Best Destiny 2 Warlock Builds for PvE & PvP (Renegades)

Are you a Warlock main and want to take your game to the next level? These are the best Warlock builds in Destiny 2 for PvE and PvP. As with all of our Destiny 2 builds, these will guide you every step of the way, including essential Exotics, Mods, and more.

Updated as of the release of the Renegades DLC. See Updates.

Best Warlock PvE builds

--	Name	Subclass	Rank	Excels in	Gear	Area	Class	Status
	Prismatic Artist	Prismatic	1 🥇	Endgame		PvE	Warlock	Top 3
	Magnetic Supernova	Void	2 🥈	Endgame		PvE	Warlock
	Electric Trance	Arc	3 🥉	Endgame		PvE	Warlock	Top 3
	Nothing Matter	Void	4	Endgame		PvE	Warlock
	Thread the Needle	Strand	5	Endgame		PvE	Warlock
	Surge of Light	Prismatic	6	Endgame		PvE	Warlock
	Fusion Warlord	Solar	7	Solo		PvE	Warlock
	Speaker’s Support	Solar	8	Endgame		PvE	Warlock
	Stasis Engineer	Prismatic	9	Casual		PvE	Warlock	Top 3
	Mindspun Suspender	Strand	10	Casual		PvE	Warlock

Top 10 Warlock Builds (Ranked)

Prismatic Artist

Excels In: Endgame

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

Mandatory Gear: Getaway Artist and  Praxic Blade (with Hyperblade Catalyst).

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.

Praxic Blade

Sword

Special

Kinetic

Exotic Quest

Renegades

• Aspects: Feed the Void and Bleak Watcher.
• Fragments: Facet of Courage, Facet of Grace, Facet of Mending, and Facet of Protection.
• Abilities: Song of Flame, Healing Rift, Arcane Needle, Storm Grenade.
• Stats: Grenade → Weapons → Super.
• Mods:
  • Helmet: Ashes to Assets, Kinetic Siphon, Finder/Scout
  • Arms: Firepower x2, Grenade Font/Impact Induction
  • Chest: Resist Mods
  • Legs: Better Already, Absolution, Kinetic Surge
  • Class Item: Time Dilation x 2, Distribution

Gameplay Loop

Consume your grenade to release a Stasis turret with Bleak Watcher, and also create an Arc Soul turret with Getaway Artist. This is your main source of ad-clear, and works with the Devour on Feed the Soul and the Cure on Facet of Mending to provide incredible levels of sustain. Max out your Grenade stat to do more damage, as this build now correctly scales with the Grenade stat.

For weapons, Praxic Blade provides extra survivability and movement with its deflection mechanic and is essential for building Transcendence with Facet of Grace rapidly. Otherwise, the rest of your loadout can be tailored for DPS, movement, ad-clear, or whatever else you need. It’s potent, flexible, and works in any type of content.

Magnetic Supernova

Excels In: Endgame

Goal of the Build: Fire off high DPS grenades that chunk majors and bosses down with ease, dealing tons of damage with relatively low downtime due to Contraverse Hold.

Mandatory Gear: Contraverse Hold (with Magnetic Grenades).

Name: Contraverse Hold

Class: Warlock Slot: Arms

Source: Exotic Engrams Requires: Forsaken Pack

Exotic Perk: Resist incoming damage while charging your Void grenade with Chaos Accelerant, Feed the Void, or Handheld Supernova. Charged Void grenades return an amount of grenade energy on a hit.

• Aspects: Feed the Void, Chaos Accelerant.
• Fragments: Echo of Persistence, Echo of Reprisal, Echo of Starvation, Echo of Undermining.
• Abilities: Nova Bomb: Cataclysm, Healing Rift, Pocket Singularity, Magnetic Grenade (or Axion Bolt).
• Stats: Grenade 🡒 Weapons 🡒 Class.
• Mods:
  • Helmet: Ashes to Assets, Siphon Mod, Super Font
  • Arms: Grenade Font x2, Firepower
  • Chest: Resistances
  • Legs: Innervation, Absolution, Better Already
  • Class Item: Time Dilation, Distribution, Bomber

Gameplay Loop

Hold down your Grenade button, then let go to throw a high-damage grenade that deals a ton of damage to an enemy in very close proximity. This build is meant for quick boss DPSing and is especially potent when paired with a Song of Flame user for incredible DPS.

