What Damage Stacks in Destiny? (ignitions, shatters, and more)

[@TheAegisRelic]

Sorry about the rendering error at ~7:02ish, not sure how that got through (I watch almost every video like twice before publishing it)

[@No_Context_Thoughts]

... Stop trying to keep Kabr in the vault. Clearly, He has something he wants to say...

[@Prando34]

Hello vault of glass relic

[@No_Context_Thoughts]

Wouldn't his name be Kabr?

[@TheAegisRelic]

Hello Prando34

[@xTaztyRL]

​@@No_Context_Thoughts Oh no, and actually Kabr said it, "If i speak again, i am not Kabr" or something like that :3

[@kpcool2877]

The 3 buddies Cries in child of the old gods

[@badsenseofdirection]

I’d assume that it would only take the tether damage from one child since it’s probably considered DoT

[@Galaxy40k]

My man didn't show the Thunderlord lightning strikes because he doesn't want the fact that it has 40000% Fireteam scaling get out before his team can sweep all raid WRs

[@greenlukesky4615]

Good thing you know… go get them

[@TheAegisRelic]

TLORD SWEEP 🗣️🗣️

[@glacierrays]

One of the most thorough and most valuable, testing videos I've seen - immediately sharing this with my clan. Thank you

[@TheAegisRelic]

[@bjcooper4365]

7:01 RIP framerate

[@TheAegisRelic]

Yeah sorry about that haha

[@jaredtherock5692]

Mixing and matching sounds like the intended way to play, anyways. I think thats the secondary reason that Wolfpack Rounds only for for other legendaries, and not exotics. Its interesting to know what stacks and what doesn't, Im gonna encourage my buddies to try to mix and match during dungeons to see what combos really well.

[@iman8738]

never thought i would hear wardcliff and normal in the same testing results

[@TheAegisRelic]

Haha

[@matteocoutant4282]

Thumbnail goes hard

[@nicxlaus]

15:25 *cries in void soul*

[@Kaevannan]

Thanks for doing all the testing. While I'm not surprised Lost Signal and Velocity Baton don't stack, I'm still disappointed. I wanted to make a DoT only setup.

[@atsukana1704]

So if you wanted multiple dot sources you could just 1 of each witherhoard, area denial, and alethonym correct?

[@ne12follow]

I think it would need further testing. It depends if bosses are limited to one dot source or only track one of each dot source

[@holopaste]

That would have been good to see in the video

[@alexanderolson4990]

From my own experience, different dots stack with little to no issue, great way to visualize is using a melee that applying scorch with necrotic grips. Both damage tics will happen. It works similar to how he said 1 of each wave frame works together no problem but multiple causes problems.

[@badsenseofdirection]

Each non-scaling DoT in the game can stack with a different one mostly fine, you just cant double up. No double scorches/ignitions, witherhoard, etc.😊

[@TheAegisRelic]

Yeah that would work

[@charidiamandis]

wonderful information, I love these number-focused educational videos. sort of relation, would love to see a breakdown of the theoretical best team composition for 3man and 6man fireteams- strongest supers, weapon and ability mixing, etc

[@crayoneater6034]

Welcome back, our Aegis

[@Revision-Harrowed]

For Bleak watchers it should be noted that while you don't want a ton of Bleak Watchers, if you do not have people using chill clip / conditional / other stasis effects in the damage scenario then having two per "boss" is the ideal amount -- As two of their firing bursts is enough to insta freeze. Anything above that is just wasted grenades. Even with manual shatters, they'll all still fire at the same time and do basically no damage. There is unfortunately no consistent way to have them time their shots so one will freeze after another.

[@chinonick911]

Crazy how this stuff is never mentioned in game or by devs

[@SlongestKongest]

They hate giving us numbers

[@GnappyAssassin]

Art is in the Negative Space too. They don't tell us how to make the public events heroic too. There is a dual benefit to making a curious player, and not bombarding folks that don't read their screens much anyway if they can help it with more to not read.

[@alexA.7529]

​@GnappyAssassin It's amazing how much heroic public event expectations have devolved. Before near the start of the game, it was cool to find out and only slightly annoying as time went on when people ignored it. These days it's expected for it to be told to you on how to make it heroic, and since public events are for glimmer now, extremely annoying when people ignore it

[@Sealablelamb647]

I think it's better with us learning it ourselves. These kind of things are more fun to figure out in game than being told. Like labbing a character in a fighting game.

[@WhereHappinessLies]

Great video :) Welcome back Aegis

[@MethodePyro]

Thanks for the effort making these videos bro, they are extremely useful

[@LeMonke-kj8zj]

I started this season after a 5 month break, good to see stasis back!

