Destiny 2 Update 8.2.5

Activities 

Seasonal

The Nether

• Reduced damage taken from Sharpshooter's Burden.
• Reduced damage taken to health from Fragile Strength.
• Fixed an issue where Paracasual Payload was not providing Kinetic weapons with extra damage.
• Fixed an issue where Paracausal Siphon was not proving buffs to elemental damage.

Other

• Fixed an issue where lore books were not being correctly rewarded.

Crucible

General

• Fixed an issue where Lockdown did not award or display medals.

Matchmaking

• Trials of Osiris and Competitive playlists
  • Enabled solo vs. fireteam loss forgiveness
  • Duos and trios can now be matched together

Competitive

• Enabled the new Ascendant 0 rank for players above 10000.
  • Wins while in the Ascendant 0 rank have a chance to drop the new "Darkest Night" emblem.
  • Rebalanced the rank-based matchmaking brackets to account for this new rank.
• Fixed an issue that was preventing players from being awarded the fixed roll of Redrix's Estoc upon completing their placement matches.
  • Players who never earned this roll can claim it from Lord Shaxx.
• Fixed an issue that was blocking players from being able to focus previous Competitive rewards.

Iron Banner

• Fixed an issue where the weekly challenge referenced Stasis instead of Strand.

Dungeons and Raids

Vesper's Host

• Fixed an issue in the first encounter where a nuclear core wouldn't spawn even after activating all the correct panels.

Gameplay and Investment

Armor

Hunter

Sealed Ahamkara Grasps

• Fixed an issue where Nightmare Fuel's damage bonus would be reduced by 5% while Radiant.
• Fixed an issue where your held weapon would not receive the Nightmare Fuel damage buff after getting a melee or finisher final blow without Nightmare Fuel active.
  • This does not apply if Nightmare Fuel was already active when getting a melee or finisher kill. If the Nightmare Fuel meter is not empty, the damage boost is active.

Radiant Dance Machines

• Fixed an issue that could cause extra dodge charges to be lost when transitioning between bubbles in various activities.

Shards of Galanor

• Fixed an issue where this Exotic could refund energy for any Super, instead of just Blade Barrage and Silk Strike.

Relativism - Spirit of Galanor

• Fixed an issue where Spirit of Galanor was refunding less energy than intended for non-roaming Supers.

Titan

No Backup Plans

• Fixed an issue where the intended Shotgun damage bonus would be reduced by 5% while Radiant.

Khepri's Horn

• Fixed an issue where the Solar waves from Khepri's Horn would not break Stasis crystals.

Hazardous Propulsion

• Fixed an issue where the benefit from the "Enhanced Rockets" buff would be reduced by 5% while Radiant.

Armor customization

• Fixed an issue where Warlock and Titan leg armor from Sundered Doctrine was not available for transmog.
• Fixed an issue where the Stasis armor sets did not show their correct name.

Weapons

General

• Fixed an issue where the Vault of Glass (Timelost) weapons did not have the proper flavor text.
• Fixed an issue where enhanced/crafted weapons with some new weapon perks couldn't obtain a masterwork border.
• Fixed an issue where the Adept Shader for Trials weapons was not correctly changing colors based on the state of the glow.

Weapon archetypes

Wave-Frame Swords

• Fixed an issue where the wave attack did not do damage in PvP.

Lightweight Pulse Rifles

• Body shot damage against players reduced from 20.4 to 19.7.
• Critical hit damage against players reduced from 31.8 to 31.5.
  • Note: This is still a damage increase over their values pre-8.1.5.3, but it does shift some of the forgiveness and optimal kill thresholds downward.
• Redrix's Estoc
  • Reduced handling from 79 to 74.

Weapon perks

Sword Logic

• PvP only
  • Reduced base damage bonus for kills against players from 20% to 15%.
  • Increased damage bonus for kills against players in Super from 35% to 50%.

Enhanced Collective Action

• Fixed an issue where the perk was not activating when collecting Stasis Shards created by Prismatic fragments.

Enhanced Slideways

• Fixed an issue where the perk had a shorter than intended duration.

Discord and Harmony

• Fixed an issue where both perks had their countdown start before switching to the weapon with the perk.

Abilities

All Classes

Prismatic

• Facet of Blessing
  • Fixed an issue where final blows from certain melee abilities, such as Consecration and Thunderclap, were not triggering health regeneration.

Hunter

Nightstalker

• Smoke debuff
  • No longer slows player movement speed, jump height, or weapon handling in PvP.
  • No longer suppresses player movement abilities in PvP.
• On the Prowl
  • Removed first-person glow from hunted player's perspective.
  • Reduced strength of glow on hunted players in third person.

Artifact

• Fixed an issue where the Piercing Sidearms perk granted wasn't piercing some types of shields.

Power and Progression

• Fixed an issue where the new Iron Banner weapons did not progress the Orimund's Taste Triumph.

Collections

• Fixed an issue where the Artificial Sun Ornament for Lodestar appeared under the Pulse Rifle section in Collections.
• Fixed an issue where the Chatterwhite shader did not appear in Collections.

General

• Updated the international Silver purchase confirmation to use the current Episode's art.