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Sometimes your favorite live service game gets an update so head-turningly baffling that you just have to laugh.

Note thatBungiedid not specify anunintended-40% scalar.

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So Bungie took off Eriana’s shield-piercing training weightsandbumped up its damage to the Champions themselves.

Also: how and why andwhat in the blue hell?

Reader, let’s be clear on something.

Key art for Destiny 2�s Heresy Episode.

Eriana’s Vow exists to kill Barrier Champions.

It is Screw Barriers: The Gun.

From the day it could walk, it has been training to break Champion shields.

Destiny 2 Lightfall

And Bungie had a -40% scalar on its ability to damage Barrier Champion shields.

For who knows how long!

I’m sure other scalars like this exist as a lightweight way to tweak guns.

A Helldiver holding a flag in a promotional image for Helldivers 2.

But this gun hasn’t been great inyears, and plenty of other Barrier killers have utterly lapped it.

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