It looks like the new and returning Legendary guns inDestiny 2’sSeason of the Worthyhave received some pretty noticeably nerfs when compared to ones from the past. Out of the 21 weapons that arrived with this season, none can roll both a faster-reload perk and a damage-increase perk.
This means that reload-boosting perks like Outlaw and Feeding Frenzy, can’t roll on a gun that already has damage perks like Kill Clip, MKC, or Rampage. The new weapons introduced intoDestiny 2this season only allow a player to have one or the other.
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To clarify – all Season 10 Legendary weapons have this limitation, including Faction guns, the new Seraph guns, and even the new Legendary weapons that players can earn through theTrials of Osiris. However, Bungie didn’t give this nerf to anything that predates this season, so any guns that already had these combos available to them, still do. Essentially, then, the new weapons are worse than the old ones outside of the level cap.
The information of the new perk pools comes fromDestiny 2’s community-run, progress-tracking site Light.gg. It revealed what was available for each of the guns added with thisseasonal update, and Reddit user Turns31 happened to find the new limitation as he was perusing through the weapons.
The nerfs are relatively unexpected, and some fans aren’t happy about them as they’ve killed the excitement they once had for hunting down the new guns. While many ofDestiny 2’s weapons received nerfs with Season 10, most of the adjustments targetedExotic Weapons and Armor pieces, or they were blanket nerfs for entire weapon classes, such as Grenade Launchers. These nerfs were also public, unlike these Legendary stealth changes.
Bungie could have done this for many reasons, but it was most likely because of the Trials of Osiris. One reasonDestiny 2saw Trials removed in the first place was due to a lack of weapon balance, and a lot of the Season 10 nerfs done happened to try and balance the returning game mode. Making it so that all the newLegendary weapons– including guns earned from the Trials themselves – are incapable of utilizes popular perk combos seems like a change made with the hope of balancing Trials. Nerfs and buffs come and go, though, so maybe these perk combos will return in the future.
Destiny 2is currently available for the PC, PS4, and Xbox One.
