Best Destiny 2 Builds Today (Heresy Meta)

Top Builds per Class

If you’re looking for a much more specific build to match your preferred Subclass (or the weekly Surges), you can find below all of our builds organized by subclass.

Destiny 2 Builds per Subclass

Hunter Strand Builds	Warlock Strand Builds	Titan Strand Builds
Stasis Hunter Builds	Stasis Warlock Builds	Stasis Titan Builds
Hunter Arc Builds	Warlock Arc Builds	Titan Arc Builds
Hunter Solar Builds	Warlock Solar Builds	Titan Solar Builds
Hunter Void Builds	Warlock Void Builds	Titan Void Builds

Updated as of Episode 3: Heresy. See Updates.

Destiny 2 Best Builds per Class

If you’re in a rush and just want the absolute best builds per class right now, below we cover our favorites (and most lethal) builds right now:

Top Hunter PvE Builds

--	Name	Subclass	Rank	Excels in	Gear	Area	Class	Status
	Shrouded Liar	Prismatic	1 🥇	Endgame		PvE	Hunter	Top 3
	The Transcendent Tank	Prismatic	2 🥈	Grandmasters		PvE	Hunter	Top 3
	Jolting Resolve	Arc	3 🥉	Endgame		PvE	Hunter	Top 3

Top Titan PvE Builds

--	Name	Subclass	Rank	Excels in	Gear	Area	Class	Status
	Come on and Slam	Prismatic	1 🥇	Casual Content		PvE	Titan	Top 3
	Ruinous Keep	Arc	2 🥈	Endgame		PvE	Titan	Top 3
	Point-Contact Assassin	Prismatic	3 🥉	Endgame		PvE	Titan	Top 3

Top Warlock PvE Builds

--	Name	Subclass	Rank	Excels in	Gear	Area	Class	Status
	Prismatic Blizzard	Prismatic	1 🥇	Endgame		PvE	Warlock	Top 3
	Stasis Engineer	Stasis	2 🥈	Grandmasters		PvE	Warlock	Top 3
	Electrostatic Sentry	Arc	3 🥉	Endgame		PvE	Warlock	Top 3

Top 3 Destiny 2 Meta Builds: Hunter

Shrouded Liar

Excels In: Endgame (Dungeons, Raids, Expert content)

Goal of the build: Use Combination Blow combined with Gambler’s Dodge, Winter’s Shroud, and Stylish Executioner to delve in and out of Invisibility while dealing high damage.

Mandatory Gear: Liar’s Handshake or Relativism with Spirit of the Liar. The Still Hunt Exotic Sniper is recommended.

Name: Liar's Handshake	Class: Hunter Slot: Arms	Source: Exotic Engrams Requires: Forsaken Pack	Exotic Perk: Using your Arc melee ability or being hit by a melee attack will allow you to follow up with an extremely powerful melee counterpunch that will heal you.
Name: Relativism	Class: Hunter Slot: Class Item	Source: Master Rahool Requires: The Final Shape	Exotic Perk: Can randomly roll with two of the following Relativism Exotic Traits.

Still Hunt

Sniper Rifle

Special

Solar

Exotic Quest

• Aspects: Stylish Executioner and Winter’s Shroud.
• Fragments: Facet of Purpose, Facet of Protection, Facet of Dawn, Facet of Courage, Facet of Ruin.
• Abilities: Golden Gun, Duskfield Grenade, Combination Blow, Gambler’s Dodge.
• Stats: Resilience 🡒 Discipline 🡒 Intellect.
• Mods:
  • Helmet: Hands-On, Dynamo, and Heavy Ammo Finder.
  • Arms: 3x Heavy Handed.
  • Chest: Resist Mods matching your enemies.
  • Legs: Harmonic Scavenger, Innervation, and Absolution.
  • Class Item: Powerful Attraction, Bomber, and Special Finisher.

Gameplay Loop

The overall goal of this build is to utilise the raw melee strength of Combination Blow, combined with Gambler’s Dodge’s refunding capabilities and Winter’s Shroud’s freezing potential to deal increased damage. The classic melee>dodge>melee playstyle is key here, dodging near enemies to ensure your Combination Blow is refunded.

By using Winter’s Shroud and a Duskfield Grenade on top of this, you will be able to freeze enemies by throwing a Duskfield and dodging near them, instantly applying more than 100 stacks of Slow, allowing you to shatter them with your melees, dealing massive damage thanks to the Stasis shatter buffs this season. Your Combination Blow damage is also increased by the Facet of Courage when enemies are afflicted with Slow, as Slow is a Stasis debuff.

