Which legendary and exotic hand cannons are the best in Destiny 2? We present strong hand cannons in PvE and PvP.

The hand cannons have been among the most popular weapon types in the game since the early days of Destiny 1. Exotic representatives such as Hawkmoon, The Last Word, or later Dorn will forever remain etched in the memories of Destiny veterans.

Even in Year 3, hand cannons dominated the PvP meta. The legendary weapons The Palindrome and Eyasluna sparked constant discussions about which of the two hand cannons was the best weapon in PvP.

In Destiny 2, hand cannons have taken a backseat. They are still deadly at short to medium range, but the powerful auto rifles, which are top across all distances, currently occupy many Guardians’ weapon slots.

One reason for this is that hand cannons are difficult to master and make no mistakes in PvP. If you miss your shot at an opponent even once, it often means your certain death, as the fire rate of hand cannons is too low to compensate for the missed shot. If you miss a shot with an auto rifle, the consequences are much less severe.

Therefore, hand cannons are currently more popular on PC than on consoles, as you can score secure hits there.

However, there are a few hand cannons that stand out on all platforms. We present the best hand cannons.

A strong hand cannon in PvP – The Old Fashioned

If you are new to the Crucible, you should practice with hand cannons in PvE before venturing into PvP with them. Because every shot must hit – and preferably critically. Otherwise, you won’t have a good time in the Crucible.

A strong hand cannon that has proven itself in PvP is The Old Fashioned. It is a legendary kinetic weapon with a power of 84. This makes it a medium archetype with an adaptive frame: there are other hand cannons with significantly higher but also lower power.

The Old Fashioned has solid range and outstanding stability, so you should do well with it in PvP. The magazine holds 9 rounds. The aim assist is 65. These are the stats:
The perks:

• Kill Clip: Reloading after a kill deals increased damage.

In addition, you have the choice of:

• Enhanced Rounds: Increased range
• Drop Mag: Magazine is ejected when reloading, wasting ammunition but significantly increasing reload speed.

With the sights True Sight HV, Quickdraw HV, and Hitmark HV, you can influence range, stability, and weapon readiness speed.

You obtain The Old Fashioned randomly from legendary engrams.

The Old Fashioned aims to bring back the Palindrome feeling from Destiny 1. If you can’t get along with it, you can fall back on alternatives like “The Dying Promise”.

Or you take the hand cannon introduced on the next page. Because this one performs excellently in both PvP and PvE.

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The community of Destiny 2 reacts to the new announcement of an announcement with skepticism. Next week, the hour of truth awaits.

The heart of the Destiny community beats in the reddit forum. The mood there has been worse than ever in recent days.

However, Destiny 2 is not in a content drought as it usually is when the atmosphere is tense, but Bungie is in the middle of an announcement marathon. The new DLC “Curse of Osiris” is being presented. But that doesn’t seem to interest anyone that much.

Fans are struggling with the underlying issues in Destiny 2: The loot system feels stale. Many fans are angry with Bungie – also because of the ongoing silence. They want honest communication to finally take place. Bungie should finally respond to the feedback that has built up since the release.

EXP shitstorm affects the mood

Additionally, there is a full-blown crisis: Fans accuse Bungie of having cheated regarding the EXP with fraudulent intent. While high EXP amounts were displayed in the interface, they were not credited in reality, but the EXP counts were scaled down.

It is suspected: EXP are being kept low so that players buy Glimmer engrams in the cash shop. Normally, players receive a Glimmer engram for free at every level-up after reaching the maximum level. The EXP scarcity in Destiny 2 increases the temptation to spend real money in the cash shop.

This contradicts the announcement of great EXP events or even promotional actions for items that advertised bonus EXP.

Some players feel: This was a veiled attempt at fraud by Bungie that has been exposed. Bungie subsequently referred to it as a “bug” and disabled the system. Many angry Guardians are not satisfied with that. They wish for a scandal to be triggered. Especially in the atmosphere heated by Star Wars Battlefront 2, many want to see blood. Just as EA opponents alarmed Disney, Bungie opponents now call for informing Kellogg’s about the EXP issues.

In short: The fans are pretty fed up.

Skepticism after the announcement of an announcement

In this excitement, a tweet from Game Director Luke Smith just landed. He announced that next week the system changes that the December update will bring will be presented. Additionally, the makers of Destiny 2 will face the community’s critical questions.

However, even this announcement of an announcement is currently not enough to calm the waves.

Many fans say: “This is now a fateful hour for Bungie.”

