300.
  • Reduced impact damage of the Point-Blank projectile by 50%.
  • Increased hip fire projectile damage against players by 10%.
  • Now starts with seven ammo in Crucible and gains seven from crates and ammo bricks
• Huckleberry
  • Folded the original catalyst behavior into the base perk (kills now fully refill the magazine) and replaced the catalyst perk with Kinetic Tremors.
• Tarrabah
  • When Ravenous Beast is active, gain damage resistance against incoming Solar damage.
• Symmetry
  • Now gains a stack of Dynamic Charge on kills in addition to precision hits.
• Duality
  • On Black Wings stacks for max effect reduced from 5 to 3. Extended duration of buff from 7s to 10s.
• Lumina
  • Updated hip-fire projectiles to behave like Support Auto Rifle healing shots.
• Bad Juju
  • Increased lifetime of String of Curses from 3.5s base to 5.5s base.
• Ex Diris
  • Increased direct hit damage vs ai by 33%.
  • Reduced camera recoil from firing by ~50%.
  • +5 reserve ammo.
  • Now spawns a moth on 2 direct hits.
  • Reduced moth cooldown from 4s to 3s, shared with on kill trigger.
  • Increased projectile velocity.
  • Reduced projectile gravity.
• Fighting Lion
  • Spawns a volatile burst on direct hits.
• Prospector
  • Now spawns three cluster bombs on detonation.
  • Removed sticky grenades, flame grenades, and remote det function.
  • Mag size reduced to six.
  • +50 Reload speed instead of +70 inventory on MW.
• Chaperone
  • Added the ability to trigger Roadborn on two rapid precision hits.
  • Precision hits with Roadborn up also extend it by 3sec.
  • +20 stability, 0,75 reload mult with Roadborn active.
  • +20 inventory base.
• Ruinous Effigy
  • Changed the “Transmutation Sphere” obituary string to “Ruinous Effigy.”

Weapon perks

• Slice
  • Fixed an issue where the Sever debuff was not properly reducing outgoing damage from players.
• Slideways
  • Can now be refreshed if you slide again following the completion of the initial slide.
• Alloy Mag
  • Now increases reload speed when the magazine is near empty.
• Auto Loading Holster
  • Increased time to reload by one second for both base and enhanced.
• Reconstruction
  • Increased time to start reloading by two seconds for both base and enhanced.
• Sticky Grenades
  • On Heavy Ammo GLs, this perk now shifts the damage to more focused on the splash, so they can be more effective traps without losing out on the impact damage.
• Stunning Recovery
  • Now fully refills this weapon from reserves.
• Master of Arms
  • Can now stack up to x2.
    • x1 grants 15% damage for 7s
    • x2 grants 25% damage for 4s
      • Drops back to x1 when the timer expires.
• Dawning Surprise Origin Trait
  • Removed the time limit between kills, now requires kills in a life instead of in rapid succession.
• Air Trigger
  • Fixed an issue where the enhanced version was not granting additional reserves.
• Iron Reach, Iron Gaze, and Iron Grip
  • Reduced the downside stat penalties.
    • Base: From -30 to -20
    • Enhanced: From -25 to -15
• Enhanced Eddy Current
  • Fixed an issue where Amplified would not immediately boost the perk to its highest state.