Stacking Combination Blow to x3 can be quite the chore in high-level content, so priming enemies with a primary weapon or using the high-damage Cross Counter melee from Liar’s Handshake is crucial for getting those early stacks online.

The Transcendent Tank

Excels in: Grandmaster Content

Goal of the Build: Combo your abilities to maintain high levels of damage resistance while leveraging your ability regeneration in Transcendence as often as possible.

Mandatory Gear: Relativism with Spirit of Inmost Light and Spirit of Cyrtarachne.

Name: Relativism

Class: Hunter Slot: Class Item

Source: Master Rahool Requires: The Final Shape

Exotic Perk: Can randomly roll with two of the following Relativism Exotic Traits.

• Aspects: Stylish Executioner and Ascension or Winter’s Shroud
• Fragments: Facet of Purpose, Facet of Dawn, Facet of Protection, Facet of Hope, and Facet of Balance
• Abilities: Golden Gun or Silkstrike, Grapple, Threaded Spike, and Gambler’s Dodge.
• Stats Priority: Resilience 🡒 Discipline 🡒 Recovery.
• Mods:
  • Helmet: Siphon matching your weapons, Heavy Ammo Scout, and Heavy Ammo Finder.
  • Arms: Heavy Handed, Impact Induction, and Focusing Strike.
  • Chest: Resistance Mods based on your enemies.
  • Legs: Weapon Surge matching your weapons, Recuperation, and Innervation
  • Class Item: Time Dilation and Font of Restoration

Gameplay Loop

This build focuses on using your abilities to maintain a high level of damage resistance, leveraging damage debuff effects such as Sever and the powerful bonus of Woven Mail and other damage resistance sources. Combined, it is nearly impossible to die, even in the most challenging content, such as Grandmaster Nightfalls.

Generally, you will want to take advantage of Tangles and maximize uptime on the Empowered Abilities buff, as this massively boosts your ability regeneration rate, improving your Woven Mail and Sever uptime. On top of this, you can weave in Ascension dodges to give yourself Amplified and jolt enemies. Alternatively, Winter’s Shroud can be used to slow enemies, providing excellent utility in certain situations.

What makes this build incredibly special is the fact that it is entirely flexible in weapon choice. You can run any weapon you like, and the build will still function as usual, making this setup even better in content containing Champions as you can tailor your loadout for them rather than the build. This build will also let you run more generally powerful weapons, such as a double Special Ammo Weapon setup involving weapons like VS Velocity Baton to generate Orbs of Power with Attrition Orbs. Weapons that build your Transcendence bar quickly are ideal so that you can gain 32% damage resistance from Facet of Protection and Transcendence’s base damage resistance buff.

Overall, look to maintain your defensive buffs like Woven Mail and spam your abilities as often as possible to ensure you keep Empowered Abilities x2 to continue the loop of damage resistance.

Jolting Resolve

Excels In: Endgame (Dungeons, Raids, Expert content)

Goal of the Build: Use your Prismatic abilities to take down enemies and fuel your damage resistance while also using your weapons to get kills.

Mandatory Gear: Gifted Conviction. A strong Kinetic weapon such as the Multimach CCX is also recommended.

Name: Gifted Conviction

Class: Hunter Slot: Chest

Source: Master Rahool Requires: The Final Shape

Exotic Perk: Activating Ascension or Tempest Strike throws bouncing explosives at nearby targets that jolt and damage them. Jolting nearby targets grants you damage resistance.

Multimach CCX

Submachine Gun

Primary

Kinetic

Iron Banner

Kinetic Tremors

• Aspects: Ascension and Stylish Executioner
• Fragments: Facet of Hope, Facet of Purpose, Facet of Protection, Facet of Dawn, and Facet of Solitude
• Abilities: Silktrike or Silence and Squall, Grapple, Threaded Spike, Gambler’s Dodge
• Stats Priority: Max Resilience 🡒 Discipline🡒 Recovery.
• Mods:
  • Helmet: Siphon matching Primary ammo weapon, Heavy Ammo Finder, and Heavy Ammo Scout
  • Arms: Loader matching Primary ammo weapon, Focusing Strike, and Bolstering Detonation
  • Chest: Stat mod and damage resistance mods matching your enemy’s damage type
  • Legs: Weapon Surge matching your weapon type, Recuperation, and Better Already
  • Class Item: Stat mod, Time Dilation, and Font of Restoration

Gameplay Loop

As evidenced by the name of the build, the primary function of this build is to Jolt enemies using Gifted Conviction and gain damage resistance from it while also using your Threaded Spike to Sever combatants on top of your Facet of Solitude Sever.