However, currently it seems that the mood in the forums is so bad that many want to wait and see what the announcement really brings. The fans apparently are no longer willing to give a trust deposit here:

• While there is hope that solutions for the deep-rooted problems will be presented and they are glad that a reaction is coming at all. They hope that Bungie at least takes some steps in the right direction.
• However, many skeptics assume that real solutions are still months away and do not expect too much from the December patch.

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We want to know at Mein MMO how you feel before the announcement. In the survey, we provide you with three rough answers with trend inclination. You can only choose one option:

In any case, it’s an interesting discussion for Destiny 2. What do you think?

More on the topic of what is being announced and who is announcing it:

Destiny 2: Bungie breaks the silence, wants to address all the criticism!

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Is this the best Hunter build in Destiny 2? With this, you can excel in PvE and PvP!

The Hunters in the Destiny universe are considered specialists in surviving in the wild. They are brave scouts, silent killers, and experts with knives and precision weapons.

They draw their abilities from the Light of the Traveler. With one exception: The Nightstalker Hunter draws its powers directly from the Darkness, shaping an arrow (with a bow) as a Super.

This Nightstalker Hunter represents one of the most powerful Guardian subclasses in Destiny 2. If you are still looking for a build for your Hunter, you can grab your Nightstalker and recreate the following character setup. JumpinProduction presents the build in the video. It is described as the “Most Overpowered Hunter Build”, which allows you to unleash your abilities while being valuable to your teammates.

How to create the Hunter Build

For the build, you need the Nightstalker focus of the Hunter. Here you can find out how to unlock this subclass. The focus excels in both PvE and PvP.

Now choose the upper skill tree “The Way of the Trapper”. All four abilities are excellent:

• Smoke Bomb – The smoke bomb sticks to surfaces and slows down and disorients enemies. Strong in PvP, as it gives you crucial advantages.
• Eager Scout – Increases sprint speed, and you can move faster while crouched. Bound enemies are marked and can be tracked for a certain time. Additionally, you receive an extended radar.
• Deadfall – The Void Anchors fired by the Shadowshot become traps and damage enemies. Additionally, the Void Anchors have increased range and last longer. Excellent in PvE for dealing a lot of damage.
• Shadow Step – When dodging, you become invisible for a short time. Especially good in PvP, as the opponent loses any aim assist when you are invisible.

The skill tree “The Way of the Pathfinder” is also strong, but this build does not work at all with the perk Möbius Quiver. Thus, choose the Way of the Trapper.

For grenades, choose the Vortex Grenade and for class abilities Sniper Dodge (PvE) or Reckless Dodge (PvP, as it allows you to regain the smoke grenade).

The most important item in this build is the exotic boots “Orpheus Rigs”. You can randomly obtain them from various sources that can drop exotic engrams. These boots made a big impression during the early days of Destiny 2 and were immediately called the “best Exotic”.

The reason for this is the special perk:

• Intrinsic Perk: You gain ability energy for each enemy you chain with a Shadowshot

The Shadowshot is the Super of the Nightstalker. The more enemies you chain with it, the more ability energy is recharged. The “abilities” refer to the grenade, melee, dodge ability, and Super.

For the armor pieces, choose these mods:

• Helmet: Grenades recharge faster when you have a Void subclass
• Gauntlets: Grenades recharge faster when you have a Void subclass
• Chest: Class abilities recharge faster when you have a Void subclass
• Legs: Increases recovery on the Exotic
• Class Item: Class abilities recharge faster when you have a Void subclass

The weapons in this build are secondary – the abilities are the focus. So choose weapons that you enjoy playing with. For example, the strong auto rifles Origin Story or Uriels Gift.

Pay attention to the attributes, increasing resilience (at least 4) and recovery. Mobility is not a priority.

This setup should primarily be played in PvE, as here the Orpheus Rigs boots can shine particularly well. In PvP, you can also take the exotic helmet Enemy Finder – or Weak Mind Radar.

How to play this build?

In PvE, with the Orpheus Rig boots, you have pretty much the best build you can create. The special thing is: If you manage to chain enough enemies, you can fire a Shadowshot again immediately. Around 7 to 8 chained enemies are needed for the Super bar to fill completely. The grenade, melee attack, and class ability will also be recharged.

Additionally, your teammates benefit from this, as you can unleash many super attacks and generate many Orbs of Light. The Shadowshot thus not only provides Crowd Control (it can hold back enemy masses), but also simultaneously fills the Super bars of your allies.

In PvP, Orpheus Rig can also shine, but only in rare situations. In Guardian vs. Guardian combat, you mainly benefit from the smoke bombs, invisibility, and dodging movements.

In summary: This Nightstalker Hunter is incredibly strong!

How do you play your Hunter?

You can find an overview of all exotic armor pieces in Destiny 2 here.

