‘Destiny 2’ Is Un-Nerfing ‘Edge Of Fate’ Nerfs A Month Early

There was a giant dump truck of Destiny 2: Edge of Fate information out this past week due to a large-scale creator event that produced an infinite number of YouTube videos on aspects of the new expansion.

It was very fun to parse through as I sat in a hospital room with my newborn daughter, but on the tail end of all of it, something caught my eye. That would be a change that Bungie is making in response to creator and player feedback about a nerf they had planned for the Edge of Fate, which will now be un-nerfed a month ahead of the launch of the expansion.

The idea was that Prismatic as a subclass is too strong right now, and it needed to be hammered down a bit rather than buffing five other subclasses. But those nerfs, particularly to aspects and fragments, were not well-received and said to be “destroying” certain elements of the subclass. Now, Bungie is changing its tune. Here’s what it said in a recent message:

“While we’re still planning an overall tuning pass for Prismatic for a future date, featuring buffs alongside other changes, we’ll be changing our approach for The Edge of Fate a bit in response to your feedback.”

“Aspects that were originally planned to be reduced to 1 fragment slot will remain at 2. We feel this is a good middle ground where some of the more potent Aspects are being tuned down, but not too much. Of course, we’ll be playtesting this change internally before The Edge of Fate launch as well to make sure it’s the right decision.”

They also listed the changes to the changes below:

Titan

• Consecration 3 -> 2 (reverted from 1)
• Knockout remains at 2 (reverted from 1)

Hunter

• Stylish Executioner remains at 2 (reverted from 1)
• Ascension 3 -> 2
• Winter’s Shroud 3 -> 2

Warlock

• Feed the Void remains at 2 (reverted from 1)
• Hellion 3-> 2
• Bleak Watcher 3 -> 2

So, still some nerfs, but nothing is going all the way down to 1, which felt a bit extreme. Bungie goes on to explain that despite these changes, when Prismatic is combined with new stats, new gear-tiering and armor 3.0, it’s going to be a strong choice for either ad-clearing or boss DPS, even with fragment slot loss. We’ll see, I suppose.

We have not gotten a full list of subclass tuning for the upcoming Destiny 2: Edge of Fate expansion yet which is no doubt coming, as most of the focus has been on the new systems thus far. Hopefully, we’ll hear more soon.

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