Future 2’s Season of the Deep made a whole lot of sweeping adjustments to the sandbox this week, from Stormtrance buffs to much-awaited Starfire Protocol nerfs. However an sudden set of tweaks and additions have made the most important impression within the season’s first week.
Three-time Worlds First winner Saltagreppo posted an alarming clip to social media yesterday, highlighting Golden Gun’s means to nuke Kalli, a boss from the Final Want raid, in simply 20 seconds with the best construct. In accordance with him, he’s been making an attempt to lift consciousness on this “infinite goldy difficulty” for months, however the addition of a 20 p.c buff to Golden Gun’s injury and its means to now stack with Kinetic Weapon Surge has made its energy past unreasonable.
The crux of the “infinite” Golden Gun construct begins with a particular Hunter Unique: Star-Eater Scales. This pair of pants permits Hunters to not solely acquire extra Tremendous vitality from Orbs of Energy but additionally overcharges your Tremendous if the Orbs of Energy are picked up with a full Tremendous bar, rising its complete injury output. With a full staff of Hunters utilizing this and a Marksman Golden Gun, they will deal large quantities of harm and refill one another’s Supers with the Orbs the injury generates.
The potential this construct already exhibited has solely been exacerbated in Season of the Deep, the place Golden Gun now does 20 p.c extra injury and may stack with Kinetic Weapon Surge—a mod that grants one other injury increase of not less than 10 p.c.
Its means to work with Kinetic Weapon Surge is definitely the factor elevating probably the most eyebrows, and Saltagreppo believes the way in which the construct can presently operate is unintended, however there’s yet one more new addition that additional enhances it within the type of the Highly effective Attraction mod. This mod routinely collects close by Orbs of Energy after utilizing your class means, making the Tremendous refill off the Orbs made by your fellow Hunters even simpler to do.
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“It’s like 2x the dps of anything within the recreation,” the content material creator mentioned within the replies beneath the clip. “I’ve been speaking about this infinite goldy difficulty for months. Additionally whether or not I win [the raid race] or not, I would really like a standard race, not folks utilizing tacky strats.”
His staff’s deletion of Kalli isn’t the one clip making the rounds that exhibits off this technique in motion, and it’s clear that if it goes unchecked, an increasing number of groups might be making use of this if Bungie doesn’t make fast changes to curtail its immense potential. When Saltagreppo was requested about what wants altering, he merely replied “something. Take away the double vitality on Orb pickup. Add a cooldown earlier than you’ll be able to choose up Orbs after a Tremendous. Take away or scale back Orbs produce by Goldy. Actually something.”
Whereas this construct’s requirement of 5 Hunters means it received’t be exploitable within the new dungeon, Ghosts of the Deep, that releases tomorrow, it’s making the farms for the reprised Final Want weapons a breeze for many individuals.