Destiny 2 Season 18 Patch Notes Detail Exotic Changes, Arc 3.0 Additions

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Alongside a massive showcase of the upcoming Lightfall expansion and the newly released Season of Plunder, Bungie also dropped a new patch for Destiny 2. Update 6.2.0 brings a host of new changes to Season 18, including the massive Arc 3.0 revamp for player subclasses, adjustments to PvP matches in the Crucible, and balance adjustments for a host of weapons.

Most of the changes coming in Update 6.2.0 are items Bungie previously detailed in weekly blog posts. Arc 3.0 makes huge changes to the electricity-based player classes, bringing new abilities to players and reworking old abilities. All three Arc subclasses focus on speed and aggression, with players getting boosts for running into danger and shocking their foes. Bungie ran down most of what players can expect from the Arc revamp last week.

Also coming with the new update are changes to the Crucible, Destiny 2's player-vs.-player arena. The adjustments bring back some loose skill-based matchmaking to Crucible matches, something Bungie talked about back in July. Destiny 2 previously eschewed SBMM in favor of connection-based matchmaking, but has more recently made adjustments on that front for certain Crucible game modes.

Update 6.2.0 is also full of changes to various weapon archetypes and adjustments to Exotics that rebalance them significantly. Bungie also ran down many of those changes in a previous blog post as well, including changes to some previously dominant Exotic weapons such as Lord of Wolves and Dead Man's Tale. The update sees buffs to a number of Exotics, like Wish-Ender, Malfeasance, Legend of Acrius, and Ticuu's Divination, to go along with nerfs.

Apart from those alterations Bungie already discussed, the update sees a number of fixes to activities,