Destiny

TL;DR:

• Leaks happened this morning due to an error on Sony's servers. Stuff is out there if you want to find it. Don't post it here without spoiler tags.
• Dungeons & Dragons is the next Eververse collaboration.
• TFS Artifact Preview:
  • Anti-Barrier Pulse
  • Unstoppable Sidearm
  • Unstoppable Scout
  • Overload Hand Cannon
  • Anti-Barrier Submachine Gun
  • Overload Sword
  • Void, Strand, & Stasis focused mostly
  • Stuff for all the light subclasses and Prismatic as well.
  • Go read for the rest of the details.
• Salvation's Edge is the name of the new Raid
  • Raid race starts June 7th 10am PDT.
  • Must complete TFS campaign and the Wild Card exotic quest to enter the raid
  • Must be 1965 power for every encounter.
  • Contest mode for first 48 hours.
  • Emblems for watching on Twitch.

Somehow PSN has allowed people to play TFS early. Full campaign and other Spoilers are out in the wild.

Please do not post any spoilers in this community without a tag.

EDIT: Details about what leaked are sketchy right now but it seems like people were only able to access the director screen, season pass screen, and collections. Maybe part of an early cutscene was leaked but I have not seen it. It does not seem like the game was playable as far as I can tell.

Weapons: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcjG1gS_GxA

Armor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bfuela2gAbI

Takeaways:

• Golden Gun sniper works with Celestial Nighthawk.
• Red Death is back (season pass weapon).
• Khvostov could be pretty good if you're making lots of orbs.
• Heavy Trace is TBD but looks fun. Is a Kinetic Heavy.
• Banner of War Titans continue to eat good. New exotic adds a melee charge and recharges melee as you heal.
• Barricade rockets do decent damage and buff your Rocket Launchers.
• Warlock suspend robes have anti-barrier and are better than expected.
• Speakers Mask exotic lets you make healing turrets from healing grenades.
• Hunter arc bomb exotic is looking weak.
• Other hunter exotic is focused on Threaded Specter and looks PVP focused.

There's way too much to go over in here. I'll try to hit the big points:

• Stasis gets a new keyword. Frost Armor. Lots of reworks and new fragments to support it.
  • Some exotics will generate Frost Armor. Icefall mantle is not one of them somehow...
• Well of Radiance is getting a nerf to reduce it's healing factor and a buff to allow Radiance outside the well when you leave it.
  • Healing in Well is the same as Restoration x2
  • Radiance lasts for 8 sec when leaving the well.
• Ward of Dawn is getting it's oversheild functionality changed so you can't stack it up with a barricade. Weapons of light is moved to Helm of Saint-14
• Super cooldowns in PVP are being adjusted so that Well and Ward don't charge faster than other supers.
• Changes to all Light Subclasses but nothing crazy in either direction.
• Strand gets some more major changes:
  • Hunter:
  • Hunter Ensnaring Slam is now a cylinder instead of a sphere. Allows you to jump away in PVP.
  • Melee throw does less damage
  • Warlock:
    • Perched Threadlings can now be generated from any strand damage including other threadlings.
  • Titan:
    • Banner of War max timer down to 24 seconds
    • Diminishing returns for melee with Synthoceps and Wormgod.

Buying the Forsaken pack on PSN

So when the 30th anniversary pack was on special, I bought it. Now I would like to buy the forsaken pack, but PSN won’t let me buy the combo deal it currently has. (Maybe because I already have 30th) Buying forsaken by itself for it s normal price it’s a bit expensive to just get one or two exotics, which is all it contains, right? I like the 30th pack, I enjoy running the Starhorse challenge, even though it doesn’t give you much. Any idea if Forsaken will go on special again before TFS?

