Destiny 2: The Final Shape - Prismatic Subclasses Breakdown (2024)

Stasis Subclasses

Arc Subclasses

Hunter

• Arc Staff:
  • Heavy palm strike attacks and heavy air slam blind enemies.
• Disorienting Blow:
  • Decreased base cooldown time from 100 seconds to 90 seconds.
• Tempest Strike:
  • Added additional damage resistance vs. PvE combatants when activated, lingering for a short duration after the attack.

Warlock

• Lightning Surge:
  • Added additional damage resistance vs. PvE combatants when activated, lingering for a short duration after the attack.
• Ball Lightning:
  • Increased the final arming shape size by 30%.
  • Fixed an issue where the arming shape was offset upward, higher than the maximum damage range of the projectile’s detonation.

Titan

• Thunderclap:
  • Added additional damage resistance vs. PvE combatants when activated, lingering for a short duration after the attack.
  • Increased minimum damage vs. PvE combatants by 20%.
  • Increased maximum damage vs. PvE combatants by 33%.
  • Increased maximum damage vs. enemy players by 14%.
• Knockout:
  • Increased bonus damage granted to powered melee attacks vs. PvE combatants from 25% to 50%.
  • Reworked healing behavior:
    • No longer unstuns health regeneration on melee defeats. Now instantly grants a chunk of healing that scales with the type of target defeated.
      • Player: 30 health points.
      • Minor combatant: 50 health points.
      • Major combatant: 75 health points.
      • Champion+ combatant: 100 health points.
• Touch of Thunder:
  • Storm Grenade:
    • Increased tracking travel speed when targeting PvE combatants by between 0.5 and 1 meters per second, increasing with the storm’s lifetime.
• Touch of Thunder:
  • Lightning Grenade:
    • Now applies jolt after the first damage event, rather than prior.

Arc Grenades

• Storm Grenade:
  • Increased damage vs. PvE combatants by 20%.
  • Touch of Thunder variant’s damage is unchanged.
• Skip Grenade:
  • Increased damage vs. PvE combatants by 15%.
• Arcbolt Grenade:
  • Increased damage vs. PvE combatants by 15%.

Arc Fragments

• Spark of Recharge:
  • Ability regeneration bonus now persists until the player returns to full shields, rather than deactivating as soon as shields begin to recharge.
• Spark of Beacons:
  • Now also triggers on defeating targets with Arc Power ammo weapons while amplified.
• Spark of Frequency:
  • Now also grants 15 weapon stability on powered melee hit, in addition to its reload benefit.

Solar Subclasses

Hunter

• Lightweight Knife:
  • Now has 2 melee charges by default.
  • Increased throw animation speed by 33%.
  • Reduced suppression time between throws, so both knives can be thrown very quickly back-to-back.
  • Note: The additional melee charge does not stack with Ophidia Spathe, due to the Exotic’s unique energy recharge behavior. We’ll be monitoring this and evaluating how things are playing once things go live.
• Knock ‘Em Down:
  • Reduced internal cooldown on throwing knife refund from 1 second to 0.2 seconds.
• Golden Gun – Marksman:
• Reduced strength of Orbs of Power created on precision hit as follows:
  • When hitting non-boss enemies, reduced strength from 0.75x to 0.5x of a normal Super Orb of Power.
  • When hitting boss enemies, reduced strength from 0.75x to about 0.4x of a normal Super Orb of Power.
  • When hitting boss enemies while Star-Eater Scales is equipped, reduced strength from 0.75x to about 0.35x of a normal Super Orb of Power.

Titan

• Consecration:
  • Consecration’s slam attack can now shatter Stasis crystals.
  • Ignitions generated by Consecration now deal 20% additional damage to PvE combatants.
  • Fixed an issue where Consecration’s slam attack was sometimes unable to damage floating combatants while they were grounded.
  • Fixed an issue where Consecration’s intended PvE damage resistance was not being applied.
• Hammer of Sol:
  • Increased projectile submunition count when Sol Invictus is not equipped as follows:
    • If the projectile detonates within the first 0.7 seconds of its lifetime, it now creates 4 shrapnel submunitions, up from 3.
    • If the projectile detonates after the first 0.7 seconds of its lifetime, it now creates 6 shrapnel, up from 5.
    • Note: When Sol Invictus is equipped, only 3 shrapnel submunitions are created, regardless of flight time.
  • Shrapnel submunitions now deal additional damage when Sol Invictus is not equipped, with the damage increasing after the first 0.7 seconds of the projectile’s lifetime.

