Here’s a list of all the major updates and changes coming in Destiny 2 Heresy Act 2, including a new activity, weapons, Guardian Games event, and more.
Destiny 2’s third and final Episode, Heresy, kicked off last month with Act 1, introducing a new activity called The Nether, new weapons and armor, and the Barrow-Dyad Exotic Submachine Gun. Now, Act 2 is just around the corner, launching next week on March 11, and Bungie is adding even more to the game.
We’re getting a new seasonal activity, more weapons, Guardian Games changes, and some much-needed PvP adjustments. Here’s a breakdown of the eight biggest changes coming in Heresy Act 2.
1. Court of Blades: A New Seasonal Activity
A brand-new activity called Court of Blades is coming with Heresy Act 2. As the name suggests, it takes inspiration from Destiny 1’s Court of Oryx activity while incorporating some roguelike elements. You’ll use runes to power up your abilities.
Plus, if you take on the hardest version of this activity, there will be Adept weapons waiting as a reward. Learn more about this activity here.
2. Five New Seasonal Weapons
Heresy Act 2 is adding five new seasonal weapons to the loot pool. These include a mix of different weapon types and elements:
- Refusal of the Call Strand Adaptive Glaive
- Anamnesis Void Lightweight Bow
- Division Arc Sidearm
- Mirror Imago Strand Submachine Gun
- Afterlight Void Adaptive Fusion Rifle
Check out the full perk pool for each of these weapons below.
Refusal of the Call
- Weapon Type: Glaive
- Adaptive Glaive: Hybrid melee/ranged polearm with a frontal shield. Generates energy on dealing ranged damage. [Aim Down Sights]: Raise shield, depleting energy over time [Melee]: Kinetic melee combo
- Element: Strand
- RPM: 55
- Magazine: 4
- Perks:
- Column 3: Impulse Amplifier, Slice, Tilting at Windmills, Envious Assassin, Replenishing Aegis, Discord, Auto-Loading Holster
- Column 4: Melee Momentum, Vorpal Weapon, Unstoppable Force, Sword Logick, Close to Melee, Disruption Break, Beacon Rounds
Division
- Weapon Type: Sidearm
- Heavy Burst: Fires a hard-hitting, two-round burst. Slightly reduces flinching from incoming fire while aiming.
- Element: Arc
- RPM: 325
- Magazine: 24
- Perks:
- Column 3: Perfect Float, Eddy Current. Hip-Fire Grip, To the Pain, Pugilist, Grave Robber, Encore
- Column 4: Voltshot, Kill Clip, Sword Logic, Swashbuckler, Offhand Strike, Eye of the Storm, Surrounded
Anamnesis
- Weapon Type: Combat Bow
- Lightweight Frame: Recurve Bow. Draw quickly and move faster while this weapon is equipped. [Reload]: Use while drawn to cancel the shot.
- Element: Void
- Draw Time: 580
- Perks:
- Column 3: Archer’s Tempo, Dragonfly, Successful Warm-Up, Hip-Fire Grip, Repulsor Brace, To the Pain, Perfect Float
- Column 4: Destabilizing Rounds, Demoralize, Adagio, Impulse Amplifier, Sword Logic, Moving Target, Explosive Head
Afterlight
- Weapon Type: Fusion Rifle
- Adaptive Frame: A well-rounded grip, reliable and sturdy
- Element: Void
- Charge Time: 660
- Perks:
- Column 3: Under Pressure, Grave Robber, Lead from Gold, Discord, Offhand Strike, Ambitious Assassin, Pugilist
- Column 4: Reservoir Burst, Swashbuckler, Adagio, Cornered, Vorpal Weapon, Successful Warm-Up, Destabilizing Rounds
Mirror Imago
- Weapon Type: Submachine Gun
- Adaptive Frame: A well-rounded grip, reliable and sturdy
- Element: Strand
- RPM: 900
- Magazine: 36
- Perks:
- Column 3: Recycled Energy, Subsistence, Grave Robber, Pugilist, To the Pain, Moving Target, Overflow
- Column 4: Hatchling, Target Lock, Swashbuckler, Sword Logic, Permeability, Offhand Strike, Unrelenting
3. New Artifact Perks
The Tablet of Ruin, Heresy’s seasonal artifact, is getting five new perks. These can be found below.
