1. Bungie releases Destiny 2 update 8.1.5, featuring significant adjustments to the sandbox, including enhancements to roaming supers.
2. Act 2 brings fresh gear, new activities, and bug fixes, making it easier for players to achieve god rolls.
3. The update fine-tunes exotic weapons, armor, and archetypes, ensuring balanced gameplay for both Crucible and PvE modes.

Official Destiny 2: Revenant Act 2 Trailer

Destiny 2 Update 8.1.5 Patch Notes

Activities

Seasonal

Revenant

• Act II is now available.
  • Added 50 Seasonal Pass levels and their rewards.
  • Added new Artifact perks.
  • Added new Tonics.
  • Added new Fieldwork missions.
  • New activities: Tomb of Elders and Gauntlet of Elders
  • New Weapons available
    • Noxious Vetiver – Arc – Precision Submachine Gun
    • Scavenger’s Fate – Void – Precision Shotgun
    • Gridskipper – Void – Rapid-Fire Pulse Rifle
  • Fixed an issue where certain projectiles could collide and detonate with Ether Siphon orbs.
  • Fixed an issue where Ether Siphon would remove magazine overflow

Onslaught: Salvation

• Fixed an issue where ability spamming while Ether Overload is active could crash the activity.
• Fixed an issue where in Widow’s Court a turret could spawn inside the ADU and damage it indefinitely.
• Fixed an issue where immune enemies with a bane could not be defeated.
• Fixed an issue where picking a Cannon Relic could trigger an activity error code.
• Fixed an issue where Rocket Assisted Sidearms could not break Scorn cages.
• Reduced the number of Cabal shooting blinding rockets on the boss arena.
• Fixed an issue where the Storm’s Edge Hunter Super would not properly teleport the user inside of the boss arena.
• Fixed an issue where players could not commend each other when completing 50 waves.

Echoes

• Fixed an issue where Enigma Protocol had a higher than intended activity target Power.
  • It’s returned to its original value of 2005.
• Fixed an issue where some players could not access the main questline.

Expansions

The Final Shape

• Fixed a rare issue where players could not grab the Hunter’s Journal.

Crucible

General

• Fixed an issue where the Heavy ammo crate on Dead Cliffs was spawning at inconsistent locations in a variety of modes.
• Reduced the size and visibility distance of Special ammo brick icons in Crucible.

Private Matches

• Fixed an issue where enabling infinite Special ammo would grant players an Overshield.

Iron Banner

• New Armor set: Iron Intent
• New Weapon: Tinasha’s Mastery
  • Element: Stasis
  • Archetype: Rocket Assisted Sidearm
• Reprised Weapon: Archon’s Thunder
  • Element: Stasis
  • Archetype: High-Impact Frame

Vanguard Ops

Strikes

• Fixed an issue where sometimes players could not regenerate health.
• Fixed an issue where Champions would appear on the regular version of Heist Battlegrounds: Europa.

Grandmaster Nightfalls

• Catch up node with all Seasonal Nightfalls is now available.

Dungeons and Raids

Vesper’s Host

• General
  • Fixed an issue where players could not open the second secret chest, preventing them from completing step 7 of the Rogue Network quest.
  • Fixed an issue where players could not respawn after joining the fireteam.
  • Fixed an issue where players could duplicate nuclear cores.
  • Fixed an issue where Grand Overture could gain rocket stacks by shooting immune panels.
• Second encounter
  • Fixed an issue where the boss wouldn’t reform, allowing for an unlimited damage phase.
• Third encounter
  • Fixed an issue preventing the encounter from starting.
  • Added some extra cover to the ‘red room.’
  • Fixed an issue where the combatant carrying augments could not appear.
  • Fixed an issue where rally barricade could nullify the radiation debuff.

Garden of Salvation

• Fixed an issue preventing completion of the Voltaic Tether Triumph by allow players to trigger the encounter by shooting the boss instead of the Minotaur.

Exotic Missions

• Fixed an issue where the Standard difficulty for Zero Hour and The Whisper was higher than intended.

Timeline Reflections

• Fixed an issue where ‘Cayde’s Fate’ could not be completed.

