Those who play as a Well Warlock in Destiny 2 have had the shortest Super cooldown in the game after the last update. However, Bungie forgot to mention that the Super also received a nerf that weakens your entire team in endgame.

Especially in the endgame of Destiny 2, certain Supers that optimize damage in DPS phases are often indispensable. This includes the “Well of Radiance,” the Solar Ultimate of the Warlocks. Until now, it always ensured more DPS and healed the team through the Super damage.

• The sword has a healing aura that heals and buffs allies nearby.
• Well of Radiance increased the weapon damage of each team member by about 25 percent.
• Team members standing in the Well could shoot through enemy shields.

After the last update 3.4.0., the Well Warlock was even the only level-5 Super, meaning the one with the fastest regeneration. Healers were initially very satisfied with this. However, players like m4eix drew attention on reddit and twitter that this change did not only yield positive results and that the support Ultimate had actually become much worse due to an apparent nerf.

What has changed with the “Well of Radiance”? The additional DPS output from Focus Lens only affects the player who used the Super “Well of Radiance.” Only for him does the buff “Focus Lens” still apply, and he is the only one who can shoot through enemy shields. This change leads to team members standing in the Well no longer being able to shoot through enemy shields. The weapon damage of the squad will no longer be counted as Super damage as it was before.

This is noticeably impacting the endgame: Players quickly noticed that much more weapon damage is now required to take down a boss in the endgame. This also means that teams need to fundamentally rethink their previous strategies, where using the “Well of Radiance” and Focus Lens was essential.

Was this intended by Bungie? Since the change was not mentioned in the patch notes, the community initially speculated and hoped that it might be a bug and not intended. Unfortunately, this was not the case.

Why did the developer not mention this in the patch notes? After players pointed this out on reddit, Bungie’s Sandbox Discipline Lead Kevin Janes responded and apologized for it. This important information was simply overlooked due to the large number of changes for update 3.4.0.

This is not a bug or a stealth nerf. I really overlooked it in the patch notes, and it is intended. The goal was to make it so that the Well Warlock still has its use, but the team that [formerly] wrongly received the benefits does not anymore. This led to DPS accelerations that we did not intend or could sensibly maintain from season to season. […] We often view this community as a community that we expect to notice even the slightest changes to the sandbox. So we never expect or believe that we could slide even the smallest change past you all.

Kevin Janes also addressed the nerf with the Season 15 mod “Focus Lens,” which previously ensured that the Light abilities of the players inflicted additional damage on enemies affected by Stasis.

The interaction for Focus Lens should still work as usual with other damage-focused Supers.

The nerf is incomprehensible to the community

Despite the explanation and apology, the community is not thrilled with the change and has made some remarks. The “Well of Radiance” is a fixed part of many teams in Destiny 2’s endgame and loses one of its strongest team advantages due to the nerf.

Bronsmember sums up the community’s displeasure in the reddit thread:

Bungie wants people to incorporate build crafting and stats into certain things. But what good does it do if things like the Bubble and the Well don’t stack or particle breakdown literally don’t work together? It’s as if they are missing the most important part of MMO games, namely buffs, debuffs, and stack damage, etc. Build crafting is not just “oh I have more discipline so I get my grenade faster.” It matters what your team benefits from.

Barrier shields are now harder to crack: Also, for many players, the Well of Radiance was a good option to optimally take down Barrier Champions. That this is no longer possible is incomprehensible to many players. They feel a change like this would only make sense if Bungie also removed the shields of the Servitors.

StarsRaven commented in the reddit thread and states:

I appreciate the openness, but this change is total nonsense. Anti-barrier Servitors making enemies invulnerable through walls and around corners is a shitty mechanic and the Warlock Well that made it through that was the way the community worked around this fucking “mechanic”.

Huntdigga directly asks Kevin Janes:  

[…] You didn’t change the functionality of barrier servitors, did you? You just removed the one workaround that we (the community) found to deal with them. Do you see the problem?

The nerf of the “Well of Radiance” in update 3.4.0 shows once again how focused Bungie is on making gunplay more important in Destiny 2. Players now need to come up with new strategies that will be effective in the endgame and compensate for the nerf. For Warlocks, the question will also arise whether the Well is still worth it as a support Super. At least the healing granted has not changed.

What do you think about it? Have you already noticed the change to the “Well of Radiance”? Or does the nerf not pose a problem for your fireteam because you can still deal enough damage to any boss without the Warlock and his support?

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In Destiny 2 there is a major insider report. A writer from the game reveals how poorly the staff of the story team were treated. She was denied a promotion because she was not good enough at the game. However, her job did not require any special skills in Destiny 2.

Which employee is involved? The US site IGN spoke to current or former employees at Bungie. One woman is named there, Cookie Hiponia. She worked for Bungie since September 2016, first as a freelancer, later joining Bungie full-time and joining the Narrative Team. She remained as Managing Editor until August 2019.

