On Tuesday, Bungie released a major patch targeting Destiny 2‘s Stasis – the newest power set in the game – to the relief of Destiny’s hardcore PvP community. Hotfix 3.1.1.1 fixes some bugs, but it mainly targets the overwhelming power of Stasis, especially in the game’s multiplayer arena.
For a complete list of patch notes, scroll down.
One of the biggest changes for all three classes is the Duskfield grenade. The grenade’s radius of traction is about a third of what it was, from 9.5 meters to 6 meters. The grenade field also doesn’t slow players down so quickly. Stasis Crystals also cause reduced Shatter damage, which means they will not be as dangerous to nearby players.
Hunters, Titans and Warlocks also saw some individual changes. Hunter’s Shatterdive now has a four-second cooldown, and Wither Blade does less damage to players in PvE. Titans no longer freeze nearby players when activating Quake Glacial and receive more damage during Supering. Warlocks actually have a buff in tracking their Super in PvP, but detonation for frozen targets now decreases.
Many of these changes apply only to PvP, and most of these skills should be just as powerful in PvE as they were a week ago.
Here are the official patch notes for Hotfix 3.1.1.1.
ACTIVITIES
Omen
- Fixed an issue where players could reappear in the void, instantly ending their feeble attempts to survive this activity on the Master difficulty.
Wrathborn Hunts
- Fixed an issue where the text “Immune” appears when players deal damage to the High Celebrant.
Destinations
- Fixed an issue where players would die instantly if they were in a specific location on the Quitter’s Well on Tangled Shore.
- Fixed an issue that prevented sweeping and Heroic VIP patrols from appearing in Europe.
Battlefields
- Fixed an issue where players could regenerate infinite superenergy from teammates running through the halls.
- Fixed an issue where players were incorrectly given an “online privileges” dialog box when trying to start specific battlefield activities or the battlefield playlist with a member of the fire team who did not unlock the activity.
- Fixed an issue where the Cabal Pyro Flamethrower projectile generated a lot of network usage, leading to strange combatant behavior in battlefield activities.
UI / UX
In general
- Fixed an issue where Prismatic Recaster did not display all types of engrams available on a single page.
GAMEPLAY
armor
- Mantle of Battle Harmony updated to work in PvP.
- Grants a small amount of super energy by defeating the Guardians with weapons corresponding to the type of damage your Super has.
- Grants a small damage bonus by defeating enemies with weapons corresponding to your Super’s damage type while your Super is full, but in a shorter duration than when you defeat PvE fighters.
Weapons
- Fixed an issue that caused Eyes of Tomorrow to do less damage than intended against enemies in the yellow bar.
- Fixed an issue where Guardians could embrace their darker side and damage their teammates using the Frenzy privilege.
- Relentless added as a possible advantage for THE SWARM Machine Gun.
hunters
Shatterdive
- Removed the damage resistance from Shatterdive.
- Added a 4s timeout between Shatterdive activations.
Withered blade
- Decreased Waning Blade damage against players from 90 to 65 damage. PvE damage has not been changed.
- Slow Withering Blade stacks decreased for players from 60 to 40 stacks. Slow PvE batteries remain unchanged.
- Decreased the acquisition range of the Waning Blade target after impacting a player from 12m to 8m. The range after hitting PvE enemies is not changed.
Titans
Glacial earthquake
- Removed AoE freeze against players in Super Cast. It will still freeze PvE enemies when launching.
- Reduced damage resistance while in Super from 60 percent to 50 percent.
- It increased the energy cost of using Shiver Strike during Glacial Quake from three percent to seven percent superenergy.
- Using the combination of a Shiver Strike in a Heavy slam attack will now cost the total Superenergy of the Shiver Strike and slam (previously, this only cost energy for the slam).
Shivering blow
- Increased descent speed applied to Shiver Striking players when they are slowed down to pull them faster out of the air.
- Fixed an issue where Shiver Strike (or Thundercrash) could cause the player to get stuck in soft ceilings on Crucible maps.
Warlocks
Winter’s Wrath
- Improved tracking of Winter’s Wrath projectiles, now tracking the decay of strength from its maximum value above 10s instead of 2.2s.
- Increased the size of the proximity detonation radius of the Warlock Super projectile 1.5m – 1.65m.
- Proximity blasting now starts at its highest and decreases to 40 percent over time.
Penumbral explosion
- Penumbral blast damage reduction against players from 80 to 30 damage. PvE damage remains unchanged.
Iceflare screws
- Fixed a bug where Iceflare Bolts was continually trying to switch targets.
- Increase the target acquisition range of Iceflare Bolts by 33 percent.
- Higher rotation speed of Iceflare Bolts so that they can reach nearby targets more effectively.
Chaos Reach
- Decreased the amount of Superenergy refunded by canceling Chaos Reach in advance.
General Stasis Adjustment
Duskfield Grenade
- Reduced the force with which the Duskfield Grenade pulls players in, effectively reducing the attraction range from 9.5 m to ~ 6 m. The impulse to pull PvE remains unchanged.
- Reduced slow stacks applied to players by detonating the grenade from 20 to 10 stacks. Slow detonation cells are not changed in PvE.
- It reduced the slow stacks applied to players on each tick of the grenade from ten to five stacks. Slow ticks are not changed in PvE.
- Adjusted the UI display of the “Delayed” status to display slow stacks like X / 100 instead of X / 10, to increase readability by adding slow stack quantities less than ten.
Stasis Crystals
- Crystal shattering damage reduced against players from (85 max, 55 min) to (55 max, 25 min). PvE damage has not been changed.
Whispering Chains
- Whisper of Chains damage resistance bonus reduced while in Super from 25% to 5%. Damage resistance when not in Super remains unchanged. This affects only the damage of other Guardians.
INVESTMENT
Stasis Fragment Missions
- Significantly reduced goal completion values for all Crucible fragment missions.
Bounties and Pursuits
- Fixed an issue where players could win Exotic Cyphers with a full inventory, resulting in the loss of their reward.
Triumphs
- Fixed an issue that prevented the “Trash the Thresher” triumph from being completed, even when conditions were met.
Statistics trackers
- Reset the attack completion time statistics trackers for any player who has exactly five minutes of time recorded on the statistics tracker.
Rewards
- Fixed an issue that prevented Eyes of Tomorrow’s protection against bad luck from accumulating correctly in accounts where players hacked multiple characters.
- Additional details can be found in the This week at Bungie – 03/18/2021 article.
- Fixed issues with the Frozen in Time ornament for the Exotic Pulse Rifle with no time to explain.
- The ornament will no longer display “Exclusive Item”, which prevented players from putting it on the sock.
Chosen stamp and title requirements
- Replaced the triumph “Bound in Memory” with “All the Scattered Memories” to ensure that players who lost a week playing the Presage activity could win the label before the end of the season.