What has change into one of the best gun for ripping by means of the hearts of bosses in Destiny 2 has, ultimately, acquired a big nerf, flattening its huge injury numbers and presumably clearing the way in which for some new builds for coping with among the sport’s hardest adversaries, like The Witness. Bungie has minimize the injury of Nonetheless Hunt, the sniper rifle that may change into a Golden Gun–at least when utilized by Hunters operating the Unique helmet Celestial Nighthawk.
Bungie famous the change in its patch notes for Replace 8.0.0.8, launched right now. Whereas the remainder of the notes pertain to minor subject fixes, there’s one line that may have a big influence on anybody operating high-level content material, together with raids and dungeons:
“Diminished Nonetheless Hunt’s Golden Gun injury whereas utilizing Celestial Nighthawk by 33%.”
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That is a fairly large discount on a construct that has change into customary for ravaging the strongest enemies the sport can throw at you. In the event you’re not conscious of how this all works, a fast clarification: Golden Gun has been, for the final 10 years, a Tremendous potential reserved to Hunters that offers an enormous quantity of harm, particularly on a important hit. Nonetheless Hunt, a brand new sniper rifle launched with the Remaining Form growth, can energy up and change into a Golden Gun for anybody, no matter class. That has meant that Hunters may get a second Golden Gun to amp up their injury numbers.
Golden Gun has historically been paired with Celestial Nighthawk, a mainstay of the Hunter package. The Unique helmet channels a Tremendous that usually affords three Golden Gun pictures into one single blast, after which will increase its energy while you land a important hit. So paired with Celestial Nighthawk, Nonetheless Hunt’s Golden Gun was getting boosted much more.
It was, in a phrase, overpowered. The factor about builds which can be super-effective just like the Golden Gun / Celestial Nighthawk / Nonetheless Hunt setup is that they have a tendency to preclude some other prospects for participant creativity and freedom–why would you run any construct apart from the one which does essentially the most injury potential? Bungie does not have a tendency to love when these conditions crop up within the meta sport, and whereas the builders will generally allow them to run for a bit so gamers can have their enjoyable, they all the time get rebalanced finally.
It is value noting that, whereas Nonetheless Hunt goes to be one-third much less devastating with Celestial Nighthawk, it is nonetheless an excellent gun in a construct that in all probability is not going anyplace. Celestial Nighthawk and Golden Gun have been go-to amongst Hunters for just about everything of Destiny 2, so whilst you won’t want Nonetheless Hunt for that construct, it is in all probability nonetheless loads viable. That is doubly true due to a number of mods on the Echoes episode artifact that additional amp up sniper rifles and photo voltaic weapons, so whereas that is dangerous information, it isn’t essentially horrible.