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Alright, Guardians, it’s clip to sermon the changes astir our destination materials, truthful let’s manus the mic implicit to Design Lead Josh Kulinski. 

Josh: Hey Guardians! Josh Kulinski present again, to speech to you each astir destination materials. You cognize each of those Dusklight Shards, Helium Filaments, and Microphasic Datalattices that you’ve had sitting successful your inventory for years? We’ve taken a batch of clip to measure their spot wrong Destiny 2 and person decided that successful Season 19, these items volition accidental goodbye. But wherefore person we made this change, and what does it mean for you each arsenic you research the assorted destinations successful Destiny 2? Well, work on, and you’ll find out! 

Starting successful Season 19, players volition nary longer beryllium capable to get the pursuing items: 

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

The keyword present is “obtain.”  Unlike erstwhile currencies that we person removed from the game, these materials volition not beryllium afloat deprecated, but I’m getting up of myself. More connected that successful a bit. 

A Simpler Economy 

First and foremost, we person to speech astir why we decided to marque this change. After all, these materials person been portion of the DNA of Destiny since the precise beginning. The simplest reply is that Destiny has grown to go a overmuch much analyzable crippled than it started arsenic each those years ago. One of the large goals that we person connected the Economy Team for Destiny 2 is making the crippled much approachable to caller and returning players. One mode that we tin bash that is by reducing the fig of currencies that players request to recognize and support way of. This helps america trim the cognitive load that Destiny’s system places connected the player. With less currencies to manage, it’ll beryllium easier for players to larn and retrieve the worth of the items that they person successful their inventories.  

Removing these materials besides benefits players by freeing up inventory abstraction and making it easier to find the items they are looking for. 

Times, They Are a Exchangin’ 

The archetypal happening galore of you are astir apt asking arsenic you work this is, “What astir the Material Exchange?” And I’ll fto you cognize it’s not going away. Master Rahool volition proceed to supply the services that Spider erstwhile did, though determination volition beryllium immoderate changes. As mentioned a spot earlier, these materials volition not beryllium afloat deprecated arsenic we person done with destination materials successful the past. Instead, Rahool volition proceed to judge immoderate destination materials that you whitethorn person stored up implicit the years, though we’ll spot them exchanged astatine a little complaint than they had previously, and Rahool volition nary longer merchantability destination materials to players.  

Starting successful Season 19, Rahool volition present speech 5,000 Glimmer for a stack of 20 destination materials. If players person little than 20 of a worldly successful their inventory, Rahool volition speech 250 Glimmer for each idiosyncratic worldly offered up by the player. Once Season 19 begins, this volition beryllium the lone usage for destination materials moving forward. So, you tin safely speech each of your materials and escaped up that inventory space.  

However, determination are immoderate caller items that Master Rahool has recovered an involvement in. Starting successful Season 19, players tin speech excess Dark Fragments, Phantasmal Fragments, and Herealways Pieces astatine Rahool successful speech for Glimmer.  

Finally, the outgo of exchanging Legendary Shards for Glimmer remains unchanged.  

New Costs: 

Public Service 

Now that you cognize astir the changes to the worldly exchange, you are astir apt thinking, “Well, determination goes the easiest mode to get Glimmer.” And that’s not mislaid connected us.  

To offset this, we privation to instrumentality an accidental to respire caller beingness into a portion of the Destiny 2 gameplay loop that possibly doesn’t get arsenic overmuch attraction arsenic it utilized to: nationalist events. In Season 19, nationalist events volition beryllium getting a large Glimmer boost, particularly the Heroic versions. So, the adjacent clip you spot Fallen mining for Glimmer connected the EDZ, instrumentality a infinitesimal to hop disconnected your Sparrow and assistance your chap Guardians instrumentality location immoderate of that saccharine shimmering Glimmer for yourselves.  

* These are earthy numbers without Glimmer boosting mods oregon bonuses enabled. 

The Price of Change 

As mentioned earlier, the lone usage for destination materials volition beryllium astatine Rahool’s worldly exchange. That means that thing that antecedently outgo the subordinate destination materials, specified arsenic purchasing Exotic weapons astatine the Monument to Lost Lights, volition spot immoderate updates. In the lawsuit of these bequest Exotic weapons, the destination materials outgo volition beryllium replaced with a Legendary Shard cost. Raid Exotics, specified arsenic Anarchy and Tarrabah, volition spot nary alteration to their existent costs. 

