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From yesterday's dev article we have the following:

>Ability Stats

>Reduced maximum passive ability cooldown bonus granted by ability stats by ~20%.

>Reduced maximum active ability cooldown bonus granted by ability stats from 190% to 125%.

>Regarding this change to ability stats, we feel Destiny combat has leaned slightly too far in favor of using abilities to resolve encounters, and we’d like to shift it further in favor of using weapons. This reduction in ability uptime is paired with a general increase to Primary and Special weapon damage that we detailed in last week’s article about weapons changes. The floor for ability uptime remains where it is in the live game but the ceiling has brought down to avoid highly optimized builds from trivializing combat. Abilities remain incredibly potent and powerful, especially with the new and adjusted abilities detailed above.

So as a person who has done a lot of documentation around armor stats in the last year I feel qualified to talk about this. I am speculating here based on what we have and what I have seen in the past but I feel like this is close unless Bungie worded this poorly.

Passive Gains

This is reducing your cooldown speed bonus from just existing. So now the base cooldown is at 0 stat. Pre-MoT you can increase your regen speed at max stat up to 310% for grenades and melees and 286% for class abilities. Reducing by 20% takes this to 248% for grenade and melees and 229% for class. How do you use these factors? Take the base cooldown at 0 stat and divide by the regen speed factor. A reminder too that Super stat does not increase regen speed for supers; it only increases active super generation.

So for an example vortex Grenade has a cooldown of 220s at 0 Grenade stat. Right now at 100+ Grenade stat, the cooldown is 71s. In Monument of Triumph it is 77s. This is the longest cooldown grenade in the game and it's just 6 seconds worse. Overall, not bad.

Supers will probably be where it's most impactful but super regen is so focused on active generation that I also do not think it is noticeable.

The biggest unknown here is how the passive regen speed changes from 0 to 100 stat. The grenade and melee curve is weird currently. See previous post for that graph (last one)

Active Gains

As stated above, the maximum benefit is being reduced from +190% to +125%. This sounds bad! It's less noticeable than it sounds. This will likely apply to flat gains (demolitionist, devour, etc) and regen speed boosting effects (Whisper of Shards, Ember of Benevolence, Crown of Tempests, etc). This also applies to all active generation for super.

How it works now is that every flat gain and regen boosting effect has a base value at 0 stat. For example, Demolitionist at 0 grenade stat on most weapons gives 4% grenade energy per kill. The +190% is relative to the base value so it actually becomes 100+190% or 290%. 4% multiplied by 2.9 is 11.6%. Pre-EoF Demolitionist gave 10% so currently at 100 stat flat gains are a little better.

In MoT it becomes 4% multiplied by 2.25 (100% +125%) which gives 9%. This does mean that all flat gains are 10% worse than pre-EoF values, even at 100 stat. From current values this is a 22.4% hit to flat gains. This will likely apply to all super gain from dealing damage and defeating enemies.

Super from damaging bosses also is getting hit by 60%. Active Super generation against bosses is possibly reduced by 69% (Not nice). So uhhh don't expect multiple supers per damage phase.

Regen effects experience the same hit. Compared to pre-MoT, they will be 22.4% worse. However, regen effects are still worse than they should be (imo). It is covered in more detail in this previous post, but with EoF as they set every base cooldown from the value at 30 stat to the value at 0 stat they inadvertently(?) nerfed all regen boosting effects. This combined with this hit might be rough.

An example for this: Ember of Benevolence

• Pre-EoF gave +300% base grenade, melee and class regen speed when buffing allies.
• In EoF this was made to scale with stats. At 0 stat it gave +120% and at 100 stat it gave +348%. That's a bigger number right? Nope.
• Base cooldown speed is 70% of what it was. So that +348% becomes +243.6%.
• In Monument of Triumph the bonus versus base at 100 stat goes from +348% to +270%. Relative to pre-EoF values this is +189% versus the original +300%.
• Regen effects at 100 stat will now be 63% as strong as pre-EoF

I think this kind of sucks. I'm sure there are varying opinions on the level of ability spam but this is rough. My solution, compensate for the base regen change and increase all baseline regen speed bonuses by a factor of 1.42857 (1/0.7)

tl;dr

• I can't make graphs till I get more information. Sorry
• In general, it's a smallish nerf that should be manageable. Boss super gen is dead. Regen boosting effects are still worse than they should be.
• In MoT Regen speed of all abilities at 100 stat is weaker gooing from 310% regen speed for grenades/melees and 286% for class abilities to 248% for grenade/melees and 229% for class. A Vortex grenade goes from 71s cooldown to 77s cooldown at 100 stat. This seems fine.
• In MoT, flat gains are likely 22.4% worse at 100 stat than pre-MoT. This is roughly 10% worse than pre-EoF values. IE: Demolitionist had 10% (pre-EoF), then 11.6% (100 grenade stat Renegades), and now 9% (100 Grenade stat MoT). This seems fine too.
• In MoT, active super generation is likely 22.4% worse at 100 Super stat than pre-MoT. This kinda seems fine.
• This is also getting hit by a 60% nerf against bosses which will net out to around a 69% reduction in active super gen versus bosses. This destroys multiple supers during boss damage phases.
• In MoT, regen speed effects are 22.4% worse at 100 stat than pre-MoT. These were already 30% worse than pre-EoF values because of shifts to base cooldowns that were never compensated for. Regen effects at 100 stat will be 63% as strong as Pre-EoF. This seems brutal. I think the base cooldown change should be compensated for.

That's all for now. Look for an update next week.

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