In an effort to keep The Crucible balanced, Destiny 2 is introducing some Stasis changes going forward. We have everything you need to know about what’s in store here.
In this week’s “This Week At Bungie“, the Destiny 2 development team shared their information on what Stasis tuning they’re going to introduce as a preview for the March 23rd, 2021, Patch.
Below, we have everything you need to know and how it will affect you.
Destiny 2 Stasis Changes
Although these Stasis Changes are only going to affect Destiny 2 players who play in The Crucible, it’s well worth looking at what’s going on so you can prepare and alter your builds accordingly.
Here’s what Bungie had to say about their changes:
Our goal with these changes is to reduce some of the frustrations when fighting against Stasis subclasses in the Crucible, while maintaining their power in PvE content wherever possible. With that said, some changes required us to adjust the global behavior of some abilities.
Hunter Stasis Tuning
- Shatterdive
- Removed damage resistance from Shatterdive.
- Added a 4s cooldown between activations of Shatterdive.
- Withering Blade
- Decreased Withering Blade damage against players from 90 to 65 damage. PvE damage is unchanged.
- Decreased Withering Blade slow stacks applied to players from 60 to 40 stacks. PvE slow stacks are unchanged.
- Decreased the target acquisition range of Withering Blade after it impacts a player from 12m to 8m. Range after impacting PvE enemies is unchanged.
Titan Stasis Tuning
- Glacial Quake
- Removed AoE freeze against players on super cast. Will still freeze PvE enemies on cast.
- Reduced damage resistance while in super from 60% to 50%.
- Increased the energy cost of using Shiver Strike while in Glacial Quake from 3% to 7% Super energy.
- Using the combo of a Shiver Strike into a Heavy slam attack will now cost the full Super energy of both the Shiver Strike and the slam (previously only costed energy for the slam).
- Shiver Strike
- Increased downwards velocity applied to Shiver Striking players when they are slowed to pull them out of the air more strongly.
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Warlock Stasis Tuning
- Winter’s Wrath
- Improved tracking of Winter’s Wrath projectiles, now tracking strength decays from its max value over 10s instead of 2.2s.
- Increased the size of the warlock super projectile’s proximity detonation radius 1.5m – 1.65m
- The proximity detonation now starts at it’s largest and scales down to 40% over time.
- Penumbral Blast
- Decreased Penumbral Blast damage against players from 80 to 30 damage. PvE damage is unchanged.
- Iceflare Bolts
- Fixed a bug where Iceflare Bolts would continuously try to switch targets.
- Increased target acquisition range of Iceflare Bolts by 33%.
- Increased turning speed of Iceflare Bolts so they can more effectively hit nearby targets.
- Chaos Reach
- Decreased the amount of Super energy refunded when cancelling Chaos Reach early.
General Crucible Stasis Tuning
- Duskfield Grenade
- Reduced how strongly Duskfield Grenade pulls players inwards, effectively reducing the pull range from 9.5m to ~6m. PvE pull impulse is unchanged.
- Reduced the slow stacks applied to players by the grenade detonation from 20 to 10 stacks. Detonation slow stacks are unchanged against PvE.
- Reduced the slow stacks applied to players on each tick of the grenade from 10 to 5 stacks. Per-tick slow stacks are unchanged against PvE.
- Adjusted the UI presentation of the “Slowed” status to display Slow stacks as X/100 instead of X/10, to increase readability when adding Slow stack amounts that are fewer than 10.
- Stasis Crystals
- Reduced crystal shatter damage against players from (85 max, 55min) to (55 max, 25 min). PvE damage is unchanged.
- Whisper of Chains
- Reduced Whisper of Chains damage resistance bonus while in Super from 25% to 5%. Damage resistance when not in Super is unchanged. This only affects damage from other Guardians.
- Whisper of Torment
- Fixed a bug where players could continuously proc Whisper of Torment while standing inside an opponent’s Barricade.
- Stasis Fragment Quests
- Significantly reduced objective completion values for all Crucible fragment quests.
If any issues are found, Bungie has stated that these changes might be delayed and pushed back into the future.
Update Release Schedule
When are these Stasis changes actually coming to Destiny 2 though?
Although this update is coming on March 23rd, 2021, we can use the timeline for the March 16th, 2021, update as a good guideline.
Maintenance Begins at around 09:00 PT / 16:00 UTC and by 09:45 PT / 16:45 UTC all players will be removed from their activities so Destiny 2 can go offline.
Then, at 10:00 PT / 17:00 UTC the update will be available across all platforms and regions. With this, once downloaded, players will be able to log back into Destiny 2.
Bungie estimates Maintenance will conclude at around 11:00 PT / 18:00 UTC.
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Obviously, take this with a small grain of salt in case anything does go wrong. But, Bungie has a pretty good track record with these things.
Happy Hunting, Guardians!