[@etherealplain]

This is a topic I’ve been really interested in so thank you very much for doing this.

[@crazyanime0047]

This is by far the best destiny 2 video 😍😍😍

[@AsecCosmic]

Return of Aegis arc🎉

[@TheShadowPhoenix]

Another legendary test from a legendary gentleman and his legendary compatriots ❤

[@KWCHope]

My goat is here to teach me more damage information on a game I stopped playing!!

[@Multiplex016]

Aegis doing side quests

[@sealight1742]

would a dimensional wave and a hullabaloo wave stack? or is it just the different types of waves that stack, like specials, heavy, or swords?

[@TheAegisRelic]

Nope, has to be different types sadly

[@Based_Shogun]

Thank you and your team! I have a bunch of dusty Ergo rolls in my vault that I need to get rid of. Time to search for your testing vids.

[@Energumenus]

Funny you mention necrotic grip not stacking - not only is this true, but the poison DoT effect is also removed by applying the stasis frozen status. Not hugely important for dps but it keeps me from using my favorite exotic with stasis ):

[@EPICOfficialTeam]

I was thinking this same thing and was hoping he’d go over other possible effects canceling out necrotic damage

[@TheAegisRelic]

Very silly indeed

[@BogoljubTeofilovic]

Great research!

[@freezingdart]

A couple that I'm curious about: Hellion on Prismatic Warlock/Dawnblade No Time To Explain's Time Chasm The NTTE is out of curiosity in case they ever give it some pve crazy buff (Bungie pls). Hellion is currently relevant just because players do use it and doing a class ability before damage isn't exactly uncommon. Great videos as always, glad to see you were liberated from the Bungie holding cells.

[@TheAegisRelic]

NTTE probably stacks if Arc Soul does haha

[@ImFrezzzz]

16:30 Void soul "Am I a Joke to u?"

[@manuelwalz6416]

Nice video again bro❤

[@ministryofwrongthink6962]

15:39 “they [bleak watchers] were just chillin…” I see what you did there 😂

[@YoWABBiiT]

I needed this. The lady and I are attempting the final boss on vesper 😖

[@alabamaman1372]

Thanks for the numbers. 👌

[@2ndSite]

this man thought he could put in the cleanest looking groundskate without anyone noticing. 23:20 for reference

[@CatD2]

Awesome video, cant imagine how mich time u spend on this.

[@bearlybearablebear]

"This doing numbers" - Aegis, 2024 (Thanks for the deep dives as usual! Great to have this resource, both to shut my friends down and actually deal damage)

[@evstar2]

I was literally wondering just yesterday if area denials stacked, and now your video popped up. Huuuuge!

[@TheAegisRelic]

:D

[@MrNabmas]

Wtf now I know why my wave frame felt crap a lot of the times!

[@Delta-u5f]

I’m interested to see that heavy glaive, see if that held onto any extra chunking dmg

[@TheAegisRelic]

I don't believe it does from when I did brief testing on it in the past

[@okokm9099]

curious if it is any worth using 5x summum bonum with only one person using heavy attacks while the others spam lights, or if at that point its better to just use another sword. I assume you will cover that on a future DPS video

[@TheAegisRelic]

Yeah that is an option, in fact that is probably what we are going to do on Herald in speedruns :P

[@Felix-wq2ly]

Wave frames having destructive interference is just the physics engine working properly

[@liamwilliamson7694]

I have a question with glacial quake titan, if the Titan is using star-eater to buff the damage and a warlock is using baildors' weavers shadebinder, does the warlock steal or negate the bonus damage of the titans crystals?

[@TheAegisRelic]

If the warlock shatters the titan's crystals maybe? Not really sure how that interaction works tbh

[@liamwilliamson7694]

@TheAegisRelic it's a shame that baildors is in the naughty corner. Also, in the interest of testing, could you test the interaction with chaos reach geomag being buffed with titan phoenix cradle sunpots.

[@TheAegisRelic]

Already have, check Abilities tab

[@archied904]

do you have an data about the dps of arc soul, bleak watcher and hellion with facet of courage? solo or team setting

[@TheAegisRelic]

Yep they're in the sheet under the Sustained tab

[@coa3704]

When you talk about different sources for the wave based weapons, do you mean weapon type sources (sword,bgl,hgl) or specific sources (dimensional,hullabaloo…)?

[@TheAegisRelic]

Weapon type

[@coa3704]

@@TheAegisRelic Thank you the aegis relic the hullabaloo will stay in the vault

[@smokeyjet2178]

Great video like always Btw what happened at 7:03?

