A new season means big changes to exotic armor, with a close eye to those who’ve fallen victim to power creep. Here are all the exotic armor changes in Season 23 of Destiny 2.
All Exotic Armor Changes in Season 23 in Destiny 2
Some big changes are coming to Season 23, and players can expect the game to get harder as Bungie takes a scalpel and axe to many of the foundational aspects of meta builds. But many under-used exotic armor pieces will be getting some buffs.
I’ve included what the exotic armor currently does if the developers didn’t, so you can compare and contrast.
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All Hunter Exotic Armor Changes in Season 23 of Destiny 2
Shards of Galanor
Ophidia Spathe
Feedback about the previous St0mp-EE5 change indicated that requiring full class ability made movement while wearing this Exotic feel too variable between its states and disproportionately hurt certain builds. In this update, we have removed the requirement of having full dodge energy to activate the benefits and have reduced the bonus to airborne lateral acceleration that the Exotic provides to be more in line with its other bonuses (sprint speed, grounded acceleration, airborne vertical acceleration, slide distance, and jump height) in terms of effectiveness. We also added damage resistance while airborne in PvE, to make St0mp-EE5 a more desirable option outside of the Crucible and jumping puzzles.
Mechaneer’s Tricksleeves
The Bombardiers
Triton Vice
Celestial Nighthawk
All Titan Exotic Armor Changes in Season 23 of Destiny 2
Severance Enclosure
Peregrine Greaves
Wormgod Caress
Ashen Wake
Synthoceps
While we wanted to bring the generic melee bonus down a bit to give space for other, more specialized melee Exotics to shine in their specific niches, we felt it was safe to bring Synthoceps’ Glaive melee bonus back up a substantial amount. We have also swapped the increased melee lunge range for increased weapon handling and reload speed.
Precious Scars
All Warlock Exotic Armor Season 23 Changes in Destiny 2
Ballidorse Wrathweavers
Apotheosis Veil
Felwinter’s Helm
Karnstein Armlets
Aeon Swift, Aeon Safe, and Aeon Soul Exotic armor all received the following changes to their “sect” mods.
Sect of Force
This has been reworked to be all about providing your allies significant bonus weapon damage against powerful combatants. The bonus grenade and melee energy has been moved to be the special benefit granted to Aeon cult allies using a different sect.
Sect of Insight
Sect of Insight had a strong role in endgame PvE teams, and we don’t want to change that. The one modification we do want to make is changing the Aeon cult ally bonus to be Super energy instead of weapon damage, as we want Sect of Force to be the source of weapon bonuses.
Sect of Vigor
Sect of Vigor already had a strong theme as the supporting role in the Aeon cult. We wanted to boost its effectiveness by having it provide damage resistance in PvE, in addition to its class ability benefits. Our goal is to make Sect of Vigor players shepherds for their team, keeping their allies near to protect them from harm.
Daphne Fama
A Staff Writer at Prima Games since 2022, Daphne Fama spends an inordinate amount playing games of all stripes but has a soft spot for horror, FPS, and RPGs. When she’s not gaming, she’s an author and member of the Horror Writers Association with a debut novel coming out in 2025. In a previous life, she was an attorney but found she preferred fiction to contracts and forms
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