Destiny 2 Season 22 early patch notes: Exotic tweaks, weapon buffs, ability changes, more
Destiny 2 developers at Bungie have locked in the first batch of changes set to shake things up in the Season 22 update. From major Exotic gear tweaks to key ability changes for all classes, here’s an early rundown on what we can expect in the final patch notes.
Destiny 2is well underway with Season of the Deep. As such developers Bungie are looking to change up the game’s balancing comeSeason 22. This mainly comes in the form Exotic armor tweaking, ability tuning, and now weapon updates.
These changes follow the tune-up Bungie did at the start of Season 21. Now even more exotics are receiving balance changes to bring them in line with the more powerful Guardians we see today. This is what we know about the Season 22 patch notes thus far thanks to the firstdeveloper blog postand theweapon’s-related follow-uptoo.
Early Destiny 2 Season 22 patch notes
Season 22 New Armor
Bungie has revealed what the new armor for Season 22 will look like in a recent tweet.
“The Witch Queen must rise.“Season 22 begins tomorrow. Clear out your non-seasonal engrams, make sure your Guardian’s fashion is on point, and ensure you get a good night sleep for tomorrow’s launch!pic.twitter.com/rM7HKJXSvf
With the quote, “The Witch Queen must rise” and a marshy look to the armor, we may be heading back to Savathun’s Throne World once more during Season 22.
Season 22 Weapon Updates
Damage Falloff Tuning
Bungie is making changes to the way damage falloff works on several weapons. The changes will also affect weapons when they’re ADSed.
The main goal for Bungie in these changes is to help differentiate certain weapon archetypes from one another so that one option is not clearly better than the other based on minor distances in engagement ranges.
Weapon Archetype Tuning
Hand Cannon
Pulse Rifles
Fusion Rifles
Wave Frame Heavy Grenade Launchers
Exotic Weapons Tuning
Monte Carlo
Quicksilver Storm
Two-Tailed Fox
Verglas Curve
Le Monarque
Vex Mythoclast
Tommy’s Matchbook
Touch of Malice
Malfeasance
Cloudstrike
Wicked Implement
Perk Updates
Envious Assassins
Under-Over
Under Pressure
Shoot to Loot
Valiant Charge
Explosive Light
Chill Clip
Weapon Progression Updates
Bungie is buffing several other activities to incentivize players to run it whilst leveling up their weapons. These activities include:
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The devs have also introduced a rollover system, where any bonus progression over the required level will roll over into the next.
Season 22 Exotic Gear updates
Lucky Raspberry
Renewal Grasps
Icefall Mantle, Doomfang Pauldrons, Path of the Burning Steps
Icefall Mantle
Doom Fang Pauldrons
Path of the Burning Steps
Eternal Warrior
ACD/0 Feedback Fence
Hallowfire Heart
Astrocyte Verse
Geomag Stabilizers
Wings of Sacred Dawn
Winter’s Guile
Season 22 Ability updates
Alongside the exotic gear updates, several abilities are also receiving tuning. In particular, Titan’s barricades are receiving nerfs in PvP, and Strand is receiving a bunch of changes.