Weapon Mods

• Added several new weapon mods
  • Can be equipped on any enhanced or crafted weapon.
  • Combo stat mod: bundles two stats (+6 / +6).
    • Ballistics: range/stability
    • Finesse: reload/handling
    • Aerodynamics: blast radius/projectile speed
    • Tension: draw time/accuracy
    • Edge: charge rate/guard resistance
  • Anti-flinch: 15% flinch reduction
  • Ammo Finder enhancement:
    • Special Finder Enhancement: faster progress on Special Ammo Finder.
    • Heavy Finder Enhancement: faster progress on Heavy Ammo Finder.
  • Optics mod: allows customization of weapon zoom
    • Marksman Optics: Sniper Rifle, Linear Fusion Rifle, Scout Rifle, Bow, Machinegun, Trace Rifle, Rocket Launcher
      • Marksman Optics: High: +2 zoom
      • Marksman Optics: Low: -2 zoom
    • CQC Optics: Hand Cannon, Pulse Rifle, Auto Rifle, Submachinegun, Sidearm, Fusion Rifle, Breech Grenade Launcher, Drum Grenade Launcher
      • CQC Optics: High: +1 zoom
      • CQC Optics: Low: -1 zoom
    • Synergy: spawns a subclass bauble matching this weapon’s damage type every 12 kills – Kinetic weapons spawn an orb of power instead.
    • Stunloader: partially refills this weapon’s magazine on stunning a Champion.

Weapon crafting

• The Garden of Salvation weapons are now craftable.
  • Each week, players can acquire a pursuit from Hawthorne in the Tower asking them to complete all encounters of the Garden of Salvation raid.
  • Completion will award guaranteed pattern progress until all patterns are acquired and unlock a vendor exchange on Hawthorne for one additional selectable Deepsight weapon.
• Updated the Season of Opulence reprised Swords and Shotgun to allow for equipping mementos.
• Updated the Season of Undying reprised weapons to allow for the equipping of mementos.
• Fixed an issue where weapon leveling boosting The Engima Glaive during the crafting introduction quest line did not properly complete the quest step.
• Fixed an issue where enhanced raid Adept weapons from Vow of the Disciple displayed the crafting overlay on their icon instead of the enhancement icon.

Weapon ornaments

• Fixed an issue causing some weapon ornaments to not look as intended.
  • Coldheart: Theoretical Endothermics
    • Fixed corrupted textures and pieces of the base weapon showing through the ornament.
  • Salvation’s Grip: Unyielding Grasp
    • Decals only intended for the base weapon no longer appear on the ornament.
  • Arbalest: Violent Exorcism
    • Decals only intended for the base weapon no longer appear on the ornament.
  • MIDA Mini-Tool: Defenseless, to Be Armed
    • Fixed corrupted textures when applied to the base MIDA Mini-Tool. No change when applied to CALUS Mini-Tool.
  • Drang: Alone, to Be Joined
    • Fixed corrupted textures when applied to the base Drang. No change when applied to Drang (Baroque).
  • Rapacious Appetite: The Bunker
    • Fixed pieces of the base weapon showing through the ornament.

Weapon fixes

• Fixed an issue where some weapons acquired with curated rolls pre-The Final Shape could not properly enhance their perks.
• Reduced the frequency of previewed magazine size being different than the real magazine size when a perk or Backup Mod is actually applied.
• Fixed an issue where Adept swords didn’t receive +3 bonus stats to other stats when fully Masterworked.
• Fixed an issue where Ergo Sum didn’t display in collections.
• Added a missing range stat to the Aberrant Action sidearm and adjusted some existing stats to distinguish it from Indebted Kindness which had the exact same stats.
  • Range: 0→27
  • Airborne Effectiveness: 11→13
  • Reload: 28→36
  • Blast Radius: 35→32
  • Velocity: 56→53
    • We opted to buff the Reload and AE stats to better synergize with Heal Clip and airborne gameplay with solar builds.
    • Blast Radius and Velocity were reduced to account for the origin trait and Incandescent already contributing to the area-of-effect capabilities of the weapon.
• Fixed an issue where the Sacred Flame trait’s explosion on Ergo Sum counted as damage from a Primary ammo weapon for the purposes of other systems, like Super or Transcendent energy gain or bounties.
• Fixed an issue where Caster Sword heavy attacks would not trigger perks like Whirlwind Blade and Cold Steel.
• Fixed an issue causing Two-Tailed Fox to not apply correct scorch values with the Ember of Eruption and Ember of Ashes fragments.
• Fixed an issue where using a Sword heavy attack would trigger a recharge delay on all equipped Swords – this now just applies to the Sword that performed the attack.
• Fixed an issue where the Loose Change weapon perk would not trigger when applying Weaken.
• Fixed an issue where Sniper Rifles, Glaives, Trace Rifles and Leviathan’s Breath did not get ammo reserves bonuses in our recent tuning.
• Fixed an issue where Wolfpack Rounds granted by Ergo Sum would not be created if given to user’s wielding Aggressive Frame Swords.
• Fixed an issue where Collective Action could not be triggered by Stasis shards created by the Whisper of Chains Stasis fragment.

