Weeks before The Final Shape showcase, Destiny 2 seemingly leaks its third Darkness subclass

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In a severe act of deja vu, Destiny 2's next Darkness subclass may have leaked just weeks before its official reveal.

As our friends at PC Gamer flagged, a short but significant clip purportedly taken from a developer build of Destiny 2 recently appeared online. The original source is, predictably, a now-deleted Reddit account set up by a user who claimed to have received the clip from a friend. Obviously, deleting the post and their account hasn't kept it out of the internet's watchful eye. The BungieLeaks Twitter, among many others, has it archived:

do you all... notice anything strange about this? pic.twitter.com/vI225fr8gWJuly 18, 2023

This clip shows a Warlock loading into the Helm social hub, and while there's nothing particularly odd about the character's animations, the UI in the bottom-left corner has rightfully raised some eyebrows. It features a never-before-seen Super icon, and its melee ability is denoted with a red energy highlight. The coloration is, fittingly, the big red flag here. For starters, we don't actually see any energy bars on the UI when we load into the Helm in-game. More pertinently, we don't have a red subclass, folks. But maybe we're getting one? That's the implication of the leak, anyway. 

Apart from the Super, all of the ability icons seen here are taken from existing abilities. The grenade is a Void Axion Bolt and the melee is the Arc Warlock's Ball Lightning. But that doesn't necessarily debunk the leak on its own. This sort of UI mockup would be relatively easy to forge with image or video editing software, but Destiny 2 is developing a curious pattern of subclass leaks. 

Almost one year ago exactly, in the lead-up to the reveal of the Lightfall expansion, the green subclass we now