Destiny 2 Weapon Tuning to Perks and Two Archetypes

Below is the list of Destiny 2 weapon perks receiving tuning in the Edge of Fate per the TWID on July 3rd.

Reconstruction

• Increased the amount of ammo transferred per activation from 10% to 25%.

Paracausal Affinity

• Added a visible timer to the buff.

Kinetic Tremors

• Decreased shots to activate on certain weapons and subfamilies.
• High-Impact Auto Rifles require nine hits down from 12.
• Aggressive and High-Impact Scout Rifles require five hits down from six.
• Hand Cannon subfamilies have received specific tuning,
• Aggressive Hand Cannons require four hits down from six.
• Adaptive Hand Cannons require five hits down from six.
• Precision Hand Cannons are unchanged and still require six shots to activate.

One-Two Punch

• Now works with all melee abilities. Perk active time increased from 1.22 seconds to 3 seconds.

Attrition Orbs

• Increased perk progress by 20% across the board.
• Reduced perk progress by 80% with Area Denial Grenade Launchers
• Increased perk progress by an additional 30% on Swords.

Eager Edge & Valiant Charge

• While active, the melee search angle is now reduced by 50% at the start of lunge range and by 88% at the edge of lunge range.
• This requires the player to look more at their target to strike it, improving specific target acquisition in PvE and requiring a more direct look in PvP.

Chain Reaction

• Threadlings created by weapon perks will no longer activate the detonation from Chain Reaction.

Chain Reaction, Dragonfly, Firefly

• Chain Reaction, Dragonfly, and Firefly no longer use weapon archetype scaling against combatants and instead use a new perk damage scaling that is more normalized between different weapon types. 
  • This buffs many weapons with these perks against most targets.
• Big Winners
  • Fusion Rifles deal 41% more Chain Reaction damage to minor combatants.
  • Submachine Guns deal 43% more Dragonfly and Firefly damage to minor combatants.
  • Auto Rifles deal 47% more Dragonfly damage to minor combatants.
  • Linear Fusion Rifles deal 165% more Chain Reaction damage to minor combatants and at least 124% more Chain Reaction to all other combatants (varies slightly based on combatant type).
  • Swords deal 123% more Chain Reaction damage to minor combatants and at least 193% more Chain Reaction damage to all other combatants (varies slightly based on combatant type).
• Biggest Losers
  • Hand Cannons deal 20% less Dragonfly and Firefly damage to major combatants.
• Sniper Rifles deal eight percent less Firefly and Dragonfly damage to minor combatants.
  • Special Ammo Wave Frame Grenade Launchers deal six percent less Chain Reaction damage to major, champion, and miniboss combatants, and 14% less Chain Reaction damage to ultra and vehicle combatants.

Destiny 2 Weapon Archetypes

Two Destiny 2 Weapon Archetypes are getting tuned in the Edge of Fate.

Machine Guns

• Now have a staged reload
  • Staged reload places checkpoints in the reload animation.
  • When a player cancels a reload animation and restarts it, it will resume from the latest checkpoint.

Glaives

• Reduced projectile tracking strength at very close range to avoid a behavior that made the projectiles less accurate.