Swarm Grenade

• Increased tracking shape size from 4 meters to 6 meters.
• Increased linger duration from 7-8 seconds to 10-11 seconds.
• Increased damage vs. PvE combatants by 20%.

Void Subclasses

Hunter

• Snare Bomb:
  • Increased linger duration of smoke after detonation from 3 seconds to 5 seconds.
  • Now applies small damage over time to enemies in the smoke , which increases in strength the longer they remain in the smoke.
• Trapper’s Ambush:
  • Increased linger duration of the smoke after detonation from 4.5 seconds to 6 seconds.
  • Now applies Snare Bomb’s damage over time to enemies caught in its smoke.
  • Fixed an issue where Trapper’s Ambush’s smoke effects could be obstructed by ground geometry.
• Stylish Executioner:
  • Stylish Executioner’s weaken effect can now be applied by Glaive melee attacks.

Titan

• Shield Throw:
  • Increased maximum bounce count from 4 to 5.
  • Increased maximum lifetime from 3 seconds to 4 seconds.
  • Now increases its tracking shape size and strength after each bounce, increasing its ability to consistently find a new target.
  • Slightly increased gravity and decreased thrust speed with each bounce.
  • Increased damage vs. PvE targets by 20%.
• Offensive Bulwark:
  • Can now only extend Void Overshield’s timer to its normal maximum duration, to prevent an issue where players could get into a bad timer state.
  • Now regenerates a small portion of your active Void Overshield with each melee defeat.

Warlock

• Chaos Accelerant:
  • Charged Magnetic Grenade:
    • Increased maximum intensity of physics knockback impulse by 10%.
    • Increased damage vs. PvE combatants by 20%.
    • Now passively decreases your Magnetic Grenade’s cooldown by 10% while Chaos Accelerant is equipped.
• Pocket Singularity:
  • Increased detonation damage vs. PvE combatants by about 50%.
• Nova Bomb:
  • Cataclysm variant:
    • Increased seeker count from 4 to 6.
    • Fixed an issue where seekers could impact the environment on creation.
  • Vortex variant:
    • Increased Vortex linger duration from 7 seconds to 10 seconds.
    • Fixed an issue where the linger visual effects were shutting off early.

Strand Subclasses

Thread of Warding

• Reduced Woven Mail duration on Orb of Power pickup from 10 seconds to 5 seconds.

Hunter

• Ensnaring Slam:
  • Detonation volume vs. enemy players is now a cylinder with a 6.5-meter radius, rather than a sphere with an 8-meter radius.
    • This results in fewer instances of victims correctly attempting to counterplay by jumping but being caught by the Ensnaring Slam detonation high up in the air.
• Threaded Spike:
  • Reduced damage vs. enemy players from 79 to 70.
  • Catching your Threaded Spike no longer breaks invisibility.

Warlock

• Weaver’s Call:
  • Added new behavior:
    • Defeating a target with Strand damage now has a chance to generate a perched Threadling, with a higher chance of generation from defeating more powerful targets.
    • This damage can be from any source, including other Threadlings.

Grapple Tangles and Melee

• No longer fully refresh their duration when Grappled to.
• Now increase their duration by a maximum of 5 seconds per Grapple, reducing to a maximum of 1 second added after 5 consecutive Grapples to the same Grapple Tangle.

Titan

• Into the Fray
  • Reduced melee energy regeneration scalar from 4x to 3x in PvE activities.
  • Unchanged in PvP activities.
• Banner of War
  • Reduced maximum timer from 30 seconds to 24 seconds.
  • Melee, Glaive melee, and Super damage bonus now have diminishing returns with Synthoceps as follows:
    • Melee bonuses decreased from 1.4x to 1.15x.
    • Glaive melee bonuses decreased from 1.25x to 1.125x.
    • Super bonuses decreased from 1.4x to 1.2x.
  • Melee and Glaive melee damage bonuses now have diminishing returns with Wormgod Caress, too.
    • Melee bonuses decreased from 1.4x to 1.1x, based on stack count.
    • Glaive melee bonuses decreased from 1.4x to 1.05x, based on stack count.
• Frenzied Blade:
  • Reduced the forward offset for melee lunge target point from 0.4 meters to 0.18 meters.

Hunter

Hunter

Triton Vice

• No longer requires a Glaive that matches your subclass to trigger its extra detonations.
• Glaive projectile final blows now always trigger a detonation that matches the Glaive’s damage type, even when the Glaive does not match the equipped subclass.
• The surrounded effect provided by Triton Vice while wielding a Glaive now lingers on the player for five seconds after no longer being surrounded.

