Best Destiny 2 Titan Strand Builds for PvE and PvP

Are you a Titan main and want to take your game to the next level? These are the best Titan Strand builds in Destiny 2, including builds for endgame and Solo players. And by the way, as any top-tier Titan build, these will guide you every step of the way, including essential Exotics, Mods, and more.

--	Name	Class	Area	Subclass	Excels in	Element	Status
	Berserker of War	Titan	PvE	Strand	Endgame	Strand	Top 3
	Overflowing Suspension	Titan	PvE	Strand	Grandmasters	Strand	Top 3
	Abeyant Leap	Titan	PvE	Strand	Endgame	Strand

Best Titan Strand build for PvE

Updated as of Season of the Wish (S23).

Berserker of War

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

Goal of the Build: Utilise the Banner of War Aspect to continuously grant healing bursts to yourself and allies while also dealing outrageous melee damage.

Mandatory Gear: Synthoceps or Wormgod Caress Exotics. A One-Two Punch Shotgun is recommended. The Navigator or Tractor Cannon can also help.

Name: Synthoceps	Class: Titan Slot: Arms	Source: Exotic Engrams Requires: Free-to-Play	Exotic Perk: Increased melee lunge range. Improved melee and Super damage when you're surrounded.
Name: Wormgod Caress	Class: Titan Slot: Arms	Source: Exotic Engrams Requires: Free-to-Play	Exotic Perk: Melee kills increase melee damage for a period of time. Additional kills extend duration and increase effects.

CALUS Mini-Tool

Submachine Gun

Primary

Solar

Presage

• Aspects: Into the Fray and Banner of War.
• Fragments: Thread of Fury, Thread of Warding, Thread of Generation, and Thread of Transmutation.
• Abilities: Grapple, Frenzied Blade, and either Barricade works.
• Stats: Resilience 🡒 Strength 🡒 Discipline🡒 Recovery.
• Mods:
  • Helmet: Hands-On and a Siphon Mod matching your weapon.
  • Arms: Heavy Handed, Momentum Transfer, and Firepower.
  • Chest: Relevant Resistance and Reserve Mods.
  • Legs: Invigoration, Absolution, and Innervation.
  • Class Item: Distribution, Bomber, and Outreach.

Gameplay Loop

The gameplay loop for this build is quite simple but has slight alterations based on the exotic being used. In general, you’ll want to leverage your Grapple Melees to engage in fights, killing a minor enemy, and then use your Banner of War buffed Frenzied Blades melee attacks to deal outrageous damage.

If using Wormgod’s Caress, it's important to remember that both melee kills (charged or uncharged) and finishers fill up the meter. This can be used to build up the charge before a larger fight, where enemies might be sparse, and Synthoceps might not activate.

A tip to follow is ensuring that you actually hit the enemy with your Grapple attack to proc the melee generation from Momentum Transfer. Killing an enemy with the Grapple Melee will create two Orbs of Power thanks to Heavy Handed and Firepower, and Orbs you grab will grant plenty of melee energy, allowing you to slay out with your Frenzied Blades, practically one-shotting any enemy that isn’t a multi-million health boss.

Finally, when entering a damage phase, remember that your melee charges are refunded after your super ends, so a proper damage loop would be: melee → super → melee. This will get the most use out of both melee-enhancing buffs.

 

Overflowing Suspension

Excels In: Grandmaster Content

Goal of the Build: With an insane ability uptime, this build allows a Titan to spam the new strand abilities for great ad-clear.

Mandatory Gear: Heart of Inmost Light. Strand weapons are recommended.

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.

Rufus's Fury

Auto Rifle

Primary

Strand

Root of Nightmares Raid

• Aspects: Into the Fray and Drengr’s Lash.
• Fragments: Thread of Mind, Thread of Generation, Thread of Wisdom and Thread of Warding.
• Abilities: Grapple or Shackle Grenade, Rally Barricade.
• Stats: Resilience 🡒 Recovery.
• Mods:
  • Helmet: Elemental Siphon.
  • Arms: Firepower.
  • Chest: Resistance Mods based on your enemies.
  • Legs: Stacks on Stacks.
  • Class Item: Utility Kickstart.

Gameplay Loop

Despite its nerf, Heart of Inmost Light is still one of the best exotics for PVE. Casting your barricade will suspend enemies due to Drengr’s Lash and empower your other abilities, making them stronger with faster regeneration. Defeating the suspended enemies will refund your barricade and create Orbs of Power.

Grenade/Utility Kickstart can then use these orbs to refund large portions of the respective abilities. The melee is best used by using a single charge to try and maintain the Overflowing Light buff from Heart of Inmost Light. This combination allows for a high-ability uptime.

