Destiny 2 Episode Revenant Act 2 is dropping next week, bringing massive Super buffs, new exotic armor tweaks, and weapon changes.
Bungie has just revealed a preview of the upcoming mid-season update 8.1.5 for Destiny 2 ahead of Episode Revenant Act 2, which is set to launch next week on Tuesday, November 19, 2024.
This new Act will bring a ton of content, including a reimagined Tomb of Elders activity, new weapons, artifact perks, and the continuation of the Fikrul and the Scorn storylines. In addition, this year’s Dawning event will also be going live in December, adding celestial space dragon-themed armor sets to the game.
But today, the spotlight is on the new sandbox changes Bungie has just revealed, focusing on significant buffs to Supers, updates to exotic armor, and a few weapon tweaks.
Roaming Supers Getting a Major Buff in Destiny 2 Revenant Act 2
This week’s This Week in Destiny blog post outlined some exciting changes coming in the Revenant Act 2 update, aiming to breathe new life into several underused roaming Supers and tweak a few Exotics that have been struggling in the current sandbox.
The biggest change coming in Act 2 is a massive buff to roaming Supers. According to Bungie’s sandbox team, all roaming Supers will now gain 3x more Super energy when damaging PvE enemies. Additionally, roaming Supers will deal 30-55% more damage against Champions.
Below is the list of Supers that are getting these buffs in Act 2:
- Hunter Supers: Arc Staff, Golden Gun (non-Celestial Nighthawk), Spectral Blades, Silkstrike.
- Titan Supers Fists of Havoc, Burning Maul (non-Pyrogale Gauntlets), Hammer of Sol, Sentinel Shield, Glacial Quake, Bladefury.
- Warlock Supers: Stormtrance, Daybreak, Nova Warp, Winter’s Wrath.
In addition the these buffs, Bungie is nerfing Warlock’s Storm’s Edge super:
- Storm’s Edge:
- Reduced height of damage impulse from 5m to 3.75m.
- Reduced damage resistance against players from 53% to 45%, both on cast and during the spin attack.
- Moved from tier 3 to tier 1 Super cooldown.
Destiny 2 Revenant Act 2 Exotic Armor Changes
But that’s not all—Bungie is also updating some Exotics armor in this upcoming update. These include Point-Contact Canon Brace, Raiden Flux, Ballidorse Wrathweavers. You can find the full changes below.
- Point-Contact Canon Brace:
- Amplified lightning bolts now do 100% increased damage over base, up from 50%.
- Lightning strike defeats now also refund melee energy: Reduced Thunderclap refund by ~10% to compensate for increased energy gains on average.
- Raiden Flux: Synapse Junctions’ Super damage benefit increased to ~20% per stack (up from 14% per stack).
- Max benefit is now ~70% damage increase, up from 50%.
- Ballidorse Wrathweavers:
- Increased shatter damage to 150% up from 100%.
- Fixed an issue where enemies were inconsistently getting the boosted shatter damage which led to decreased overall damage.
- Increased shatter damage now shows as a yellow number to aid with visibility of the perk.
- Knucklehead Radar:
- Changed how to activate the perk; now requires the wearer to damage a player to mark the target.
- Target is marked for 3s, down from 7s.
Destiny 2 Revenant Act 2 Weapon Changes
On the weapons side, Destiny 2’s infamous Telesto is getting a PvE buff with a 20% increase in detonation damage, while the Breech Grenade Launchers like Mountaintop get a slight rollback on the previous nerf to improve their blast velocity.
- Breech Grenade Launchers: Micro-Missile Frame – Increased the velocity players can generate with the rocket jumping blast.
- Telesto: Increased Telesto detonation damage by 20% in PvE.
- Eriana’s Vow: Fixed critical damage bug in PvP.
- Thorn and Lumina: Increased base Stability by five. (PvP)
- Precision Bows: Increased body shot damage by 10% (this change does not affect Le Monarque).
- Aggressive Hand Cannons: Increased damage by 3% (this allows them to kill all resilience levels in 2C1B).
- Igneous Hammer: Reduced Stability, Handling, and Aim Assist stats by 3.
- Better Devils: Increased Stability, Handling, and Aim Assist stats by 3.
- Yesterday’s Question: Corrected an issue where Headseeker was not appropriately increasing critical hit damage after dealing body shot damage.
- Machine Guns:
- Changed the scalar that determines how much ammo you can pick up from a crate.
- Magazine sizes of 50 or less get 21 rounds.
- Magazine sizes between 51 and 59 get between 21 and 26 rounds.
- Magazine sizes between 60 and 80 get between 26 and 27 rounds.
- Magazine sizes between 81and 99 get between 28 and 44 rounds.
- Magazine sizes over 100 should get 45 rounds.
- Changed the scalar that determines how much ammo you can pick up from a crate.
These changes are all set to drop alongside Episode Revenant Act 2 next week. What are your thoughts on these upcoming changes in Destiny 2? Let us know in the comments below!
