Exotic Mission Rotator comes to Destiny
Exotic Armor Reworks
Hunter Exotics
- Knucklehead Radar receiving all functionality from Foetracer
- Foetracer now gives bonus weapon damage whenever you do damage with an ability matching the weapon's subclass, and killing an enemy with either will spawn a subclass object (Ionic Trace, Firesprite, etc)
- Lucky Raspberry now gives grenade energy based on Arc Bolt grenade damage rather than based on the number of chained enemies in the grenade, and the Arc Bolt grenade can instantly stun Overloads
- Renewal Grasps is getting Duskfield grenade cooldown boost to match old pre-nerf values
Titan Exotics
- Icefall Mantle, Doom Fang Pauldrons, Path of the Burning Steps, and Eternal Warrior now all have damage bonus stacks (up to x4) based on multi kills with respective subclass type, with instant max stacks achieved by using your class ability (Icefall), getting a melee kill (Doom Fang), getting a grenade kill (Path), and your Fist of Havoc super ending (Eternal)
- ACD/0 Feedback Fence has a new perk where melee hits that provide an Armor Charge will give you melee damage resistance for the duration of the Armor Charge, but expend that Charge and Jolt nearby targets after receiving melee damage
- Hallowfire Heart no longer gives ability energy, but now allows you to create more sunspots (Bungie doesn't specify how): however, ability regen rates still remain when Super is full
Warlock Exotics
- Astrocyte Verse has additional functionality where blinking makes enemies volatile, and Nova Warp's Dark Blink no longer consumes super energy
- Geomag Stabilizers now gives super energy from collecting Ionic Traces
- Wings of Sacred Dawn now reloads solar weapons from reserves on each kill while aiming down sights
- Winter's Guile will now auto shatter enemies that were frozen with Penumbral Blast after a short delay
Ability Reworks
Titan Barricades
- Towering Barricade cooldown increased from 48s to 70s
- All barricades' health reduced from 600 to 500
- Barricades now have increased damage resistance in PvE to compensate
Striker Titans
- Thundercrash cooldown increased from 500s to 556s
- Knockout PvP damage reduced from 50 to 30
Suspend
- Suspend duration vs non-Champions decreased from 8s to 5s
- Thread of Continuity extension now increases suspend to 7s, instead of 12s
- Suspend duration vs Champions decreased from 8s to 3s (ToC increases to 4s)
- Snap damage dealt to suspended bosses increased by 67%
Thread of Mind
- Reduced class energy gain based on target tier
- Minor kills reduced from 15% to 10%
- Major kills reduced from 25% to 15%
- Boss and Champion kills reduced from 50% to 25%
Thread of Generation
- Reduced energy gain per damage event by 20%
- Precision and automatic primaries now give similar energy gains
- Overall, precision primaries benefit from this change
Strand Verbs
- Threadling PvE damage increased by 30%
- Tangle creation cooldown reduced from 15s to 12s
- Sever now reduces PvE combatant damage by 40%, up from 30%
Silkstrike
- Increased super's damage resistance from 40% to 45%
- Reduced suppression time between super air attacks
- Reduced vertical lift from heavy air attack to minimize chance of missing target
Threaded Specter
- Lifetime increased for 10s to 12s
- Increased health vs PvE combatants
- Specter now takes longer to detect PvE combatants when created
- PvE combatants now target Specter more consistently
- Allies no longer have reticle magnetism on the Specter
The Wanderer
- Destroying a Tangle now creates a delayed Suspend detonation
- Suspend detonation radius increased from 6m to 7m for PvE
- Detonation damage from throwing a Tangle now matches that of shooting one
Grapple
- Grapple melee now take priority regardless of enemies being in range
Strand Fragments
- Propagation now grants +10 strength
- Continuity no longer grants +10 strength
- Wisdom no longer requires precision kills
- Isolation no requires about 30% less precision hits
- Rebirth now creates 1 Threadling for Minors, 2 for Majors, and 3 for Bosses and Champions
Zavala's Future
- Keith David will assume the role of Commander Zavala starting with the Final Shape
- He has worked with Bungie in the past, voicing the Arbiter from Halo 2&3
- "I am honored to continue the great work of Lance Reddick as Zavala. Lance captured the character's sense of integrity so wonderfully. It is my intention to continue that work."
- Lance's existing lines will remain untouched
Exotic Mission Rotator
Updated Systems
- Exotic weapons entering the playlist will become craftable
- Each mission will have a Normal and Legendary difficulty
- Each mission will have a pool of legacy armor and craftable weapons
- Each mission will feature the same reward structure
- No legacy triumph progression for these missions
- Completion rewards either 4 points (normal) or 7 points (legendary) for Xur's Xenology quest
Presage Rewards (requires Beyond Light or Season of the Chosen)
- DMT w/ updated perk pool
- Nezarec's Whisper
- Bump in the Night
- Tears of Contrition
- Hollow Denial
- Firefright
- Without Remorse
- Austringer
- Drang
- Beloved
- CALUS Mini-Tool
- Eidolon Pursuant armor set
Vox Obscura Rewards (requires Witch Queen or Season of the Risen)
- Dead Messenger w/ additional perk
- Explosive Personality
- Recurrent Impact
- Under Your Skin
- Sweet Sorrow
- Thoughtless
- Piece of Mind
- Tusked Allegiance armor set
Operation: Seraph's Shield (requires Witch Queen or Season of the Seraph)
- Revision Zero
- Fire and Forget
- Tripwire Canary
- Disparity
- Path of Least Resistance
- Judgment of Kelgorath
- Retrofit Escapade
- Warmind's Avatar armor set
Reward Structure
- First completion earns exotic weapon pattern
- Additional completions unlock a new crafting perk for the exotic
- Legendary completions award the Exotic's catalyst
- First completion each week will reward a deepsight weapon for a legacy weapon that you don't have the pattern for (otherwise a random legacy weapon will drop)
- After that, each completion will earn a legacy weapon drop with a change to be deepsight
Rotator Challenges
- Complete a specific challenge to receive an additional pinnacle reward
- The reward is a guaranteed deepsight weapon pattern from the legacy weapon pool
- If all patterns are unlocked, the reward will be an un-obtained piece of legacy armor
- If all armor is unlocked, the reward will be a random legacy weapon or armor
D2 Showcase Details
- August 22 @ 9AM PT
- Preshow @ 8AM PT
- https://www.bungie.net/twitch.tv/bungie
- https://www.youtube.com/user/destinygame/home/live
Known Issues
- Certain Honored Centurions in the Gilded Precept Lost Sector are abnormally bright.
- The Wish-Ender Exotic Bow is not reliably shooting through Cabal and Hydra shields.
- Certain sights on the Judgement Hand Cannon have lost their red dot.