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Take a Leap of Faith into a new week of weapon philosophy, community voting, and "that invisibility thing."

Ubisoft Crossover

• Added Destiny themed weapons, armor, and mount to AC: Valhalla

End Game Loot Rotations

Trials

• Gaining Exalted Truth Suros Adaptive Hand Cannon
• Gaining Unwavering Duty Suros Adaptive Machine Gun
• Loosing Aisha's Embrace and Reed's Regret

Iron Banana

• Gaining Dark Decider Auto Rifle
• Gaining Gunnora's Axe Slug Shotgun
• Loosing Forge's Pledge and Riiswalker

Nightfall

• Gaining Wendigo GL3 Heavy Grenade Launcher
• Gaining Hung Jury SR4 Scout Rifle
• Loosing Silicon Neuroma and Duty Bound

Weapon Philosophy (and "running Divinity")

Global

• Full auto setting coming next season
• Post Lightfall, looking into how to apply to individual weapon types
• Also exploring how to apply to melee weapons (glaive, sword, roaming super melees, etc)

Shotguns

• Bungie happy with new average 1 hit kill range
• Each archetype will get a fixed spread pattern
• Each archetype will also get a unique reticle tuned to its perspective spread
• These reticles will not adjust to spread changes caused by FOV changes or things like jumping
• A fix for this will come after Lightfall
• Fusion rifles could receive similar changes in the future if things go well
• Full TWAB includes images of each spread pattern
• Will fix a bug where some Aggressive frames would not increase rate of fire after a kill
• Rapid-fires will have 5% PVE increase
• Rapid-fires will also receive their reload benefit at ALL times, instead of on an empty mag

Sidearms

• Drang will have its zoom dropped from 14 to 13

Fusions

• Main Ingredient will have stability dropped from 49 to 35, and aim assist dropped from 59 to 45
• Fusion Rifle reticle will now react to accuracy cone changes when in hip-fire

Glaives

• Projectiles will now have better hit detection
• Glaive melees will benefit from exotic armor perks
• Glaive damage multiple lowered by 25-30% for Champions, vehicles, and Bosses
• Glaive melee base damage lowered from 75 to 67

Hand Cannon

• Rose will be adjusted to work better in its new frame
• Range from 38 to 43
• Stability from 45 to 40
• Handling from 68 to 60
• Airborne effectiveness is 20

Blinding Effects

• Weapons that caused the old blind effect have been updated to the new Arc blind
• The old blind effect was jarring and had photosensitivity risks

Weapon Mods

• Spec weapon mods are now folded into the perks themselves
• The mods are going away

Perks

Reworks

• Air Assault gives stacks (max 2) that add +30 AE: final blows grant 1 stack, final blows in the air give 2
• Body shots now increase precision multiplier and aim assist, with a window of .55s that is reset every body shot
• Encore now provides stacks on kill (1 for body, 2 for precision, max 4) for 7 seconds: each stack providing 8 stability, 5 range, and 1.25% acccuracy
• Seraph Rounds is making a return and will now offer 7 stability and 3 range, instead of a 10% range scalar
• Kill Clip and Tunnelvision can now be refreshed when active
• Kill Clip damage reduced from 33% to 25%
• Redirection now builds stacks on red bar enemies and consumes them against everything else

Buffs

• Hakke Breach Armaments now does 30% damage to Ward of Dawn and Well of Radiance (60% with artifact mode), and does 15% more damage to Stasis crystals
• Gunshot Straight auto rifle damage upped to 20%
• Compulsive Reloader now activates on magazine being at least half full
• Slow movement no longer deactivates High-Impact Frame intrinsic perk
• Ambitious Assassin allotted time between kills increased from 5 to 7 seconds
• Well Rounded duration increased to 15 seconds, and stacking the effect resets the timer
• Recombination will receive improvements to work as intended in PvP, and max stack damage is now 100% for PVE (50% PVP)
• Zen Moment now deactivates after 1 second, instead of on miss
• Genesis now triggers on guardian shield breaks in PVP
• One Quiet Moment now reactivates faster after a final blow
• Gun and Run now requires about half as many kills for most enemy types

Nerfs

• Box Breathing scout bonus lowered by 5%
• Unstoppable Force damage bonus lowered from 30% to 20%
• One-Two Punch unpowered melee damage lowered from 3x to 2x, charged melee damage from 1.8x to 1.4x, and additional boss bonus damage from 50% to 25%

Bug Fixes

• To Excess no longer shows a stacking counter (cause it doesn't have stacks)