Other items that erstwhile saw destination materials arsenic portion of their acquisition cost, specified arsenic Upgrade Modules, Enhancement Prisms, and Ascendant Shards volition simply spot the destination worldly outgo removed entirely, with nary further changes to their existent terms points.   

Mod Squad 

In a satellite without destination materials, determination are a fewer Ghost mods that request to beryllium addressed.  

First, the 3 Materialism mods (Crucible, Gambit, Vanguard) volition beryllium removed astatine the commencement of Season 19.    

Additionally, the Bountiful Harvest mod’s functionality has changed. Equipping this mod to your Ghost volition present summation Glimmer erstwhile harvesting from assets nodes.  

I’m Living successful a Material World and I americium a Material Guardian 

The superior root of destination materials has ever been assets nodes scattered crossed the assorted destinations successful Destiny. Those assets nodes are not going anywhere, and it’s inactive successful each player’s champion involvement to cod from immoderate of the nodes you spot on your journeys. 

As galore players noticed, with the merchandise of The Witch Queen, the deposits of Fundamental Osmium recovered astir Savathûn’s Throneworld did not assistance a currency, but alternatively delivered Glimmer, XP, and estimation straight to the player. Though we volition not beryllium creating caller estimation systems for our erstwhile destination vendors specified arsenic Devrim, Failsafe, Petra, and others astatine this time, we volition beryllium moving to amended these experiences. 

In fact, Devrim Kay and Failsafe, our longest tenured destination vendors, who person been with america since the Red War, volition beryllium getting a tiny update successful Season 19.  

The estimation systems that saw players turning successful destination materials to summation estimation ranks person been removed. This besides means determination are nary longer fertile requirements to acquisition armor from these vendors. Additionally, the Ghost Shells and emblems that were erstwhile earned via estimation fertile increases tin present beryllium purchased straight from Devrim oregon Failsafe for 10 Legendary Shards each.  

We person besides accrued the fig of regular bounties that Devrim and Failsafe connection from 3 to four. Though we don’t person repeatable bounties to adhd to these destinations astatine this time, it brings america person to parity crossed each of the destination vendors.  

Finally, we volition beryllium removing the merchantability of sunset weapons from some vendors erstwhile the Season goes live. This is mostly to forestall players from wasting resources connected weapons that cannot beryllium upgraded to the existent level cap. 

• General: 
• Increased the effects of the stableness stat connected recoil simplification by ~20% astatine the precocious end. 
• Precision Frames: 
• Increased the crit harm multiplier from 1.5x to 1.55x (crit harm goes from 30 to 31). 

• Increased Bow stow duration (varies by sub-family and handling stat): 
• Before, 0 to 100 handling stat: 
• Lightweight Frame: 0.4s to 0.2s. 
• Precision Frame: 0.433s to 0.2s. 
• After, 0 to 100 handling stat: 
• Lightweight: 0.45s to 0.3s. 
• Precision: 0.48s to 0.33s. 

Pulse Rifles  

Pulse Rifles are beardown successful the existent sandbox, some owed to the reduced dominance of different mid to agelong scope weapons and the availability of aggregate easy acquirable/craftable beardown options. In addition, a fewer equilibrium passes back, we buffed their scope a mean amount, but successful the existent sandbox we nary longer consciousness they request that assistance crossed the board. As such, we person removed the scope bonus astatine the debased end, portion retaining it astatine the precocious end, to proceed rewarding those who spec into scope without giving the aforesaid vantage to those who bash not. We besides felt that determination was not capable of a quality successful the "feel" of limb handling crossed Pulse Rifle sub-families, truthful we person rebalanced the stat to alteration the effects somewhat astatine the debased extremity and rise them astatine the precocious end. 

Adaptive Frame (390 RPM) Pulse Rifles person not been favored since the Bygone era, and we judge this alteration volition beryllium capable to summation their spot comparative to different Pulse Rifles without pushing them excessively acold into meta-territory. 

As for Rapid-Fire Frame (540 RPM) Pulse Rifles, Piece of Mind has an retired of set zoom stat that allows it to vie astatine longer ranges than would beryllium expected for the sub-family, truthful it volition beryllium the archetypal of aggregate zoom outliers we volition beryllium looking astatine bringing in-line implicit the adjacent Season. 

