It's not just several pieces of Exotic armor that are changing in Destiny 2 when its new season starts on August 24. A host of armor mods are also getting adjustments, which will likely further change a lot of character builds for players as they adjust to the new Destiny 2 metagame. Warmind Cells in particular are getting toned down, and mods for tracking down particular kinds of ammo are getting reworks as well.

Bungie laid out a few of the changes we can expect in its This Week At Bungie blog post. The biggest alteration is the nerfing of Warmind Cells, which are essentially bombs you can generate by killing enemies in the game, provided you have the right mods equipped to your armor and use weapons from the "Seventh Seraph" group. Various Warmind mods change how you can interact with the cells on the battlefield--some make cells explode in huge blasts, while others heal you when cells blow up. With the right mods, enemies are debuffed when they're near cells, and you can buffs when you get close to them.

With a smart combination of mods and weapons, Warmind Cells can be extremely powerful, but Bungie wrote in its TWAB post that at this point, the cells are too powerful for the PvE game. When they were first introduced in the Season of the Worthy, that was kind of the point, and Bungie really only expected to keep Warmind Cells around for about a year. Since they've persisted in the game, they've unbalanced it to some degree, so Bungie's ratcheting down how powerful they can be. That's being done with adjustments to several Warmind armor mods: