Weapon Archetypes

Pulse Rifles:

• Reduced auto aim by ~10% when the Aim Assist Stat is 0

Lightweight Bows:

• Damage falloff distance increased. (will do more damage at longer ranges)
• Accuracy increased by ~10%

Shayura’s Wrath:

• Made improvements to the dynamic reticle they’ve been testing on that gun. If you haven’t seen it the current reticle basically blocks your view and sucks.

Lightweight Shotguns:

• Reduced spread angle of outer pellets by 15%. Should result in more consistency in PVP.

Exotic Weapons

Graviton Lance:

• PVE damage up 67%
• No more aim assist from the Catalyst
• Cosmology PVP damage reduced 40%. PVE damage unchanged

No Time To Explain:

• Reduced range stat by 10

Fighting Lion:

• Bug Fix for the Chimera perk

Perks

Gutshot Straight:

• Reduced auto aim penalty by 37.5%

Slickdraw:

• Reduced auto aim penalty by 33%

Target Lock:

• PVP damage reduced from 40% to 25% (This is still going to shred as long as you can aim IMO)
• PVE damage unchanged

Zoom Changes

Future:

• Season 22 will see zoom changes to all weapons. Two high level goals:
  • Reduce the variance between the optimal engagement ranges of our mid-range weapons (Auto Rifles, Pulse Rifles, and Hand Cannons).
  • Slightly reduce the average engagement range in Crucible by pulling in the maximum damage falloff distances of many weapon types.
• They have a big table going over where ADS damage falloff will be for each gun after this change. The table shows Old Base Zoom, Old Base Zoom+Rangefinder, then New Base ADS Modifier. TBH, I’m going to wait for CoolGuy or someone to explain this. As I understand it engagements are essentially going to get closer.
• They mention that certain exotics are getting custom tuning under this new system.
• Rifle style weapons should experience falloff more gradually while handheld weapons should experience it more quickly.

Other Season 22 Changes:

• Hand Cannon Buffs that were mentioned previously. Reload speed and PVE damage buffs.
• Sword guard getting reworked. (maybe it’ll actually do something now?)
• More exotic tuning. LeMonarque and Touch of Malice mentioned.
• Bipod, Envious Assassin, and Over Under getting reworked

Season 23 should see lots of changes to Glaives to make them feel better. Details are still in flux right now.