Bungie Finally Gives Stasis Some Much-Needed Attention With New Frost Armor in Destiny 2

We all know that Bungie’s been going wild with the upcoming changes coming in Destiny 2’s final expansion, The Final Shape. Though, throughout all these changes, we really haven’t heard too much about the Stasis subclass since everything’s just been pretty hectic since its release. Because of everything going on, it’s been hard for Bungie to dive into the relationship between Stasis and the other types of damage to make big updates to it. Still, with the new Frost Armor keyword, things will be changing drastically.

It’s honestly great to see some changes coming to Stasis after this long, and I’m pretty excited about the new Frost Armor buff. According to Bungie, “Frost Armor is a stacking buff that reduces incoming damage, with greater damage reduction as your stacks increase.” With the increased difficulty promised in The Final Shape, adding a keyword like Frost Armor will make many Stasis abilities, aspects, and fragments much more viable in the coming challenges.

We’ll see changes to the Stasis abilities, fragments, aspects, and more for all three classes. While Stasis might take a while to obtain, it’s worth it. Don’t forget, Beyond Light’s campaign and Stasis will be going free to play when the Final Shape launches. Here is a complete list of Stasis changes coming in the Final Shape.

• New Frost Armor keyword:
  • You are fortified by layers of durable Stasis matter, reducing incoming damage. Frost Armor damage resistance grows stronger as you gain additional stacks.
  • Reduces damage from PvE combatants by 4.5% per stack and from enemy players by 2% per stack.
• Whisper of Rime reworked:
  • No longer grants a Stasis Shard Overshield when collecting a Stasis Shard.
  • Now increases the maximum duration and stack count of your Frost Armor.

• All Harvest Aspects:
  • Added new behavior:
    • While Grim, Tectonic, or Glacial Harvest is equipped, Stasis Shards grant a small amount of health and a stack of Frost Armor.
    • Large Stasis Shards from Grim Harvest grant more health and Frost Armor stacks.
  • All Harvest Aspects now have a standardized cooldown when a large number of Shards are created very quickly.
• Tectonic Harvest:
  • Now creates a Stasis Shard when shattering a frozen target in addition to shattering Stasis crystals.
• Renewal Grasps:
  • Replaced generic damage resistance with Frost Armor:
    • On entering your Duskfield Grenade volume, you or your allies gain a stack of Frost Armor.
    • About every 0.9 seconds while in the volume, an additional Frost Armor stack is granted, resetting your timer.
  • Ballidorse Wrathweavers:
    • Replaced Stasis Shard Overshield with Frost Armor when you activate your Rift or use your Winter’s Wrath shatter attack.
• Whisper of Chill:
  • Stasis weapon final blows have a chance to create a Stasis Shard.
  • Whisper of Chains:
  • No longer grants passive damage resistance when near a Stasis crystal or frozen target.
  • Now grants a chance to create a Stasis Shard when defeating a target while you have one or more stacks of Frost Armor.

Whisper of Fractures:

• No longer increases melee energy regeneration while surrounded by enemies.
• Now grants a stack of Frost Armor when you shatter any frozen target with a melee attack.

Whisper of Torment:

• Grenade energy gains are no longer dependent on your current health value. Base grenade energy regeneration amount per incoming damage event increased from 5% to 7%.
• While you have Frost Armor, energy per damage event increases from 7% to 12%.

Whisper of Reversal:

• While you have Frost Armor, dealing or receiving physical melee (i.e., not projectile melee) damage slows your victim or attacker.

Stasis shatter:

• Increased base PvE shatter damage from 200 to 400.
• Fixed an issue where bosses auto-shattering were being hit by two instances of shatter damage.
• Fixed an issue where players in an active Super would show immune damage flyouts when automatically breaking out of Stasis freeze.

Warlock

• Iceflare Bolts:
  • Increased maximum number of seekers created before going on cooldown from 5 to 7.

Hunter

• Winter’s Shroud:
  • Added new behavior:
    • Slowing targets briefly increases your class ability regeneration rate.
      • Bonus is reduced in PvP game modes.
    • Now grants PvE damage reduction when activated.
• Touch of Winter:
  • Glacier Grenade:
    • Added an additional Stasis crystal to the ring formation, increasing total count from 6 to 7.
    • Glacier Grenade ring now forms over 0.27 seconds, rather than instantly.
  • Coldsnap Grenade:
    • No longer chains an additional time while Touch of Winter is equipped.
    • Instead, seekers now duplicate when they freeze a target.
    • Second and third seeker chains now create a medium and large Stasis crystal respectively, rather than every chain creating a small crystal.
• Silence & Squall:
  • Increased Squall maximum travel speed by 10%.
  • Squall storm now slows down when any target is within its area of effect to reduce instances where it could overshoot its target.
  • Increased damage and slow tick rate vs. PvE combatants by about 40%, bringing its freeze time from approximately 0.8 seconds to ~0.5 seconds.

Titan

• Shiver Strike:
  • Increased damage vs. PvE combatants by 10%.
  • Increased size of melee target search area cone by about 50%.
  • Increased maximum lunge tracking angular speed from 7 degrees per second to 21 degrees per second.
• Glacial Quake:
  • Now automatically begins sprinting when the player throttles forward.
• Cryoclasm:
  • Removed sprint time requirement. Cryoclasm now goes on cooldown for 4 seconds after one extended slide.
• Increased thrown Diamond Lance detonation radius from 3.5 meters to 5 meters.
• Increased Diamond Lance slam detonation radius from 6.75 meters to 8 meters vs. PvE combatants.
• Diamond Lance now shatters Stasis crystals on direct impact.
• Reduced Diamond Lance pickup interaction time from 0.2 seconds to 0.1 seconds, matching Strand Tangles.
• Increased Diamond Lance pickup interaction radius from 0.7 meters to 3 meters, matching Strand Tangles.

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