- Overload Trace Rifles: Uninterrupted fire from your equipped Trace Rifle causes the beam to stun combatants, delaying ability energy regeneration and exhausting them. Strong against Overload Champions.
- Exhausted targets deal reduced outgoing damage.
- Beam Medic: Rapid Trace Rifle final blows heal you and nearby allies. Powerful combatants increase the amount.
- Elemental Siphon: Rapid final blows with a Kinetic weapon or a weapon matching your equipped Super create an elemental pickup that matches your equipped Super.
- Boost: Elemental pickups grant matching Super energy when they are collected.
- Harsh Refraction: Trace Rifles do more damage to targets afflicted by elemental debuffs matching their elemental type.
- Limit Break: Casting a Super while you are critically wounded or have an elemental buff matching your Super element grants a period of increased Super damage.
4. Barrow-Dyad Exotic Gets Its Exotic Catalysts
The Exotic SMG Barrow-Dyad, introduced in Heresy Act 1, is finally getting its first two Exotic Catalysts in Act 2. The last two Catalysts for this gun will arrive in Act 3, so players will have something to look forward to in the next update as well.
5. Guardian Games 2025
Guardian Games is back on March 11, and this year, it’s bringing a new boss rush mode called Rushdown. In this mode, you’ll face off against bosses from various campaigns, seasonal story missions, and Exotic quests. Each round gets tougher, and you’ll have a limited amount of time to clear all five encounters. The faster you are, the better rewards you get.
There’s also a brand-new Gladiator-style armor set for each class:
- Titans: Honor of Ares
- Hunters: Glory of Apollo
- Warlocks: Favor of Athena
And if that wasn’t enough, there’s also a new Arc Trace Rifle called Keraunios up for grabs.
- Weapon Type: Trace Rifle
- Adaptive Frame: A well-rounded grip, reliable and sturdy
- Element: Arc
- RPM: 1000
- Magazine: 98
- Perks:
- Column 3: Overflow, Hip-Fire Grip, Discord, Recycled Energy, Perfect Float, Dynamic Sway Reduction, Eddy Current
- Column 4: Detonator Beam, Rolling Storm, Killing Tally, Jolting Feedback, Closing Time, Harmony, Killing Wind
6. Redrix’s Estoc Updates
Bungie is tuning down Redrix’s Estoc, which has been dominating PvP following the Heresy update last month. Here’s what’s changing:
- Sword Logic changes:
- Reduced base damage bonus for kills against players from 20% to 15%.
- Increased damage bonus for kills against players in super from 35% to 50%.
- Handling stat on Redrix’s Estoc is dropping from 79 to 74.
7. Trials & Competitive Solo Loss Forgiveness System
Starting in Act 2, Trials of Osiris and Competitive playlists will get a new loss forgiveness system for solo players. If you’re a solo player who gets matched against a bigger fireteam (duos or trios), you get a loss forgiveness as long as you “do not quit, go AFK, or intentionally throw the game.”
“Any solo player that gets matched against a larger fireteam in either Trials or Competitive will be granted loss forgiveness for the match, on the condition that they do not quit, go AFK, or intentionally throw the game,” said Bungie in the latest This Week in Destiny blog article.
8. Void Hunter Updates
Bungie is adjusting Void Hunter’s smoke abilities and the On the Prowl aspect in Crucible to make them less frustrating for other players. Here’s what’s changing:
- Smoke:
- No longer reduces player move speed or jump height.
- No longer reduces player weapon handling.
- No longer suppresses player movement abilities.
- On the Prowl:
- Hunted players no longer have pink glow in first-person perspective.
- Reduced the glow intensity on hunted players in third person.
And that does it for this article. What are you most looking forward to in Heresy Act 2? Let us know in the comments below!
