Destiny Best 2 Stasis Builds to Dominate Season 23

Stasis dominated the meta for a long time. It was Stasis that introduced Fragments and Aspects, and allow for customization never seen before in Destiny 2. These days, Strand might get most of the spotlight, but Stasis remains a powerful alternative. These are the best Stasis builds in Destiny 2, including builds for Titans, Warlocks, and Hunters.

And by the way, as with all the best Destiny 2 builds out there, these builds will guide you every step of the way, including essential Exotics, Mods, and more.

Top Stasis builds

--	Name	Class	Area	Subclass	Excels in	Element	Status
	Stasis Engineer	Warlock	PvE	Stasis	Grandmasters	Stasis	Best in Class
	Frostmaker	Warlock	PvE	Stasis	Solo Content	Stasis
	Grasp of Duskfield	Hunter	PvE	Stasis	Grandmasters	Stasis	Best in Class
	Frostbringer	Hunter	PvE	Stasis	Grandmasters	Stasis
	Ice Fortress	Titan	PvE	Stasis	Endgame	Stasis	Best in Class

Updated as of Season of the Wish (S23).

Hunter Stasis builds

Grasps of Duskfield

Excels in: Grandmaster Content

Goal of the Build: Keep areas locked down and protect your Fireteam with infinite Duskfield Grenades.

Mandatory Gear: Renewal Grasps. Weapons with Headstone are recommended (Buried Bloodline and Devour can help with Grenade regen).

Name: Renewal Grasps

Class: Hunter Slot: Arms

Source: Lost Sectors Requires: The Witch Queen

Exotic Perk: Your Duskfield grenades have a much larger effect radius. Allies inside the Duskfield take reduced damage and targets inside the area deal reduced damage.

	Buried Bloodline	Sidearm	Special	Void	Warlord's Ruin Dungeon
	Eyasluna	Hand Cannon	Primary	Stasis	Grasp of Avarice Dungeon

• Aspects: Touch of Winter and Grim Harvest.
• Fragments: Whisper of Torment, Whisper of Conduction, Whisper of Rime, Whisper of Chains, and Whisper of Shards.
• Abilities: Gambler’s Dodge and Duskfield Grenades.
• Stats Priority: Max Discipline 🡒 Max Resilience 🡒 Mobility.
• Mods:
  • Helmet: Harmonic Siphon (or Void Siphon if you use Buried Bloodline), Heavy Ammo Finder, and Heavy Ammo Scout.
  • Arms: Impact Induction, Grenade Kickstart, and Harmonic Loader.
  • Chest: Resistance Mods based on your enemies.
  • Legs: Innervation, Recuperation, and a Weapon Surge Mod matching your Exotic weapon.
  • Class Item: Bomber, Reaper, and Powerful Attraction.

Gameplay Loop

The gameplay loop for the Renewal Grasp build can be altered and changed depending on your needs and playstyle. But, despite the versatility, the core ‘needs’ of the build remain the same.

Whisper of Shards is the engine that keeps the train going, granting Grenade energy upon shattering a Stasis crystal. Forming crystals is easy with Headstone weapons or through Touch of Winter Grenades. Making sure you destroy every Stasis crystal you see is paramount to keeping the Duskfield spam going.

Despite saying this, Whisper of Chains also provides damage resistance when near a Stasis crystal, so timing is essential. Try to destroy Stasis crystals when you have gotten good use out of them as they can not only provide damage resistance but also deal solid AoE damage.

Overall, the aim is to lock down large groups of enemies and make them deal less damage while spamming Duskfields. This will help protect you and your Fireteam, regardless of difficulty.

The Frostbringer

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

Goal of the Build: Utilise the Fr0st-EE5’s to maintain high ability uptime, freezing all enemies on the battlefield from safety.

Mandatory Gear: FR0ST-EE5 and Dragon’s Breath. High-damage weapons are recommended.

Name: Fr0st-EE5

Class: Hunter Slot: Legs

Source: Exotic Engrams Requires: Free-to-Play

Exotic Perk: Increased grenade, melee, and dodge regeneration while sprinting. Dodging increases your sprint speed.

	Wish-Ender	Combat Bow	Primary	Kinetic	Exotic Quest
	Forbearance (Brave)	Grenade Launcher	Special	Arc	Onslaught Activity

• Aspects: Touch of Winter and Grim Harvest.
• Fragments: Whisper of Conduction, Whisper of Rime, Whisper of Shards, Whisper of Durance, and Whisper of Chains.
• Abilities: Gambler’s Dodge, Duskfield Grenade.
• Stats Priority: Max Resilience 🡒 Discipline 🡒 Mobility.
• Mods:
  • Helmet: Siphon Mod matching your weapon and Heavy Ammo Finder.
  • Arms: Impact Induction, Focusing Strike, and Grenade Kickstart.
  • Chest: Resistance Mods based on your enemies.
  • Legs: Recuperation, Innervation, and Invigoration.
  • Class Item: Powerful Attraction, Bomber, and Distribution.

