Bungie has shared its full list of Exotic armor changes coming in the Destiny 2 Renegades expansion.
Destiny 2’s next major expansion, Renegades, is almost here, launching on December 2, 2025. Bungie has been slowly rolling out updates ahead of release. The expansion takes players back to Mars, with new story missions, the Lawless Frontier activity, a new Blaster weapon type, the Praxic Blade Exotic sword, the Order system, and a reworked progression system.
Over the last few months, Bungie has been open about the problems players have called out since Edge of Fate. The team repeatedly said Renegades is meant to fix that. Seasonal Power will carry over between Seasons, Unstable Cores will be removed completely, and vault space is getting a big bump.
Last week, the studio dropped a long post covering every weapon-related update coming in Renegades. Today, Bungie followed that up with the second part: a full article focused only on Exotic armor tuning for the expansion. This new preview breaks down each piece, getting adjusted.
In this article, we’ll cover every Exotic armor change Bungie has shared so far for Renegades.
All Exotic Armor Changes in Destiny 2 Renegades
The new details come straight from Bungie’s armor tuning preview article released today. According to the devs, 18 Exotic armor pieces are being tuned for Destiny 2 Renegades.
You can check out all the Exotic armor changes below.
Hunter Exotic Armor
Graviton Forfeit
- Now grants improved grenade, melee, and class ability recharge rates for a moderate duration each time you become invisible.
- Effect stacks up to three times.
- Effect time does not deplete while you are invisible.
- At three stacks of the buff, successive triggers additionally grant a portion of Void Overshield.
Omnioculus
- Granting the effects of Beyond the Veil to allies now also starts their health and shield regen.
- This only applies to allies and not to the Hunter themself. Shaxx is watching.
Lucky Raspberry
- Arcbolt Grenade Ability
- Increased projectile lifetime of chain projectile.
- This helps hit consistency on moving targets that are near the outer edge of the chain range.
- Now activates 0.1 seconds faster after the initial sensor sweep (from 0.6 seconds to 0.5 seconds).
- Increased max chain range of the initial chain from seven meters to 10 meters.
- Exotic Armor
- Now always applies jolt on Arcbolt Grenade hits.
- Returns Arcbolt energy on any application of the Jolt debuff or triggering the Jolt chains on a target already affected by the debuff.
Orpheus Rig
- Increased Super duration from 16 seconds to 20 seconds.
Gemini Jesters
- Increased disorient duration against players from 0.5 seconds to one second.
- In addition to applying disorient, Misdirection also removes opposing players’ HUD for two seconds.
- Increased disorient duration against PvE combatants from two seconds to three seconds.
Warlock Exotic Armor
Nothing Manacles
- Reminder of 9.1.5 Adjustments to Charged Scatter Grenades
- Charged grenade now creates four more seekers.
- Increased charged seeker damage versus combatants by 25%.
- Improved charged seeker tracking versus combatants.
- Increased charged seeker lifetime.
- Charged Scatter Grenade Ability
- Faster final projectile speed.
- Exotic Armor
- Now spawns additional Scatter seekers on Scatter Grenade kill.
- This effect can chain.
Briarbinds
- Now needs fewer kills to max out the Briarbinds Void Soul damage bonus.
- Decreased to four from six.
- Additionally, the Briarbinds Void Soul now does more damage based on the amount of time it has been deployed on target.
- Up to 30% more damage after 10 seconds.
Stormdancer’s Brace
- While Stormtrance is equipped, now grants Bolt charge for arc ability hits when Amplified.
- Stormtrance damage bonus now builds on hits instead of kills, increased max count to compensate.
- Now needs 30 hits to cap. Top end damage bonus is unchanged.
Winter’s Guile
- Melee and Finisher Final blows grant bonus melee damage.
- Melees final blows grant one stack, Finishers final blows grant three stacks.
- Max is 10 stacks for +400% melee damage
- Stacks are lost one at a time, lasts 4.5 seconds.
- Once you reach 10 stacks, immediately gain one melee charge and enter Warlord’s Rage when you activate your melee ability.
- You have 10 seconds to activate the Warlord’s Rage.
- While in Warlord’s Rage:
- Gain dramatically increased melee regen speed.
- Gain faster melee speed.
- Melee damage bonus increases to +500%
- Lasts 10 seconds.
- Lose all stacks once Warlord’s Rage ends.
Mataiodoxia
- Hitting a target with five Needlestorm Super projectiles now will also activate the Stylostixis suspending burst.
- The burst caused by the Super deals radically increased damage to all targets caught in the radius. This burst should allow Needlestorm to feel like a damage contender with the likes of Cuirass Thundercrash.
Dawn Chorus
- Daybreak + Dawn Chorus damage increased by 5%.
- Total scorch stacks increased.
Titan Exotic Armor
Arbor Warden
- Picking up three Orbs of Power enhances your next Barri-nade.
- Enhanced Barri-nade spawns a Y pattern of three of your equipped barricade on Barri-nade detonation.
- This does work with Barricade modifications like Drengr’s Lash or Storm’s Keep.
Dunemarchers
- Increased maximum chain count from four to seven.
- Each chain hit now grants two Bolt Charge stacks (three with the fragment).
- Glaive melees can now also trigger the chain.
Ursa Furiosa
- Should now properly gain Super energy if damage is blocked while the player has an overshield.
- Super energy stored is no longer scaled based on enemy difficulty.
- Super energy refund meter fill rate is doubled in at-Power activities.
- Super energy refund meter fill rate is buffed by about 13.6% in -40 Power activities.
Second Chance
- Added:
- Spawns Void Breaches on Shield Throw final blows.
- Grants Shield Throw melee energy on picking up any Void Breach.
- The Sentinel Shield Super’s ranged attack (Shield Throw) now also weakens with this Exotic equipped.
- Fixed a bug where anti-barrier shield throw melee would not bounce to more than two targets.
Armamentarium
- Now grants 10% grenade energy on weapon final blow.
- Now reloads the player’s equipped weapon when using a grenade ability.
Lion Rampants
- Now allows shooting while ADS when in lift.
Peacekeepers
- Increased Mobility bonus from 25 to 30.
- Re-added ability to swap-load SMGs.
Renegades also brings the new Equilibrium dungeon, arriving on December 13, 2025, with a full 48-hour Contest Mode race. Bungie has also released the full content calendar for Renegades, which you can check out here.
Apart from that, Bungie has sent out a new survey asking players about possible future features. The list includes things like unvaulted campaigns, Sparrow Racing League, clan upgrades, new Gambit ideas, and even NPC sidekicks. It looks like the studio is testing the waters to see what long-term updates players actually want.
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