Dragon’s Shadow

• Triggers its effects when you use Ensnaring Slam or the new Ascension Arc aspect, opening up more buildcrafting combinations.

Foetracer

• Grants the bonus damage it inflicts on a target to weapons. The damage type also matches that of the ability used to damage that target, instead of always matching your equipped subclass. With Prismatic you can apply a variety of different damage elements with your abilities, and this change allows Foetracer to buff multiple different weapon damage types, instead of just the one that matches your subclass or Super element.

The Sixth Coyote

• Added the ability for The Sixth Coyote to create Orbs of Power from final blows after using your class ability. This is implemented as the Exotic granting a free copy of the Reaper armor mod’s effects.

Renewal Grasps

• Grants the new Frost Armor Stasis keyword, instead of a bespoke damage reduction effect.
• On entering your Duskfield Grenade volume, you or allies gain a stack of Frost Armor.
• About every 0.9 seconds, an additional stack of Frost Armor is granted, resetting your timer.

Star-Eater Scales

• Increased the Orbs of Power required to grant maximum benefits from 4 to 6.
• Reduced the increased Super energy gained per Orb of Power when the Golden Gun is equipped from 2% down to 0.5%.

Titan

Titan

Ursa Furiosa

• Now provides increased movement speed while guarding with Unbreakable.
• Also grants Super energy for guarding with Unbreakable. This energy scales based on the amount of incoming damage the shield absorbs.

Eternal Warrior

• No longer requires an Arc subclass for Arc final blows to grant its escalating Arc weapon damage bonus. This allows it to synergize with Prismatic builds more easily. Its behavior related to Fists of Havoc is unchanged.

Armamentarium

• Updated with an additional benefit beyond granting a second grenade charge. It now creates Orbs of Power from grenade final blows. This is implemented as the Exotic granting a free copy of the Firepower armor mod’s effects.

Khepri’s Horn

• Increase the damage from the Solar blast by 100% in PvE.
• The Solar blast now scorches each time it hits a target, instead of scorching only once.
• Khepri’s Horn now benefits from Ember of Eruption and Ember of Ashes (+30 scorch in PvE and +15 scorch in PvP).

Heart of Inmost Light’s Buffs in the HUD

• Now displays a single, consolidated status effect icon in the HUD to communicate its state, instead of the two to three it used before. The functionality of the Exotic is unchanged.

Synthoceps

• Reduced the amount of time that Bionic Enhancements lingers after no longer being surrounded, from 8 seconds to 5 seconds. This duration is now visible as a timer on the buff.

Severance Enclosure

• Its explosions now require line of sight to damage enemies. We also reduced the knockback intensity of these explosions, which will now launch enemies more consistently vertically.

Warlock

Warlock

Mantle of Battle Harmony

• Now grants Super energy ranging between +1.5% and +4.5%, depending on the target type killed.
• Removed the 2-second cooldown for the perk’s activation.

Ballidorse Wrathweavers

• Activating your Rift grants you and nearby allies the maximum Frost Armor stacks when Frostpulse is equipped.
• Activating your Winter’s Wrath shatter attack grants nearby allies the maximum amount of stacks of Frost Armor. When your Winter’s Wrath ends, you gain maximum stacks of Frost Armor.

Secant Filaments’Empowering Rift

• Will reset a player’s existing Devour buff duration back to 11 seconds when they enter it, in addition to its previous behavior.

Verity’s Brow

• Requires final blows with a weapon matching your grenade’s damage type, instead of one matching your equipped subclass. This better supports using it on the Prismatic subclass.

Sunbracers

• Reduced the increased Solar Grenade duration from 4 seconds to 2 seconds.
• Reduced its increased grenade recharge rate to allow a max of 4 grenades while the effect is active, down from 5.

Cenotaph Mask

• Multiple players using Cenotaph Mask can no longer trigger its effect using a single enemy target.
• Cenotaph’s target lock visual marker is now hidden for the Exotic’s wearer and only appears to the wearer’s allies.

Powered Melee and Armor Effects

Exotic Artifice Upgrades

Ammo Finder Update

• Heavy and Special ammo finder armor mods will persist their progress towards an ammo brick through death. This means you will always get a finder brick if you defeat enough enemies, regardless of how many times you die along the way.
• Increased the kill requirements for both Special and Heavy ammo finders by 20% for Guardians in a fireteam (no change to Solo Guardians).

NOTE: Due to this change, ammo finder mods have been disabled in the Crucible, and player kills no longer grant ammo finder progress in Gambit.

Raid Armor Mods