Over the past few days, it has been a wild rollercoaster ride for the Star-Eater Scales exotic armor. The leg armor was only just added to Destiny 2 during the Season of the Splicer, quickly becoming a fan favorite exotic thanks to its perk known as Feast of Light, which overcharges the player's super with added damage, a burst of healing, and giving an overshield when as maximum overcharge. Needless to say, Hunter players quickly visited Legendary and Master Lost Sectors to try and get their hands on a pair.
As Bungie noted, the exotics were actually bugged and subsequently banned from the first 24 hours of the Vault of Glass Raid event. In addition, a hot fix this week fixed the bug which previously allowed Hunters to not only overcharge their super, but get a damage boost to weapons and abilities as well. While the community was understanding of that fix, what upset fans is that the exotics received a nerf at the same time, changing the stack requirements for the super overcharge from 4 orbs of power to 8.
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While this set off a wave of complains across social media, players quickly discovered an interesting wrinkle with the exotics, namely that each orb of power picked up gives an incremental stack boost of 0.5. Ultimately, players were able to do 90% more super damage which also synchronized with effects like Knock 'Em Down from the bottom tree Gunslinger path. While this pleased fans, it turns out that this increase was indeed unintended and is another unfortunate bug.
The news was confirmed by Destiny 2 community manager Cozmo23 who responded to the initial reddit thread confirming the super damage buff for the Star-Eater Scales was actually a bug and not intended. He went on to reveal that the issue would be fixed, though the team would not be nerfing the item way back down and confirmed that the upside damage would be increased more than it was prior to the most recent hotfix.
Cozmo also addressed the communities concern over the new 8 stack requirement, namely the studio's thought process for the change to help alleviate fan concerns regarding the latest hotfix. The goal with increasing the stacks was to increase the reward for players who risked losing the Feast of Light stacks. Even after this latest bug is fixed, the Star-Eater Scales will continue to provide a higher damage bonus than the original 4 max stack bonus at the start of Season of the Splicer. Under these new conditions, even four stacks, which is the new halfway point, will provide a smaller damage boost over the original damage values.
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Source: Reddit