Destiny 2 removes Adept Mindbender's Ambition from the loot pool due to bugged perk bonuses

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The re-issued version of Mindbender's Ambition has raised many eyebrows in the Destiny 2 community. The ongoing Lightblade Nightfall had the weapon in its loot pool, dropping with only a single perk in both columns. Bungie later decided to change the loot pool and put Horror's Least instead.

What was once known as the best PvP Shotgun in the game doesn't feel like much of an option for players, especially alongside several other available weapons of the same archetype. On top of that, the company messed up the perk pools on the Adept version, further reducing the chances of a god roll drop.

Since players can get the Adept version of the Horror Least with the intended number of perks and combinations, it seems the initial problem was behind the weapon's coding, not the Nightfall loot pool.

On October 14, Bungie's official Destiny 2 support Twitter account uploaded a post addressing the issue of the bugged perk numbers. Since players have been pretty unhappy with the perk pools from the start, getting only one perk in each column after completing one of the hardest Nightfalls in the game made things worse.

Bungie's post had the following statement regarding the bugged Destiny 2 Mindbender's Ambition:

Hence, the loot pool was moved from Adept Mindbender's Ambition to Adept Horror's Least. Since the latter was scheduled for the Exodus Crash this season, the "later date" might suggest a swap between the two weapons with their respective Nightfalls.

Adept Destiny 2 Nightfall weapons are expected to have one significant benefit over their standard variant: an extra perk in the first column. Trials Adept weapons have an extra perk in only the second column, while Adept weapons from Raids are known to have two perks in both