In her position, she was responsible for the in-game text and fulfilled an editorial oversight role. She states that prior to her time, there was little focus on ensuring that the story was coherent and that continuity was maintained.

This led to a lack of professional standards within the team: “There were only a few people writing things and leading the effort,” she told IGN.

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The Problem with Promotions was: Hiponia says that the chronically understaffed writing team would have constantly faced criticism. They were told they were “difficult to deal with,” didn’t support their “bosses well enough,” were aggressive, rude, and could not handle criticism.

These arguments would also come up every time promotion discussions took place. Promotion requests were continually denied.

Hiponia said she was specifically told she could not be promoted because she was “not good enough at the game.” However, her job had nothing to do with gameplay design. When she then asked for more time to play to improve, that was also denied.

This is the Discussion: On reddit they are discussing the entire insider report. This point, that a writer was not promoted because she supposedly plays too poorly, causes some bewilderment among the players. Because in their view, almost all Bungie employees seen playing were quite bad at Destiny 2:

• “I’ve seen these guys play during presentations and raid-alongs. They play as if it’s the first time they’ve ever touched any game. So to hell with that!”
• “If you don’t want to promote someone, you come up with some excuse so that it doesn’t look like you have them in your sights.”

Apparently, Some Female Writers Did Not “Fit” into Bungie’s Culture

What’s Behind It: The continuity problems at Bungie that Hiponia mentions were evident when Luke Smith, the head of Destiny 2, once admitted he had no idea what the “Darkness” actually was, a major concept from Destiny 1.

It was apparently desperately needed for someone to address the very issues for which Hiponia was responsible. But the report makes it clear that the writer and her team had many conflicts with the “elders”. There were said to be cultural conflicts because writers like Hiponia, a writer with roots in the Philippines, struggled with how the Bungie bosses represented women in the game.

The statement: “We can’t promote you because you are too bad at Destiny 2” seems to be a kind of code for saying: “You don’t fit in here – you’re not a gamer.”

This also explains why Bungie’s CEO, Pete Parsons, emphasized in his response to the insider report that the company has significantly focused on women and members of underrepresented groups and that much progress has been made at Bungie in recent years. Because with someone like Cookie Hiponia, the integration into Bungie from 2016 to 2019 apparently did not work at all.

We covered the insider report comprehensively on MeinMMO:

Shocking insider report about Destiny 2 reveals the many problems of the story

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Those who play the “Eternity’s Trials” in Destiny 2 are likely farming the strangest and most unusual ship in the game called “Xuriversal Passenger.” The flying space rock looks like a paracausal nut, and the players’ desire to own it is skyrocketing.

Through the “Eternity’s Trials” activity from the “30 Years of Bungie” package, Destiny 2 players currently have access to various cosmetic treasures. Xur’s treasure chamber in Eternity is full of them.

• You can earn equipment and gear for all three classes there.
• There is a Sparrow treasure chest for reputation rank 16 and 5 treasure keys.
• Additionally, there is a Ghost shell treasure chest for reputation rank 16 and 3 treasure keys.

Inside the hardest chest lies the strange and unusual exotic jump ship “Xuriversal Passenger” with the flair of an asteroid.

Players must continually increase their “Strange Favor” rank with the mysterious merchant Xur and farm more treasure keys if they want all the treasures from the chests or want to focus specifically on a reward.

How do you get “Xuriversal Passenger”?: The “Eternity’s Trials” are freely accessible to all players during the “30 Years of Bungie” anniversary. To specifically open the chest containing the ship, you need a “Strange Favor” rank of 16 with Xur, plus 7 treasure keys.

This means that many runs of the 6-player activity “Eternity’s Trials” need to be completed. You get +75 points progression on both Normal and Legend. Consecutive completions also give you a streak bonus.

Xur’s reputation system works just like Lord Shaxx’s in the Crucible or Commander Zavala’s in the Strike playlist. You earn points by completing activities. For “Strange Favor” rank 16, you need 9,000 points. Once you reach 10,000 points, or reputation rank 17, you can reset.

The propulsion effect makes the space look perfect: The ship has a matching effect in hyperspace. It leaves a colorful comet tail behind during flight and landing. This uniqueness is also what fascinates players about this unusual flying object and makes them forget the grind.

This is the most beautiful ship I have ever seen in my life, I need to have it as soon as possible!

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Could this be Xur’s jump ship? In the same thread on reddit players wondered if this could be Xur’s jump ship. Does he travel to the Destiny universe every Friday with it? It would at least be a possibility that cannot be ruled out.

Do you also think it is Xur’s jump ship? What do you think of the quirky and unusual ship? Will you take on the grind and earn it? Or do you perhaps have entirely different treasures in focus during the 30th anniversary that interest you more? Like the exotic rocket launcher Gjallarhorn?

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