[@TheAegisRelic]

Rendering error I think

[@CooperSanti]

aegis i love you lets get it lets go

[@T0x1cOrbit]

bungie should make a hud for damage numbers and boss health

[@nicholasputzigerjoannidis6943]

Sorry for the dumb question, but what about Storm nades with touch of thunder?

[@TheAegisRelic]

They also scale well, the roaming storm stacks :P

[@nollanchavis1328]

Ooo ive been looking for this one

[@jmfe10]

They should buff Ballidorse to make Winter's Wrath creat crystals on impact so we get some nice shatter damage for once.

[@asethon4430]

Only thing I'm curious about is SE exotic. How it will count threadlings? Will it count teammate one's too and stack faster? Probably not worth testing.

[@TheAegisRelic]

Threadlings all scale fine as far as I know

[@lyle7836]

Does whitherhoard stack with an area denial frame gl I don’t remember if you tested that

[@TheAegisRelic]

Yep

[@bastion4Saint]

One thing: I might be tripping but I noticed the effects of jolt volatile and unravel weren’t tested

[@TheAegisRelic]

Yeah those three aren't really controversial, jolt has a universal rate limit and is always the same value now (no source-based scalar), same with the other two you mentioned :P

[@Deemington]

Hey mister, Can we assume that in a fireteam of 3 the numbers would be split in half as far as effectiveness or does it go straight to the numbers recorded as a 6 stack?

[@TheAegisRelic]

Depends on the damage source, for stuff where it doesn't stack pretty much at all you'll see no change, for stuff where it can stack but it's dependent on stagger timing, that assumes your team of 3 is staggering twice as well as the team of 6

[@MrTrombonejr]

maybe u could test no time to explain buddy and void soul as well

[@TheAegisRelic]

O_O

[@GrandmaDestiny]

Thanks you!

[@lolosh99]

Anyone knows what’s best currently for solo Simmumah? (Ghosts of the Deep boss, on warlock)

[@TheAegisRelic]

I'm working on a solo damage project but it won't be out for a while D:

[@ahawkone8850]

Just checking my knowledge… Is it fair to define chunking as: Too many high damage instances cause the game to make math errors? Second question, is chunking always a net gain in total damage, or are there instances where it hurts you? Thanks as always to you and your helpers for putting in the effort to research and produce this content!!

[@TheAegisRelic]

Chunking is an informal term, I use it to refer to when the boss' health bar (often in chunks) goes down in larger amounts than indicated by the damage numbers on screen or on the wipe screen, usually happens as a result of huge damage quantities (either in projectile/hit count or raw damage output) I have never seen what I would call "chunking" be a negative thing, although there are instances of weapons doing less health bar damage than they should based on wipe screen (quite rare)

[@TheAegisRelic]

If you want a really clear example, the recent Ballidorse issue is one, or you can watch any damage test where I shoot Thunderlord or another high fire rate machine gun

[@scalarmotion]

Minor question about Glacial Quake: which exotic gives higher DPS, Synthos Or Spirit of Star Eaters?

[@Quavolious]

Look it up

[@TheAegisRelic]

SES

[@_-Tom-_]

can you find out what Fragment of Ruin does for stasis crystal/freeze break dmg on prismatic?

[@TheAegisRelic]

I believe the Destiny Data Compendium has info on that :P

[@_-Tom-_]

@ From what it says there it looks like it does barely anything - I’d be interested to see you run some tests to find out how much of a difference it is and whether it’s significant.

[@TheAegisRelic]

I probably won't test it since Prismatic fragments tend to be very straightforward when it comes to damage, but maybe in the future

[@Illucidex]

Surprised agers wasn’t on here

[@TheAegisRelic]

Might add it in the future!

[@jmfe10]

Aegis, do you think there's a viable strat to use Winter's Wrath for damage with Bleak Watcher? You could potentially skip the freezing attack to shatter twice in a row and preserve more of the Super's duration. Obviously it won't be a viable DPS strat, but it could be fun.

[@TheAegisRelic]

I tried it and it sucked sadly haha

[@HollowLox]

hello mr streamer how do you do ground skates consistently? is it just practice?

[@TheAegisRelic]

I use cvars.xml to rebind jump and air move to 4 so that I can press 4 > LMB > 4 for an easier time, the timing is still tight but less inputs, but besides that, yeah just practice On warlock the same method doesn't work but because glide is less sensitive to you eating your jumps a lot of people use scroll jump to pull that off

[@lazykb]

I use Resolve as well, which text do you use for these? The newer one looks great

[@TheAegisRelic]

Which timestamp specifically

[@lazykb]

@TheAegisRelic 0:45 primaries

[@TheAegisRelic]

That's a new one called Outline Repeat

[@sagnak3324]

Video on the best team composition with this knowledge?