TL:DR:

• Weapons tuning recap
• TFS Exotics Recap
  • New Today: Microcosm Heavy Trace Rifle. Deals Massive Damage to Shields
• Weapon Enhancement in TFS:
  • Allows the weapon to be upgraded to receive enhanced traits, a weapon level, and a memento socket.
  • 3 Tiers available with details about what each provides. Some stuff is different for Raid Adepts.
  • In The Final Shape, all new weapons will either be craftable or have access to weapon enhancement.
  • All weapons from the following activities will be eligible for enhancement including old ones as long as they have an origin trait:
    • Vow of the Disciple raid Adepts
    • Guardian Games
    • King's Fall raid Adepts
    • Gambit
    • Competitive Crucible (all of them)
    • Trials of Osiris
    • Crucible
    • Iron Banner
    • Vanguard Ops
    • Nightfalls
    • Prophecy Dungeon
  • Memento cap increased to 3. No longer need to visit the relic to equip.
• Rhulk Pantheon is live.
• Zero Hour is live.

There's a lot of info in this post and stat changes. I'm just going to summarize the main stuff here.

TL;DR:

• Boss Spec, Major Spec, and Minor Spec are gone. Damage buffs to compensate.
• Exotic primary Damage buff down 10%
• Big List of damage buffs
• Exotics with splash damage have their splash damage reduced
• Lots of gun and archetype specific changes.
  • Wave frame GLs are getting their wave length reduced and the width and length of the wave will be affected by the blast radius stat.
• Exotic Nerfs:
  • Divinity
    • Number of shots needed to make the bubble increased by 75% (RIP)
  • Ostio Striga
    • 4 second cooldown between poison explosions
  • Lament
    • Healing reduced by 20%. High end of damage combo reduced by 20%
• There's a bunch of exotic buffs. None of which seem to exciting. Definitely not enough to make up for the nerfs above.
• Perk Changes
  • Lots of changes. Eddy Current gets a needed buff.
  • Chain reaction explosion radius reduced 15% and damage reduced 20% on Special weapons. Heavy weapons do 30% more damage on explosions.

Some opinions:

• Bungie really doesn't want us to have add clear huh?
• Forebearance gets a deserved kick in the teeth but now other waveframe GLs suffer. The issue was chain reaction. Not how big and far the wave was.
• Some completely unwarranted Exotic nerfs except maybe Ostio Striga.
  • Divinity really isn't needed in non-master content except maybe on Rhulk. Increasing the ammo it takes to trigger the effect while not increasing reserves effectively kills this gun. This also makes Cenotaph less useful.
  • Lament is also only the "meta" pick in like 2 raid encounters. Crota and Atraks. It's useful in some dungeon bosses but not REQUIRED.
  • Ostio is a braindead add clear exotic but 4 seconds between explosions is too much. This reminds me of the 3 second cooldown on Titan hammer throws which will make the gun just feel lackluster.
• The Exotic buffs aren't moving the needle for me except maybe Symmetry and Necrochasm. Making a gun do slightly more damage just isn't enough anymore. You've got to make it have interesting interactions with the rest of the sandbox.

Every 7th Bullet ricochets between enemies.

Fuck that place and everything about it. Should a quest require me to go there I will immediately abandon without prejudice. Should a friend want me to go there, I wil unfriend and delete his number. Should my wife want me to go there, I will phone my lawyer. I died 25 times on the final Calus battle, and tonight 17 times to do the strand aspect quest, eventually using the cheese to just get it over with. And fuck you too, Calus, you ugly fuck.

TL;DR:

• Videos for the exotic class items up on YouTube
  • Available from an activity that unlocks after the world's first raid completion. Guaranteed random roll from this activity each time you complete it. Activity is farmable.
  • Perks have been reduced or altered from their original form to make it work better with Prismatic and/or not be overpowered.
  • Tables of what's available from each class. 16 from each class. 8 in column 1. 8 in column 2. 24 perks in each column total
  • Exotic Class Items only work when Prismatic subclass is equipped
• Oryx is in the Pantheon
• Daily guaranteed deepsight weapon drops from seasonal activities till TFS releases.
• Zero Hour launches May 14th.
  • Secret chests available in the mission to unlock additional perks for Outbreak Perfected.
• 3 new PVP maps launched on Tuesday. (They're actually not bad)
• DLC packs are free till TFS launches. Shadowkeep. Beyond Light. Witch Queen.