In Destiny 2, Season 11 is live. It brought the new exotic grenade launcher Witherhoard. However, the item doesn’t work quite as intended. Guardians are using the weapon to obliterate raid bosses in seconds while laughing. It’s expected that Bungie will soon put an end to the fun.
Here’s how to get the new exotic weapon: It was somewhat overshadowed by the big announcement stream for the 2020 expansion “Beyond Light”, but on Tuesday evening, the new season in Destiny 2 began. It brought Witherhoard, a new exotic weapon:
- Buyers of the season pass will receive the weapon right away. The pass costs about 10 €
- If you don’t purchase the pass, you simply need to play the free pass up to level 35, then you can get the weapon. It’s pure grinding.
In contrast to raid exotics like Anarchy or other strong exotics like Izanagi’s Burden, Witherhoard is easy to obtain and available for everyone.
Originally intended as a “mass mob” killer
This is what the weapon can do: It’s a kinetic grenade launcher that requires special ammo.
The weapon is actually designed so that its grenades spread a negative effect on opponents upon impact: the blight. When enemies suffer from this blight, they take damage over time (about 7 seconds) and transfer the blight to the environment upon their death.
The grenade launcher is essentially a plague launcher, such weapons are traditionally suitable against groups of enemies who then suffer damage over time, slowly die, allowing one to achieve high passive damage values.
The emphasis is on “actually.”
You can pick up a quest from Banshee-44, at the end of which the exotic masterwork catalyst for Witherhoard awaits.
But what is the problem? Against “normal” enemies, the weapon works as intended. However, something seems to be off with the exotic: the exotic weapon deals way too much damage to raid bosses in practice.
As seen in clips, guardian groups take Witherhoard to bosses like Riven and destroy them in no time. They laugh heartily because it is absurd that these long, challenging contents in Destiny can now be completely mindlessly obliterated.
Particularly striking is this clip against the raid boss from the Leviathan raid, Calus. He is practically taken down instantly.
Even the poor “Sovereign Spirit” is taken down amidst laughter.
Players are already waiting for a nerf
This is the problem: There seems to be something buggy with the weapon. Because the displayed damage numbers aren’t that high, yet bosses drop dead.
Perhaps “damage over time” is being miscalculated, or it is buggy when multiple of these debuffs are active at once. In any case, this is currently a problem because this method of killing bosses completely removes the excitement from the game. There’s no need for mechanics, you don’t have to hit heavy shots, just shoot away.
It’s reasonable to expect that Bungie will soon disable the weapon until a fix is implemented.
In addition to Witherhoard, more new exotics are coming to Destiny 2 in Season 11. We have highlighted in an article what these exotics will be and how they can be obtained. There are some interesting weapons among them.
