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Another dive into the sandbox.

Crafting

• Introduced early in campaign
• Where you form your first Glave
• Patterns for future guns found through quests and objectives
• Crafted guns can now be leveled up to earn extra stats
• Basically a replacement for masterworking
• Crafted weapons can be reshaped (re-crafted)
• Momentos are a new system for having stat trackers (like the old kill trackers)
• You can unlock themed trackers, like a Momento for tracking Gambit kills, by playing those activities
• Not exclusive to legendaries, as the upcoming Glaves and preorder SMG exotic will have crafting patterns
• Exotic crafting more fine tuned

Crafting Perks How To

• Find legendary weapon with Deepsight Resonance ability (example one with rampage)
• Do objective on Deepsight Resonance to earn Rampage as a crafting material to use for other crafted weapons
• Not every weapon type will have access to every perk (like it is now)

Pursuit Weapons

• Pursuit weapon for Season 16 is The Reckless Endangerment shotgun
• Has steady Hands perk for a massive handling boost after a kill, plus Snapshot
• Reiterated that pursuit weapons are not meant to be best of best like pinnacles were

Weapons Traits

• New weapons will have origin traits based on activity origin (Trials, Nightfall, Strikes)
• They either have high uptime and medium power effects or low uptime and high power effects
• World loot pull being replaced by weapons exclusively from Suros, Omolon, Häkke, and Veist foundries, plus one foundry weapon each for Vanguard, Gambit, and Crucible
• Each foundry has a unique intrinsic perk, and unique perk pool

Weapon Misc

• Traditional kill trackers not behind masterwork
• Weapon mods will be free to insert
• Players now only drop 1 Special ammo on death in Crucible
• The maximum you can pick up off a Special brick is 1 (in Crucible)
• Scavenger still adds to this

Weapon Archetypes

High-Impact Fusion Rifle

• Damage per bolt increased from 62 to 64
• PvE damage bonus increased from 15% to 20%

Blinding and Concussion Grenades

• Reduced damage by 25%

Rocket Launcher Damage (by frame)

• Precision: 0.95x
• High Impact: 1.0x
• Adaptive: 1.05x
• Aggressive: 1.05x

Sniper Zoom

• Reduced variance in AA scaling between low (35) and high-zoom (60)
• Cone angle scalar increased by ~25% on low zoom, ~9% on high

Pulse Rifles

• Buffing damage vs. minors by 10%

Exotic Weapons

Exotic Primaries & Trace Rifles

• Increased damage vs minors in PvE by 40%

CHAPERONE!!!

• Reduced passive range buff from 2m to 0.5m

Duality

• Reduced passive range buff in slug mode
• The On Black Wings damage buff no longer clears on reload

Tarrabah

• Now reduces perk progress by half instead of clearing it on weapon stow
• Increased Ravenous Beast duration increases for damaging a player slightly

Ruinous Effigy

• Increased the damage dealt by transmutation sphere by 66% (30% against players)
• Transmutation Sphere multi-kills now count for Orb generation armor mods

Lumina

• Increased range stat from 44 to 59
• Increased base stability stat from 46 to 56

Ager's Scepter

• Fixed continue use of empowered mode while suppressed or Stasis encased
• Rebuilt the perk — now freezes Super recharge and deducts Super directly
• Super should now drain more slowly while empowered

DMT

• Reduced the catalyst's hip-fire rate of fire from 150 RPM to 130 RPM

Lorentz & Arby

• Increased flinch received

Forerunner

• Increased ammo picked up from a Special ammo brick from 2 to 3

Legendary Weapons

Handcannons

• Dire Promise: +4 range, +3 stability, -4 aim assist
• Waking Vigil: +6 range, +5 stability, -3 aim assist
• Jack Queen King 3: +3 range, +3 stability, -8 aim assist
• Spare Rations: +4 range, +4 stability, -9 aim assist

Felwinter's Lie

• +15% spread angle

Ikelos SMG

• +1 zoom, -5 range, -7 stability, -8 handling, -5 aim assist

Weapon Perks

Hip Fire Grip

• Increases damage falloff start and end distances by 20% (except on Shotgun, Sniper Rifle, and Fusion Rifle)

Adagio

• Increased duration from 5s to 7s
• Increased damage bonus from 25% to 30% (except on Bows and Fusion Rifles)
• Now adds +10 range stat
• Added a timer to the buff text to make it easier to tell when it's going to expire

Dual Loader

• Reduced reload stat penalty from -50 to -35

Danger Zone

• Reduced self-damage scalar for Grenade Launchers

Tap the Trigger (Fusion Rifles only)

• Reduced stability bonus from +40 to +10
• Changed max recoil angle scale from 0.5 to 0.875
• Changed error angle scale from 0.9 to 0.975

Headseaker

• Extended buff duration from 0.17 to 0.3s

Eager Edge

• Reduced lunge distance benefit while airborne by 25%
• Now caps maximum player airborne velocity

Retired Perks

• Bottomless Grief and Celerity
• Underdog
• Shield Disorient
• Air Assault (may get redesign)

Future PVP Changes for Weapons

• New ways for players to build for flinch resistance
• Balance tuning for Primary weapons
• Special weapon tuning
• Another PvP Special ammo economy change, if needed
• Adjusting how zoom outliers affect the performance of a subset of weapons
• Adjusting several requested Exotics, along with Legendary perks