Bungie is nerfing two fan-favourite armour Exotics that it thinks is “becoming hard to counter in PvP”. From the Season…
Bungie is nerfing two fan-favourite armour Exotics that it thinks is “becoming hard to counter in PvP”.
From the Season 22 mid-season update onwards, Titans and Hunters will see changes to two of the game’s most popular Exotic armour items as both the Titan’s Antaeus Wards boots and Hunters’ Young Ahamkara’s Spine gauntlets get a mid-season overhaul.
“For the Season 22 mid-Season update, we wanted to adjust two Exotic armours that we felt were becoming hard to counter in PvP,” the team explained in its weekly update, This Week at Bungie.
From update 7.2.5 onwards, Antaeus Wards will require full class ability to deploy Reflective Vents, and if you deactivate them, your “class ability energy is drained proportional to the amount of damage reflected”. Oh, and they no longer improve your slide, either.
“Antaeus Wards was granting too large a benefit for too little a cost,” it added. “It also suffered from a lack of meaningful counterplay options. By tying the damage reflection to class ability, we hope to reduce the uptime of the effect and to prevent it from easily stacking with the Juggernaut Arc aspect. Anteaus Wards users will have to think about their engagements more carefully because opponents can exploit the times their class ability is on cooldown.