 

Abeyant Leap

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

Goal of the Build: This build allows a single titan to dominate large areas by Suspending enemies whilst also providing Woven Mail to you and your allies.

Mandatory Gear: Abeyant Leap. Wish-Keeper is recommended.

Name: Abeyant Leap

Class: Titan Slot: Legs

Source: Lost Sectors Requires: Lightfall

Exotic Perk: Drengr's Lash spawns two additional projectiles, tracks targets more aggressively, and travels farther. Gain Woven Mail when suspending targets.

Wish-Keeper

Combat Bow

Primary

Strand

Exotic Quest

• Aspects: Into the Fray and Drengr’s Lash.
• Fragments: Thread of Mind, Thread of Continuity, and Thread of Generation. The last Fragment is up to you.
• Abilities: Rally Barricade and Shackle Grenade.
• Stats: Resilience 🡒 Recovery.
• Mods:
  • Helmet: Siphon Mod matching your weapon.
  • Arms: Grenade Kickstart.
  • Chest: Relevant Resistance and Reserve Mods.
  • Legs: Stacks on Stacks.
  • Class Item: Utility Kickstart.

Gameplay Loop

The centerpiece of this build is the Abeyant Leap exotic. The exotic perk Puppeteer’s Control buffs Drenger’s Lash by creating additional ripples. These ripples suspend enemies and allow for some of the best ad control in the game. Defeating these enemies will refund portions of your barricade due to Thread of Mind and create Tangles and Orbs of Power.

The tangles can be used to grant yourself and allies the Woven Mail buff, whereas the orbs of power can be used to proc Grenade/Utility Kickstart reducing the cooldown of these abilities. This setup allows you to infinitely suspend large groups of enemies.

 

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Best Titan PvP builds

PvP Essentials

PvP is a different ball game when it comes to gearing up and taking your Titan to the max level. Unlike PvE, most gameplay mods such as Elemental Wells and Warmind Cells are disabled in PvP. Those slots are then freed up for more PvP-orientated mods such as Targeting or Unflinching mods.

One thing that does carry over between the game modes is the importance of certain stats. Recovery replaces Resilience as the most important stat. You should always aim to get 100 Recovery or as close as possible. Recovery dictates the speed at which you can engage in fights and can be the difference between a loss and a win.

Due to the current sandbox that focuses on abilities, your next port of call should be to increase your Discipline, Strength, and Resilience as high as possible. Whilst Resilience doesn’t give a damage reduction like in PvE, the increased health can allow you to survive certain weapons and combos. It also grants you a faster barricade, which is always helpful.

Titan Subclasses: Ranked

Titan is actually in a pretty good spot when it comes to the strength of its subclasses in PvP.

Berserker

Berserker is the king of Titan movement. The combination of Grapple and the three charges of Frenzied Blade melee allows Berserker to move around the map much faster than any other titan subclass.

Whilst not meta-defining, Berserker can still be used effectively in all the different PVP playlists. Building into the suspend mechanic is the best way to go around creating a Berserker PVP build.

Pros:

• Powerful crowd-control abilities (Suspend)
• Fantastic movement
• Great Super

Cons:

• Weaker Neutral Game
• Long Cooldowns
• Higher Skill Floor

Best PvP Titan Exotics

General Exotics

Armor	Class	Type	Requirements	Source	Released	Requires	Exotic Perk
Dunemarchers	Titan	Legs	Free-to-Play	Exotic Engrams	Season 1	Free-to-Play	Exotic Perk: "Increases sprint speed. Sprinting builds up a static charge. After melee-attacking an enemy, that charge will chain damage to nearby enemies."
One-Eyed Mask	Titan	Helm	Forsaken Pack	Exotic Engrams	Season 4	Forsaken Pack	Exotic Perk: "Highlights the enemy who dares to damage you. Track down and destroy your enemy for an overshield."
Synthoceps	Titan	Arms	Free-to-Play	Exotic Engrams	Season 1	Free-to-Play	Exotic Perk: "Increased melee lunge range. Improved melee and Super damage when you're surrounded."

There are loads of viable exotics for Titans to use inside the Crucible.

Dunemarchers are a good example of an exotic that has stood the test of time. The added mobility they provide as well as the extra lightning chain upon punching an opponent makes them extremely strong for all subclasses. Titans have struggled to keep up with the other classes, and Dunemarchers help to close that gap.

The infamous One-Eyed Mask is still a solid choice inside PVP. While is nowhere near as strong as it once was, it still is a competitive option for all subclasses. Its exotic perk “Vengeance” grants you an over-shield for defeating an opposing guardian. This gives you an advantage when it comes to the next fight due to the health increase.

Synthoceps are another strong exotic that work with any titan subclass. The extra melee range can catch opposing guardians off guard and pair well with a close-range weapon such as a shotgun or SMG.