Destiny 2: Season of Plunder patch notes

Tuesday, 23 August is the largest day in history Destiny 2 history. Bungie revealed the expansion 2023. Destiny 2, Lightfall, alongside the game’s 18th season, Season of Plunder. While Lightfall Season of Plunder, which is yet months away from launch, is full of new ideas and exciting changes. Fans can expect the usual seasonal stuff, along with the return of the King’s Fall raid, Arc 3.0, and more.

Let’s dive into all the major changes coming to Destiny 2The Season of Plunder patch notes will be available for the next three month. For Bungie’s official patch notes, scroll down.

Season of Plunder

Season of Plunder takes Guardians on an adventure through the Sol system as pirates. The Fallen Pirate Ships will be taken on by players and they’ll earn pirate-themed weapons. Season 2 will include many activities as usual. A new season pass can be obtained and a new area of the HELM is available to explore.

King’s Fall

Season of Plunder also sees the return of the beloved King’s Fall raid from the original Destiny. First addition in The Taken King expansion, King’s Fall will take players deep inside Oryx’s Dreadnaught, where they’ll take out multiple lieutenants before committing regicide. It’s one of the Destiny franchise’s best — and longest — raids, and will debut in-game on Aug. 26.

Arc 3.0

With Arc 3.0, this season will see the last Light subclass redesign. The three classes will be getting substantial tweaks. Hunters are even receiving a new Super. Perhaps most exciting, Titans are finally getting a dash to replace their Barricade, making them far more mobile than they’ve ever been before, and very dangerous in the Crucible.

Reworks and exotic updates

Bungie will also be improving several Exotics in this season’s Season. Legend of Acrius, a long-dead weapon, will get a Catalyst perk that allows it to handle Champions. Many Exotics can now deal with Champions. Bungie is trying to not only change the meta season by season but increase the number of weapons that can be used for endgame activities.

Balance adjustments

Season of Plunder will, like every year, improve the abilities and weapons available in-game. To make machine guns and bows more useful, they are getting upgraded. The new season artifact, which is anti-barrier and sniper rifle compatible with sniper rifles, will allow them to be reintroduced into the PvE arsenal.

The complete Bungie Patch Notes List is available here:

The Patch Notes

ROSTER

• Fixed an issue that caused FPS to be affected by exploring Director’s screen.
• While using this tab, the FPS will still be monitored by the team.
• New option added to let players invite their friends to join their fireteam.
• The visuals were updated in order to be easier to see when a player was blocked.
• Fixed an issue where viewing one’s own details in the Roster might not consistently respect the Share Platform Names.

CRUCIFIABLE

• Fix for an issue that pre-match animations would stop before the countdown clock reached zero.
• Fixed an issue where an opponent’s nameplate would not pulse when their Super is active.

MISCELLANEOUS

• Fix an issue in which Derelict Leviathan didn’t have a Director label
• An issue was fixed where certain items had extra spaces at the bottom.
• Updated the Clan tab’s UI to be compatible with any other places in the game where there are multiple pages.
• Fixed an issue where some perk information was not displayed when inspecting another player’s equipped Stasis Aspects and Fragments.
• Triumphs or Seasonal Challenges, which were previously claimed and tracked, may no longer be tracked.
• This team is currently investigating how players might get to these states.
• Season 18, Seasonal Challenges, and any currently tracked Triumph or weapon catalyst pattern, medal, or medal will be available. To avoid repeat problems, your Seasonal reset will not track you.
• To keep armor stats on screen from moving, updated parallax borders on armor inspection screens

GAMEPLAY AND INVESTOR

CRUCIFIABLE

• Fixed an issue with Survival, where tie rounds were still awarded a point to one team.

