Destiny 2 - Season of the Worthy: Weapons Guide

Exotic weapons

Charge d'Izanagi

• Reload speed no longer affects the animation of Honed Edge
• No Distractions now replaces Outlaw

The last word

• While firing on the hip, Fan Fire now adjusts the scalar accuracy of the weapons
• Weapon impact values ​​have been adjusted with the following:
  • Precision Hip Decrease / ADS to 27 / 52,2 from 67,95 / 67,95
  • Decreased Hip / ADS Non-Precision to 38/38 from 50.01 / 50.01
  • Additional effective range (damage reduction) no longer guaranteed when aiming sights
  • Reduced stability for mouse and keyboard input
  • Improved acquisition of targets for this weapon when shooting from the hip
  • Reduced effective range

Fighting lion

• Increased rate of fire to 90 rpm instead of 72 rpm
• Increased damage from direct hits in PvE to 35 from 27

Devil's Ruin

• Fixed a bug that allowed pyrogenesis to trigger at unexpected times, causing the laser to fire repeatedly

Symmetry

• Fixed a bug that randomly prevented the weapon from firing
• Fixed a bug that sometimes allowed the weapon to damage its allies

Lord of wolves

• When active, Release the Wolves now significantly reduces accuracy
• Reduced stability for mouse and keyboard input

swords

All swords have been modified to make them more effective and efficient in combat. They are now measured by the following stats: Impact, Rotation Speed, Charge Rate, Guard Resistance, Guard Effectiveness, Guard Stamina, Ammo Capacity, and Energy.

Énergie

• When wielded, a sword's energy meter replaces a player's melee ability
• A sword's energy can now be consumed by various sword-related actions and naturally recovers on its own

attacks

• A player's glider ability can no longer be activated during sword attacks or other melee attacks.
• Light attacks
  • Light Attack Ropes on all sword sub-archetypes can now be looped endlessly
  • Light attacks for all sub-archetypes can now cut to hit multiple enemies
• Heavy attacks
  • Heavy attacks now consume sword energy to varying degrees, depending on the type of sword and attack used
  • Full energy produces the strongest heavy attacks

Guard

• Protection now consumes sword energy rather than ammo, but a minimum of 1 ammo is required to use this ability
• Some of the damage from sword attacks can now bypass elemental shields to strike a target directly
  • There are exceptions to this ability, such as with sword-generated projectile attacks.

Advantages of the sword

• Whirling blade will end if the player using it starts guarding, and multi-hit attacks now only count as a single hit
• En garde damage bonus is now reduced from + 50% to + 30%
• Lame explosive damage bonus is now reduced from 3x to around 1,67x.
• Energy transfer now gains less energy than before because the guardian no longer consumes ammo
• Counter attack its activation requirements have been changed so that blocking an attack immediately after protection increases damage for a short duration of 2 seconds, which has been reduced by 5 seconds

Additional information on sword changes can be found in this article

Grenade launcher

• Electric weapon grenade launchers deal approximately 10% less damage to major enemies and above
• Aggressive Frame Grenade Launcher Became Rapid Fire Frame Grenade Launcher
• Grenade Launchers with Rapid Fire Structure now have increased ammo reserves, but their damage has been reduced by 0,8x to account for their increased rate of fire
  • Previously, aggressive frame grenade launchers fired faster than adaptive launchers, although their damage was equal.

Sniper rifles

• Reduced damage to major and greater enemies to pre-Shadowkeep values ​​(~ -20%)
• Reduced accuracy multiplier for adaptive snipers from 3,25x to 2,95x
• Base impact reduced for rapid fire snipers from 100 to 90 damage

Shotguns

• Adjusted target acquisition for non-slug shotguns to no longer account for precision locations (which could cause most shots to miss the intended target)
• The cone angle is no longer adjusted by the Range statistic, but on a sub-archetype basis
• Downsight no longer adjusts effective range

Fusion rifles

• Adjusted target acquisition for Fusion Rifles to no longer account for precision locations (which could cause most shots to miss the intended target)
• The damage reduction for this weapon archetype can now be 0,5x, down from 0,75x previously.
• The effective range and optical stat impact of this weapon archetype has been reduced

Automatic rifles

• Precision Frame automatic rifles have had their impact value increased to 17 / 27,2 Default / Precision from the previous 17 / 25,5.
• Adaptive Frame Rifles impact value increased to 15,75 / 25,2 Default / Accuracy from previous 13,75 / 22.
• Rapid Fire Frame Rifles have increased their impact value to 13,4 / 20,1 Default / Accuracy from the previous 12,5 / 18,75.

Weapons advantages

Backup plan

• This perk now adjusts impact to match the Rapid-Fire subarchetype when active
• Charge time is now set to match the Rapid Fire sub-archetype of 0,85 when active

One-two punch

• This perk now ends when you swap weapons or deal melee damage

General weapon issues

• Fixed an issue with the emissive elements on One Thousand Voices and on the Summer Storm weapon ornaments for Riskrunner and Jade Countenance for Fighting Lion
• Fixed an issue that kept the Multikill clip active indefinitely
• Fixed an issue where killing Shanks with Lumina would not always generate a Remnant
• Fixed an issue where Wish-Ender dealt more damage than intended when shooting through specific objects
• Fixed an issue where large amounts of the Lord of Wolves ornament, Packmaster's Command, would disappear when standing next to a wall

This listing is part of a series on the patch for the Season of the Worthy update. Check out the rest of the 2.8.0 patch notes in this main guide.

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