Destiny 2 Episode Heresy: All Exotic Armor Changes Detailed

Here’s the complete list of all exotic armor changes and reworks coming in Destiny 2 Episode Heresy next month.

Destiny 2’s Episode Heresy isn’t just shaking up exotic weapons, it’s also making changes to exotic armor. With the episode’s launch on Tuesday, February 4, 2025, players will see updates to some of their favorite (or not-so-favorite) exotic armor pieces, breathing new life into them.

Heresy promises to take players back to the Dreadnaught, a fan-favorite destination that was added in Destiny 1: The Taken King expansion. Players can also look forward to a set of new weapons, two new armor sets, a new dungeon, an exotic mission, and much more.

In this article, we’ll talk about all the upcoming exotic armor changes coming to Destiny 2 with the launch of Episode Heresy.

Destiny 2 Episode Heresy All Exotic Armor Changes

In the latest This Week in Destiny blog article, Bungie shared a preview of the upcoming exotic armor changes in Heresy. With this update, the developer is tweaking over 15 exotic armor pieces in the game.

Here’s a full breakdown of all the new exotic armor updates and reworks coming to Destiny 2 in Episode Heresy.

Hunter Exotic Armor Changes

• Sealed Ahamkara Grasps: Powered melee and finisher final blows grant Nightmare Fuel, increasing handling and airborne effectiveness. While active, freshly drawn weapons deal additional damage and grant Nightmare Fuel on final blows. Gaining Nightmare Fuel reloads all holstered weapons.
• Gwisin Vest: Now progresses its Super returns on Super hits as well as kills before becoming invisible.
  • Improved the maximum possible Super energy gains per return while also increasing the amount of progress needed for maximum gains.
  • Now also emits a cloud of weakening smoke when you exit invisibility while nearby an enemy.
• Renewal Grasps: Doubled the rate of Frost Armor gain while in the enhanced Duskfield grenade.
• Foetracer: Increased the bonus weapon damage duration from 10 seconds to 15 seconds. (changes also apply to Relativism – Spirit of the Foetracer)
• Radiant Dance Machines: Improves airborne effectiveness and hip fire mobility, range, and accuracy for Primary ammo weapons.
  • Multi-kills with Primary ammo weapons refund dodge energy. When dodge energy is full, multi-kills grant extra charges. Powerful combatants and Guardians count as more than one kill.
• Relativism – Spirit of Galanor: Reduced the maximum amount of energy refunded for Silkstrike and Golden Gun to 30% (down from 50%).

Warlock Exotic Armor Changes

• Stormdancer’s Brace: Doubled the damage benefit per stack of Ascending amplitude (up to 20% per stack, from 10%).
  • Now also reduces the cost of Ionic Blink during Super by 50%.
  • Reduced the maximum amount of energy refunded to 30% (down from 50%).
• Geomag Stabilizers: New perk: “Sprinting while near max Bolt Charge will top it off.” Increased Super energy gained from ionic traces to 7% from 2%.
• Secant Filaments: Now gives class ability energy per kill while Devour is active. (also applies to Spirit of the Filaments)
• Speaker’s Sight: Healing Turret no longer targets allies at full health. Allies need some damage done to their shields to be eligible targets.
• Verity’s Brow: Now uses a meter to track Death Throes: (also applies to Spirit of Verity)
  • New durations per tier:
    • x1: 8 seconds
    • x2: 7 seconds
    • x3: 6 seconds
    • x4: 5 seconds
    • x5: 4 seconds
  • Bonus grenade recharge per tier:
    • x1: 0.5% per second
    • x2: 1% per second
    • x3: 1.5% per second
    • x4: 2% per second
    • x5: 2.5% per second

Titan Exotic Armor Changes

• Citan’s Ramparts:
  • Increased barricade health from 400 to 500.
  • No longer increases Barricade cooldown.
  • No longer decreases Barricade duration.
  • Further increased damage dealt to Citan’s barricades by Guardians from 125% to 160%.
• Eternal Warrior: Final blows with Fists of Havoc now grant extended Super duration.
• Ursa Furiosa: Blocking damage with Unbreakable now returns grenade energy instead of Super energy. (also applies to Spirit of the Bear)
• Khepri’s Horn: Now sends out three waves of flame instead of just one. (also applies to Spirit of the Horn)
  • These waves no longer return towards the Barricade – they only travel outwards once.
  • Tracking on the waves has been enhanced.
  • Combatants damaged by these waves are enveloped in a Sunspot. Players are enveloped if they are defeated.
  • Now requires a Solar Super to be equipped to create the flame waves from the Barricade.
• An Insurmountable Skullfort: Now grants energy to Arc melee abilities when hitting targets with any melee attack. Amount granted varies based on the melee used.

In addition to the above changes, Spirit of Verity is also getting an update: Gained bonus grenade recharge rate, but provides 50% of the base Verity’s Brow Exotic.

Episode Heresy is set to launch on Tuesday, February 4, 2025. If you’re looking for a full Destiny 2 roadmap for 2025, make sure to check out our article here.

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