Divinity is getting nerfed, once more


A brand new Future 2 weapon tuning preview has outlined Unique weapon nerfs and buffs in addition to injury will increase coming to a number of weapon archetypes in The Ultimate Form.

Divinity has been a dominant pressure in endgame Future 2 content material for too lengthy. You understand this and Bungie is aware of it. Now, Bungie is taking it again out behind the shed for an additional nerf, this time to its ammo financial system.

A Titan holding Divinity
It’s going to now take 75% extra ammo to generate the weaken impact on an enemy.
Supply: Bungie

In a weapon tuning preview for The Ultimate Form, Bungie outlined dozens of upcoming adjustments to weapon archetypes, nerfs to Exotics, and changes to perks and mods. Divinity is on the prime of the listing of Unique nerfs and whereas the gun’s nerf again in October 2022 noticed the weaken impact drop from 30 % to fifteen %, this upcoming nerf will goal its ammo financial system:

  • Elevated the variety of photographs required to generate the cage by 75% towards combatants (PvP unchanged).

The excellent news for many who rely closely on Divinity is that the injury is unchanged and also you’ll nonetheless have the ability to feather the set off to maximise your ammo. Nonetheless, should you lose the “cage” it generates you can be at a major drawback. You’ll now must be extra aware of stocking up on Particular ammo between injury phases and making certain you employ the weapon successfully.

A Hunter holding an Osteo Striger
Osteo Striga’s poison-on-kill is getting a cooldown.
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As for different Unique weapon nerfs, Osteo Striga now has a 4-second cooldown between poison bursts on kill. The poison from sustained injury is unchanged. This modification was to cease Osteo Striga from wiping complete encounters just by defeating a number of trash tier mobs.

The Lament has additionally been knocked down a number of pegs, with its therapeutic impact diminished by 20 % and the “excessive finish of the chain heavy assault” additionally hit with a 20 % injury discount. Whereas Swords did obtain a 7 % buff throughout the board, it stays to be seen if this makes every other Unique Sword a viable choice for boss DPS.

A number of Exotics did obtain buffs together with Rat King, Symmetry, Contact of Malice, Necrochasm, Useless Man’s Story, The Colony, Reality, Bastion, Eriana’s Vow and others. All of those buffs look to enhance every weapon’s performance within the sandbox.

The collections screen showing mods with cancel marks over the Spec mods
Say goodbye to Spec mods and whats up to extra freedom when decking out your weapons.
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Extra excellent news comes within the type of the Spec mods being faraway from Future 2. Minor, Main, Boss, Taken, and Adept Massive Ones Specs shall be gone and to complement this loss in injury, Bungie is lifting the injury of a number of weapon varieties. This implies you gained’t simply mechanically slap a Spec mod into your gun and can now get to truly select one thing significant to you in PvE.

On the Wave Body Grenade Launcher entrance, we are able to all agree that Forbearance outshines each different choice in Future 2. In a bid to rein in Wave Body’s energy, Bungie is adjusting the width, size, and peak of the waves and making it in order that Blast Radius impacts these stats.

Moreover, Chain Response will do 20 % much less injury on Particular weapons and have a 15 % smaller area-of-effect. Heavy weapons will as an alternative get a 30 % injury buff to Chain Response. It nonetheless doesn’t  look like a good suggestion to make use of a Heavy Grenade Launcher with Chain Response to clear waves of enemies when you may use a Machine Gun, however this could be a distinct story when The Ultimate Form drops.

There are a bunch of different changes to weapons and perks, so give the weapon tuning a radical learn so that you’re ready when The Ultimate Form drops. Talking of being ready, try our information on learn how to put together for The Ultimate Form for tips about what to farm, what to gather, and extra.

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