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This week at Bungie, we have some community announcements and a bunch of in-game changes to talk about.

Destination Material Changes

Planetary Materials You Can't Obtain in S19

• Dusklight Shards
• Microphasic Datalattice
• Helium Filaments
• Baryon Boughs
• Spinmetal Leaves
• Glacial Starwort

Simpler Economy

• Goal is to reduce some currencies both functionally and for space reasons
• These materials were an early economy that Destiny has outgrown
• Players will not lose these materials
• They can be spent at Rahool for glimmer, but he will never sell them again
• Rahool will now exchange 5,000 Glimmer for a stack of 20 destination materials
• 250 er material once below a 20 stack
• Side note: Rahool will also take Dark Fragments, Phantasmal Fragments, and Herealways Pieces for glimmer, even though these are sticking around

New Glimmer Sources

• Since these materials are going away, Bungie will add new ways to get glimmer
• Public events will give a base of 3300-4645 glimmer, and 10K-12.5K glimmer for heroic events

Other Changes

• Any other things that required planetary materials will now either have that cost removed or replaced with something like legendary shards
• The three Materialism ghost mods will be removed
• Bountiful Harvest ghost mod will now increase glimmer from resource nodes
• Resource nodes that gave planetary materials are remaining, but will instead give glimmer, xp, and reputation (for throne world and future destinations)

Vendor Updates for Year 1 Destination Vendors

• Devrim and Failsafe no longer take materials to rank up
• No rank requirements needed now for vendor armor
• Additionally rank-only cosmetics from each of these vendors are now purchasable directly
• These vendors will now have 4 daily bounties instead of 3
• Lastly, sunset weapons are being removed from sale for these vendors

Mid Season Weapon Tuning

ARs

• Increased stability effects on the high end by 20%
• Precision Frames crit multiplier raised to 1.55x (i.e. from 30 to 31 damage)

Bows

• Increased stow duration before handling from .4s to .2s for lightweights, .433 to .2s for precision
• After handling stat .45s to .3s and .48s to .33 respectively
• This moves swap speeds closer to other primaries

Pulse

• Increased effects of handling by 5% at the high end
• Reduced effects of handling by 2% at the low end
• Range stat damage falloff scalar changed from 16m to 15m at 0 range, and unchanged at 100 range
• Adapatives precision damage increased from 30.4 to 31.4 (can two burst a 4 resil guardian in .6s)
• Piece of Mind zoom lowered from 19 to 18

Scouts

• High Impact buff from last season over did it
• Reducing crit from 42 to 40, body from 73.5 to 70

Sidearms

• Increased auto aim fall off distance by 30%, which should mitigate the need for rangefinder to be viable

SMGs

• Reduced damage fall off end from 24m to 23m (note: these numbers are for hipfire and don't take into account ADS)
• Precision Frame damage increased from 16 to 17 body, and 22.4-23.8 crit
• Shayura's Wrath and Friction Fire zoom reduced from 16 to 15
• Lightweight Frames damage reduced from 11 to 10.85 body, 18.2 to 17.9 crit

Fusions

• Precision Frame intrinsic effect on recoil direction reduced by 50%

Glaives

• Glaive damage resist vs players lowered from 75 to 50%
• Damage resist remains the same against supers and PVE enemies

Snipers

• Increased settle time after flinch by 60%
• Reduced flinch received in PVE
• Sneak peak: Similar change coming to Linear Fusions in S19

Trace Rifles

• Increased the effect of stability by 10% on the low end, and 25% on the high end

Rockets

• Increased blast radius by .4m

Gunshot Straight

• Removed audio from activation

Rangefinder

• Removed the aim assist bonus

Jade Rabbit

• Reduced aim assist by 20

Lord of Wolves

• Reduced ADS accuracy penalty from 10x to 3x.
• Removed the 25% base damage buff
• Added a 40% PvE damage buff
• Removed the 50% crit multiplier penalty
• Added full auto as an intrinsic perk

No Time To Explain

• Reduced recoil direction from 90 to 73
• Reduced aim assist from 45 to 40

Riskrunner

• Reduced PVP damage of Arc Superconductor from 50% to 15%

Additional Future Gun Changes

• Special Ammo Linear Fusions will get an auto aim reduction and flinch tuning
• Machine Guns will get a PVP and PVE buffs
• Remove damage penalty to Dead Man's Tale at five stacks of Cranial Spike