Bungie posted a new This Week At Bungie blog update, and it contains a ton of upcoming balance changes for weapons in Destiny 2. The mid-season update for Destiny 2 season 17 is supposed to bring a lot of weapon balance changes, therefore this week’s blog post focuses mainly on weapons, revealing all the buffs or nerfs each weapon will be getting. 

Destiny 2 Upcoming Weapon Changes for Season 17 Mid-Season:

The blog post reads:

Here’s a deeper look into the changes coming to each weapon archetype:

• Scout Rifles – We felt they could still use a bit of love in PvE. 
• Increased damage of all Scout Rifles vs. Minor enemies (red bars) in PvE by 10%. 
• This change is in addition to the baseline damage buff given in the Solstice balance patch. 
• High-Impact (360 RPM) Auto Rifles – This sub-family of Auto Rifles has good damage output but low ease of use, leading them to under-perform compared to other options in the same engagement ranges. 
• Increased base stability stat of all non-sunset High-Impact Auto Rifles by 6-12, depending on the weapon (numerically this may seem like a small change, but it noticeably changes the feel of the weapons). 
• Lightweight Bows – This subfamily has languished compared to their higher damage counterparts for some time, in part due to difficulty hitting perfect draw shots, so we’ve made it a bit easier. 
• Reduced base draw time by 5% (from 612ms to 580ms). 
• Increased the “perfect draw” window (how long you can hold the drawn Bow before you begin to lose accuracy and damage, stability modifies this window). 
  • From .30s to .50s on the low end. 
  • From .55s to .80s on the high end. 
• Hand Cannons – Fixed Dire Promise’s zoom stat (got changed to 13 inadvertently, it’s now 14 again). 
• Glaives – Their interactions with some Exotic armor pieces can be confusing, so we’ve explicitly made some changes to align better with our stated goals. 
• Glaive melee attacks can now activate the Exotic armor perks on ACD/0 Feedback Fence, Karnstein Armlets, and Necrotic Grip. 
• Breech Grenade Launchers – Concussion grenades can no longer roll in the magazine slot (blinding grenades are a better option in the same slot that serves the same purpose). 
• Heavy Grenade Launchers – These don’t see a ton of support in PvE, so we hope this makes them feel a bit better as a DPS or yellow-bar clearing option.  
• Increased damage vs. Majors and above by ~10% (excluding Parasite, which does not need to do more damage). 

WEAPON POOLS 

PERKS 

• The Gambit and Iron Banner origin traits were too specific to be generally useful, so they’ve both been redesigned. 
• • Redesigned functionality to give a sprint speed increase on multi-kills. Invader Tracker (Gambit Origin Trait) Renamed Gun and Run. 
  • Skulking Wolf (Iron Banner Origin Trait) 
    • Redesigned to activate on kills while at low health (so it will work in all PvP now).  
• Ambitious Assassin has fallen behind perks with similar functionality (such as Overflow)—we’ve adjusted this to have a higher potential than before. 
  • Increased magazine overflow from 10% to 20% per kill on Primary weapons only (Special and Heavy weapons are still 10%). 
  • Increased overflow cap from 50% to 150%. 
• Wellspring had an internal cooldown to prevent it from activating too frequently—we no longer feel this is needed. 
  • Cooldown has been removed, allowing for Rocket Launchers and Grenade Launchers to return more ability energy when defeating groups with a single shot. 
• Perpetual Motion was triggering frequently enough to be annoying, so we disabled audio/visual feedback on perk activation. 
• Lead from Gold wasn’t respecting the functionality of splitting the Special ammo picked up when two Special weapons were equipped. 
  • Now gives the correct amount of ammo to each weapon when two Special weapons are equipped. 
• Concussion Grenades can no longer roll on breech Grenade Launchers. 
• Veist Stinger was intended to grant ammo on weapons that support it, and charge/draw time on Bows only, this was inadvertently applying to Linear Fusion Rifles as well, making it too strong for an origin trait on them. 
  • Fixed a bug where it was applying a charge time reduction to Linear Fusion Rifles—it will correctly only refill the magazine from reserves when it triggers on these weapons. 
• Zen Moment has always had a description that confused players (Particle Repeater too). Their descriptions have been updated to say what they actually do.

EXOTICS

BUFFS