Gameplay and Investment

Armor

Exotic Armor

• Hunter
  • Raiden Flux
    • Increased bonus Super damage perk stack from 14% to 20%.
      • This maxes out at about a 70% damage increase (up from 50%.)
    • Knucklehead Radar
      • Changed the activation requirements of its perk; now requires the wearer to damage a player to mark them as target.
        • Target is marked for 3s.
• Titan
  • Point Contact Canon Brace
    • Amplified lightning bolts now do 100% increased damage over base, up from 50%.
    • Lightning strike final blows now also refund melee energy.
      • Reduced Thunderclap refund by 10% to compensate for increased energy gains on average.
• Warlock
  • Ballidorse Wrathweavers
    • Increased bonus shatter damage from 100% to 150%.
      • Increased shatter damage now shows as a yellow number to aid with visibility of the perk.
    • Fixed an issue where enemies were inconsistently getting the boosted shatter damage at higher framerates.

 Armor Ornaments

• Fixed some issues with the GR1P-EE5 ornament textures and geometry.

Weapons

Weapon Archetypes

• Bows
  • Precision
    • Increased body shot damage by 10%.
• Hand Cannons
  • Aggressive
    • Increased damage by 3% (this allows them to kill all resilience levels in 2C1B).
    • Igneous Hammer
      • Reduced Stability, Handling, and Aim Assist stats by 3.
  • Adaptive
    • Better Devils
      • Increased Stability, Handling, and Aim Assist stats by 3.
  • Heavy Burst
    • Fixed an issue where Headseeker was not appropriately increasing critical hit damage after dealing body shot damage.
• Machine Guns
  • Changed the scalar that determines how much ammo you can pick up from a crate.
    • Magazine sizes of 50 or less should get 21 rounds.
    • Magazine sizes between 51 and 59 get between 21 and 26 rounds.
    • Magazine sizes between 60 and 80 get between 26 and 27 rounds.
    • Magazine sizes between 81and 99 get between 28 and 44 rounds.
    • Magazine sizes over 100 should get 45 rounds.
• Breech Grenade Launchers
  • Micro-Missile
    • Increased the velocity players can generate with the rocket jumping blast.

Exotic Weapons

• Telesto
  • Fixed an issue where Telesto was doing less damage than intended in PvP.
  • Increased Telesto detonation damage by 20% in PvE.

• Eriana’s Vow
  • Fixed an issue where Eriana’s Vow was dealing reduced critical damage in PvP.

• Thorn
  • Increased base Stability by 5.
• Lumina
  • Increased base Stability by 5.
• Grand Overture
  • Fixed an issue that allowed missiles to be loaded by shooting at immune targets.
• Tessellation
  • Fixed an issue where Tessellation lost all ammo and could not be fired or reloaded if an Artifact mod, Armor mod, or subclass change was made with ‘Property: Irreducible’ active.
  • Players can now reload Tessellation while ‘Property: Irreducible’ is active. Doing so removes ‘Property: Irreducible,’ similar to Izanagi’s Burden.

Weapon perks

• High Ground
  • Dealing damage to a player with a Primary weapon now only grants a single stack of the damage buff.
  • Dealing damage with a Special weapon, or against combatants, continues to grant maximum stacks.
  • Fixed a bug that allowed some archetypes to activate the perk when damaging targets while airborne.

• Explosive Payload
  • Reduced splash damage against players only on Legendary Hand Cannons by 7%.

• Withering Gaze
  • Fixed an issue where the weaken debuff could be applied to allies.

Weapon fixes

• Fixed an issue where Arcane Embrace could be obtained with Trench Barrel.
  • This perk was unintended and instances of it or Enhanced Trench Barrel will be replaced with Swashbuckler or Enhanced Swashbuckler.
• Fixed an issue where the Ether Siphon Trait would reset overflown magazines.
• Fixed an issue where the sound effect for some Hand Cannons had been changed to the default Hand Cannon sound effect.

Abilities

General

• Fixed an issue where Ignitions were incorrectly scaling damage against all bosses instead of just Raneiks Unified, resulting in lower-than-expected damage.

