Bungie Changes Celerity and Bottomless Grief in Destiny 2 Season 14

Destiny 2The bottomless sadness and celery benefits will be a major reworking next season, Bungie said in its weekly blog post on Thursday. The studio also revealed major renovations for two tower vendors, giving players separate places to buy weapons or armor. Both the benefits as well as the seller changes will appear in Destiny 2 season 14, which starts on May 11 and the Vault of Glass raid will return and a Transmog system will be added.

With the return of Trials of Osiris last year, Bungie has added a new benefit that can only roll on Trials weapons: Celerity. Celerity is a unique advantage that drastically improves player stats as they are the only living member of their Fireteam in PvP. The studio added a similar benefit to Strike-specific weapons, Bottomless Grief, earlier this year. Guns with bottomless grief will automatically reload their magazine when players kill. But like Celerity, Bottomless Grief only works when a player is the last living Fireteam member.

These benefits sound good, but rarely feel useful at the moment. Chris Proctor said players do not like to bet against themselves or their teams. Without the failed state, the fringe benefits do nothing, making it undesirable for most players.

But from next season, both benefits will improve. Bottomless Grief automatically gives players +30 to the Magazine stat (which is a percentage increase in ammo based on the weapon), in addition to the usual benefit. Celerity offers players +20 up to reload and handling status, in addition to the base effect ‘last player standing’.

Even better, both benefits will automatically appear on Adept weapons – Bottomless Grief for Grandmaster weapons, and Celerity for Trials rifles. The fringe benefit will appear as a separate node below the advantage on the left, giving players the choice to choose one of these new benefits or something like Outlaw that has rolled into the other slot. It’s not entirely clear whether these benefits will now be reserved for Adept weapons and that special slot, or whether it can still randomly turn on non-Adept versions (we tend to believe the latter),

Bungie noted that other game mode-specific benefits – which Bungie now calls “origin benefits” – worked well with the new benefits added via the Deep Stone Crypt attack. The studio has said it wants to add more origin benefits in the future, though it looks like it will avoid ‘failure’ benefits like the original Celerity and Bottomless Grief in the future. It is noteworthy that players need to get new Adept weapons if they want the guaranteed bottomless sadness or speed nodes.

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In addition to these benefits, Bungie also revealed some improvements to the sellers in season 14. The studio had earlier announced that Ada-1 will return to the tower to be the Transmog dealer – which Bungie says he will now ‘Armor’ Synthesis’ name. or the process of making one armor look like another. But the new blog set out a different role for her: armor seller.

Ada-1 will sell two random armor every day, giving new players the chance to diversify their arsenal to mods. Ada-1 will also sell an entire armor that is randomly drawn from the world’s outer pool (armor only falling from general activities or enemies, so no raids). This weekly armor works similarly to Xur in that it changes weekly and contains fixed stats for all players for that week.

With Ada-1’s weapons duties, Banshee-44 – the gunsmith – will expand its range of weapons. Starting next season, Banshee-44 will randomly sell six different weapons per week (two Kinetic, two Energy and two Power). Each weapon has a static percussion roll, which gives players the chance to spread the message to friends if Banshee-44 has a particularly good weapon for sale. This is a great new addition for players who apparently can’t play a good role for False Promises or any other weapon in the general world pool.

Both Ada-1 and Banshee-44 will sell upgrade materials such as Ascendant Shards and Prisms. All of these changes are due on May 11 at the start of Destiny 2‘s still unnamed 14th season.