Abilities

General

• Void Overshield
  • Increased Void Overshield PvE damage resistance from 50% to 70%.
    • This increases maximum effective HP from 90 to 150.
  • Facet of Command/Echo of Domineering
    • Cooldown reduced from 11 seconds to 4 seconds.
  • Swarm Grenade
    • Swarm Grenade submunitions are now easier for players to shoot down.
    • Swarm Grenade submunitions can now chain detonate other submunitions when destroyed.

Titan

• Towering Barricade, Rally Barricade
  • When a player is standing behind a barricade, the barricade now taunts combatants in front of the barricade.
  • Combatants in front of the barricade now shoot at the barricade instead of at the player behind the barricade.
  • Reduced non-boss combatant damage vs. barricades by 50%.
  • Increased combatant splash-damage reduction when standing behind the barricade from 20% to 60%.
  • Now grants moderate damage resistance vs. combatants during cast.
• Unarmed Melee
  • Increased damage to players by 5%.
  • Increased damage against PvE combatants by 20%.
  • Increased stun multiplier.
• Behemoth
  • Howl of the Storm
    • Howl of the Storm can now be used during the Glacial Quake Super.
  • Shiver Strike
    • Now attaches a Stasis explosive to the target on impact.
      • This detonation slows players and freezes combatants.
    • Now refunds 80% melee energy on whiff.
    • Increased energy recharge rate by 12.5%.
    • Immediately after landing a Shiver Strike attack, the attacker’s melee ability is now suppressed for 0.5s.
  • Diamond Lance
    • Thrown or slammed Diamond Lances will now shatter Stasis crystals.
    • Slamming a Diamond Lance will grant you and nearby allies two stacks of Frost Armor.
    • Changed the weapon tray HUD to display how many seconds are remaining before the Diamond Lance disappears, like a Tangle.
• Sentinel
  • Unbreakable
    • Now taunts enemies in front of the shield.
    • Damage blocked by Unbreakable now generates grenade energy.
    • Increased max duration the shield can be held.
    • Forward movement speed now slows down briefly when the shield is shot.
    • Reduced Unbreakable’s throw attack damage vs. players by 20%.
    • Increased damage bleed through from players by 15%.
    • Fully charged Unbreakable attacks will now one-shot Barricades in PvP except when the Barricade is under the effects of Heart of Inmost Light.
  • Banner Shield
    • Now taunts enemies in front of the shield.
  • Twilight Arsenal
    • Thrown axe projectiles now more consistently track towards targets closer to the reticle.
    • Increased Twilight Arsenal’s axe relic weapon damage vs combatants by 23%.
• Striker
  • Thundercrash
    • Increased base detonation damage by 33%.
  • Fist of Havok
    • Increased damage resistance from 51% to 58%.
    • Changed how the light attack works under the hood to improve consistency in hitting targets.
    • Slightly increased light attack lunge range and ability to target enemies vertically.
  • Thunderclap
    • Fully charged Thunderclap attacks will now one-shot barricades in PvP except when the barricade is under the effects of Heart of Inmost Light.
  • Knockout
    • Melee kills now cancel health and shield stun, in addition to healing, allowing you to immediately start regenerating.
• Sunbreaker
  • Consecration
    • Scorch and slam waves now shatter Stasis crystals.