Scout Rifles 

When we buffed High-Impact (150 RPM) Scout Rifles past Season, the main extremity was to get them up disconnected the level by reducing however punishing hitting assemblage shots was. We implicit buffed them a bit, going truthful acold arsenic to marque the optimal TTK much forgiving against debased resilience arsenic well. This has made them somewhat excessively casual to usage for a limb with functionally unlimited range. The beneath alteration to harm volition instrumentality their optimal TTK backmost to requiring 3 crits crossed each resilience values, portion retaining the alteration to assemblage changeable TTK from the erstwhile equilibrium pass.  

Sidearms 

Interestingly, Sidearms person agelong had substantially little car purpose scope compared to harm range, a determination made galore moons ago. With the removal of the car purpose falloff bonus from Rangefinder, we felt that Sidearms successful wide seemed lacking successful the ~15m engagement distances, peculiarly connected MnK (mouse and keyboard). As such, this alteration should bring them up to adjacent parity with different weapons' car purpose to harm falloff ratios. For comparisons sake, Sidearms with Rangefinder should consciousness astir the aforesaid aft this alteration arsenic they bash successful the crippled now, but sidearms without Rangefinder should consciousness notably better.  

Submachine Guns 

We wanted to beryllium precise cautious touching Submachine Guns (SMGs), arsenic we judge that astir of them are successful a bully spot wrong their intended ranges. However, in-game and successful playtests, it has go evident that immoderate SMGs tin beryllium utilized good extracurricular of this region effectively, and it has made it hard for different weapons to compete. We person addressed a mates outliers individually but person besides made a alteration to rein successful however beardown SMGs are once harm falloff begins.  

As mentioned above, immoderate outliers successful the Precision Frame (600 RPM) sub-family of SMGs person retired of set zoom values, to the constituent that they tin overstep the effectual ranges of immoderate Auto Rifles—these outliers person made it hard to warrant tuning Precision Frames overall. At the aforesaid time, their 0.80s optimal TTK makes them anemic options against different SMGs, forcing them to trust connected their precocious effectual scope and harm boosting perks successful bid to compete. 

Lightweight Frame SMGs presently overlap excessively overmuch with Adaptive Frames, truthful we’re making a precise tiny alteration that volition assistance differentiate them. 

Fusion Rifles 

Precision Frame Fusion Rifles person seen an uptick successful usage since we buffed them to let them to termination successful 5 bolts, and they are sucking the aerial retired of the country for the different sub-families owed to their highly precocious easiness of use. The beneath alteration should marque it somewhat harder for players to support cleanable vertical recoil without further manual power of the bolt spread.  

Glaives 

Glaives person been hard to antagonistic erstwhile they person shield energy, but this alteration should code that. We volition proceed to support an oculus connected Glaive shield harm absorption successful the future, particularly erstwhile their improved deed registration changes travel into effect successful Season 19. 

Sniper Rifles 

We've made respective changes trying to marque challenging a Sniper Rifle much feasible implicit the years, but yet the mode flinch works made this tricky to bash successful a mode that didn't marque them consciousness worse to use, peculiarly successful PvE. Under the hood, incoming harm causes a player's purpose to deflect by an space babelike connected limb benignant and harm amount, and past there's a outpouring unit that pulls purpose backmost down (for outpouring nerds retired there, this is defined arsenic a damping ratio and outpouring force), often called a "settle time." We've made a alteration successful Season 19 that has importantly moved the needle successful interior playtests. We’ve reduced the magnitude of flinch received successful PvE (to debar adversely affecting that experience) but accrued the settee clip substantially. This means you'll proceed to flinch distant from your people without settling capable to sprout done flinch. Our extremity is to discourage continuing to effort a snipe erstwhile you’re already nether occurrence (the acquisition of sniping portion not nether occurrence won't change). 

Trace Rifles 

Like Auto Rifles, Trace Rifles person not been fashionable astatine precocious levels of play extracurricular of immoderate peculiarly niche builds. When we investigated ways to amended their performance, we recovered that a tiny summation successful harm had a melodramatic and antagonistic effect successful presumption of however it felt to play against them (imagine consistently being killed by an Out of Bounds with Rampage astatine 30m - 35m), and their scope is rather respectable connected its own. Indeed, what we recovered was that the deficiency of stableness made it hard for astir Trace Rifles to beryllium utilized astatine the farther points of their intended engagement ranges due to the fact that it was hard to prolong precision occurrence connected moving targets, truthful we person accrued their stableness by an adjacent larger magnitude than we did Auto Rifles. At precocious stableness stats, this should marque Trace Rifles consciousness overmuch much similar laser beams, and little similar recoiling Ghost-busters proton packs.   