Prismatic Hunter, Warlock and Titan

• Increased ability cooldown in the Crucible by 15%.

Hunter

• Storm’s Edge
  • Reduced height of damage impulse from 5m to 3.75m.
  • Reduced DR against players from 53% to 45%, both on cast and during the spin attack.
  • Moved from tier 3 to tier 1 Super cooldown.
• Arc Staff, Golden Gun, Spectral Blades, Silkstrike
  • Increased Super energy gains per damage event against PvE combatants by roughly 3x.
  • Increased damage against Champions by 30-55% depending on Super.
  • Note: This change excludes the Celestial Nighthawk Golden Gun variant
• Combination Blow
  • Reduced bonus damage against combatants by around 17%.
• Stylish Executioner
  • Fixed a bug where some projectile melee attacks activated Stylish Executioner if the attack hit in the first frame of the projectile melee’s lifetime.
    • Stylish Executioner is only meant to work with physical melee attacks.

Warlock

• General
  • Fixed an issue where Warlocks could not blink during Onslaught.
• Stormtrance, Daybreak, Nova Warp, Winder’s Wrath
  • Increased Super energy gains per damage event against PvE combatants by roughly 3x.
  • Increased damage against Champions by 30-55% depending on Super.

Titan

• Ward of Dawn
  • Ward of Dawn now draws enemy fire when an ally is standing inside it.
    • This behavior is similar to the Barricade taunt.
  • On cast, Ward of Dawn now knocks enemies back.
• Fist of Havok, Burning Maul, Hammer of Sol, Sentinel Shield, Glacial Quake, Bladefury
  • Increased Super energy gains per damage event against PvE combatants by roughly 3x.
  • Increased damage against Champions by 30-55% depending on Super.
  • Note: This change excludes the Pyrogale Gauntlets Burning Maul variant.
• Knockout and Roaring Flames
  • Fixed an issue where Knockout and Roaring Flames were not benefitting from the Titan Unpowered Melee buff from Update 8.1.0.

Artifact

• Kinetic Impacts
  • Fixed an issue where the column 5 Artifact mod was not working with all Grenade Launchers.
  • Fixed an issue where the mod’s bonus impact damage was not being scaled correctly.
  • Fixed an issue where triggering the mod took more damage instances than intended.

Gameplay Modifiers

• Reduced the effectiveness of the Counterfeit modifier.
  • Spawn rate of trick loot reduced from 25% to 10%.
  • Reduced damage impulse size on all trick loot items by 1m.
    • Updated shockwave size to match the new damage radius.
  • Reduced damage of all trick loot items.
  • Increased animation before exploding from 2s to 3s.

Vendors

Hawthrone

• Fixed an issue where the Ancient Gospel offer in the Garden of Salvation menu showed the wrong element.

Triumphs

• Fixed an issue where Episode Revenant Triumphs would not progress the Active and Lifetime Triumphs Score.
• Fixed an issue where certain engrams would not advance the 10th Anniversary Triumph “Disappointed.”

Collections

• Fixed an issue where the Plaguebreaker Armor Sets showed an incorrect name.
• Fixed an issue where the Jade Filament Armor Sets showed an incorrect name.

Music and Sound

• Fixed an issue where some sound effects would cut out or delay.

UI/UX

Combatants

• Fixed an issue with the color of health bars for major combatants (orange bars), making it difficult to distinguish them from minor combatants (red bars).
  • For the color theory fans: #df6d1c.

Character Screen

• Fixed an issue where the left and right inputs could not open the Loadouts and Mod Customization side panels.

Appearance Customization

• Fixed an issue where Ornament would not show their hovering menu when inspecting them.

Localization

Mexican Spanish

• Fixed an issue where the Feed the Void Prismatic Aspect incorrectly says it requires ‘Void ability’ instead of ‘any ability.’

General

• Fixed an issue where the current Season highlight wasn’t properly displaying on the Timeline.
• Removed an erroneous dialog that would appear when opening the Mass Effect Accessories bundle on an account based in South Korea.
• Corrected the messages that appear with multiplayer instances of the Venus Flytrapped emote.
• Revised Season Pass + Ranks bundle description to highlight the Season Pass sources.

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