'Ideally it melts your face off' says Destiny 2 dev about Solar rework

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Season of the Haunted goes live in Destiny 2 in just under an hour, and thanks to a leak from the Japanese arm of Bungie's new paymasters at Sony, we now know quite a bit about it. What had been missing from the splurge last night, though, was details of the rework to the Solar subclasses. That's now here in the form of a developer insight video in which Bungie's designers showcase some of the fiery new abilities the guardians will be wielding. 

Internally, the work on Solar 3.0 was dubbed 'Operation Caliente', because the goal was to add spice to «core powers that have been stagnant for three years.» In the video, Bungie highlights a new ability for each class. 

Around 30 seconds into the video you'll also be able to spot some menu screens showing some of the new Solar aspects. As with the Void 3.0 rework which arrived alongside The Witch Queen last season, Solar appears to now be built around a shared taxonomy of terms that includes: 'Radiant' (your weapons deal increased damage), 'Ignition' (a large Solar explosion damages surrounding enemies), 'Restoration' (you regenerate health and shields, cannot be interrupted by damage), and 'Cure' (you are healed in a burst of light).

Based on the impressive depth of the Stasis and now Void subclasses, both of which used the same modular system to create builds, I can't wait to dive in this afternoon. «Ideally it melts your face off,» says sandbox discipline lead Kevin Yanes at the start. Given that I plan to main a Dawn Chorus Warlock with the newly buffed Retraced Path trace rifle, I think the chance of singed eyebrows is dangerously high.