Destiny 2: Improvements galore in Act 2 update 8.1.5 – Destiny 2

Every week, the developers’ blog post is eagerly awaited by the Destiny 2 community. Via these few lines, Bungie announces the fixes or changes to come in the next patches of the game. But the post published on November 14, 2024 on the site from Bungie has given further details on the arrival of Act 2 of Revenant scheduled for November 19. For this highly anticipated release, many improvements are expected, particularly for Supers.

Improved weapons in PvE and PvP in Destiny 2

Firstly, the developers confirmed that Hunter, Titan and Arcanist Supers would benefit from some improvements with the deployment of update 8.1.5. By damaging PvE enemies, they will be able to recover up to 3 times more energy than the others.

In addition, they will be entitled to an increase in damage dealt to champions ranging from 30% to 55%. Discover in the following lines the complete details of the improvements for each of the Supers:

• Hunter Super :
  • Cryo-electric Lance
  • Gunslinger (without Night Ranger)
  • Spectral Blades
  • Silky Frappe

• Titan Super :
  • Devastating Wave
  • Flaming Mace (without the glowing wind gauntlets)
  • Hammer of the Sun
  • Sentinel Shield
  • Glacial Tremor
  • Sharpened Fury

• Arcanist’s Super :
  • Storm Trance
  • Break of the Day
  • Bombe Nova
  • Winter’s Wrath

Then it was confirmed that Many weapons and equipment will receive upgrades at the start of Act 2. If you have these, prepare to do more damage and recover your abilities faster:

• Point Contact Barrel Reinforcement :
  • Amplified lightning bolts now do 100% more damage (was 50%).
  • Kills made by a lightning strike restore melee energy.
  • Thunderclap recovery has been reduced by 10% to compensate.

• Flux Raiden :
  • Super recovery from synapse junctions has been increased by 20% on average.
  • Maximum recovery is now 70%

• Ice Needle Wrathweaver :
  • Increased crystal damage to 150% instead of 100%.
  • Fixed an issue where enemies were incorrectly taking damage from crystals, decreasing total damage.
  • Increased crystal damage.
  • Damage is now indicated in yellow to better distinguish the activation of the perk.

• Cerebrate radar (PvP) :
  • Changed the activation of the perk, now it is enough for the player to deal damage to a player to mark the target.
  • The duration of the mark is 3 seconds.

• Telesto : Increased detonation damage by 20% in PvE

Let us recall, by way of conclusion, that Destiny 2 is available on most gaming platformsthat is to say on PlayStation consoles (PS4 and PS5), Xbox (Xbox One and Xbox Series) as well as on PC. Bungie’s title is free and you can even find the location of Xur in this article.