Bungie is reworking Destiny 2’s Solar subclasses next season
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by Ryan GilliamIn Bungie’s weekly blog post, the studio revealed several class updates ahead of Destiny 2’s ninth season. For Season of Dawn — which starts Dec. 10 — Bungie is reworking three Solar subclasses: Titan’s Code of the Devastator, Hunter’s Way of the Sharpshooter, and Warlock’s Attunement of Sky.
Each of these subclasses will see a mix of new perks and quality-of-life improvements for old perks.
Way of the Sharpshooter
Way of the Sharpshooter is actually one of the Hunter’s most useful classes in raids and difficult activities — but only with the help of the Celestial Nighthawk Exotic helmet. These new subclass updates should add some usefulness outside of the Exotic helmet.
Here are the new abilities and reworks:
- Weighted Knife is a new melee attack for Code of the Sharpshooter Hunters. The knife winds up for a moment before thrown, and deals increased damage to enemy heads. Precision kills in PvE, and one-shot precision kills in PvP, instantly recharge the ability.
- The Practice Makes Perfect buff for getting headshots lasts longer than before, and stacks faster.
- The new Knock ’em Down ability allows precision kills to increase weapon stability and aim-down-sight speed. The timer for the ability starts at just 10 seconds, but players can increase the time up to 25 seconds with additional kills. The Golden Gun Super gains bonus damage if Knock ’em Down is over 20 seconds (the bonus damage doesn’t apply with Celestial Nighthawk on).
- Line ’em Up allows Golden Gun to deal headshot damage, and causes precision hits with Golden Gun to spawn Orbs of Light (a combination of two old perks).
Code of the Devastator
Code of the Devastator — also known as the Titan’s “big hammer” ability — will mostly see an increase to damage and a reduction in Super energy costs.
Here are the new abilities and reworks:
- Throwing Hammer deals more damage than before, and is easier to pick up from the ground.
- The Roaring Flame buff — activated from killing enemies with Solar abilities — deals increased damage. This increase is much higher in PvP.
- The Burning Maul Super now lasts 28.5 seconds, up from 21.2 seconds. The light attacks take less Super energy than before, and the heavy attacks can sense airborne enemies.
Attunement of Sky
Bungie is readjusting Attunement of Sky to create a more aerial play style for Guardians. However, the studio did note it’s nerfing the Burst Glide speed while in Dawnblade.
Here are the new abilities and reworks:
- Celestial Fire is a new melee ability for Attunement of Sky. Activating it sends out three explosive Solar projectiles from the Warlock.
- Heat Rises is a new passive that lets Attunement of Sky Guardians consume their grenade for a buff. While in the air, Glide time is significantly longer with the Heat Rises buff active, and weapons are more accurate in the air.
- Winged Sun allows Guardians to fire weapons, use Celestial Fire, and throw grenades without deactivating Glide. Killing an enemy in the air grants melee energy and extends Heat Rises.
- Icarus Dash is a midair dash that sends Attunement of Sky Guardians much farther than before. It costs less Super Energy while Heat Rises is active.
Bungie also clarified that the Wings of Sacred Dawn Exotic now reduces damage in the air while the Tomb of Dawn Exotic perk is active.
All of these changes should help create a more diverse Destiny landscape, where players can choose multiple different subclasses and still play optimally.


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This project helps me to explore basic practicies of interaction design through a focus on physical, visual, and digital prototyping. Since it follows human-centered design process in which includes online research, concept generation, prototyping, user testing, and further improvement, I have learn to work effectively whether as an individual or as a part of a team to create an interactive and informative mobile information system. Furthermore, since the topic of this project is surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic - especially home isolation, it has given me an insight to remote design work in which further helps me in terms of future remote job opportunities.
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I am an artist, currently stocking my gallery with paintings and rock art dealing with shamanism and other forms of esoterica. During the early sixties, I lived in Greenwich Village, NYC, and did a lot of NN DMT...trying to paint or illustrate the experience of cosmic connectedness.
But, 'Life' is what happens while we are making other plans. I wound up married... kids... a family... and turned to commercial art to cover expenses. Now... forty years later, I'm back on the old path!
Three days ago, I received a half ounce of salvia divinorum in the mail.  Whoosh! My living room spun off into a new axis. It changed dramatically! In a way, it was still the same... I could walk around in it and not bang into furniture or the walls... but, in another way, it was very different. Much brighter. Much cleaner looking. Space between objects seemed more distinct. More in 3D.
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Green infrastructure funding ‘must be unlocked’ to meet climate change targets
by James WarringtonThe global infrastructure system is in need of an “unprecedented” overhaul if governments are to meet global climate change targets, a new report has warned.
Research by TheCityUK and Imperial College Business School today revealed that current investment in low-carbon infrastructure is well below the required level.
Read more: Labour mulls carbon finance crackdown as election looms
In the UK, investment in making the energy sector more environmentally friendly needs to double from an average of £10bn to £20bn annually if it is to reach the government’s aim of net zero carbon emissions by 2050, according to the Committee on Climate Change.
Globally, an additional $1.1 trillion (£851bn) is needed each year between now and 2040 to meet the International Energy Agency’s green energy target.
But the report warned there were a string of significant barriers to increasing green investment from the private sector, including political risk, regulatory hurdles, currency concerns and poor data.
Government policy and market-driven incentives will be key to removing these barriers, it stated.
“Climate change has risen rapidly up political, regulatory and investor agendas, but persistent barriers are preventing the scale of investment that is so urgently needed,” said Anjalika Bardalai, chief economist and head of research at TheCityUK.
“Markets have a key role to play in addressing this challenge by financing the unprecedented transformation of the global infrastructure system towards clean, resilient and environmentally sustainable economic growth.
She added: “Governments, regulators and industry must work together to unlock the huge amounts of money necessary to meet the unparalleled challenge of climate change.”
One of the report’s key recommendations was a new, standardised definition of so-called low-carbon or green infrastructure, alongside better benchmarking and transparency for investors.
Read more: Audit watchdog calls on firms to improve reporting on climate change issues
Raffaele Della Croce, senior fellow at Imperial’s Centre for Climate Finance and Investment, said: “Meeting the Paris Agreement targets means aligning short-term infrastructure investment plans with long-term, low emission, climate-resilient development strategies.
“This will require a step-change in policy focus, new financing solutions, and faster technological progress.”
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curl_easy_reset - reset an easy handle
NAME
curl_easy_reset - reset all options of a libcurl session handle
SYNOPSIS
#include <curl/curl.h>
void curl_easy_reset(CURL *handle );
DESCRIPTION
Re-initializes all options previously set on a specified CURL handle to the default values. This puts back the handle to the same state as it was in when it was just created with curl_easy_init.
It does not change the following information kept in the handle: live connections, the Session ID cache, the DNS cache, the cookies and shares.
AVAILABILITY
This function was added in libcurl 7.12.1
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curl_easy_init, curl_easy_cleanup, curl_easy_setopt, curl_easy_duphandle
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