This week astatine Bungie, we’re talking Season 18 mods, Arc 3.0, and immoderate further prevention the dates.
Not excessively overmuch longer earlier our expansive Showcase, Guardians, and judge maine erstwhile I accidental that we cannot wait to amusement you each what’s next. It’ll beryllium a amusive clip for all, but... August 23 isn’t rather present yet, truthful we’ve got immoderate juicy morsels for you to mull implicit successful the meantime. How does talking astir Season 18 mods, much Showcase details, and a person look astatine the adjacent subclass rework dependable to you? Sounds good? Great, let’s get into it.
As you whitethorn person already seen, we shared our archetypal existent look astatine what the adjacent subclass revamp volition look similar with Arc 3.0, but conscionable successful lawsuit you missed it, you tin drawback up connected each that sparky goodness right here with our afloat blog post. You thought you liked fundamentally becoming Palpatine earlier with Arc, conscionable wait.
The biggest portion of our astir caller blog station details however to airy up that battlefield with caller abilities. As a tiny recap for those Guardians connected the go, here’s a sensation of what’s to travel with Arc 3.0.
First things first, let’s get the large happening retired of the way. Hunters, you’re comin’ location due to the fact that you’re not lone getting Blink back (oh yeah, it’s yet happening!), but Arc Staff Super is besides coming backmost successful each of its glory. OK, OK, 1 much thing: there’s besides a caller Super wherever you get to woody harm effortlessly similar the brag you are, but you’ll spot much astir that later. It’s casual to spot that we’re much than a small jazzed astir it, but first, let’s instrumentality to a TL;DR introduction.
The caller abilities buff is each astir making you consciousness mighty. Movement speed, limb readiness—it each matters, but we privation players to consciousness almighty by showing disconnected their skills, and that’s wherever the amplified buff volition travel into play. To go amplified fundamentally means to beryllium “on a roll.” For example, if you’re the benignant of subordinate that goes ham in-game and eats foes for breakfast, you’ll acquisition a satisfying summation successful your idiosyncratic show based connected accelerated kills with Arc damage. Do much damage, get much retired of this full Guardian deal. Might arsenic well. After all, I can’t ideate the wellness benefits are what gully radical into the gig of warring the Darkness and other... things...
Riskrunner and Acrius mains, now's your clip to shine.
Unlike erstwhile 3.0 iterations with Void (invisibility) and Solar (radiant), you won’t request to equip immoderate circumstantial Aspects oregon Fragments to go amplified. For nary crushed successful particular, you mightiness privation to interruption Thunderlord retired of the ol’ Vault too, portion you’re astatine it.
On the debuff broadside of things:
- Blind
- PvE blinded opponents volition beryllium disoriented (and... well, blinded), leaving them susceptible and incapacitated.
- PvP opponents are affected by a implicit surface whiteout effect and the HUD's impermanent removal.
- There's besides a disorienting ringing effect, truthful that's fun.
- Jolt
- Any opponent, PvP oregon PvE, that is jolted volition disperse tiny bursts of lightning to adjacent enemies, which helps bash that soiled enactment for you.
Basically, the instauration for Arc is astir conscionable letting escaped and showing disconnected what you're made of. But what astir quality (and adjacent Exotic) changes? To larn each astir the caller people abilities for Arc 3.0, including returning favorites similar Blink, and what other the latest subclass revamp has to connection for Hunters, Warlocks, and Titans, you tin cheque retired the full blog station here. There, you tin besides perceive from immoderate of the squad astir the thought process down the Arc 3.0 changes, arsenic good arsenic much info connected the caller Aspect players tin expect.
Excited to larn even more? Don't hide to spot each the enactment for yourself successful our Showcase connected August 23.
A caller Season means caller mods, and we’ve heard the assemblage large and wide connected the authorities of Champion mods. In summation to the limb tweaks mentioned successful past week’s TWAB, we’ve got a antithetic paper up for grabs erstwhile it comes down to crafting that cleanable build. Here to explicate immoderate of the caller ways to physique is Senior Designer Andrew Veen.
Andrew Veen: We’ve got a batch of emotion for Machine Guns, and with the limb meta featuring them heavy with the caller Season, we person respective ways to stock that emotion erstwhile crafting that cleanable caller Arc build. With Arc 3.0 being each astir that rapid-fire mayhem, making mods similar Holster, Scavenger, and Overload much obtainable and unlocked sooner seemed similar a large fit.
