Balance the Bite  At the release of Destiny 2: Forsaken, two pinnacle weapons became available for players to earn in the Competitive playlist in the Crucible. Each weapon has a unique quest, requiring mastery of Hand Cannons to complete. There has been a lot of feedback on how the pinnacle Crucible Hand Cannons stand above most other weapons in the sandbox. Today, we’ll be going through some balance changes planned for Season of Opulence. We wanted to start this conversation early, to ensure players understood that change was coming, even if they were still on the path to acquiring these rewards. Here’s the Destiny Dev Team to walk us through the planned changes: Dev Team: We wanted to give you a preview of some plans we have to balance Luna’s Howl and Not Forgotten in Season of Opulence. After significant amounts of feedback, internal discussion, and playtesting, we’ve decided to adjust how these Hand Cannons work. For some players, these weapons can represent a significant investment of time and the personal improvement needed to acquire them. When tuning, we attempt to take into account the time commitment players make to acquire weapons and balance that against how those weapons affect the different game modes.    Magnificent Howl (the unique perk on these weapons) is too effective. It works in a neutral setting and rewards players for getting precision shots—something they would have done naturally. As a result, the time to kill of the game shifts to meet this new benchmark, and players feel that the majority of primary weapons in Destiny 2 cannot compete with these pinnacle weapons.    Our current plan is to make Luna’s Howl and Not Forgotten the only 150 RPM precision Hand Cannons. They will maintain some aspects of their current behavior while taking on the firing speed and damage of the 150 RPM Hand Cannons. Magnificent Howl will also be adjusted so that it increases only body-shot damage, resulting in a two headshot/one body-shot kill. Magnificent Howl will still give an advantage due to requiring less precision hits for optimal time to kill. Like we do whenever Destiny gameplay evolves, we’ll be watching the conversation starting today on our planned changes. We’ll continue collecting feedback once these changes go live at the beginning of Season of Opulence. If you have feedback now, please make sure to sound off on the #Destiny2 forum, right here on bungie.net The changes are planned and coming .

Agreed. Instead of freaking out about Bungie’s decision, let the patch come first and try it for yourself. You cannot deem the weapon “BS” when you have not tried it post nerf. Just think about it like this: Your upgraded Midnight Coup.

It’s true. No one likes rational conversations. It’s dumb. You suggest something and everyone hates you. Like if your so much better than everyone else than why do you care? It’s still gonna be a good weapon.

I can't wait for the compilation videos of players wreaking havoc with them post nerf.

Worst case scenario: I go back to using the Trust that got me the Luna in the first place. I think a change was needed and I think the one were getting isn't that bad.

My only problem with the nerf is the fact they didn't fix bloom for other hand cannons on console. Luna's and and NF will still be the main weapon used in the energy slot, the difference now being they will be the ONLY 150s used on console. That and players who use them may slightly increase their average engagement range.

Sweats hear nerf and go ape shit without actually considering that they will still preform well.

It only increases the ttk by .13 seconds. It will still be top tier.

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I'm glad someone mentioned the perk being kinda meh for pve now, I actually enjoyed using Luna for pve but now with it being reworked, it's a toss up in the air if that increase body will still be viable in pve. I'm going to go off on a hutch and say it wont sadly, it would be cool if they somehow could separate the changes to the perk for pve and pvp but I'm not holding my breath