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TL;DR:
Portal & Progression Updates
After feedback from the community after last week’s TWID, the following planned changes will not happen:
- Reduction to Power earned for a given grade in Solo Ops
- Reduction of engrams earned in Encore, Starcrossed, and Whisper
- Prime Engrams must be decrypted at the Tower
To be clear, the above changes are now NOT happening.
Buffs - Fireteam Ops
- Update 9.0.0.8 (Live now)
- Increased Matchmade Fireteam Ops time limits
- Expert: +25%
- Master: +50%
- Grandmaster: +75%
- Increased Matchmade Fireteam Ops time limits
- Update 9.1.0.0 (Ash & Iron)
- Increase number of drops for Liminality, Inverted Spire, and Onslaught: Widow’s Court
- Activity timers have been rebalanced for Solo, Pinnacle, and Fireteam Ops
- Fireteam Ops has a greater value for speed vs. killing all enemies
- NEW: Increase the number of drops for many more activities in Fireteam Ops (exact activities are still being finalized)
- NEW: Removed unpopular modifiers like Grappler from the Fireteam Ops matchmaking pool (still selectable)
Buffs - Portal Rewards
- Chance of Prime Engram drop per completion reward.
- Activities with more base completion rewards, such as Liminality and Inverted Spire, will provide more chances for Prime Engrams to drop.
- NEW: Working on creating a more consistent Power reward experience for the upper Power climb (in Ash & Iron, this will be Power 500-550).
More Buffs!
Reminders from previous TWIDs of upcoming buffs:
- The Desert Perpetual raid
- Weekly challenges added
- Improved gear tier drops
- Gear attunement added
- Portal
- The time bonus will grant 5% minimum score if you make the timer
- Account Power will be used for reward score instead of Equipped Power
- Conquests are replayable
Heavy Metal is back in the Crucible!
Heavy Metal returns for seven days! (September 2nd through September 9th)
Reward Highlights:
- Rank 5: Heavier Duty emblem
- Rank 10: Sword Holofoil
- Rank 14: Gryphon Exotic Sparrow
- Rank 15: Kinetic Shotgun Holofoil
Twitch Drops will be available, watch a participating streamer on Twitch for one hour between 10AM PT September 2nd and 10AM PT September 9th to receive the Mad Dog emblem!
Class Fantasy In Destiny
(MoSadie’s note: This is a lot of developer insights, so I’m only highlighting a few key points, please check the Original TWID for all the insights!)
Warlock
Warlocks weaponize the mysteries of the universe to sustain themselves and devastate their foes.
Warlock Traits
- Battlefield control
- Arcane abilities
- Ally empowerment
Changes In Progress
A specific update has not been specified for these.
- General
- The following Warlock turrets will now count as grenades for stats and perks:
- Ionic Sentry
- Arc Soul
- Hellion
- Bleak Watcher
- Child of the Old Gods
- The following Warlock turrets will now count as grenades for stats and perks:
- Empowering Rift (Class Ability)
- Will now generate neutral-game ability energy over time
- Kills while standing in Empowering Rift will generate bonus ammo progress:
- +15% Special
- +10% Heavy
Titan
Disciplined and proud, Titans are capable of both aggressive assaults and stalwart defenses.
Titan Traits
- Aggressive assault
- Damage mitigation
- Artillery expert
Changes In Progress
A specific update has not been specified for these.
- Howl of the Storm (Stasis Aspect)
- Will now grant two melee charges
- Changed Stasis Crystal spawn pattern and added four more crystals
- Bastion (Void Aspect)
- Will now have faster cooldown in PVE
Hunter
Agile and daring, Hunters are quick on their feet and quicker on the draw.
Hunter Traits
- Attack precision
- Infiltration
- Damage avoidance
Changes In Progress
A specific update has not been specified for these.
- On Your Mark (Solar Aspect)
- Stacks of On Your Mark now give Weapons stat instead of weapon handling and reload
- Max of 40 Weapons stat at ten stacks
- Rescaled stack count to a max of ten stacks
- Precision hits now give one stack, precision final blows now give two stacks
- Precision final blows at ten stacks now Cure you instead of giving Radiant
- Stacks of On Your Mark now give Weapons stat instead of weapon handling and reload
- Golden Gun: Deadshot (Solar Super)
- Now refunds ammo on Golden Gun final blows instead of on Ignitions
- Now extends super duration on Golden Gun final blows
- Duration gain diminishes with final blows, grants less in Crucible
- Marksman’s Dodge (Class Ability)
- Now reloads all weapons on activation
- Now picks up nearby ammo bricks on activation
Destiny Rising Launch
There is an exclusive emblem to earn for completing the Bear the Light quest in Destiny: Rising!
You’ll get an emblem code you can redeem at https://bungie.net/redeem
Last Call to Donate in Support of Ronald McDonald House Charities
The campaign ends 8/28 at 11:59 PM PT. Don’t miss your chance to get the emblem!
Donate $25 to get the brand new Tartan Tribute emblem! (Make sure to select the reward!)
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Player Support Report
Known Issues List
- Players who have the Gladius armor ornament set (Titan) equipped on PlayStation consoles will crash if they enter Portal activities. Those affected are recommended to unequip the ornaments until the issue is resolved.
- Tempest Strike does not activate Combination Blow consistently.
- The red-dot sight for the Antedate SMG is slightly off-center.
- The Duality dungeon is unable to be completed on Master difficulty due to the bells teleport not functioning.
- Players are unable to complete The Corrupted when it is active in the daily Nightfall rotator due to the teleport mechanic not functioning.
- Players will encounter HONEYDEW errors when selecting a Portal activity and difficulty, then swapping gear and dropping below the power requirement.
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| Date | Post |
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| Jun 18th, 2021 | Introducing TWABL;DR |
What?
These are summaries of announcements from Bungie. This site mainly focuses on their weekly This Week at Bungie/This Week in Destiny series, but other blog posts and announcements are summarized when important. There summaries are targeted towards Destiny 2 players who are familiar with the game. I will do my best to put spoiler tags on any major reveals that happen in a given week, but I would always recommend being caught up on any weekly story quests before reading a TL;DR or TWAB/TWID.
Why?
I write these for my clan every week and post them in our Discord, figured others would want a TL;DR as well. Discord has a small character limit so I made it a website instead. This is also a chance for me to learn more about GitHub Pages and Jekyll.