Typically, pairing a good Kinetic weapon such as Multimach, Midnight Coup, or Unloved with this build is best, but you can choose anything. This allows you to compliment your ability kills with standard weapon kills to help build your Transcendence bar, granting you even more damage resistance and some bonus damage.

Collecting Orbs of Power is crucial, so ensure to generate as many as possible; an Attrition Orbs + Kinetic Tremors Multimach is incredible for this, as with a Kinetic Siphon, you can generate a ton of Orbs. This allows you to activate Facet of Purpose as often as possible, granting either Woven Mail or Frost Armor for a short duration, which massively boosts your survivability, especially when paired with Recuperation and Better Already.

This build is perfect in endgame scenarios where there isn’t a boss to defeat, allowing you to run mini-boss-killing weapons such as a Fusion Rifle and a Machine Gun or even options such as Ergo Sum to build your Transcendence bar further.

Top 3 Warlock Builds

Prismatic Blizzard

Excels In: Endgame (Dungeons & Raids)

Goal of the Build: Utilize both Bleak Watcher and Getaway Artist turrets to dominate the battlefield while also having access to Devour and Transcendence.

Mandatory Gear: Getaway Artist and Khvostov 7G–0X.

Name: Getaway Artist

Class: Warlock Slot: Arms

Source: Exotic Engrams Requires: Forsaken Pack

Exotic Perk: Convert your Arc Grenade into a supercharged Arc Soul. The Arc Soul functions as an autonomous turret.

Khvostov 7G-0X

Auto Rifle

Primary

Kinetic

The Pale Heart

• Aspects: Feed the Void and Bleak Watcher.
• Fragments: Facet of Grace, Facet of Devotion, Facet of Dawn, Facet of Purpose, and Facet of Protection.
• Abilities: Song of Flame, Phoenix Dive, Arcane Needle, Storm Grenade.
• Stats: Resilience → Discipline.
• Mods:
  • Helmet: Kinetic Siphon, Heavy Ammo Finder.
  • Arms: Impact Induction, Focusing Strike.
  • Chest: Relevant reserve/resist mods.
  • Legs: Relevant ammo scavenger/surge mods.
  • Class Item: Distribution, Time Dilation.

Gameplay Loop

Swallowing your grenade not only provides an Arc Soul and Amplified from Getaway Artist but also places a Bleak Watcher turret at your feet. This interaction is the centerpiece of the build, allowing you to double-dip on things whenever your grenade is charged.

Feed the Void grants Devour on ability kills (including your Arc Soul!), increasing survivability. Beyond that, the majority of our fragment choices are focused primarily on building Transcendence quickly, which is assisted by the use of Khvostov since it lacks an elemental affinity.

Stasis Engineer

Excels In: Grandmaster Content

Goal of the Build: Slow and freeze large groups of enemies using countless Bleak Watcher turrets.

Mandatory Gear: Rime-Coat Raiment and Ager’s Scepter.

Ager's Scepter

Trace Rifle

Special

Stasis

Exotic Kiosk

• Aspects: Bleak Watcher and Devour.
• Fragments: Facet of Ruin, Facet of Balance, Facet of Purpose, Facet of Protection, and Facet of Dawn.
• Abilities: Nova Bomb: Cataclysm, Healing Grenade, and Arcane Needle.
• Stats: Resilience 🡒 Discipline.
• Mods:
  • Helmet: Stasis Siphon, Special Ammo Finder
  • Arms: x2 Impact Induction
  • Chest: Resistance and Reserve Mods
  • Legs: Surge Mods matching your equipped weapons
  • Class Item: x2 Bomber, Reaper

Gameplay Loop

The primary loop of this build consists of throwing a Bleak Watcher turret down to control the battlefield, then recharging your grenade through Devour (which can be gained through any ability kill or by collecting an Orb of Power).

Ager’s Scepter, especially when used inside Bleak Domain’s radius, also helps to control hordes of enemies through Slow and Freeze. Once charged, your Super and Transcendence abilities can be used to kill larger enemies that don’t die from your other abilities/weapons.