Hunter

• Prismatic
  
  • Hailfire Spike Prismatic Grenade
    • Added projectile tracking and aim assist to increase consistency in hitting targets.
• Arcstrider
  • Combination Blow
    • Rescaled healing from a flat 80 HP per kill to 100/80/60/40 per kill based on stack count.
    • No longer clears health and shield stun on kill.
    • Removed the 1.5 second internal cooldown on healing.
  • Disorienting Blow
    • Reduced cooldown from 90 seconds at T3/45 seconds at T10 to 80 seconds at T3 and 41 at T10.
      • Disorienting Blow now has the same cooldown and energy gains as Combination Blow.
• Threadrunner
  • Threaded Specter
    • Increased detonation damage vs. combatants by 33%.
• Gunslinger
  • Golden Gun – Marksman and Deadshot
    • Increased damage against base, elite, and miniboss combatants by 30%.
• Nightstalker
  • Spectral Blades
    • Increased PvE damage by 20%.
    • Increased damage resistance from 47% to 58%.

Warlock

• Stormcaller
  • Stormtrance
    • Increased damage resistance from 53% to 58%.
  • Chaos Reach
    • Increased damage resistance from 45% to 55%.
    • Fixed an issue where Chaos Reach would not Jolt at high framerates.
    • Fixed an issue where Chaos Reach would not go through Sentinel Shield’s guard or a Citan’s Barricade.
  • Lightning Surge
    • The Warlock casting Lightning Surge now has 50% damage resistance vs. Titan Barricades during the lunge.
    • Casting Lightning Surge now also makes you Amplified.
• Voidwalker
  • Nova Warp
    • Increased PvE damage by 20%.
    • Increased damage resistance from 51% to 58%.
    • Now any Nova Warp detonation applies Volatile, regardless of charge duration.

Pathfinder

• Separated Rituals pathfinder into three separate Pathfinders.
  • Each pathfinder includes objectives that can be completed in any of the three ritual activities.
• Added a “freebie” objective in the first column for the first card of the week (one for each Pathfinder).
• Objectives rebalanced to reduce overall path completion times.
• Reward story is shared across Pathfinders (i.e. completing 3x of one Pathfinder is the same as completing 1x of each of the three Pathfinders).

Power and Progression

• Increased the Power Bands
  • Power Floor: 1900
  • Soft Cap: 1950 (increased from 1940)
  • Powerful Cap: 2000 (increased from 1990)
  • Hard Cap/Pinnacle Cap: 2010 (increased from 2000)

Gameplay Modifiers

• Banes
  • In higher difficulty activities such as Expert Nightfalls, combatants will randomly spawn with a random Bane applied.
    • Banes add an additional gameplay element to the combatant without interfering with their base combat behavior.

Localization

• Several voice talents have been temporarily recast.
  • Polish Crow
  • German Eramis
  • Mexican Spanish Eramis
  • Italian Eido
  • Italian Eramis
• Several voice talents have been permanently recast.
  • Polish Variks
  • Mexican Spanish Spider
  • Mexican Spanish Variks

General

• Fixed an issue keeping some players from acquiring the Encryption Key necessary to obtain the legendary Khvostov in the Pale Heart.
  • Affected players will need to make space in their consumables inventory; the next time they reach orbit they should have the Encryption Key.
• Fixed an issue causing Motes of Light to get stuck in some players’ postmaster or inventory after obtaining the exotic Khvostov.
  • Affected players should now be able to discard Motes of Light once they’ve obtained the Exotic.
• Fixed an issue where some conditional dialog from Failsafe on Nessus wouldn’t trigger as expected.
• Bundles that feature ornaments to your currently previewed Weapon or Armor will now also appear as options for purchase in the Appearance Modification screen.

Hunter

Lucky Pants

• Increased slide distance and sprint speed when using a Hand Cannon.
• Airborne Effectiveness bonus active when Hand Cannon is equipped.
• No longer requires matching damage type for PvE buff.
• PvE damage bonus reduced from 600% to 450%.

Young Ahamkara’s Spine

• Grants Tripmine Grenade energy on ability hits, not just final blows.
• PvE grenade energy +33%, PvP +8%.