CRUCIFIABLE

• Control playlist now supports loose skill-based matchmaking. For more details, please refer to the TWAB.
• Special ammo in 3v3 Crucible mode will not refresh after being resurrected. This brings them into line with Trials of Osiris.
• You can self-revive by replenishing your ammunition with the right ammo
• Fix for an issue in which the Crucible streak protection message wasn’t displayed when you joined a match that was progressing
• Fixes an issue in which the Three Birds and Three Stones victory did not advance to all Crucible playlists
• Fix for an issue that pre-match animations would stop before the countdown clock reached zero.
• Fixed an issue where an opponent’s nameplate would not pulse when their Super is active.

IRON BANNER

• Corrected an issue in which the Fourth Daily Challenge did not increase Iron Banner’s reputation multiplier
• Corrected an issue in which seasonal metrics didn’t display when loading into matches during the intro scene
• A missing progress string from the Iron Banner intro quest was fixed
• An issue was fixed where an incorrect loading screen warning about Iron Banner’s power level was appearing

RITUALS

• Corrected an issue that Vanguard, Gambit, Crucible and Vanguard were dropping. Focus weapons would not drop more than three combinations of multiple perks
• The perks can be dropped with more options for seasonal reputation resets.
• We have added new Arc3.0 bounties to Crucible, Gambit and Vanguard
• With Void 3.0 status effects, tuneable bounties

LOST SECTORS

• Corrected an issue that Skydock IV Lost Sector champions didn’t count properly when scoring

WELLSPRING

• Wellspring has changed the scoring system for Master difficulty. Now players can get Platinum rewards based upon their score and not by killing Champions.

RAIDS

• Vow to the Disciple was fixed. The Bombardiers Hunter Exotic had the potential to break the payload route in the entrance encounter.
• No more payload escaping.

GLOBALISED CHANGES

• An issue that led to too many Heavy ammo dropping when using double Special weapons was fixed in the 30th anniversary update
• Many weapon stats had been previously kept secret, making it difficult to fully evaluate weapons.
• On the weapon inspection screen, you can now see airborne effectiveness, recoil directions, zoom and aim assistance.

ARMOR

• Increased the vibrancy of the glow colors in the “Candescent Prism” Solstice ornament sets in order to bring them back to parity with Update 4.1.5.
• Shaders that were not applied correctly to the sets also got fixed by this.
• Fix an issue that The Path of Burning Steps refused to admit killing a Guardian in its Solar burst. The Architects are now responsible.
• Fixed an issue where the Antaeus Wards was not changing its glow color based on the Guardian’s current subclass.

WAPONS

• Stasis Rocket Launchers or Stasis Grenade Launchers will have the new perks Chain Reaction (Dragonfly), Cluster Bombs, and Cluster Bombs. It’s cool Audio and VFX that are Stasis-themed
• Also, updated the Polaris Lance catalyst requirements.
• Completely removed the Perfect Fifth kill objective. This objective now relies only on killings with the weapon.
• Fixed several issues that caused the Wish-Ender Exotic Bow to lose its Truesight under certain conditions.
• The shaping alloy “Drowned Alloy” has been renamed to “Harmonic Alloy.”
• If a pattern is not available, dismantled weapons will give pattern progress.
• Deepsight can be used to dismantle weapons and provide 100 neutral elements.
• After the objective is met, and the item has been taken out of the Deepsight mode, 300 Neutral elements will be available.
• Players will receive a notification via the loot stream when a Deepsight weapon equipped with a specific pattern has been taken down or removed.
• Beginning in Season 18, Deepsight weapon that were acquired before the pattern became available won’t produce pattern progress. The Deepsight weapon’s tooltip will indicate whether a pattern is available or not.
• Fix for an issue in which One for All could grant bonus damage that was not intended for Grenade Launchers.
• Problem with Shoot to Loot with enhanced overflow causing weapon to be much larger than expected.
• To prevent ammo theft, explosive Payload explosions will not pick up ammo via Shoot to Loot.
• Once the root cause of the problem has been resolved, this interaction can be restored.

