TWID 7/3/2025 Part 1 - Weapons Tuning (and Portal)

The TWID from this past Thursday was beefy! So we'll do out best to go over the key important information and if anything is missed, don't be afraid to comment on this post! This will yet again be considered Part 1 of 2 of the TWID TLDRs. Forewarning; these tunings don't take place until The Edge of Fate which releases in just a week!

The Portal

The Portal

This is the new Portal hub. This will include activities from Onslaught to returning fan favourites like The Coil (amongst other seasonal activities). Amongst these activities, you can tune modifiers for an increased challenge and higher tiered loot. This Hub will include the newly added Solo Ops, Fireteam Ops, Pinnacle Ops, Crucible Ops, and a dedicated section for activities like Exotic Missions. There will also be a Quick Launch Section and a Seasonal Hub - which includes daily and weekly challenges that were first introduced to us in Heavy Metal. Due to this, Guardian Rank is also being reworked for more of a focus on The Portal and it's activities, with everyone starting at Rank 2. Triumphs like Commendations and Soloing the latest dungeon as been removed for an easy fast track to Rank 11 (don't worry, you'll still be able to get commendations from peers!).

Rite of The Nine Final Update

We're now in the final weeks of Rite of The Nine, which means more updates to the event. As a reminder, Daybreak has been added. An old school modifier that recharge your abilities to the max. Do go farm like a madman!

To prepare for Edge of Fate, The Emissary along with Xur will be offering desirable exotics, ones that are being offered are craftable weapons for when Destiny will be 100% free to play for 2 weeks. So get them while you can!!

Here's the full schedule for the next week:

Current week: Prophecy is featured, increased rewards

Until July 15th: Nonary Engrams offered

• July 1st: Players will be able to purchase Nonary Engrams with 350 Nonary Manifolds

• July 8th: Players will be rewarded a Nonary Engram each day they sign in. Just make sure to claim it at The Emissary

From July 8th, "lootapalooza" will begin, with increased rewards and weapon drops from enemies in all dungeons. Even more loot from the final boss chest when you've completed all encounters as well.

Weapon Tuning for The Edge of Fate

Machine Guns Now have staged reload

• Staged reload places checkpoints in the reload animation

• When you cancel a reload and start it again, it will resume from that last checkpoint

Glaives

• Reduced projectile tracking strength at very close range to avoid behaviours that would make it less accurate

Perks

Reconstruction

• Increased the amount of ammo transferred from 10% to 25%

Paracausal Affinity

• Visible timer added

Kinetic Tremors

• Decreased shots to activate on certain weapons and subfamilies

  • High Impact ARs: Require 9 hits, down from 12

  • Aggressive and High Impact Scouts: Require 5 hits, down from 6

• Hand Canon subfamilies

  • Aggressive Hand Canons: Require 4 hits, down from 6

  • Adaptive Hand Canons: Require 5 hits, down from 6

  • Precision Hand Canons: Unchanged, still require 6 shots

One-Two Punch

• Now works with all melee abilities. Perk active time increased from 1.22 sec to 3 sec

Attrition Orbs

• Increased perk progress by 20% across the board

• Area Denial GLs: perk progress reduced by 80% (Devs: Surprisingly not as noticeable as it sounds)

• Swords: perk progress increased by an additional 30%

Eager Edge and Valiant Charge

• When active: Melee search angle reduced 50% at start of lunge and 88% at the edge of lunge range

• Requires the player to look more at their target to strike it, improving target acquisition in PvE and requiring a more direct look in PvP

Chain Reaction

• Threadlings created by weapon perks no longer activate the detonation from Chain reaction

Chain Reaction, Firefly, and Dragonfly

• All three no longer use weapon archetype scaling against enemies and instead use a new damage scaling that is more normalized

  • This buffs a lot of weapons with these perks against most targets

• Fusion Rifles: Deal 41% more Chain Reaction damage to minor combatants

• SMGs: Deal 43% more Dragonfly and Firefly damage to minor combatants

• ARs: Deal 47% more Dragonfly damage to minor combatants

• LFRs: Deal 165% more Chain Reaction damage to minor combatants and at least 124% more Chain Reaction to other combatants (varies slightly with combatant type)

• Swords: Deal 123% more Chain Reaction damage to minor combatants and at least 193% more Chain Reaction damage to all other combatants (varies slightly with combatants type)

