Exotic Armor Changes Coming To Destiny 2

The last few months in Destiny 2 have been a whirlwind of balance changes and new promised content, as Bungie looks to make good on their vow to make players feel more powerful. Some of the changes involve making tweaks and updates to exotic armor that the developer and community felt were not performing to the expectations set. Here’s a list of some of the armor and the changes that should be coming through in the coming weeks.

Hunter

Lucky Raspberry

• Increased chance to fully recharge your Arcbolt Grenade on Arcbolt Grenade hits.
• Guarantees a recharge on getting a full chain that hits four targets.

St0mp-EE5

• Increased benefits when using Strafe Jump and Triple Jump.

Young Ahamkara’s Spine

• Removed marking functionality. 
• Improved the Tripmine Grenade’s blast radius and throw speed, and made it so your Tripmine Grenades are harder to destroy.
• Solar ability hits now grant some Tripmine Grenade energy.

Titan

ACD/0 Feedback Fence

• Now grants Fury Conductor stacks on melee hits instead of kills. 
• Fury Conductors now grants stacking melee damage resistance.

Doomfang Pauldrons

• Void melee kills now grant more Super energy.
• Shield Throw hits will now extend the duration of your Super.

Dunemarchers

• Reduced the time to activate Linear Actuators while you are sprinting to 1.5 seconds (down from 5 seconds). 
• Increased the damage of the chain lightning effect (+70% in PvP, 440% in PvE).

Warlock

Crown of Tempests

• Collapsed the total number of stacks of Conduction Tines to 3 (with the same total effect), and each stack of Conduction Tines lowers the upkeep cost of Stormtrance.

Karnstein Armlets

• Removed melee hit effects (resilience/mobility/target highlighting). 
• Melee kills now instantly heal you, then grant continuous healing for 8 seconds.

Starfire Protocol

• Empowering Rift weapon damage hits now grant Fusion Grenade energy (20%).

With these proposed changes, hopefully the exotic armor’s will once again make players feel like the light slinging badass’ they are, as well as hopefully giving more choices on what armor players will use in the game. For more Destiny 2 news, check out our guide on where to find Xur, and what he’s selling this weekend.