WEAPON ARCHETYPES

• Scout Rifles
• All Scout Rifles suffer a 10% increase in damage compared to minor enemies (red bar) during PvE.
• This is an addition to the Solstice balance patches baseline damage boost.
• Auto Rifles With High Impact (336 RPM)
• Based on weapon, 6-12 points increase in base stability for all High-Impact Auto Rifles that are not sunset.
• Herod-C: 27-33
• False Promises: 17-29
• Age-Old Bond: 18-30
• Chrysura Melo 13-25
• It’s all about you: 14-26
• Bows of light weight
• Reduction in base draw time of 5% from 612ms to 580ms
• Increased the “perfect draw window” (how long you can hold the drawn bow before you begin to lose accuracy and damage, stability modifies this window).
• Low end:.30s to 0.50s
• On the highest end,.55s to 0.80s
• Hand cannons
• Fixed Dire Promise’s zoom stat (got changed to 13 inadvertently, it’s now 14 again).
• Glaives
• Glaive melee attack can activate Exotic armor perks for ACD/0 Feedback Fence and Karnstein Armlets.
• Breech Grenade Launchers
• The magazine slot is no longer available for concussion-grenades.
• Heavy Grenade Launchers
• Increased damage for majors or above, up to 10% (except Parasite).

WEAPON POOLS

• Updated the Dares of Eternity weapon set’s perk pools and added an origin trait.
• Addressed an issue where Playlist (Crucible, Gambit and strike) weapons weren’t randomizing perk count correctly based on number of resets.

PERKS

• Ambitious assassin
• Magazine overflow has increased from 10% to 20% for Primary weapons (Special or Heavy weapons remain at 10%).
• Increased Overflow Capacity from 50% to 15%0%
• Gambit Origin trait: Invader Tracker
• Renamed Gun and Run.
• Multi-kills have seen a redesign to improve sprint speeds.
• Skulking Wolf (Iron Banner heritage trait).
• Redesigned to allow kills to be activated at low health.
• Wellspring
• Cooldown has been eliminated, so Rocket Launchers & Grenade Launchers are able to recover more ability energy after defeating multiple groups in a single hit.
• Permanent Motion
• Since it caused too much irritation, disable audio/visual feedback during perk activation
• Lead starting with Gold
• When two special weapons are used, this will give you the right amount of ammunition.
• Concussion Grenades
• Breech Grenade Launchers cannot be used anymore.
• Veist Stinger
• This issue was fixed where the system applied a reduction in charge time to Linear Fusion Rifles. When it triggers these weapons, the magazine will only be refilled from its reserves.
• Zen Moment, Particle Repeater
• Changed descriptions so they say exactly what they do.

EXOTIC WEAPONS

• Buffs
• Le Monarque
• Poison Arrows now have intrinsic overload.
• Thunderlord
• Additional intrinsic Overload
• Malfeasance
• Explosions are now intrinsically unstoppable
• Added +25 to the base airborne effectiveness stat (28 to 53) to match other Precision Hand Cannon’s intrinsic bonus.
• Wish-Ender
• Additional intrinsic Anti-Barrier
• Increased hit rate against most targets: 2 to 3, more hits against cars, but still 2 against people.
• By 10%, increased damage to Champions, Majors, and Minibosses
• Drawing time was reduced from 828ms up to 820ms
• Ticuu’s Divination
• The draw time has decreased from 612ms down to 580ms
• Legend of Acrius
• Catalyst gives the Trench Barrel perk, in addition to all its effects.
• The Exotic Legendary Weapons with Paired Features
• CALUS Mini-Tool
• Matches MIDA Mini-Tool: Increased airborne efficiency from 23 to 28,
• MIDA Mini-Tool
• Zoom increased from 13-14 to match CALUS mini-Tool.
• Drang (Baroque)
• To match Drang standard, increased airborne efficacy from 21-23
• Sweet Business
• Increased effectiveness of the airborne system from 27 to 32
• Fighting Lion
• The Season 17 damage increases have been slightly increased to 5% from 8%.
• From 5 to 6 seconds, the grace period for the instant-reload effect by Thin the Herd was increased.
• Reworks
• Lord of Wolves
• Reduced starting ammo for PvP, from 15 to 10, but the same in PVE.
• When Release the Wolves active, the burst size has been reduced to five shots per trigger pull.
• Release the Wolves active reduced burst delay by 60%
• Reduced Lord of Wolves base injury by 20% (now does 35 shots to the body when PvP is active, and 44 with Release The Wolves active).
• In order to compensate for the increased PvE damage, 20% was added.
• Dead Man’s Tale
• Changed Cranial Spike’s effects:
• Cranial Spike does not deal damage to players anymore. Instead, it gives increased reload and aim assist as well as greater range per stack.
• You still get additional damage against PvE fighters.
• The Catalyst will boost hip-fire RPM to 50 after reaching maximum Cranial Spike stacks. However, it will only fire at 180 RPM but do less damage per round (20%)
• Collective Obligation
• In all PvE activities, the Void Leech timer has been increased to 15 seconds
• PvP continues at 10 seconds
• The Void Leech cooling down has been removed.
• Void Leech must be active to receive the 20% damage bonus.
• Void Leech can be fully charged in less than 10 hits
• Void Leech instantly charges Void Leech for kills of debuffed targets
• Void Leech also charges instantly when Void debuffs are applied to your character.
• It won’t work if you hit yourself with your Suppressor Grenade.
• Fix for Umbral Sustenance not activating with nonVoid overshields

