Bungie outlines changes to Destiny’s Vault of Glass boss Atheon

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In the latest weekly update for Destiny, Bungie touched upon upcoming changes to the final battle with Atheon in the Vault of Glass raid; an un-nerfing to Mythoclast in PvE and an explanation as to why changes were made to base damage for certain weapons.


According to the update, bumpers will put in place in the Vault of Glass raid to keep Atheon from being knocked out of the environment. The ability to push him off a ledge is a bug, and it will be addressed “as quickly as possible.”

The implementation of the “baby bumpers” was met with relief by the community, but changes being made to Atheon’s target selection had the opposite effect.

“The encounter goal for Atheon is to act as a climax and the culmination of learning for a given Raid group,” wrote Bungie’s community manager David “DeeJ” Dague. “Part of that is making sure that each player in your group can perform every job as required.

“A change will take effect next week which fixes a bug with Atheon’s target selection. When using its Timestream ability, Atheon will select 3 players at random, instead of choosing the three players furthest from it.”

According to community member replies, the majority felt the change would break a team’s strategy plan to defeat the boss, resulting in a fight which will play out as “utter chaos.

“The Atheon teleport change will break not only our strategy, but most successful teams’ strategies,” community member Fragmented Hero offered. “Not everyone plays the same role in a team – if we could all perform the same roles, we’d be interchangeable. We are using legitimate strategy there, Bungie.”

Elsewhere in the weekly update, Bungie admitted it nerfed the efficacy of the Vex Mythoclast too much in PvE, and would issuing a fix “soon”.

“Our nerf was intended to target PvP play – where we felt and heard that Mythoclast was over-performing – but it also reduced its effectiveness in PvE,” wrote DeeJ. “Our PvE nerf was stronger than we intended and we are going to fix it.”

An explanation has to why the base damage of certain weapons was also touched upon. These explanations included why the Auto Rifle’s was decreased by 2%; why the Scout Rifle’s was increased by 6%; and why base damage for the Shotgun was decreased at maximum range.



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Source: http://www.vg247.com/2014/10/18/destiny-vault-of-glass-atheon-patch/

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MajPosted:

This was okay, but its gradually getting worse and worse

General_RaamPosted:

AudemarsPiguet This game looks awful. Way too hyped up imo.


It was hyped up then lived up to it's hype unlike most games. Don't hate on it and go buy it.

MusketPosted:

Thought they said they were not going to make major changes.

RoamingPosted:

It is a terrible idea to randomize the timestream. Yes it makes it easier to complete but teams have working strategies that involve certain people going in. Why break something that isn't broken? The raid is still some what difficult on hard if you don't push him off the edge and this makes it even worse. I doubt there will be few Vex drops over the next couple weeks.

SwiftPosted:

This game was fun while it lasted, and now that they are just going around and changing everything.

Its turning into GTA V, making it harder to earn items.

CartierPosted:

This game looks awful. Way too hyped up imo.

GHOSTIZABOSSPosted:

this game was so cool to bad I have no time to play this Anymore

-CorgiPosted:

Saki Yeah.

If they could stop screwing every legitimate player, that'd be great. It was a pretty big slap in the face when the Mythoclast was nerfed by 34%, then they go and randomize Atheon's Timestream? Not cool.


Nerfing Atheon's Timestream doesn't screw over legitimate players, it's actually the contrary. When you know who he teleports, you can make strategies based on who's good with the Relic. That's not what it's about.

They didn't say anything about pushing off the Templar, though I'm not surprised because every game I play, people always ask me how and didn't know you could.

GunsPosted:

Saki Yeah.

If they could stop screwing every legitimate player, that'd be great. It was a pretty big slap in the face when the Mythoclast was nerfed by 34%, then they go and randomize Atheon's Timestream? Not cool.


The mythoclast was nerferd more than 34% it was nerderd near 50%, bungie lied to us, its getting a buff this week anyway because they know we caught them out.

SakiPosted:

Yeah.

If they could stop screwing every legitimate player, that'd be great. It was a pretty big slap in the face when the Mythoclast was nerfed by 34%, then they go and randomize Atheon's Timestream? Not cool.