Destiny 2 Teases Major Buffs For The Edge of Fate Mid-Season Update

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In a recent community update, Bungie announces significant enhancements (buffs) for Destiny 2 within the Ash & Iron mid-season update in September. These improvements are particularly exciting news for main Warlock players. Despite The Edge of Fate’s rocky start, Bungie remains dedicated to consistently upgrading Destiny 2 with regular updates.

In the case of Destiny 2, the addition of the “The Edge of Fate” expansion marked a fresh chapter. This was evident in its storyline and significant alterations to the game environment. However, the initial release faced some turbulence. The new Kepler location, for instance, sparked differing opinions among players, while technical glitches and other problems affected the overall enjoyment of the game. It appears that many gamers weren’t entirely convinced by the new content, as the launch sales figures for Destiny 2: The Edge of Fate were quite low on Steam. Nevertheless, Bungie has been diligently addressing the issues post-launch, enhancing the game and hinting at more exciting developments to come.

As a dedicated Destiny 2 gamer, I’ve been eagerly anticipating the Ash & Iron mid-season update Bungie has teased in their latest blog post. While Warlocks have been dabbling with construct-style builds, Bungie is aiming to spice things up by fine-tuning more abilities for a wider range of build options. It looks like they’re focusing on improving aspects like Weavewalk and Frostpulse, while giving Empowering Rift, Threadlings, and Pocket Singularity a bit more power. I can hardly wait to see these changes in action!

However, it’s not just Warlocks that are getting these important buffs. WhileWarlock Destiny 2 players were unhappy with stealth nerfsat the launch of The Edge of Fate, Bungie is seemingly aiming to provide buffs to all 3 classes with Ash & Iron. While Warlock was featured this time, the studio teased additional plans to talk about Hunters and Titans in the coming weeks. Not only that, the studio also plans to “communicate more about the future of class fantasies”, which further implies some potentially interesting changes.

In addition to adjusting the Warlock tuning, Bungie revealed during the Ash & Iron update preview that they’ll be addressing some problems with exotic armor such as the Crown of Tempests, Starfire Protocol, and Boots of the Assembler. Moreover, they also announced enhancements for the upcoming Destiny 2 Edge of Fate exotic armor, Eunoia. The projectile maximum range is set to increase by 20%, tracking is boosted by 40%, and additional improvements are planned as well.

Destiny 2 Ash & Iron Warlock Update Patch Notes Preview

Abilities

Empowering Rift (class ability)

  • Standing in Empowering Rift now generates grenade, melee, and class-ability energy over time.
  • Final blows while standing in Empowering Rift now generate bonus Special and Heavy ammo progress.

Weavewalk (Strand Aspect)

  • Exiting Weavewalk now grants Woven Mail for you and nearby allies.
    • Woven Mail duration is relative to time spent in Weavewalk.
  • Increased horizontal movement on enter and exit.
  • Increased Fragment slots from two to three.

Weaver’s Call (Stand and Prismatic Aspect)

  • Now generates roosted Threadling progress when giving damage of any type.
  • Threadling damage now returns class-ability energy.
    • Works on all Threadling damage while this Aspect is equipped.

Frostpulse (Stasis Aspect)

  • Freezing enemies now generates class-ability energy.
    • Works on all Stasis Freezes while this Aspect is equipped.

Pocket Singularity (Void and Prismatic Melee)

  • Now has two charges at base.
  • Projectile lifetime increased from 1.1s to 2s.
  • Reworked projectile tracking to favor targets closest to initial trajectory.
  • Reduced detonation knockback on players by 50%.

Exotic Armor

Eunoia

  • Increased projectile damage at max range from +15% to +20%.
  • Tuned distance-to-damage curve to make the maximum damage distance easier to identify.
  • Increased projectile tracking by ~40%.
  • In addition to the primary projectile, the sub-projectiles now benefit from Ember of Ashes and Ember of Eruption.

General

Abilities

Threadlings

  • Increased damage vs. combatants by 20%.

Upcoming Fixes

Recently, we delved into feedback and issue reports concerning several high-profile Exotics. Now, we’d like to share some progress updates on those investigations. Previously, we’ve made improvements to some of them as mentioned in previous patch notes. The following updates pertain to the remaining modifications scheduled for future patches.

Starfire Protocol

  • We confirmed an issue where Starfire Protocol was not returning as much energy as expected on empowered hits. We’ve fixed this issue, raising it to the intended 5%, with the fix deploying in 9.0.0.7.

Crown of Tempests

  • We’re continuing to investigate an issue where Crown of Tempests no longer grants stacks on multikills. We are aiming to have a fix when Renegades goes live.

Rime-Coat Rainment

  • We’re continuing to investigate an issue where Rime-Coat Raiment generated Stasis crystals inconsistently apply Devour when Feed the Void is active. We believe we’re honing in on a fix and are looking to have a fix for when Renegades goes live.

Boots of the Assembler

  • We’ve confirmed an issue where Boots of the Assembler’s Noble Rounds won’t work on a teammate that enters the Warlock’s rift. A fix will be deployed during our 9.1.0 Major Update, Ash & Iron.

Wings of Sacred Dawn

  • After investigating reports around Wings of Sacred Dawn, we’ve concluded that we missed a patch note with The Edge of Fate’s release. It is intended that Wings no longer reloads your equipped weapon as this led to some problematic behaviors around single shot magazine weapons such as Bows.

Contraverse Hold

  • We’ve received reports that this doesn’t return energy as expected and after investigation we believe this to be true specifically with some combatants in the Firing Range only. We’re looking to update the Firing Range combatants in a future update.

Nezarac’s Sin

  • We saw reports of the regeneration buff no longer working during multikill streaks and believe this may have been resolved in 9.0.0.5 alongside the fix to the “sprint bug.” We’ll be keeping an eye on any future reports!

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2025-08-17 17:08