Enhanced Perks

• Enhanced Unrelenting gives +5 to health regen instead of handling
• Enhanced Perpetual Motion removed the .1s faster activation and the .1s grace period, but added 1s faster activation for x2
• Enhanced Timed Payload gives +5 stability instead of range
• Enhanced Explosive Payload gives +5 reload instead of range
• Enhanced Firing Line gives additional 10 handling, but range effect removed
• Enhanced Grave Robber gives +5 handling instead of reload
• Enhanced Explosive Light now caps at 7 stacks
• Enhanced Cornered now gives +10 stability
• Enhanced Cold Steel ammo capacity benefits upped to +10
• Enhanced Vorpal Weapon gives +5 stability instead of reload (applies to Guard resist on swords)
• Enhanced Genesis no longer overflows primary ammo but instead gives additional handling
• Enhanced Flash Counter had increased ammo capacity
• Enhanced Chain Reaction description updated to explain benefit to Swords
• Enhanced Ambitious Assassin allowed time between final blows increased from 6s to 8s

Exotics

Reworks

• Fundamentals now has unique bonuses for each firing mode (Arc: +25 handling and +5 range, Solar: +35 reload speed and +20 airborne effectiveness, and Void: +20 stability and +10 aim assist)
• Borealis now refills mag from reserves on a matched shield, and gains 5 shots of bonus damage
• Jade Rabbit exotic perk reworked so 3 crits returns a round to the mag and increases the damage of next body shot (up to 3 body shot bullets can be stored, and it resets on load)

Nerfs

• The top 3 raid exotics were Arbalest, Div, and Witherhoard
• Div is in second despite having half the ownership of the other two, and despite only one person needing to run Div
• Witherhoard portal duration dropped from 7.5s to 4.5s
• Div crit bonus dropped to 15% (remains 30% for the Div user)
• Arbalest body damage now dropped to match the recent change to Lorentz
• Ghally's primary rocket damage dropped by 25%, but left wolfpack rounds alone for itself and other rockets
• Forerunner damage dropped form 40 to 37 body, 72 to 67 crit

Buffs

• No Time To Explain full auto is now feeding frenzy
• Traveler's Chosen full auto is now surplus
• Vigilance Wing full auto is now ensemble
• Fixed precision aim cone for DMT to work regardless of where target is in that cone
• DMT body damage increased from 46 to 54, crit reduced from 80 to 81 (affects ALL 120 scouts)
• Darci's personal assistant now applies Jolt, and the gun has a new AE of 80
• Wish-Ender damage against Witherhoard blighted targets increased from 10% to 25%
• Whisper of the Worm AE is now 80
• Prospector now has Chain Reaction to make it a viable add clear weapon
• Fourth Horseman recoil decreased by 50%
• Forerunner PVE damage increased by 30% for crits, and 60% for The Rock (Rock activation cost reduced to 4 bullets), and the Rock now does 20% at edge of its radius
• Merciless ramp up timer between each shot increased to 5s to make upkeep easier
• Rat King fireteam bonus now activates at 20m apart instead of 15m
• Acrius movement penalty is removed
• Bastion spread angle reduced by 6%
• Grenade from Quicksilver Storm now does 120 damage and has a 4m radius
• Coldheart Ionic Trace generation reduced from 3.5s to 2s, stability and reload speed is maxed out when at max damage, and Ionic Traces get the gun to max damage faster
• Grand Overture missile damage buffed by 50%
• Xenophage bullet damage adjusted to be 50% impact and 50% explosion, and the gun received a 5% damage buff overall
• Cloudstrike lightning storm now triggers on Div bubble

Armor

• Wormgod's Caress damage multiplier now maxes at 3.5 instead of 7.5
• Winter's Guile damage multiplier now maxes at 3.5 instead of 7.5
• Gyrfalcon getting change soon that will give it volatile rounds when exiting invis, and on invis finisher kills, the armor applies an overshield to nearby allies and a weapon damage bonus to the wearer

Future Changes

• Balance changes for Heavy weapon DPS
• AE rebalancing/buffs for primary weapons
• Tweaks to new shotgun reticles
• More 3.0 verbs added to Exotic weapons

Void Hunter Invis

• Reduced radar range for invis players from 64m (the outer lines on the radar) to 24m (the pies)

Season 19 Artifact Mods

• Mods will have a focus on stasis subclasses
• Anti Champion: HC, Scout, Bow, Pulse, AR, SMG, and GLs
• Lucent Finisher returning
• Passive Guard returning with Glaive support
• Breach and Clear returning with Void 3.0 support
• Chest and leg mods that grant bonuses to resilience and mobility, respectively
• Helmet mods that increase AE
• Monochromatic Maestro class item mod "rewards you generously for using weapons and subclasses that match their damage types"
• Solo player mod teased for help with Legend Lost Sectors

Arbalest Ornament

• Won the new ornament voting back in August
• Bungie now wants us to vote on one of 3 possible ornament designs
• Email coming December 5th
• Likely to release in S21