Sometimes your favorite live service game gets an update so head-turningly baffling that you just have to laugh. Enter Destiny 2 update 8.0.5.4, which arrived earlier today and, among other things I find less amusing, made a significant change to Eriana's Vow, an Exotic special hand cannon which was once the go-to pick for killing Barrier Champions, but later fell behind other options like Arbalest.
Eriana's Vow, it seems, had a "-40% scalar" specifically "for dealing damage against Barrier Champion shields." Note that Bungie did not specify an unintended -40% scalar. Not only that, Bungie has also "fixed an issue where Eriana's Vow was not correctly dealing 67% increased damage to Barrier Champions." So Bungie took off Eriana's shield-piercing training weights and bumped up its damage to the Champions themselves. Great!