Electrostatic Sentry

Excels In: Endgame (Dungeons, Raids, Legend content)

Goal of the Build: Blind and Jolt hordes of enemies through your abilities and weapons for supreme crowd control.

Mandatory Gear: Geomag Stabilizers and Lodestar.

Name: Geomag Stabilizers

Class: Warlock Slot: Legs

Source: Exotic Engrams Requires: Forsaken Pack

Exotic Perk: Damaging targets with Chaos Reach extends its duration. Collecting Ionic Traces grants you energy for Chaos Reach.

Lodestar

Trace Rifle

Special

Arc

Season Pass

• Aspects: Electrostatic Mind and Ionic Sentry
• Fragments: Spark of Amplitude, Spark of Magnitude, Spark of Ions, Spark of Discharge
• Abilities: Chaos Reach, Ball Lightning, Storm Grenade, and Healing Rift.
• Stats: Max Resilience 🡒 Recovery 🡒 Discipline.
• Mods:
  • Helmet: Harmonic Siphon, Special Ammo Finder.
  • Arms: Bolstering Detonation, Focusing Strike.
  • Chest: Relevant resist/reserve mods.
  • Legs: Elemental Charge, Arc Weapon Surge.Class Item: Distribution, Bomber, Powerful Attraction

Gameplay Loop

There’s no specific “loop” to this build; simply use Lodestar (and its alternate firing mode!) to kill waves of enemies, then use abilities as they charge up.

Utilizing Ionic Sentry when it’s charged is especially important since it grants so much Bolt Charge and can regenerate rather quickly. If you’re ever near max Bolt Charge, remember that you can also sprint around to top it off with Geomag Stabilizers.

Our last bit of advice here is to use your Super liberally. Because it lasts longer with Geomag Stabilizers and can be canceled early, you’re likely to have some charge stored up even immediately after using it. The remaining charge is easily gained from Ionic Traces and kills with generic weapons and abilities, allowing you to recharge your Super in mere seconds.

Top 3 Titan Builds

Come on and Slam

Excels In: All Content (Seasonal Activities, Strikes, etc.)

Goal of the Build: Combine Titan’s most powerful exotics into one explosively destructive build.

Mandatory Gear: Stoicism with Spirit of Synthoceps and Spirit of Inmost Light. Khvostov 7G-0X  is recommended.

Name: Stoicism

Class: Titan Slot: Class Item

Source: Master Rahool Requires: The Final Shape

Exotic Perk: Can randomly roll with two of the following Stoicism Exotic Traits.

Khvostov 7G-0X

Auto Rifle

Primary

Kinetic

The Pale Heart

• Aspects: Consecration and Knockout (alternative: Diamond Lance).
• Fragments: Facet of Courage, Facet of Balance, Facet of Protection, Facet of Ruin, and Facet of Purpose.
• Abilities: Glacier Grenace, Frenzied Blade, Thruster. Choose between Glacial Quake and Twilight Arsenal for Super.
• Stats: Resilience 🡒 Strength 🡒 Recovery → Discipline.
• Mods:
  • Helmet: Hands-On and a Siphon Mod matching your Primary weapon.
  • Arms: Heavy Handed, Momentum Transfer
  • Chest: Relevant Resistance and Reserve Mods.
  • Legs: Better Already, Absolution, and Recuperation.
  • Class Item: Powerful Attraction, Outreach, and Bomber.

Gameplay Loop

As a pure ability spam build, there is no nuanced loop here, but to help take down larger targets, toss your Glacier Grenade prior to rushing in, as you’ll gain a 10% bonus to the Consecration slams. If you went with Diamond Lance, the slow/freeze it applies will also count. Make sure to be tossing your grenade as much as possible to maintain the juiced regen. With this, you should be able to build Transcendence and Super extremely quick as well.

The real strengths here are the ease of use and raw power. Simply activating any of your abilities buffs the regen of the others, and with Frenzied Blade giving you three charges, it’s very rare you’ll find yourself on cooldown. On top of this, the 165% damage buff from Synthoceps also applies to the Consecration slam, so it shouldn’t be hard to see why this build is our #1!

Ruinous Keep

Excels In: Solo, Endgame, Grandmasters.

Goal of the Build: Harness the new Storm’s Keep aspect to call down unyielding squalls that will lay waste to even the strongest of foes.

