Destiny 2 players have given up after \u201cabsurd\u201d Exotic class item changes BungieDestiny 2\u2019s 8.0.5 patch went live on August 6, bringing with it, among other things, changes to Exotic class item drop rates, and initial impressions from players haven\u2019t been positive. With them being a key piece of kit for any Guardians wanting to construct Prismatic builds, Bungie has faced repeated calls since The Final Shape\u2019s launch to review the difficulty of farming for different Exotic class item rolls. The developer finally deployed balance adjustments intended to address said issues, but either by design or oversight, they appear to have made the loot hunt even longer. The official tweaks are as follows: Adjusted chances for acquiring Exotic class items from chests to be more generous. Increased progression on escalation chest chances. – Removed progression on world chest chances. World chests can still drop the item but won\u2019t increase drop chances from future chests. – – – Despite the buffs, a Reddit post slamming the post-patch rate of obtaining class items has been heavily upvoted, with one player insisting \u201cThree Overthrows for one Exotic class item, this is absurd.\u201d They later added that it \u201cTakes less time doing a single Dual Destiny run rather than three Overthrows.\u201d While the author admitted they could have fallen victim to \u201cbad RNG,\u201d others shared similar experiences. \u201cI gave up after two Overthrows and nothing to show for it,\u201d came one reply. \u201cI have done five and have not received a class item,\u201d another lamented. A shared pain point was confusion over Bungie\u2019s decision to reduce drop rates for class items from World chests, with one community member insisting, \u201cIt was so clear this was going to end up being a nerf. Running around and opening World chests was way easier.\u201d While the drop rate changes have been received negatively by players, it\u2019s worth noting that weekly completions of Dual Destiny now award an additional Exotic class item drop, so there\u2019s extra incentive to farm the co-op mission. Update 8.0.5 also marked the beginning of Destiny 2\u2019s annual Solstice event. Check out our hub for all the armor and weapon rewards up for grabs to make sure you don\u2019t miss out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Destiny 2 players have given up after \u201cabsurd\u201d Exotic class item changes BungieDestiny 2\u2019s 8.0.5 patch went live on August 6, bringing with it, among other things, changes to Exotic class item drop rates, and initial impressions from players haven\u2019t been positive. With them being a key piece of kit for any Guardians wanting to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}