• Hand Canons: Deal 20% less Dragonfly and Firefly damage to major combatants

• Snipers: Deal 8% less Dragonfly and Firefly damage

• Special Ammo Wave Frame GLs: Deal 6% less Chain reaction damage to majors, champions, and minibosses, and 14% less Chain Reaction damage to ultra and vehicle combatants

Champion Interaction Changes

Season 10 introduced subclass verbs to stun Champions and since have been added to weapons and exotic weapons. This, however, came with a lot of issues like certain weapons not pairing with anti-Champion effects from the seasonal Artifact or Radiant. To prevent this, exotics that intrinsically have the anti-Champion symbol will not be getting anti-Champ capabilities from radiant-like effects or even from the Seasonal Artifact.

Exotic Weapons

Vigilance Wing

• Last Stand bonus is now active when running solo PvE activities

Hierarchy of Needs

• Now gain charges of Guidance Ring with any hit from Hierarchy and now only need 3 charges to deploy the ring

• Spawned Guidance Ring duration increased from 13s to 20s

• Spawned Guidance Ring now rotates to face its owner

• Now limited to one Guidance Ring in the world per player. Spawning a second one will remove the previous ring

• All Bows noww spawn missiles when fired through an allied players Guidance Ring

  • Yes that is indeed all bows, including exotic ones

• Fixed an issue where seeker missiles would not play detonation visual effect when colliding with world geometry

Dead Mans Tale

• Each stack of Cranial Spike now grants:

  • +3.4% damage vs enemies (max 17% at 5 stacks)

  • +1 round loaded

Duality

• Secondary Activator added for On Black Wings, now gives the buff when landing most of your pellets on a target

The Navigator

• When the user has Woven Mail:

  • Increased damage: 25% in PvE, 5% in PvP

• Increased ammo generation stat

Wicked Implement

• Now is a Rapid Fire

• Now takes one additional shot to start slowing and to freeze to account for the faster rate of fire

• Increased mag size to 20

• Is now intrinsically anti-Overload

Heart Shadow

• Increased ammo reserves

• Reduced cost of heavy attack to 3 (from 4)

• Added: "Defeats while Shot in the Dark is active make you invisible once more"

Worldline Zero

• Increased lunge distance of the heavy Tesseract attack by 3m

• Ability to chain two blink attacks back to back has been removed

• New effect added: "Defeating a target with Tesseract allows you to Tesseract again for a short duration"

  • The extra blink attacks will cost less ammo and uses less guard energy

Devils Ruin

• Fire on release behaviour removed

• Beam is now behind special reload

• Kills make firesprites and picking one up enables the special reload

• Beam will scorch on hit and ignite on kills

• Mag size increased to 20

• Now intrinsically anti-unstoppable

Tommy's Matchbook

• General

  • Burning screen effect as been added while the player takes self-damage from Ignition Trigger. Other players who are taking self-damage will have a burning effect around their character

• Ignition Triger

  • HUD Buff will now appear as a bar. While Ignition Trigger is active, the bar charges as you fire Tommy's and drains when you don't (similar to Barrow-Dyad). Ignition will remain active so long as the bar has some charge

• Heat Sink

  • Hip-fire self-damage has been decreased to 50% less damage than ADS self-damage, up from 33% less damage

  • Caty: Improved health regen removed. Now final bows while Ignition Trigger is active grants Cure x1

  • Scorch on hit remains on unchanged

Winterbite

• Enhanced melee damage with ammo reduced to +20% against bosses, down from +50%

• Is now intrinsically anti-Overload

Anti-Champion Changes

The following exotics will be given anti-Champion

• Anti-Unstop

  • Queensbreaker

  • Salvations Drip

  • Dragons Breath

• Anti-Overload

  • Tractor Canon

  • DARCI

  • Two-Tailed Fox

Regarding PvP

The Team is aware of the concerns regarding fixed health values and the new weapons stat damage bonuses, will be keeping an eye on it all and are aiming at a number of targets. But, they want to make sure the weapons and perks they choose to tune actually become balance issues instead of just preemptively nerfing a bunch of builds and playstyles. Once it's known how realistic is can be to get certain stat combos, they'll offer a more complete picture to determine how problematic these builds are in the Crucible. Feedback will be watched and gathered, they are ready to adjust when necessary in future updates.