[@TheAegisRelic]

Gonna be honest most suspect scaling sources aren't really good to begin with so this video is mostly an academic exercise anyways haha

[@FatherDragonKal]

How did he Shatter skate at the end of the video without a ledge??

[@TheAegisRelic]

Look up groundskating :P

[@nickg8100]

What about the shurikens with the new hunter exotic?

[@TheAegisRelic]

What about them? I don't recommend them for damage if that's what you're asking about

[@nickg8100]

@ I was more curious about your math for the stacking damage bc when you shatter the frozen target with the shuriken it releases more shurikens so I didn’t know if there was a freeze and shatter upscaler with a group running them. Somewhat along the lines of stacking the YAS Hunters. The trip mines are optimal damage either are they? Also: thanks for all the hard work and research you do for the Destiny community

[@TheAegisRelic]

Oh, I'm not quite sure but if it's anything like the other freeze sources here, only one person would get the forced shatter damage and everyone else would just get the base melee impact damage

[@jonathaninsua9179]

Is the dragons breath testing before or after the ignition damage bug fixes?

[@HowHistory]

After obviously

[@PrawnyBoy53]

No nova warp? :c Joking, great test

[@pencilduster2938]

I feel like planting the dragons breath shot below the boss would do far more dps than then shooting it directly on the boss

[@TheAegisRelic]

The best way to use Dragon's Breath based on my testing is to embed it into the boss, but ensure that it's on the underside/bottom part of the boss so the scorching ejections spew upward/sideways into the boss' body

[@pencilduster2938]

@@TheAegisRelic Ahh alright

[@ratherbedealingarms]

Glacial quake is the GOAT.

[@jimmybuffet7338]

Let’s go aegis

[@humu39]

7:01 MY PCCCCCC!!!

[@paul2725]

damage from unravel or wolfpack rounds does stack especially well on consecrated mind in GoS, people should try it out

[@TheAegisRelic]

NAUUURRRR

[@gen8901]

6:23 Rest assured, you can’t possibly be shorter than Linus Sebastian(

[@aquativity2907]

precision instrument stacks with my crimils dagger

[@TheAegisRelic]

Incredible news

[@freddyflo7364]

your titan axes testing made me think "why are abilities that debuff the target themselves never tested with a debuff already being applied from a different source to have an actual damage increase/decrease/stacking from whatever source?" like when threeshot tether is tested, you could just use a tractor for the first shot, or use a void buddy or whatever other weaken ability for the axes.

[@TheAegisRelic]

I suppose I could do that and divide, but I always do the math correctly for Tractor later on in the Swap tab :P

[@palehorseriderx]

All I understand is that Outbreak is the best. Got it.

[@ItsInigma]

This video is nice but most of the time you don’t have be 5 of the same class in any content where damage matters. It would’ve been nice to see the results for 2-3 of the same class/ability/damage source

[@TheAegisRelic]

Well for most of these you can infer a middle ground value, it was mostly to show the relative scaling between a bunch of different options :P

[@bhopins]

Need some speedrun content bad

[@balooz1157]

no live this week ?

[@TheAegisRelic]

:P

[@Aeri_shiro]

Mom get the camera i'm on tv

[@blue_bloodstar6949]

I will not take slander to my child of the old gods son

[@--Mars]

shout out [Mars

[@TheAegisRelic]

shout out [Mars

[@wilson1320]

22:36

[@nezerac5176]

Did you get your account unbanned?

[@TheAegisRelic]

Yep

[@Przeslijj]

Finally someone is saying ergo sum correctly

[@dstnxy]

baegis

[@todx15]

i wish if it wouldn’t break the game bungie would just let us go wild with abilities for a few days. i want to murder the second encounter in vespers with ignitions 😂😂

[@Ground91]

RAT KING?

[@TheAegisRelic]

Don't think that one has any unexpected scaling values :P

[@kentotsamaluu9197]

Infovid so fire Aegis gonna get banned again. Well done guardian!

[@indigo4732]

Stuff like this makes me not want to play the game tbh, really bullshit that our damage gets hit with the random button just because

[@ziggyzaug]

yay

[@DillonMagreveous]

Did you get unbanned?

[@Zeto.]

Yes, along a few other players who also got false banned. Theres a vague bungie tweet about a false detection

[@ExcitedGorge-yg7dc]

no damage greater than june pvp damage

[@ExcitedGorge-yg7dc]

real ogs know

[@Wolfiee420]

so just use what you want cause everything is fucking weird in this game XD

[@CrazyByDefault]

first?

[@kcisthe1st]

I learned alot GGs. Just stop cheating so you dont get banned. Lol

[@TheAegisRelic]

o_o