Tuesday, October 8th, will mark the start of Episode: Revenant in Destiny 2, and that means there will be some changes coming to the looter shooter, particularly in the case of specific activity rewards and many of its subclass abilities.
The weekly newsletter starts off by talking about Revenant’s changes to nightfall rewards, which include increased non-adept weapon drop chances when getting to gold and platinum tiers in advanced, expert, and master nightfalls; a slight increase in adept weapon drops in grandmaster nightfalls; and some tweaks to the costs associated with nightfall focused decoding.
The majority of the update post discusses a wide swath of updates coming to subclass abilities. These primarily focus on the titan class, with several changes to barriers and shields that make titans draw aggro to enemies, multiple tweaks to prismatic abilities, and the class’ unpowered punch being more damaging than other class’ punch. Because they’re titans.
Of course other subclass abilities are up for changes as well, including updates to make certain roaming supers feel better, a pair of changes to the warlock’s lightning surge ability, and a few nerfs to the prismatic hunter’s combination blow ability as well as tweaks to some of the class’ grenades.
Finally, the Revenant episode will make changes to the shooter’s power band: The power level floor will be 1900, soft cap will be 1950, the powerful level will become 2000, and the hard cap will become 2010 as part of the return of the 10 level hard cap from prior seasons. Bungie classifies this as a return of a long-tail goal for endgame players while still letting players of all stripes come together through the fireteam power feature, though a few replies from players on Twitter and reactions on Reddit suggest this is an unpopular decision.
