Since Bungie ended its partnership with Activision, Destiny 2 has undergone quite a few changes in an effort to bring more RPG elements into the sci-fi looter-shooter. This led to an increased emphasis on character stats, whether it's farming and masterworking high-stat gear or testing out Stasis aspects to see how they can change personal playstyles. However, not all stats have received the same love from Bungie and Guardians have taken to social media to suggest ways to improve the often overlooked resilience stat, especially for the tanky Titans out there.
The six stats available for Guardians to play around with in Destiny 2 are resilience, mobility, recovery, intellect, discipline, and strength. Resilience, mobility, and recovery were introduced with Destiny 2 as part of the game's redesign from the original game to give players control over their durability and class abilities, agility, and health regeneration, respectively. Intellect, discipline, and strength were reintroduced with Destiny 2: Shadowkeep as part of the expansion's armor 2.0 rework and affect cooldowns for grenade, melee, and super abilities.
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Of all the stats, players appear to feel resilience is the most overlooked by Bungie and one took to Reddit to express their opinion. User GRoyalPrime expressed his thoughts in a lengthy post about how they hope to see resilience get a rework in the near future. GRoyalPrime said they feel resilience in its current form has no meaningful effect on gameplay, especially for Titans' barricade abilities. They said the barricade offers no meaningful gameplay boon to Titans in the way Hunter dodges and Warlock rifts do. They suggest making class abilities "on demand" instead of waiting for the resilience-tied cooldown as they are situational abilities.
GRoyalPrime's thoughts were echoed by other users in the comments section, who pitched their ideas on how to rework resilience and, specifically, the Titan barricades. Common suggestions were reducing flinch, along with improving aim and stability whenever a Titan deploys the smaller rally barricade. As for towering barricade, most suggestions involved reducing splash damage from enemies and wider coverage from damage when deployed. Other suggestions from Reddit users included improved reload speeds, overshields, and small damage boosts depending on which barricade is deployed.
This kind of rework to Guardians' abilities has become common in Destiny 2 since Bungie ended its partnership with Activision and assumed sole ownership of the franchise. The most recent was the massive Stasis nerf to address player complaints about the Darkness subclass, especially in the PvP-focused Crucible. While critical and fan reception to the ice-based class was positive when Destiny 2: Beyond Light released, opinions quickly changed in regards to how it played in PvP once out in the wild. Players commonly complained about how the subclass slowed down overall gameplay and was capable of shutting down opposing supers just by using grenades and select melee abilities. The nerf significantly weakened Stasis freezing and slowing in PvP to address these complaints, but it also raised suggestions of split PvP balancing from PvE to maintain the game's "power fantasy" in PvE.
It isn't the first time fans have offered their own takes on how to improve the overall game. Recently, players took to social media to suggest how to improve the transmog system introduced with Season of the Splicer. The idea was to simply adding transmog currency to the paid-for half of the seasonal pass if Bungie wants to monetize the currency. The idea was positively received, with over 9,000 upvotes from Reddit users in favor of this kind of change.
Destiny 2 is currently available on PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Stadia, Xbox One, and Xbox Series S/X , with The Witch Queen expansion set for a 2022 release.
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Source: Reddit