Destiny 2 Exotic Weapon Tuning Sees Changes to Low Popularity Exotics

Below is the list of the Destiny 2 Exotic Weapon changes in the Edge of Fate as per the TWID on July 3rd.

Vigilance Wing

• Last Stand bonus is now active when running solo in PvE activities.

Hierarchy of Needs

• Players now gain charges of Guidance Ring with any hit from Hierarchy of Needs, and now only need three charges to deploy the ring.
• Hierarchy’s spawned Guidance Ring duration increased from 13s to 20s.
• Hierarchy’s spawned Guidance Ring now rotates to face its owner.
• Players are now limited to one Guidance Ring in the world per player. Spawning a second one will remove your previous ring.
• All Bows now spawn missiles when fired through an allied player’s Guidance Ring.
  • Yes, all Bows.
• Fixed an issue where Hierarchy’s seeker missiles would not play detonation visual effects when colliding with world geometry.

Dead Man’s Tale

• Each stack of cranial spike now grants:
  • +3.4% damage vs combatants (max 17% at 5 stacks)
  • +1 rounds reloaded

Duality

• Added a secondary activator for On Black Wings, now gives the buff when landing most of your pellets on a target.

The Navigator

• When the user has Woven Mail:
  • Increased damage
    • 25% in PVE
    • 5% in PVP
  • Increased ammo generation stat

Wicked Implement

• Now is Rapid Fire RPM.
• Now takes one additional hit to start slowing and to freeze, to account for the faster rate of fire.
• Increased magazine size to 20,
• It is now intrinsically anti-Overload.

Heartshadow

• Increased ammo reserves.
• Reduced the cost of heavy attack to three (from four).
• Added: Defeats while Shot in the Dark is active make you invisible once more.

Worldline Zero

• Increased the lunge distance of the heavy Tesseract attack by 3m.
• Removed the ability to chain two blink attacks back to back.
• Added a new effect: Defeating a target with Tesseract allows you to Tesseract again for a short duration.
  • These extra blink attacks cost less ammo and consumes less guard energy.

Devil’s Ruin

• Removed fire on release behavior.
• The beam is now behind special reload.
• Kills with the weapon make firesprites, and picking up a firesprite enables the special reload.
• Beam now scorches on hit and ignites on kills.
• Increased magazine size to 20.
• It is now intrinsically anti-unstoppable.

Tommy’s Matchbook

• General
  • Added a burning screen effect while the player takes self-damage from Ignition Trigger. Other players who are taking self-damage from Ignition Trigger will now have a burning effect surrounding their model.
• Ignition Trigger
  • The HUD buff now appears as a bar. While Ignition Trigger is active, the bar charges as you fire the weapon and drains when you do not. So long as the bar has some charge, Ignition Trigger will remain active.
• Heat Sink
  • Hip-fire self-damage decreased to 50% less damage than ADS self-damage, previously 33% less damage.
  • Catalyst
    • Removed improved health regen. Now, final blows while Ignition Trigger is active grant Cure x1 to the user.
  • Scorch on hit is unchanged.

Winterbite

• Reduced enhanced melee damage with ammo to +20% vs bosses, down from +50%
• It is now intrinsically anti-Overload.

Anti-Champion Changes

• Anti-Unstoppable
  • Queensbreaker
  • Salvation’s Grip
  • Dragon’s Breath
• Anti-Overload
  • Tractor Cannon
  • DARCI
  • Two-Tailed Fox
• Conditional Finality can be anti-Overload or anti-Unstoppable, depending on which element is active.