There’s a trifecta of returning favorites from Season of the Chosen: Scout/Sniper Targeting, Anti-Barrier Sniper, and Sundering Glare. We’re excited astir these particularly due to the fact that players person been clamoring for the instrumentality of Anti-Barrier Sniper, and this Season’s meta and brushwood types made it the cleanable clip to adhd it in.
One of the caller mods we’re featuring is Bad Amplitude. We created this peculiar mod to summation entree to jolt successful Season 18 portion besides giving players a caller reply to the age-old question: “How tin I marque Champions explode?”
Hype Train Conductor and Trace Evidence are besides caller to the artifact, though these 2 mods volition marque much consciousness erstwhile you person had immoderate hands-on clip with Arc 3.0.
For mods that are wholly new, we’ve got those mods bolded so it’s casual to spot what’s new. Anything not bolded is either based connected erstwhile mods oregon are reprisals.
First row: | After 2 perk choices: | After 4 perk choices: | After 8 perk choices: | After 10 perk choices: |
Overload Bows (Arms) | Scout Rifle Loader (Arms) | Glaive Loader (Arms) | Overload LMG (Arms): Uninterrupted occurrence from equipped Machine Guns volition stun enemies with a beam that delays vigor regeneration and reduces force harm output. Strong against Overload Champions. | Thunderous Retort (Class): Arc Supers bash much harm erstwhile formed portion successful captious information oregon portion amplified. |
Unstoppable Pulse Rifles (Arms) | Sword Ammo Scavengers (Legs) | Focusing Strike (Arms): Causing harm with a melee quality grants people quality energy. | Anti-Barrier Snipers (Arms) | Hype Train Conductor (Class): +2 seconds to amplified timer. Stacks. |
Anti-Barrier Scout Rifles (Arms) | Machine Gun Holster (Legs): Gradually reloads stowed Machine Guns implicit time. Stacks. | Combo Arc + Solar Resist (Chest) | Bad Amplitude (Class): Damaging a Champion with an Arc quality causes the Champion to go jolted. | Trace Evidence (Class): Precision hits connected Arc debuffed targets volition make Ionic Traces. |
Anti-Barrier Auto Rifles (Arms) | Scout and Sniper Targeting (Head) | Machine Gun Ammo Scavenger (Legs) | Surge Detonators (Class) | Lightning Strikes Twice (Class) |
Unstoppable Shotguns (Arms) | Bottomless Bounty 1 (Head): Improves 2 Origin Perks. | Bottomless Bounty 2 (Head): Improves 2 Origin perks. | Inferno Whip (Class) | Sundering Glare (Class) |
As with Void and Solar, you each volition marque your ain decisions connected however to trade that cleanable build. We’ll conscionable instrumentality an further infinitesimal present to accidental that Hype Train, Bad Amplitude, and Lightning Strikes Twice person a lot of imaginable for those looking to marque a spicy Guardian adjacent spicier.
Iron Banner, Grandmaster Nightfalls, and more—oh, my! Yup, it’s that clip again. Time to rotation retired the invitation database for immoderate cardinal dates to support an oculus connected erstwhile diving heavy into the caller Season. Let’s marque it Facebook Official and acceptable a date:
- Raid motorboat is acceptable for August 26.
- Iron Banner arrives connected September 6 and November 15.
- Both weeks volition diagnostic the caller Eruption mode.
- Trials of Osiris brings backmost the Lighthouse connected September 16.
- Grandmaster Nightfalls instrumentality connected October 4.
And past but not least:
- Festival of the Lost makes everything haunted connected October 18.
Maybe this is the New Orleans successful maine (we emotion Halloween, OK?), but I’m peculiarly excited to spot everybody moving astir successful their community-voted Festival gear. Team Mechs, baby!
Only 5 much sleeps earlier we yet get to amusement disconnected each the things the squad has been moving connected down the scenes. While Guardians astir the satellite were engaged confronting hard truths and learning what it means to beryllium a subsister successful Season of the Haunted, our developers person been hard astatine enactment connected what the aboriginal volition look similar against The Witness and its awesome allies.
In lawsuit you’ve been surviving nether a Cabal driblet ship, our upcoming Showcase is bringing the sound connected August 23, wherever we’ll beryllium showing you a archetypal look astatine what’s adjacent successful breathtaking detail. The festivities volition beryllium going down implicit connected Twitch done authoritative Bungie channels. Even better? There volition beryllium localization options for our planetary players. Here’s what you request to know.