Rocket Launchers 

Although Rocket Launchers spot passable usage successful PvP, they lag acold down different Heavy weapons similar Linear Fusion Rifles and Heavy Grenade Launchers successful effectiveness, owed successful ample portion to their inability to get aggregate kills per mag without targets being grouped intimately together. With an summation to blast radius, this should marque it noticeably easier to nett kills connected targets that are not close adjacent to the halfway of the blast.  

Player Support Report 

Ketch Me If You Can 

The Destiny Player Support squad is backmost this week for their crook with the mic to springiness america adjacent week’s attraction times and immoderate known issues that are hanging around. 

HELP CENTER UPDATE 

Earlier this week, Help.Bungie.Net received an update and present requires players to motion into the tract erstwhile submitting tickets. This volition support way of immoderate tickets you taxable and the presumption of them. 

One bug that was introduced is that aft signing successful erstwhile clicking connected a interaction form, it volition instrumentality players backmost to the location page. We anticipation to get this resolved soon. 

If you person issues with the Help Center, delight taxable a study successful our Help Forum. 

UPDATE 6.2.5 

Next Tuesday, October 18, Destiny 2 Update 6.2.5 volition beryllium released. View our Destiny Server and Update Status leafage for attraction times, arsenic good arsenic the timeline beneath (all times are Pacific):   

Lore and Laughs 

Hippy: Not adjacent going to lie, this is simply a Fallen appreciation post. From Mithrax to Eido, there’s an full spectrum of unthinkable characters and communicative elements that this microcosm of radical offers to the satellite of Destiny 2. Much similar existent life, not each of that lore is sunshine, roses, and cuddly small Smol-len. Sometimes it’s heartbreaking. Sometimes it’s infuriating. Sometimes it’s a feeling of alleviation astatine seeing that past and that aboriginal for the Fallen formulate into thing genuinely special. That’s precisely wherefore this video is thing that we conscionable had to share. There’s an appreciation for that affluent past and imaginable that is infectious, and we anticipation you bask this arsenic overmuch arsenic we did!  

Movie of the Week: The Fallen: Destiny 2 Lore  

Sam: Sometimes we prime retired a #MOTW that makes you intermission and think, similar the 1 Hippy has above. This one? This 1 is liable for maine needing a caller keyboard due to the fact that I spit my Sprite Zero each implicit it from laughing the full time. 

Movie of the Week: Jar of Dirt 

Spooky Pirates, Thorn Girl, and Love

Bruno: Destiny has a batch of beloved characters. Old reliable fellows similar Zavala and Ikora, but besides caller ones that everybody cares for and privation to protect, similar Eido oregon Mithrax. This makes choosing a quality to absorption connected erstwhile drafting a small spot hard, I know. So, let’s conscionable clasp them each and telephone it a day.  

Art of the Week: Spooky pirates 

Happy aboriginal Festival of the Lost, Guardians!! I made a pirate themed repeating inheritance to celebrate, arsenic it's my favourite ingame event, hehe. Please enjoy, and you are escaped to usage it! :D#destiny2art #destinyart #aotw@Bungie @DestinyTheGame @DirtyEffinHippy @A_dmg04 pic.twitter.com/KAqQNwYjCD

Ivan: This week it was particularly hard to take #AOTW due to the fact that of truthful overmuch large art. But this spiky-poison’y-gothic goddess stole my heart. Admit it, she has charm! And the roseate connected the sweater is specified a large detail. Well done, @oricksandcroat! 

Art of the Week: Thorn Girl 

Hippy: Not to intrude connected the creation conception this week, but with Bungie’s caller blog post, we wanted to see 1 much bonus portion from the assemblage that offers a elemental reminder: you are not alone.  

Bonus Art of the Week: You are not alone 

[wipes brow]  

There we person it Guardians, this week's TWAB. We cognize it was a batch of info to stock each astatine once, truthful delight consciousness escaped to dependable disconnected connected socials with immoderate questions you whitethorn have. We are ever learning and adjusting our connection methods, truthful we admit your clip erstwhile responding to america with that benignant of information.  

Okay, it’s clip to get backmost retired there! Thank you for hanging retired with america contiguous and we volition spot you adjacent week with our favourite masks connected for Festival of the Lost! 😊 

Stay crafty, 

Sam