Mandatory gear: Heart of Inmost Light or Hazardous Propulsion. Witherhoard or Anarchy are highly recommended for DPS.

Name: Hazardous Propulsion	Class: Titan Slot: Chest	Source: Master Rahool Requires: The Final Shape	Exotic Perk: Weapon precision hits or final blows have a chance to load a Kinetic Exodus rocket. Activating your class ability fires loaded Exodus rockets. Damaging targets with Exodus rockets temporarily increases the damage you deal with all other rockets.
Name: Heart of Inmost Light	Class: Titan Slot: Chest	Source: Exotic Engrams Requires: Forsaken Pack	Exotic Perk: Using an ability (grenade, melee, or Barricade) empowers the other two abilities. Empowered means abilities have faster regen, melees and grenades do more damage, and Barricades have more hit points.

• Aspects: Knockout and Storm’s Keep.
• Fragments: Spark of Recharge, Spark of Shock, Spark of Resistance, Spark of Frequency.
• Abilities: Pulse Grenade, Thunderclap, and Rally Barricade.
• Stats: Max Resilience and Recovery → Discipline and Strength
• Mods:
  • Helmet: Siphon Mod, Heavy Ammo Finder, Heavy Ammo Scout
  • Arms: Focusing Strike, Harmonic Loader, Bolstering Detonation
  • Chest: Resistance Mods and Reserve Mods
  • Legs: Surge Mods OR Recuperation and Better Already
  • Class Item: Powerful Attraction, Reaper, Bomber

Gameplay Loop

This is one of the easiest and most straightforward builds for Titan. Storm’s Keep allows players that sit behind the caster’s barricade to build stacks of Bolt Charge, and once at max stacks, they can release those charges via weapon damage. This completely changes the efficacy of Bolt Charge, which by itself, does almost the same damage an ignition does at the cost of needing ability damage to release it. With Storm’s Keep, you’re basically setting off ignitions at a rate far beyond what we ever could.

In that sense, the loop is simple. If using Heart of Inmost Light, pop your barricade after using your grenade and melee so it has increased health, and if using Hazardous Propulsion, pop it off when you’ve got stacks of the Exodus Rockets to pump out extra damage. Once behind the barricade, fire off your weapons and don’t let up.

Point-Contact Assassin

Excels In: Endgame (Dungeons, Raids, Legend content)

Goal of the Build: Breeze through solo content through invis and massive AoE damage thanks to Prismatic and Stoicism

Mandatory Gear: Stoicism with Spirit of the Assassin and Contact. Buried Bloodline or Khvostov are recommended.

Name: Stoicism

Class: Titan Slot: Class Item

Source: Master Rahool Requires: The Final Shape

Exotic Perk: Can randomly roll with two of the following Stoicism Exotic Traits.

	Buried Bloodline	Sidearm	Special	Void	Warlord's Ruin Dungeon
	Khvostov 7G-0X	Auto Rifle	Primary	Kinetic	The Pale Heart

• Aspects: Consecration and Drengr's Lash.
• Fragments: Facet of Dawn, Facet of Hope, Facet of Balance, Facet of Protection, Facet of Blessing, Facet of Purpose.
• Abilities: Thruster, Frenzied Blade, Shackle Grenade, Bladefury.
• Stats: Resilience 🡒 Strength 🡒 Recovery.
• Mods:
  • Helmet: Siphon Mod matching your weapon, Hands-On.
  • Arms: Heavy Handed.
  • Chest: Relevant Resistance and Reserve Mods.
  • Legs: Better Already, Recuperation, Invigoration.
  • Class Item: Outreach, Powerful Attraction.

Gameplay Loop

The loop is quite simple: use Consecration on a group of enemies to ignite and jolt them, granting yourself healing, invis, amplified, and radiant. Activate Thruster when you approach the next group to proc Drengr’s Lash and pick up orbs, which activates Woven Mail through Facet of Purpose. Kill the suspended enemies, and start from the top. Using this in tandem with Episode 1’s artifact perk “Galvanic Armor'' will enhance your survivability even more!

Once you have Transcendence, activate it to make the loop go even faster. While Transcendent, you’ll be nigh unkillable thanks to its intrinsic damage resistance on top of Facet of Protection, Galvanic Armor, and Woven Mail.

Before you go…

If you want to go deeper down the rabbit hole that is build crafting in Destiny 2, you should also check our Subclass tier lists for Hunter, Warlock, and Titan.