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11/16/2025 7:46:04 PM
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Weapon Sandbox Changes Aren't Enough

First off, Bungie is still weirdly obsessed with policing fun weapon interactions instead of embracing them (nobody will use Haliatus again), ignoring weapons that have been irrelevant and generally bad for years now, and providing either miniscule or bizarrely disconnected buffs to weapons that desperately need huge changes to compete. Weapons have never felt more irrelevant to builds as they have post TFS, except to generate abilities faster. Certain frame archetypes and entire weapon classes have been terrible in general play for years (trace rifles, bows, swords), and while abilities can get huge 30-65% PvE buffs with enhanced stats, depending on ability type, weapons only go up to 15% bonus damage, with 10% for heavy. Even more confusingly, what is definitively the most powerful weapon archetype ever created (rocket pulses), are only made mildly less effective by reducing their total damage via lower reserves. Meanwhile, other new archetypes that are struggling to find their footing in the sandbox only get like +3% damage, and older archetypes from vanilla D2 will never be good in PvE again. Not that I want rocket pulses nerfed, but it wouldn't be hard to just go "okay, blanket +20% damage to all other weapons archetypes". So anyway, pretty mid changes that I don't think will matter unless Bungie decides to blanket nerf all abilities or something, which probably won't happen

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  • I agree that weapons could use a lot more adjustment in PvE. But abilities, and build crafting, are what set D2 apart from its competitors. You want abilities to be powerful and not just be able to rely on guns. It’s also, IMO, way more fun to play.

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