{"id":6174,"date":"2021-04-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-08T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hdbka.com\/destiny-2s-latest-nerfs-hit-the-lament-felwinters-lie-falling-guillotine-frenzy-and-more\/"},"modified":"2021-04-08T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-04-08T00:00:00","slug":"destiny-2s-latest-nerfs-hit-the-lament-felwinters-lie-falling-guillotine-frenzy-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hdbka.com\/destiny-2s-latest-nerfs-hit-the-lament-felwinters-lie-falling-guillotine-frenzy-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Destiny 2’s latest nerfs hit The Lament, Felwinter’s Lie, Falling Guillotine, Frenzy, and more"},"content":{"rendered":"
It also means that we’re due another major sandbox rebalance, which the dev team has begun detailing in the latest This Week at Bungie post<\/a>. In time-honoured fashion, Bungie is beginning with the bad news. Which means nerfs. Back in February, assistant game director Joe Blackburn wrote<\/u><\/a> that due to the decision to scrap the weapon sunsetting system, certain archetypes would need to be looked at, lest they dominate in perpetuity. That reckoning is now upon us.<\/p>\n
Two of the most popular swords in the game are also being blunted somewhat. The Lament exotic is one of the best burst DPS weapons the game has ever seen, and will likely still be good after it eats a 16 percent damage reduction to its heavy attack. Meanwhile Falling Guillotine, the spin-to-win void sword, is getting another<\/em><\/u><\/a> nerf, this time to the cost of its heavy attack. <\/p>\n
There should be more good news on the way too, as community manager dmg04 said on Twitter<\/u><\/a> that additional perk and archetype buffs will be featured in a future TWAB post, likely towards the end of April. And from the sounds of things, the comically underused Linear Fusion Rifle archetype is already booked into the shop to be fixed.<\/p>\n
Another season of Destiny 2 is almost upon us, and that can only mean one thing: I need to book a day off to sift through all the new gear…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6174,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1361,1044,1362,1245,1038,1265,129,1137,1047,1043],"tags":[1363,1055,1364,1248,1048,1268,1049,1140,1058,1054],"class_list":["post-6174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bungie","category-channel-gaming-software","category-destiny-2","category-fps","category-gaming-software","category-mmo","category-news","category-rpg","category-serversidehawk","category-type-news","tag-bungie","tag-channel-gaming-software","tag-destiny-2","tag-fps","tag-gaming-software","tag-mmo","tag-news","tag-rpg","tag-serversidehawk","tag-type-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hdbka.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hdbka.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hdbka.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hdbka.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hdbka.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hdbka.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hdbka.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hdbka.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hdbka.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hdbka.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}