TL;DR:

• Crucible Updates Coming in August:
  • Map weighting towards newer and more popular maps
  • Lobby balancing changes
  • Updated quitter system
  • Nerf to Threaded Specter and Swarm grenades (PVP only)
  • Trials Passage of Persistence doesn’t take away wins when in a 3-stack
  • Comp Clash score to win decreased
  • Better spawn logic on Collision
  • Tribute removed from Iron Banner
  • Increased rewards for all Crucible
  • Spawns on bigger maps have been pushed closer together.
• There’s a lot of detail about all the Crucible changes if you want to go read more.
• Exotic Class item Drop Rates
  • Increasing chances while in Pale Heart to a stacking bonus until a drop happens.
  • Random Pale heart chests drop rate decreased to encourage Overthrow participation. (Probably also to prevent AFK farming with Macros.)
  • Weekly challenge to Dual Destiny for a double drop per Character.
  • More tuning to come in the future. Team is aware of the negativity around farming these.
• Brave Weapon Attunement returning at Zavala