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Dificulty Changes Recap

If you were Adept or Ascendant in a given season, placement matches can land you in Platinum the following season
Changing game mode weighting to be 2/3 survival, and 1/3 rift and showdown
Changing the weighting for maps in Showdown
Increased the map weighting for Javelin-4, Endless Vale, and Altar of Flame
Removed Disjunction and Cathedral of Dusk from comp
Guild the Glorious title by reaching Adept and completing a few other challenges

Adding the Notswap modifier to comp
In Notswap matches, swapping your exotic armor will cause your abilities to reset as if you changed subclasses
Not currently planned for regular Crucible or Gambit
Not planned for PVE (locked loadouts already exist)

Artifact mods are now called artifact perks and are passive
You can have 12 of the 25 perks active at any time (resetting is free)
Anti-champion weapons from the artifact are overcharged in higher level activities
Artifice armor changed to a +3 stat bump to compensate for this

Authorized Mods: Solar - The armor energy costs of all armor mods affecting your Solar weapons are significantly discounted
Authorized Mods: Strand - The armor energy costs of all armor mods affecting your Strand weapons are significantly discounted
Authorized Mods: Void - The armor energy costs of all armor mods affecting your Void weapons are significantly discounted
Authorized Mods: Grenades - The armor energy costs of all armor mods affecting your grenades are significantly discounted
Multi-Siphon Mods - The armor energy costs of all armor mods affecting your grenades are significantly discounted

Shatter Orbs - The first time you break a combatant's shield, you create an Orb of Power if you break the shield with the matching damage type.
Defiant Armory - Greatly improves the benefits provided by the Noble Deeds, Nanotech Tracer Rockets, Tex Balanced Stock, and Ambush Origin traits
Untangler - Destroying a Tangle with a Strand weapon suspends targets damaged by the explosion
Solar Surge - Collecting a Firesprite gives you Armor Charge
Volatile Flow - Picking up an Orb of Power grants your Void weapons Volatile Rounds

Bricks from Beyond - Defeating a powerful combatant with a Void weapon has a chance to generate Heavy ammo for you and your teammates
Flare Up - Firebolt Grenades apply more Scorch stacks. Damaging a combatant with a Firebolt Grenade spawns a Firesprite near them
Origin Hones - Weapons with the Noble Deeds, Nanotracing Rockets, Tex Balanced Stock, and Ambush Origin traits are always Overcharged when that modifier is active
Allied Unraveling - Rapid final blows with a Strand weapon grant your weapon Unraveling Rounds, with a longer duration near allies
Counterweave - When you or a member of your fireteam stuns or defeats a Champion, you gain energy for your least-charged Strand ability

Stranded Reach - Destroying a Tangle with a Strand weapon creates a larger and more damaging explosion
Rain of Firebolts - When you have Firebolt Grenades equipped, gain a second grenade charge
Void Weapons Channeling - You gain a temporary bonus to Void weapon damage after you defeat a target with a Void weapon while at least one of your Void abilities is fully charged. This damage bonus increases based on the number of fully charged Void abilities you have
Medieval Champion - Glaives you wield fire a powerful explosive payload that stuns unshielded combatants. Strong against Unstoppable Champions. Landing consecutive hits with a Sword disrupts combatants. Strong against Overload Champions.
Prismatic Transfer - When you cast your Super, each member of your fireteam with a subclass damage type different than yours gains a bonus to weapon damage

Balancing health of enemies based on fireteam size to make full fireteams less punishing than solo play
Lowering stagger damage for campaign combatants