ABILITIES

• Arc Subclasses
• Modified to work with the Subclass 3.0 system. Although there are many systemic modifications, Arc subclasses no longer use the Aspect or Fragment systems used by Solar, Void, Stasis and Solar.
• Standardized a group of buffs, debuffs which align to the Arc type damage.
• Amplified Increased movement speed, weapon handling and mobility. Once you have sprinted for a while, your speed and weapon handling are greatly increased. Speed BoosterYou can also increase your sprint speed by adding damage resistance for PvE fighters.
• You will be amplified by default if you quickly defeat multiple targets with Arc Damage. You can also benefit from amplifying your abilities and fragments with equipped Aspects.
• Ionic Trace– An Arc bolt that travels on the ground in search of its creator. Ionic Traces can be picked up to grant melee and grenade energy.
• Blind – Combatants become disoriented and are unable to fire weapons. Enemy players’ HUD is removed and their vision is obscured.
• Jolted – A destructive Arc Light is applied to the target. They take more damage as they jolt, and then they create chain lightning between nearby enemies. A target can be jolted multiple times to trigger chain lightning.
• When hovering over the Arc subclass screens, you will now see a flyout with a tooltip detailing all relevant status effects.
• Some of the subclass perks that were once popular have been removed. However, others can be rolled into Fragments and base abilities, as well as Aspects. This will result in some behavior changes.
• All classes have now access to Arc grenades.
• Grenades
• Storm grenade
• From 170 (80/90), to 120 (70/50), the total damage was less.
• Improvement of the damage area consistency in certain network conditions, to correct an issue where it was doing delayed damage.
• The base cooldown was increased from 91s up to 105s.
• Lightning grenade
• The damage per strike has been reduced by 160 to 120
• Arcbolt Grenade
• Reduced damage from 105 to 85
• Reduced base cooling time from 121s up to 105s
• Avoid grenade
• The base cooldown was increased from 105 to 121 seconds.
• Flashbang grenade
• Blind duration has been reduced by 5 seconds to 3.
• Pulse grenade
• The base cooldown was increased from 105 to 121 seconds.
• Vortex grenade
• This issue was causing less damage to PvE targets.
• Hunter
• Arcstrider
• Arc Staff
• Both Whirlwind Guard Block capability and Lightning Reflexes armored dodge are now available as the default behavior.
• Arc staff damage to minor and elite combatants has increased 12.5%
• Super new: Gathering Storm
• Arc Staff must be hurled forward. You can embed it on large surfaces or targets and cause damage to nearby targets. The staff is struck by a lightning bolt, which charges the device with Arc Energy. Overcharged staff releases lightning upon nearby enemies.
• A new jump was added Blink
• Arc Hunters are now able to recover from amnesia, which caused them to lose their ability to blink.
• The Disorienting Bloof
• This applies a brief blind to targets nearby, rather than a general disorient. It also amplifies your hit.
• Combination Blow
• You can also now recharge your class abilities when you defeat a target using this charged melee. This will increase your charged melee attack.
• The base cooldown was increased from 15 to 40 seconds.
• Tempest Strike
• Travel distance increased from 18m up to 22m
• To help Tempest strike land on targets close to its target, I added a little bit of initial tracking.
• Now, jolts the targets for hit.
• Base damage has decreased from 130 – 110
• A Lethal Current – Reworked
• Your next melee attack will increase range and jolt the target. It leaves behind an aftershock that can be very damaging.
• Blinding an opponent with melee strikes can also be done to a jolted victim.
