TWAB - 27th of May, 2020 - BIG. Stasis. NERFS. (Destiny)

by INSANEdrive, ಥ_ಥ | f(ಠ‿↼)z | ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ| ¯\_(ツ)_/¯, Thursday, May 27, 2021, 16:45 (1058 days ago)

https://www.bungie.net/en/News/Article/50388 or https://destiny.bungie.org/bwu/366

TL;DR...

• Congrats to Clan Elysium for World's first VoG
  
• Bungie believes that weapons are the primary way to engage in combat and sandbox has become too ability focused recently
  
• Light subclasses will be buffed in S15
  
• Stasis nerf patch is getting shifted up to next week from s15 (cost a lot of work for the team, so not a regular thing to happen)
  
• Bungie is going to try and reduce ability usage in PvP while keeping PvE about the same post s15
  
• You should get a high stat roll armor for your first 4 runs of expunged, then get a weapon with another perk in the final column
  
• Stasis Nerfs (coming next week)
  
• All non super freezes are now 1.35 secs(to short to break out from)
  
• All special, heavy and ability bonus damage vs frozen players is now 5% (down from 50%)
  
• Slow no longer reduces accuracy, now increases flinch, no longer suppresses class abilities and air moves(stormcaller blink is still locked out, this is a bug and will be fixed), and movement speed penalty is reduced by 20%
  
• Herdons no longer buffs weapon damage after freeze, and increases weapon stability, weapon aim assist, Mobility, Resilience, and Recovery
  
• Rime no longer gives overshield in super
  
• Coldsnap no longer tracks after initial target acquisition, has reduced detonation radius and bounces of walls and detonates on the ground
  
• Shiver Strike has reduced flight speed, distance and knockback vs. players and no longer slows on impact
  
• Cryoclasm has no cooldown but requires sprint for 1.25 secs to activate while not in super
  
• Howl of the storm has reduced angle of initial freezing, and freeze radius and slower crystal formation. Can now spawn crystals on walls
  
• Glacial Quake damage resistance is now 47%, and has reduced heavy slam vertical range
  
• Withering blade now only slows for 1.5 secs, and durance is only a .5 sec increase, has only 45 damage (and reduced to 30 after a bounce, has 10% slower speed and reduced tracking after bouncing off of a wall
  
• Winters Shroud now slows for only 1.5 secs, plus durance only extends this by .5 secs
  
• Touch of winter no longer increases coldsnap movement speed and travel distance, but now spawns a crystal on detonation
  
• Penumbral blast now has reduced tracking and proxy detonation vs playes, and has a reduced freeze radius when impacting the environment
  
• Iceflare bolts now only chain once when spawned from player shatter
  
• Winters wrath projectiles now lose all tracking after 2 seconds of flight