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In Destiny 2, Bungie’s game director speaks out personally and promises answers to community feedback.

In recent days and weeks, Bungie has faced some criticism from the community: the boring endgame remains a constant topic, and now there have been an XP disaster and even fraud allegations. Additionally, Guardians are simply disappointed that Bungie is being silent on all the issues, despite having two livestreams in the last two weeks where they could have at least addressed them.

Just a few hours ago, Bungie broke its silence in the form of game director Luke Smith: Answers are finally coming next week.

Bungie’s heads answer the questions

Luke Smith tweeted that the Destiny 2 team will talk about the details regarding how the mechanics will change with the December update next week.

This includes

• Economy updates: This discusses how vendors, the token system, legendary shards, and the way to obtain vendor gear will change
• Investment updates: This covers new reward systems on how to earn weapons and armor pieces
• Gameplay updates
• and more.

Additionally, he will answer some questions together with Mark Noseworthy, the project lead from Bungie, and address the community feedback that has been gathered since the launch of Destiny 2.

Smith and Noseworthy are the minds behind Destiny 2. They usually only appear when there are major, important announcements about the MMO shooter. During the Destiny 2 reveal in spring 2017, they were always present, but since the launch of Destiny 2, they have stepped back.

On Reddit, people are now looking to the future more positively. If significant and meaningful endgame improvements actually come in December, this could reignite the hype train, some say. After all, it means something when Bungie sends not just any developers, but the heads behind Destiny 2 themselves.

By the way: It is not stated exactly when Smith and Noseworthy will appear “next week.” Most likely, one can expect this on November 29. Then the final livestream regarding Curse of Osiris will take place. We will report on this.

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In Destiny 2, the XP disaster is taking on larger forms. Bungie is now accused of fraud due to a promotional campaign.

We reported on this in August: Bungie and Activision entered into a partnership with “Rockstar Energy Drinks” and “Pop-Tarts” (Kelloggs) for Destiny 2 to promote their MMO shooter.

This promotional campaign involved Rockstar and Kelloggs launching products in Destiny 2 design, and customers received certain in-game benefits like engrams and XP boosts with their purchases.

The Pop-Tarts promotional campaign, which only ran in the USA, is now causing a lot of discussion. Those who bought this sweet pastry received a code for an XP boost in Destiny 2. However, it has now been revealed – and Bungie recently admitted – that the XP system does not function as intended.

What is it actually about?

For every redeemed Pop-Tarts code, players received (and can still receive, as the campaign runs until early 2018) a boost of +25% on experience points gains. It is explicitly advertised that this code can be used for quick leveling up.

However, it has become known in recent days and weeks that XP in Destiny 2 does not work as the game suggests. For example, when quickly farming public events, a high XP gain appears on the screen each time, but the actual XP gain is significantly lower. Players are reportedly receiving up to 90% less experience points than indicated.

This XP mechanic has been well hidden for a long time – after all, one assumes that +5000 XP is received when +5000 XP is shown, and not just a fraction of that. Only detailed tests by community members uncovered this deception.

Bungie has now admitted that such a system indeed exists to regulate XP gains. In long-term activities like PvP matches and raids, the XP gains would increase, while in quick activities that can be repeated rapidly, such as public events, they would decrease.

They analyzed the data and are “not happy” with the results, which is why Bungie has now decided to deactivate the system with immediate effect. From now on, the correct XP gain numbers should be displayed on the screen.

“I pay for something I do not receive”

A Guardian is now complaining on Reddit – where he is receiving much support – that this admission from Bungie is proof that the community was deceived with the Pop-Tarts promotional campaign.

Before the release of Destiny 2, he eagerly bought the sweets to receive the XP boosts. Although he does not actually like Pop-Tarts, he was willing to spend some money for faster level progression. He bought the snack just to receive the +25% XP.

The hidden XP mechanic has been in the game since the launch of Destiny 2, which is why he now complains: “I paid for something I did not receive as advertised.” This is not only unscrupulous, it is also fraud.

He is not concerned about the few dollars he invested in Pop-Tarts. He does not even want to request a refund. Instead, he wants to make it clear how bitterly disappointed he is that Bungie is lying to the players like this.

Many users in the comments agree with him and emphasize that it is not about the money, but about the fraud and dishonesty.

However, other users point out that one “actually” never paid for the XP boost. Therefore, it cannot be called fraud. The promotional campaign always advertised that the XP boost comes free with the pack of Pop-Tarts.

Whether the responsible parties will comment on this remains to be seen.

What is your opinion on this?

By the way: According to some users, the displayed experience point gain is still not 100% accurate.

Read more on this topic here:

• The Great XP Scam – Fanfare Event in Destiny 2 was a disaster

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