Blight Ranger

• Can now cancel Arc Staff Super, damaging and blinding enemies while granting a Tier 4 Arc weapon damage boost.
• No longer creates Orbs of Power but refunds Super energy when reflecting projectiles.

Titan

Icefall Mantle

• Reworked to focus on Frost Armor. Heals on gaining Frost Armor and no longer prevents sprinting.
• Class ability freezes enemies and slows players on activation.

Cuirass of the Falling Star

• Reduced Thundercrash damage bonus from 2x to 1.55x.
• Replaced overshield with 50% damage resistance in PvE and 10% in PvP.

Peacekeepers

• SMG damage bonus increases with hits in PvE (up to 100%).

Warlock

Skull of Dire Ahamkara

• Weapon kills while Devour is active now grant Super energy (up to 4.5%).

Osmiomancy Gloves

• Reduced seeker distance and speed by 50% in PvP.

Weapon Tuning

Primary Weapons (PvE)

• Slight damage rebalance: critical hits now deal 5-7% more, body shot damage reduced by the same amount.

Heavy Burst Pulse Rifles

• RPM increased from 300 to 324. PvE damage reduced by 18%.

Sniper Rifles

• Increased non-boss damage: +60% to Minors, +75% to Majors, +35% to Minibosses.

Machine Guns

• High Impact: Increased critical hit damage by 4%.

Weapon Changes

Exotics

• Ex Diris: Increased direct hit damage, flatter trajectory, reduced recoil, increased projectile velocity, reduced projectile gravity, increased ammo reserves, spawns a moth on 2 direct hits, reduced moth cooldown.
• Fighting Lion: Spawns a volatile burst on direct hits.
• Prospector: Spawns cluster bombs on detonation, removed grenade functions, reduced mag size, changed catalyst bonus ammo reserves to reload speed.
• Chaperone: Added ability to trigger Roadborn on two rapid precision hits, extended Roadborn duration, increased stability and reload speed with Roadborn active, increased base ammo reserves.
• Lumina: Updated hip fire projectiles to behave more closely to Support Auto Rifle healing shots.

Weapon Perks

• Slice: Now works correctly in Crucible.
• Slideways: Can now be refreshed with another slide.
• Alloy Mag: Increases reload speed when magazine is near empty.
• Auto-Loading Holster/Reconstruction: Increased reload times.
• Master of Arms: Can now stack up to x2.
• Dawning Origin: Removed time limit between kills, now requires kills in a life.
• Iron Reach, Iron Gaze, Iron Grip: Reduced stat downside penalties.

Weapon Mods

• Added new weapon mods: combo stat mod, ballistics, tactical, aerodynamics, tension, edge, anti-flinch, ammo finder enhancement, optics mod, synergy, stunloader.

Weapon Crafting

• Seasonal weapons will not be craftable.
• Perks can still be enhanced.
• Updates to unlock as you play the Episode to target specific weapons and get extra perks.
• Reprised Garden of Salvation weapons with new perks.

Seasonal Weapons

• Insurmountable: Void Precision Frame Sidearm
• Sovereignity: Void Adaptive Frame Sniper Rifle
• Red Tape: Stasis Lightweight Frame Scout Rifle
• Vantage Point: Arc Adaptive Frame Pulse Rifle
• Exuviae: Stasis Aggressive Frame Hand Cannon
• Bitter/Sweet: Arc Adaptive Frame Grenade Launcher
• Liturgy: Stasis Double Fire Grenade Launcher

Other Changes

• Glaives: Significant updates.
• Heavy-ammo Sniper: Significant updates.
• Aggressive Frame Fusion Rifles: Updates.
• Ammo economy: Wide changes.
• New Iron Banner armor and weapons.
• Fixed weapon ornament issues.

Previously, Destiny 2 update 7.1 changes for the economy, weapon sandbox, abilities, exotic armor, quality of life, crucible, and enemy elemental shields. Today’s Destiny 2 update 3.40 will fix a few of these issues.

Related: Destiny 2 servers are down for maintenance. Check the Destiny 2 server status here.

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