We are in the final days of Destiny 2 getting any updates at all, including hotfixes past a final one arriving next week. But that has not stopped players from unearthing things that, in another timeline, probably would have caught nerfs due to being extremely overpowered.
One such case is what Destiny 2 players have discovered about the new Iron Banner armor set. It has a pair of set bonuses where the full 4-piece one is one of the best super printers in the game, able to almost refill or sometimes, fully refill a super right after being cast.
The new 4-piece set bonus for the Iron Banner Battalion set refunds super energy on final blows while in super. While Iron Banner armor is gathered from PvP, and its weapons are generally packed with perks that aid PvP, this armor set bonus is something that is wildly powerful in PvE, possibly with some actual unintended interactions.
Players have begun testing, and even with as little as six kills, players with at least 100 super can get 33% of their super back each cast with the vast majority of supers. However, some break past that.
- For instance, Shards of Galanor recharges 50% of your Super, but then the 33% of the IB set goes past that. 83% super back per cast.
- Gathering Storm can be combined with Raiju’s Harness and can be paired with close-range kills to get anywhere from 80-100% of a refund.
- On Warlock, Nova Bomb and Skull of Ahamkara can be combined for a full refund if you make one nova detonate first and the second one kills adds.
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- What may be the craziest interaction is what can happen with the Warlock exotic Astrocyte Verse, which doesn’t even require super kills at all. Rather, the Dark Blink Seekers generated by that helmet can qualify as super kills and refill super energy as a result. Combined with an actual super, those Seekers can help regenerate about 66% of your super. So far as players can tell, that’s the only out-of-super move that works so far.
Will this get nerfed? 95% chance it will not. Bungie’s Destiny team is on its last legs, providing patches for actual issues that are meant to help players (vendor rep, broken mission components), and anything that has been disabled (which is now permanently) are things like some set bonuses that hurt PvP. Something powerful and silly in PvE? There’s no one left to balance it, and I don’t think anyone really cares anymore. Let the supers (and Dark Blink Seekers) fly.
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