The latest This Week at Bungie, the team goes over the biggest things and events going on in Destiny 2. Senior Designer Jon Weisnewski goes on record with the community about his team's work to make "exotics more exotic-er" going forward. To do so, a tuning pass will be applied to all Exotic gear that is specifically focused on "adding and/or increasing player Power spikes". He provides an example how this process will work as it applies to the Graviton Lance.
We’ll be touching a lot of powerful gear with this update and to truly understand the impact for players requires a lot of design iteration and test time. It isn’t enough to crank up the damage and run one strike or Crucible match with a gun and helmet and move on. Dialing in the right amount of power, testing in all activities with all types of load outs, finding the bugs, fixing the bugs, updating the perk description text to reflect new behavior, and then handing that off to localization for translation—it’s a ton of work, but we’re up to it. We sincerely appreciate your patience. I believe it will be worth the wait.
The latest Faction Rallies kick off on February 20th where players can "knock out Lost Sectors as fast as you can kill the bosses with no timers". There are quite a number of cool items to be had for the effort including things from New Monarchy, Dead Orbit and Future War Cult. According to Bungie, New Monarchy is poised for a "three-peat".
You can check out the full post on the Destiny 2 / Bungie site.
