TL;DR:

• Episode 2 Artifact Mod Overview
  • Very Stasis Heavy
  • Some experimentation with armor set bonuses.
  • Some GL specific perks.
• Exotic Armor Tuning
  • Lucky Pants, Raiju’s Harness, and Icefall Mantle get major reworks.
  • Lots of other tuning and changes.
• Exotic + Super Damage Tuning
  • Spirit of Star Eater + Nova Bomb/Twilight Arsenal nerfed
  • Celestial Nighthawk + Golden Gun minor nerf on bosses only.
• Lots of weapon tuning. Not listing it all. Go read the article if you care.
• Exotic Weapon Tuning
• Choir of One Nerfed
• Several New Weapon mods
• New Episodic Weapon Preview
• SEASONAL/EPISODIC WEAPONS WILL NO LONGER BE CRAFTABLE. They will be focusable like Into the Light Weapons.
• Garden of Salvation weapons are getting revamped and will be craftable. You will have to do the raid to get them.
• New activity Weapon Drop preview
• New IB armor and weapons
• Updated Inverted Spire Strike incoming.