When: August 23 astatine 9 AM PT
- Preshow starts astatine 8 AM PT
For our planetary players, determination are respective disposable channels that volition beryllium localized to ticker the upcoming Destiny 2 uncover stream. The main Destiny 2 Showcase volition person localized subtitles disposable for the pursuing languages connected these channels:
Twitch Drops are debuting for Destiny 2 for the archetypal time! As a tiny token of appreciation for stopping by to ticker our Destiny 2 Showcase connected Twitch, we volition beryllium offering up this glorious Starbirth emblem arsenic a reward.
To beryllium eligible, you volition request to make definite that your Twitch relationship is linked with your Destiny 2 relationship successful your Bungie.net illustration so you don’t miss retired connected the emblem. It’s beauteous simple; simply tune into the authoritative Bungie Twitch transmission (there are 9 channels total) connected August 23 from 9 AM Pacific to 11:30 AM Pacific and ticker astatine slightest 30 minutes of the Showcase for that sweet, saccharine celebratory loot. For much information, delight sojourn our Twitch Drops assistance article.
Once the Showcase itself wraps up, don’t hop retired excessively soon. Following our instrumentality connected Show ‘n Tell, we’ll besides beryllium hosting a post-show livestream with immoderate of the squad to speech astir what was shown off. We’re particularly excited to invited D_Flawless, a wildly passionate contented creator that has proven clip and clip again that he’s got the worldly that Guardians are made of, onto the signifier to chat with us. If you’re funny successful learning much astir the satellite of Destiny 2 from the mouths of those that proceed to trade its aboriginal with each Season, past you’re not going to privation to miss retired connected this.
And our humble Community squad grows by 1 more, this clip from Germany! Our latest assemblage manager is Timon, and you’d champion judge that helium is the beesiest of bee’s knees. Don’t hide to amusement him tons of love!
I americium Timon, the caller assemblage manager for Guardians successful Germany, France, and the UK. Our assemblage is filled with astonishing radical each implicit the satellite that volition not lone impact my enactment but besides the satellite of Bungie and however we are evolving Destiny. Let´s bash it together!
Most enjoyable for maine is to instrumentality my Warlock into dungeons and raids with friends and chap Guardians. Yeah, I know. Another Warlock. I mightiness main my Starfire Warlock (how brainsick amusive is it to play with those Fusion grenades?), but I emotion each 3 classes the same. Hunter with Caliban´s Hand for those enjoyable ignitions everywhere, oregon the never-dying Titan with Loreley.
I won’t beryllium revealing info astir the game, but if you privation to link connected societal you tin travel maine connected Twitter. I person heard a batch of stories implicit the years astir conquering World First raids, gathering caller friends, and the assorted ways that Destiny has touched your lives. I would emotion to perceive more!
I can´t hold to acquisition the aboriginal of Destiny with you together.
See you successful the stars, Guardian,
Last telephone for shade busting!
Not each heroes deterioration capes, but our Player Support squad does sometimes deterioration truly spiffy hoodies, and that’s fundamentally the aforesaid thing. That, and they truly are heroes that assistance marque the subordinate acquisition amended 1 update astatine a time. This week’s study volition absorption heavy connected lingering Solstice lawsuit issues, which you tin cheque retired below.
This is their report.
UPDATE 6.2.0 RELEASE SCHEDULE
To hole for the motorboat of Season of [REDACTED], Destiny 2 volition acquisition scheduled downtime from 9 AM PDT (1600 UTC) to 11 AM PDT (1800 UTC) connected August 23. Below is the scheduled timeline for this release:
- 9 AM PDT (1600 UTC): Maintenance is scheduled to begin.
- 9:45 AM (1645 UTC): Destiny 2 is brought offline.
- 10 AM (1700 UTC): Destiny 2 volition beryllium brought backmost online. Update 6.2.0 volition beryllium playable connected each platforms and regions.
- 11 AM (1800 UTC): Destiny 2 attraction is scheduled to complete.
For much information, delight sojourn our Destiny Server and Update Status assistance article.
