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And each of these has multiple subfamilies. By my count, Destiny 2 has 18 weapon archetypes, ranging from the obvious (hand cannons and auto rifles) to the more esoteric (bows and glaives). The answer is that I don't think there's a single shooter in existence with as complicated a sandbox of weapons, abilities and perks, all interacting with each other. But we are way into the weeds already.ДЄ colleague of mine asked me how Bungie could possibly have this much to say about a game now in its seventh year of life.

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There's a ton more in the blog, as you'd expect from a blog post that's as long as my university dissertation, including reworks to the Shotgun and Fusion Rifle archetypes, the complete removal of Scavenger mods from PvP, and tweaks to perks including Snapshot Sights, Full Choke and Desperado.

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The community manager who wrote the leviathan of patch posts clarified thusly: There's a lot of additional talk about how glaive perks function and their design philosophy, and if you're a glaive enjoyer it looks to be largely good news.Д«ungie also noted that it's cutting down on cheesey one-hit kills in PvP that rely on damage buffs like Inertia Override and Empowering Rift, but I was surprised to see no mention of Titan Sunspots or the Lorely Splendor helm that generates them on demand. Those are big changes, but whether they're enough to offset the fact that you have to use the glaive's shield less-the shield being the best part of equipping a glaive-remains to be seen.

I've held off writing about what's wrong with them because I was expecting a big rework, and here it is: The Titan exotic glaive's bubble will now grant a Void overshield, the Warlock's healing turret will fire faster projectiles more often, and the Hunter arc wave is having its damage tripled and will chain to more enemies. It's fair to say the exotic glaives introduced by The Witch Queen have whiffed hard. (Image credit: Bungie) 6) People might actually use the exotic glaives The unloved change to Xenophage's rate of fire is being reverted. There's no mention of whether other exotic LMGs like Heir Apparent or Thunderlord get the basic buff, but I'd presume so. Xeno is also having its previous RPM change reverted, while Grand Overture's missile alt fire is being tweaked (so hopefully it won't feel so cruddy). The exotics Xenophage and Grand Overture will get the basic buff but not the boss one. This will be reduced to 20% against bosses, in order to prevent the archetype from becoming too much of a jack of all trades thanks to their range and plentiful ammo. Largely unloved since their Forsaken heyday, all LMGs are getting a huge 40% damage buff against most enemies. It sucks that you won't be able to throw as many 'nades in PvE as a result, but the spam in PvP was crazy so this also isn't a surprise. The damage reduction applied to enemy players will now drop from 50% to 20%, but be unchanged in PvE. Duskfield Grenades will now take 152 seconds to charge (up from 62) while wearing the gloves. It's body shot damage against players is being reined in by 20%.Д«ungie also mentioned that a hotfix coming next week will see the Hunter's Renewal Grasps nerfed.

Another linear fusion rifle in the firing line, though this time for PvP dominance, is Lorentz Driver. Frankly I still think it will be a must for content with the Match Game modifier (which I'm personally very over, but that's a story for another day). It will now deal 25% less damage against Champions, but still break Barrier shields in a single hit. To the surprise of nobody who's played endgame PvE, Bungie is going to try to tone down Arbalest's ubiquity.

Might the Leviathan's Breath bow (shown here with the Bad Dog ornament) finally see some play in hard PvE content? (Image credit: Bungie) 4) Arbalest, Lorentz Driver, and Renewal Grasps will all eat big nerfs