Destiny Update 2.3.0 Is Live, Here's all the Patch Notes

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Featuring lots of changes to classes and weapons, Destiny update 2.3.0 is now available to download on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, Xbox One, and Xbox 360. It’s reportedly a 280MB download on PS4/XB1 and 210MB on PS3.

Here’s the full list of patch notes for today’s Destiny update, which targets classes, weapons, armor, activities, the Crucible, items, and more:

Classes

Titan

Sunbreaker

Super: Hammer of Sol

Hammer travel speed increased by 1.3%

Hammer detonation radius increased by 10%

Damage increased by 10% against AI combatants

Striker

Super: Fist of Havoc

Base damage increased by 50% and an additional 50% against AI combatants

Defender

Grenades

Spike Grenade: damage impulses per second reduced to 5 from 10

Spike Grenade: damage per impulse increased by 100%; total damage unchanged

Hunter

Gunslinger

Grenades

Swarm Grenade: increased arming radius 0.5 meters

Swarm Grenade: detonation damage increased by 7%

Tripmine: no longer attaches to targets; arms on impact then bounces and attaches to terrain

Tripmine: damage reduced by 3%

Super: Golden Gun

Base damage increased by 50% and an additional 30% against AI combatants

Deadeye: now increases golden gun damage by an additional 30%

Melee: Throwing Knife

Base damage reduced by 10%

Circle of Life: modified functionality: precision kills with Throwing Knife reduce the cooldown of Golden Gun

Circle of Life: no longer extends the duration of golden gun

Circle of Life: +1 armor removed

Passives

Scavenger: increased the amount of grenade and melee energy awarded by 33%

Chain of Woe: +1 recovery added

Over the Horizon: +1 recovery removed

Bladedancer

Grenade

Skip Grenade: tracking time reduced to 8 seconds from 12

Skip Grenade: detonation damage reduced by 13%

Double Jump

Blink: now incurs a -1 recovery penalty

Super: Arc Blade

Changed to be less about repeatedly swinging and more about decisive strikes with additional effectiveness:

Base duration increased by 2 seconds

Hit detection test range increased by 0.5 meters

Damage increased by 30% against AI combatants

Added a 0.8 second cooldown between Arc Blade swings while airborne

Energy cost per swing increased by 20%

Energy cost on hit decreased by 20%

Vanish: now causes the player to vanish on cast in addition to its normal functionality

Showstopper: damage radius extended by 1 meter

Melee: Blink Strike

Lunge distance decreased by 0.4 meters

Backstab: valid backstab angle reduced by 30 degrees

Escape Artist: invisibility effect delayed by 0.5 seconds

Fast Twitch: recharge reduced by 20%

Passives

Encore: killing an enemy with Arc Blade now extends its duration and grants a 150% increase to arc blade damage for a short time

Nightstalker

Grenades

Spike Grenade: damage impulses per second reduced to 5 from 10

Spike Grenade: damage per impulse increased by 100%; total damage unchanged

Super: Shadowshot

Now applies the suppression effect on impact

Melee: Smoke

Changed to be less frustrating to play against in PvP, but more effective in PvE

Impact damage increased by 34%

Impact suppression and damage over time duration reduced by 1 second

Jump suppression removed from initial impact status effects

Un-upgraded smoke cloud duration increased by 1 second

Envenomed: cloud duration increased by 1 second

Envenomed: Jump suppression removed from cloud status effects

Vanish in smoke: +1 agility removed

Snare: cloud duration increased by 1 second

Passives

Courage of the Pack: now increases recovery, armor and agility by 2 per stack

Courage of the Pack: now stacks 3 times

Lockdown: now increases smoke duration by 2 seconds (+2 additional seconds with the Snare upgrade)

Predator: now reduces the cooldown of the Shadowshot ability

Shadestep: moved to a single dodge on a 3 second cooldown

Warlock

Sunsinger

Grenades

Firebolt: increased arming time by 0.2 seconds

Firebolt: decreased victim search radius by 1 meter

Melee: Scorch

Flame Shield: 0.3 second delay added before the overshield activation

Passives

Viking Funeral: no longer extends the duration of Ignite effects

Viking Funeral: now weakens targets afflicted with Ignite effects, causing them to take 5% more damage from all sources, stacking up to 3 times.

Voidwalker

Glide

Blink: now incurs a -1 recovery penalty

Super: Nova Bomb

Base damage increased by 50% and an additional 50% against AI combatants

Lance: now increases Nova Bomb damage by an additional 25%

Weapons

General

Fixed an issue where the Year 2 version of “Thunderlord” was not available for some players in the Kiosk

Fixed an issue where incorrect UI bars were displayed on Red Spectre

Fixed an issue where Exotic machinegun stability was ignoring the base stats for recoil (Thunderlord, Super Good Advice)

Fixed an issue where Defiance of Yasmin did not have the adjusted zoom for sniper rifles introduced in 2.2.0 (5x) & increased the inventory stat by 10

Auto Rifles

Reduced damage of high rate of fire autos by 6% (Doctrine of Passing)

Hand Cannons

Increased initial accuracy and decreased accuracy drop for low range hand cannons

Made damage falloff curves steeper to better coincide with intended effective range of hand cannons

Small increase to PvE damage to all hand cannons (amount depending on enemy class)

Ammo

It now takes less time for your Ghost to automatically grab ammo for you when you’re running low on ammo

Exotics

Slight reduction to Hawkmoon stability (-5 stability)

Perks

Slight reduction to Counterbalance effectiveness (Reduces 80% of recoil angle instead of 90%)

Armor

Exotics

Twilight Garrison

Moved Tactical Air Support ability to a single dodge on a 3 second cooldown

Activities

Missions

The alternate ending to “Paradox” can now be completed at any time by selecting it from the Director on the Heroic difficulty

The alternate ending to “Lost to Light” can now be completed at any time by selecting it from the Director on the Heroic difficulty

The “Firewall” mission will now be available as soon as the player has turned in the required items to access it

Prison of Elders

The Level 41 Prison of Elders Arena activity tooltip now properly indicates remaining weekly Legendary Mark rewards. These weekly Legendary Mark rewards are shared with the Weekly Heroic Strike Playlist, and may be earned from either activity.

Challenge of the Elders “Variks grows impatient” point deduction now grows more severe the longer you are in a given section: Point Deduction = (50 x number of times he has grown impatient)

Crucible

All weekly rotating activities in Crucible now feature weekly rewards

Fixed an issue where Trials of Osiris boon icons from House of Wolves persisted after deleting a Trials passage

Items

Three new Chroma colors have been added: Orange, Magenta, & Green: These have a chance to be found in Sterling Treasures or from dismantling the Spektar gear set

Fixed an issue where players who did not own The Taken King could purchase Sterling Treasures from Eververse

Desolate Class Items are now correctly listed as Guaranteed items instead of Possible on Sterling Treasure preview

Fixed an issue where Daily Heroic Story missions that were from House of Wolves were not properly awarding Legendary Marks

Fixed an issue where “The Road Unraveled” ship would be unobtainable from Future War Cult faction packages under certain circumstances

Fixed an issue where the “Kicks Dance” emote was not displaying proper announcement text

Fixed an issue where Variks would not sell the Dreadfang sword if the player obtained and dismantled the sword on all characters

UI

Fixed an issue where equipping the “Armor of Vows” New Monarchy ship caused a false Postmaster notification

You can learn more about the classes and weapons changes by following the links.

If you missed the announcement earlier this month, Destiny: Rise of Iron is coming to PS4 and XB1 on September 20.

[Source: Bungie, Reddit]

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