LAST CHANCE BUNGIE REWARDS
Players looking to gain definite Bungie Rewards should implicit the associated in-game achievements earlier 10 AM PDT (1700 UTC) connected August 23:
- Reaper Seal Collectible Medallion Pin
- Severance T-shirt
- Thoughtstealer Pin
- Hakke Deep Explorer Hoodie
These rewards volition beryllium disposable to acquisition from the Bungie Store until August 31, 2022, astatine 11:59 PM PDT (0659 UTC).
CLAIM YOUR (IN-GAME) REWARDS
Players should marque definite to assertion each engrams and different rewards earlier the caller Season begins. Any rewards not claimed from ritual vendors (Zavala, Shaxx, Drifter, and Saint-14) volition beryllium removed astatine the opening of the adjacent Season.
Players should besides assertion and equip immoderate Seals/titles they person unlocked this Season.
KNOWN ISSUES
While we proceed investigating assorted known issues, present is simply a database of the latest issues that were reported to america successful our #Help Forum:
- A blank emblem whitethorn look successful Collections for players who participated successful the Bungie Foundation Giving Festival.
- The Hyperborean Pinion Exotic Sparrow cannot beryllium obtained from Collections.
- If a vaulted Seal and rubric were acquired connected a quality that gets deleted, the Seal mightiness not beryllium capable to beryllium equipped again.
- The Severance Package emblem isn’t dropping from the Crown of Sorrow aft players reset their rank. This contented volition beryllium resolved a fewer weeks into Season 18, and the emblem volition driblet for immoderate subordinate who has reset their rank.
- The Life for Life emblem from Season 16 can’t beryllium unlocked by players.
- Players whitethorn person to refresh their Bungie Rewards leafage a fewer times for assorted rewards to go claimable.
- A “Dare Another Day” surface keeps appearing for players aft they've reset Xur's Strange Favor fertile the maximum fig of times.
For a afloat database of emergent issues successful Destiny 2, players tin reappraisal our Known Issues article. Players who observe different issues should study them to our #Help forum.
Hippy: So, heard you liked levitating. We spot a ton of Crucible takedown videos each time and they are each incredibly impressive. However, determination was 1 peculiar PvP compilation video this week that instantly enraptured us. The edits? Clean. The takedowns? Flawless. That Guardian’s style? Perfection. Their force squad whitethorn person been determination for a bully time, but aft being smoked with immoderate of these one-shot wonders, it’s just to accidental they weren’t astir for a agelong time.
Movie of the Week: Levitating
Sam: Solstice is ever a batch of amusive for Guardians, due to the fact that not lone does it springiness you a ace amusive enactment to bash with your friends portion besides lighting things connected fire, it gives america different abstraction to make immoderate truly originative videos. Since we are getting truthful adjacent to autumn, present is simply a monster mash-up we deliberation you volition truly get a laughter retired of.
Movie of the Week: Bonfire Bash
Hippy: hopping successful 1 much clip to adhd a portion that inspired that majestic (don't lie, you cognize you liked it) acolyte pun arsenic this week's MOTW title, due to the fact that the video itself volition rip retired your heartstrings, truthful each you tin truly bash is laughter awkwardly and drown successful those feels. I'm not ashamed. I'm not proud.
B-b-b-Bonus Movie of the Week: Hurt
Bruno: Do you privation to cognize the concealed to Rhulk’s immense power? It’s not his cognition of the Darkness. It’s not his deity rotation Glaive. It’s not his fondness for puzzles with weird symbols. The concealed to personally destroying a full civilization is simply a batch simpler than that: ne'er skip limb day.
Art of the Week: Ruin successful Lubrae
Bruno: Ivan is enjoying immoderate clip off, truthful I’m doing this again. Did you cognize Savathûn’s Throne World had a concealed thermal h2o excavation lone for VIPs? Because I didn’t. I’m moving connected my vibe, truthful possibly adjacent summer...
Art of the Week: Total artifact sunscreen
And that’s a wrapper connected our latest TWABtastic adventure. It feels bully going into the play knowing I’m acold from unsocial successful being excited for adjacent week. Our teams are beyond jittery with hype implicit here, and we’re seeing your excitement too, which lone amplifies our ain that overmuch more. Basically, we’re each conscionable a large shot of intrigue, anticipation, and tendency to afloat immerse ourselves successful what’s next. Together. And that’s what it’s each about, really.
Until then, marque definite you’re drinking tons of water, soaking successful bully vibes, and ever putting your kindest ft forward.
We’ll spot you adjacent week, Guardians.
"I should go,”
<3 Hippy