This week at Bungie, we have sandbox updates.
Weapon Changes S18
Global
- Fixed update that caused too much heavy to drop when running double special
- AE, recoil, zoom, and aim assist now visible on weapon inspection
Scouts
- 10% buff to minors in PVE
360 RPM Autos
- Increased stability of all non-sunset 360 autos by 6-12
Lightweight Bows
- Reduced draw time by 5%
- Increased perfect draw time by roughly .2 seconds
Hand Cannons
- Fixed Dire Promises's to be 14 instead of 13
Glaives
- Glaive melee attacks will now activate Exotic armor perks
Breech Grenade Launchers
- Can no longer roll concussion grenades in the magazine slot
Heavy GLs
- 10% buff to Majors and Bosses in PVE (excludes Parasite)
Weapon Perk Changes S18
- Dares of Eternity weapons have updated perk pools and a new origin trait
- Fixed bug for playlist weapons not dropping with correct perk amount based on user's rank
- Gambit origin trait now named Gun and Run, and gives sprint speed on multi-kills
- Iron banner origin trait now activates on kills while at low health
- Ambitious Assassin now overflows 20% on Primary weapons, and overflow cap raised from 50% to 150%
- Wellspring no longer has internal cooldown
- Perpetual Motion audio/visual feedback removed since it activates pretty much always
- Lead from Gold now works properly for those running double special
- Viest Stinger no longer decreases charge time on Linear Fusions
- Zen Moment and Particle Repeater descriptions updated to make more sense
Exotic Buffs S18
Le Monarque
- Poison now triggers Overload
Thunderlord
- Now triggers Overload
Malfeasance
- Explosions trigger Unstoppable and now has an AE of 53
Wish-ender
- Now triggers Anti-Barrier
- Increased vehicle hits to 3
- Increased champion/major and mini-boss damage by 10%
- Decreased draw time slightly
Ticuu's Divination
- Decreased draw time slightly
Legend of Acrius
- Catalyst now grants Trench Barrel
- Stats brought up to parity
Calus Mini-Tool
- AE increased to 28
MIDA Mini-Tool
- Increased zoom to 14
Drang (Baroque)
- AE increased to 23
Sweet Business
- Increased AE to 32
Fighting Lion
- Buffed damage by 8%
- Increased grace period for Thin the Herd to 6s
Exotic Reworks S18
Lord of Wolves
- Starting ammo for PvP lowered to 10
- Burst size of Release the Wolves lowered to 5 bullets
- Burst delay for Release the Wolves lowered by 60%
- Increased PVE damage by 20%
DMT
- Cranial Spike no longer buffs damage in PvP, just PvE
- Cranial Spike now also increases reload, aim assist, and range per stack
- At max stacks, catalyst now increases rate of fire to 180, with a 20% bullet damage reduction
Collective Obligation
- Increased Void Leech timer to 15s for PvE
- Removed cooldown
- Added 20% damage for Void Leech in PvE
- Less hits required to fully charge Void Leech
- Kills against debuffed targets auto trigger Void Leech
- Getting affected by a void debuff also auto triggers Void Leech
- Umbral Sustenance no longer activates on non-Void overshields
Armor S18
- Omnioculus and Whisper of Chain damage resistance is reduced
- Tier 1: 10% to 2.5%
- Tier 2: 15% to 5%
- Tier 3: 20% to 7.5%
- Tier 4: 25% to 10%
Future Changes (mid S18 and Beyond)
- Reducing Shotgun spread randomness
- Reducing Bow-swapping effectiveness
- Increasing Trace Rifle ease of use
- Introduce the full-auto setting
- Reducing the ability of Snipers to shoot through flinch in PvP
- Examining targeted balance changes to certain PvP outliers.
- Pulse Rifles without of band effectiveness.
- High Impact Scout Rifle ease of use.
- Precision Fusion Rifle ease of use.
- Allowing Glaive interactions with some Exotic armors that buff melees.
- Fixing Glaive hit detection.
- Reworking some enhanced perks.
- Folding Spec mods into the base perks.