• While using Arc Staff, your next attack strikes twice after dodging.
• The Ebb and Flow Subclass Node Perk has been removed.
• Nightstalker
• Spectral Blades
• 33% increase in Spectral Blades’ damage to elite and minor combatants.
• Titan
• Striker
• Fists of Havoc
• Now has Terminal Velocity’s slam bonus as default behavior.
• The slam’s bonus damage when activated from the air is now constant rather than variable based on your height when you activate the slam.
• Normalized light attack energy costs between top and base tree costs at 8% (previously 12.5%/5.6%).
• A heavy slam zone was calculated between the top and bottom trees cost, at 7 meters (previously 8m/6m).
• Fists to Havoc increased 25% against Champion, miniboss and boss combatants. The damage to elite and minor combatants has increased by approximately 40%.
• Fists of Havoc previously relied upon knockout bonus and trample damage refunds to effectively deal with regular combatants in PvE. We’d like this to be better able to stand on its own now to partially compensate for the increased attack energy costs.
• New ability for classes: Thruster
• To perform an immediate, first-person lateral escape, activate while you are grounded.
• Addition of melee abilities: Thunderclap
• Keep your melee button down while you are grounded and then charge your fist with Arc Energy. Press melee to move forward. This will unleash an enormous blast of force, which deals more damage for the time you held the melee button.
• Seismic Strike
• The blind duration was reduced from 5 seconds down to 1.6 seconds in comparison with players.
• Amplitude is now increased by 7 to 10 meters, while the blinding distance is increased to 7 to 10, and the blind duration increases to 3 seconds for players.
• Ballistic Slam
• Corrected an issue that caused the Ballistic Slam camera to sometimes make you dive directly down instead of at your intended location.
• Hit does not apply Inertia override anymore
• Knockout
• Now, you can also defeat targets using melee attacks to increase your strength and start health regeneration.
• Knockout can no longer be consumed by melee damage. Knockout is now only for 6 seconds. After that, it must be activated by breaking down a combatant shield, or severely wounding the target.
• The Frontal Assault melee capability and the subclass node perks aftershocks, trample were removed.
• Sentinel
• Sentinel Shield
• Sentinel Shield’s damage against minor and elite combatants was 12.5% higher
• Warlock
• Stormcaller
• Stormtrance
• Ionic Blink now has Landfall as the default behavior.
• Reduced damage to landfall seekers from 250 to 150
• Note: While the seekers added to bottom tree Stormcaller in Season of the Lost were a lot of fun, they made Stormtrance more of a shutdown Super than we’re comfortable with. It is also an excellent roaming option, and has improved base mobility with Ionic Blink. We feel we can reduce seekers’ damage.
• Stormtrance has stopped increasing its cost of attack when attacking multiple enemies at the same time.
• Note: We believe that Stormtrance’s greatest strength should be clearing hordes of enemies, and the increased cost based on target count was running counter to that intended role.
• Stormtrance attack vs. elite and minor combatants was increased by 20%
• Chain Lightning
• Chain Lightning, which is amplified by Chain Lightning, now makes two sets of chain, instead of one. It jumps between multiple targets.
• You can also now jolt your primary target.
• Increased lunge range from 4.5m – 5.25m
• Ball Lightning
• Ball Lightning is amplified and can explode two times more to cause three damage strikes vertically.
• An increase of 2 meters in the length of the arming form below the projectile is necessary to address edge cases where targets which the detonation region could possibly damage are not being triggered by the projectile.