Gameplay Loop

The overall goal of this build is to have a Duskfield Grenade available as often as possible. This is easy through our Grenade-regenerating Fragments, Exotic, and Mod choices.

Using your Grenade and Melee together is often unnecessary, as your Duskfield alone will freeze a target. Instead, save your melees for either an emergency where you do not have your Grenade, or use the cooldown to regenerate your Grenade through Impact Induction.

Using the Rapid Cooldown Exotic Trait on Frostees is also important. The perk will double your base Grenade and Melee ability regeneration rate, making them come back much faster.

Overall, utilize the Grenade-regenerating parts of your kit to ensure you always have a Duskfield ready for any group of adds.

🔷 Pro tip: You can find more builds on our dedicated Hunter Builds hub.

Warlock Stasis builds

Stasis Engineer

Excels In: Grandmaster Content

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

Mandatory Gear: Osmiomancy Gloves and a Primary or Special weapon with Demolitionist.

Name: Osmiomancy Gloves

Class: Warlock Slot: Arms

Source: Lost Sectors Requires: The Witch Queen

Exotic Perk: Your Coldsnap grenades have an additional charge that recharges quicker on direct impact. The seeker spawned from Coldsnap grenades travels further.

Deliverance

Fusion Rifle

Special

Stasis

Vow of the Disciple Raid

• Aspects: Iceflare Bolts and Bleak Watcher.
• Fragments: Whisper of Refraction, Whisper of Durance, Whisper of Torment, and Whisper of Chains.
• Abilities: Coldsnap Grenade.
• Stats: Discipline 🡒 Resilience.
• Mods:
  • Helmet: Harmonic Siphon
  • Arms: 2x Grenade Kickstart, Bolstering Detonation
  • Chest: Charged Up
  • Legs: x2 Innervation
  • Class Item: Bomber

Gameplay Loop

The primary loop of this build is just to throw turrets onto the field whenever you get them. Whisper of Torment and max Discipline will hopefully carry you to your next grenade charge without a problem. 

If you do end up experiencing downtime, be sure to take full advantage of your Demolitionist weapon. Once you gain another grenade charge, continue through turrets for as long as enemies survive!

Frostmaker

Excels In: Solo Content

Goal of the Build: Slow and freeze everything in sight, giving you tons of super energy and, eventually a weapon damage boost.

Mandatory Gear: Mantle of Battle Harmony and Ager’s Scepter.

Name: Mantle of Battle Harmony

Class: Warlock Slot: Chest

Source: Lost Sectors Requires: Beyond Light

Exotic Perk: Takedowns with weapons that have a damage type matching your subclass element grant you Super energy. While your Super energy is full, you instead gain a temporary bonus to weapon damage of the type matching your subclass element.

Ager's Scepter

Trace Rifle

Special

Stasis

Exotic Kiosk

• Aspects: Iceflare Bolts and Glacial Harvest.
• Fragments: Whisper of Bonds, Whisper of Fissures, Whisper of Rime, and Whisper of Conduction.
• Abilities: No specific abilities are required.
• Stats: Discipline 🡒 Resilience 🡒 Recovery.
• Mods:
  • Helmet: Harmonic Siphon, Special Ammo Finder
  • Arms: Stat, reload, and dexterity mods
  • Chest: Charged Up
  • Legs: Stacks on Stacks, Innervation
  • Class Item: Special Finisher, Empowered Finisher

Gameplay Loop

here isn’t a specific gameplay loop here; just use Ager’s Scepter and your abilities to freeze and kill as many enemies as possible. Both Whisper of Bonds and Mantle of Battle Harmony will give you super energy from said kills, and dropped Orbs of Power allow you to use Special Finisher as necessary.

Once you reach full super energy, you have three options that are all very strong. The first is to use your super to kill a large group of ads (or even damage a boss!). Assuming you have excess Ager’s ammo, a second option is to use the firing mode from Ager’s Scepter’s catalyst, making the weapon freeze everything and do more damage. The third and final option is not to use either and instead take advantage of Mantle of Battle Harmony’s second perk, giving you extra Stasis weapon damage after a Stasis weapon kill (as long as you keep full super energy).

Unlike other builds, the Frostmaker is extremely potent while not having a super specific gameplay loop, meaning it can be effective anywhere.

🔷 Pro tip: You can find more builds on our dedicated Warlock Builds hub.

Titan Stasis builds

🔷 Pro tip: You can find more builds on our dedicated Titan Builds hub.

Before you go…

While most of these builds are geared toward endgame content, most will be extremely lethal in casual and seasonal content. Did we miss a Stasis build you think should definitely be added? Let us know in the comments below!