In Destiny 2 , it has now become almost customary for Bungie to temporarily disable exotic items when they become overpowered through an exploit or glitch. This is now the case for the Warlock gloves “Winter’s Guile” – the reason seems to be a Reddit post that is only one day old.
Which exotic item has been disabled in Destiny 2? As Bungie announced last night, the exotic gloves “Winter’s Guile” (Winter’s Guile) are disabled until further notice. They will remain unavailable until Bungie can develop and implement a fix. Bungie has not disclosed when the gloves will be usable again in Destiny 2.
The Warlock gloves have been in the game since the launch of Destiny 2 – they are available as a random drop. Here on MeinMMO, we presented a Warlock build that utilizes the gloves.
A Reddit user presents a “Fun Build”
What triggered this ban? The reason for the ban was apparently a post on reddit, published just a few hours earlier, on Friday morning German time. It bears the title “I almost dealt 900,000 damage with the sword hilt – here’s how to use the Winter’s Guile buff indefinitely.”
The exotic has the perk
- Warlord’s Seal – Defeating enemies with melee attacks increases your weapon damage
The redditor discovered how to extend this buff, which is normally limited to 4 seconds, indefinitely. As a result, he was able to stockpile and extend the buff; normally, the buff is consumed on a kill.
Through “Sword Hilt” strikes, meaning hits with a sword without power ammo, it was possible to achieve extremely high damage numbers.
He demonstrated the method in a video. In the end, he reached values of around 900,000 damage.
Players have already announced their intention to use this “Fun Build” to solo kill the final raid boss Riven.
What’s behind this: It has now become almost normal for exotics in Destiny 2 to cause excessive damage through exploits, resulting in unfair play.
Bungie is responding by disabling the exotic until there is time to fix these exploits later:
- For instance, Bungie disabled 3 exotics in October 2019 to enable a fair “World First” race for the last raid
- The Telesto (da Besto) was also temporarily disabled in Destiny 2 – right when Xur was selling the weapon.
- Just a few days ago, a Titan exotic was disabled in Destiny 2.