• Arc Souls
• Amplifying your Arc Souls now, or being amplified by it, will give them a significantly increased fire rate.
• Increased damage per projectile from 25 to35 vs. combatants in PvE.
• The number of Amplified Arc Souls projectiles per Burst has decreased from 6-5, fire rate by 10%
• Notice: The uptime of supercharged Arc Souls will be significantly higher. We wanted more time for players to engage in safe PvP with an Arc Soul-wielding enemy. We hope the increased PVE damage offsets this change sufficiently, but we’ll be keeping an eye on it going forward.
• It was removed from the Rising Storm melee abilities, the Transcendence, Pulsewave and Arc Web subclass node benefits.
• Arc Aspects
• Hunter:
• Flow state
• Tempest Strike
• A Lethal Current
• Titan:
• Touch of Thunder
• Juggernaut
• Knockout
• Warlock:
• Arc Soul
• Lightning Surge
• Electrostatic Mind
• Arc Fragments
• Spark of Beacons
• A Spark of Resistance
• Spark of Momentum
• The Spark of Surprise
• Spark of Discharge
• Spark of Frequency
• Spark of Focus
• The Spark of Recharge
• Spark of Voltage
• A Spark of Magnitude
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• Blink
• Increased maximum displacement distance from 4.5m up to 5.25m
• The maximum vertical offset (how far you’re displaced from the horizon based on how much your aim angle is from it) was increased to 2m from 2.5m.
• Blink exits with increased forgiveness for mantling on ledges.
• Energy model reworked:
• Blink Charges were previously recharged one at a time. This made it difficult for players to know how many they had.
• Blink comes with a fixed activation price. There are two options for carrying multiple charges. Once activated, your previous Blink will recharge both of them immediately. We’ve also added a screen wipe and sound effect when this occurs, similar to Icarus Dash, to help communicate when you’re ready to Blink again. Blink’s overall accessibility is the same as before, however we have made it easier to understand and less frustrating due to the energy recharge model.
• Notice: This change applies to Blink for all subclasses with access to it.
• Blind
• To address the photosensitivity problems caused by previous white-out screenshaders, screen shader brightness was significantly reduced.
• Ionic Traces
• You can no longer get Super Energy on Pickup
• For increased uptime expected, reduced melee, grenade and class ability energy returning to compensate
• Basal melee energy returns have been decreased from 20% to 12.5%
• The base grenade energy return has been reduced by 15% to 12.5%
• Basal class energy return for base classes has been reduced by 25% to 15%
• Restoration
• Fixed an issue where Restoration x2 could be removed by some PvE combatants’ attacks and certain debuffs like Overload rounds.
• Arc-focused Exotic armour updates
• Crown of Tempests
• Now Conduction Teeth can also be activated by defeating targets that have jolt damage.
• Go Away Artist
• This will amplify you and grant an Arc Soul to consume your grenade.

PLATFORM & SYSTEMS

• Problem with PlayStation platform where text displayed in multiple areas of the game had been fixed.

GENERAL

• Fixes an issue that text chat messages would persist when a player is kicked to the login screen but does not exit the game.
• Now, Glimmer pickups are capable of playing dematerialization-VFX when they’re picked up.
• Additional key binding options available for vehicles that allow for lateral dodging.
• Stadia is experiencing an issue where titles for certain settings do not appear as they should. Team members are aware of the problem and will fix it in a hotfix.
• With more information, updated tooltips on various vehicle key binding options.
• Many key bindings are missing or wrongly defined for vehicle keys.
• Destiny 2 available now in Epic Games Store