Bungie is brutally nerfing Destiny 2's best Warlock build (but also cooking up some spicy buffs)

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The beauty of live service games, aside from never having to worry about how to spend your remaining minutes on this planet ever again, is that seasonal balance changes can usher in completely different play styles. Major patches represent a chance for developers to hammer down over-performers and buff unloved gear that's languished in virtual closets for years. So it goes with today's tuning preview from Bungie, which details the changes coming to exotic armor as part of Season of the Deep on May 23. 

The biggest bit of news is both bad and entirely predictable: Starfire Protocol is getting absolutely bodied. These robes have been glued to Solar Warlocks for several seasons now, thanks to the frankly absurd damage output that comes from spamming enhanced Fusion nades. It's an incredibly easy DPS setup, and regularly sees Solar Warlock doing damage to raid bosses in multiple millions.

An infinite loop of rockets and double-detonating grenades.

Any time an exotic becomes truly ubiquitous, you can bet its days are numbered, and next season Bungie has called time on the Starfire meta with the following nerf to the way those Fusion grenades are regenerated: «Reduced the amount of energy gained per instance of damage from 20% to 2.5%. Empowered weapon kills now grant 20% grenade energy.» 

That's a big oof, and certain to curtail their use. Here's Bungie's full explanation: 

«Right now, Starfire Protocol is one of the best single-target damage boosting Exotics (combine Witherhoard or Wolfpack Rounds with a Rocket Launcher with Demolitionist and you essentially get an infinite loop of rockets and double-detonating grenades) and it's sucking all of the air out of the room. These changes are intended to tamp down on passive