When it comes to weapons, the build is incredibly flexible and can be tailored to your needs for the activity you’re doing. However, a weapon for minor clear is recommended, as you do sometimes need to mow down ads while recharging your grenades.
If you need more range and less DPS, for example, in an ad-clear encounter, you can change Magnetic Grenade to Axion Bolt for more flexibility, even if this performs worse on ad-clear duty than other builds.

This build is still a bit of a mystery, with no clarity from Bungie about why this is performing as it is. It’s also unclear if the interaction is fixable and whether Bungie will take action against it at any point. But, for now, this is the premier DPS strategy for Warlocks.

Electric Trance

Excels In: Endgame

Goal of the Build: Quickly build up Stormtrance energy to be able to fire off a high-damage Super in mere seconds, while creating a huge amount of jolt to clear ads using your Ionic Sentry and Arc Soul.

Mandatory Gear: Stormdancer’s Brace.

Name: Stormdancer's Brace

Class: Warlock Slot: Chest

Source: Exotic Engrams Requires: Shadowkeep

Exotic Perk: Each target you defeat with Stormtrance increases the damage you deal with it and refunds Super energy when Stormtrance ends.

• Aspects: Ionic Sentry, Arc Soul.
• Fragments: Spark of Instinct, Spark of Magnitude, Spark of Recharge, Spark of Shock.
• Abilities: Stormtrance, Healing Rift, Chain Lightning, Pulse Grenade.
• Stats: Super → Grenade → Melee.
• Mods:
  • Helmet: Ashes to Assets x2, Super Font.
  • Arms: Firepower x 2, Grenade Font.
  • Chest: Resistances.
  • Legs: Innervation, Absolution, Better Already.
  • Class Item: Time Dilation, Distribution, Bomber.

Gameplay Loop

Quickly build up your Ionic Sentry and utilise your Arc Soul, building up jolt and wiping minor ads quickly. Then, after a few seconds, fire off your Super with devastating damage, before repeating the loop multiple times in a minute.

This build’s loop is designed around constantly firing off abilities to provide jolt and get Stormtrance up quickly, so not much is required on the weapon front. However, getting your Super, Grenade, and Melee as high as possible is crucial to making this build shine, as it is quintessential ability spam.

Nothing Matter

Excels In: Endgame

Goal of the Build: Clear rooms with Scatter Grenades instantly disintegrating ads into nothing; combining Nothing Manacles with Scatter Grenades to create infinitely chaining explosions.

Mandatory Gear: Nothing Manacles (with Scatter Grenades).

Name: Nothing Manacles

Class: Warlock Slot: Arms

Source: Lost Sectors Requires: Beyond Light

Exotic Perk: You gain an additional Scatter Grenade charge. Enables tracking for Scatter Grenade projectiles.

• Aspects: Feed the Void, Chaos Accelerant
• Fragments: Echo of Harvest, Expulsion, Echo of Reprisal, Echo of Undermining
• Abilities: Nova Bomb: Cataclysm, Healing Rift, Pocket Singularity, Scatter Grenade
• Stats: Grenade → Weapons → Super
• Mods:
  • Helmet: Ashes to Assets, Siphon Mod, Super Font
  • Arms:  Firepower x3
  • Chest: Resistances
  • Legs: Innervation, Absolution, Better Already
  • Class Item: Time Dilation, Distribution, Bomber

Gameplay Loop

Holding down Grenade and letting go will fire off a Scatter Grenade that will infinitely spread amongst combatants after defeating them, allowing you live out your Path of Exile fantasies in Destiny by clearing whole screens with the push of a button.

Your weapons can be solely focused on DPS here, as your Grenade will ensure that not a single ad will be left standing in the room as long as there are enough in close proximity. The Scatter Grenade will seek out more enemies, meaning you can clear rooms without even being in them.

Thread the Needle

Excels In: Endgame

Goal of the Build: Use Mataiodoxia combined with Arcane Needle to deal sustained damage with effective ad clear.

Mandatory Gear: Mataiodoxia (with Arcane Needle).

• Aspects: The Wanderer, Mindspun Invocation
• Fragments: Thread of Transmutation, Thread of Generation, Thread of Wisdom, Thread of Warding
• Abilities: Needlestorm, Healing Rift, Arcane Needle, Shackle Grenade
• Stats: Meele → Weapons → Super
• Mods:
  • Helmet: Hands-On, Siphon Mod, Super Font
  • Arms: Melee Font x2, Heavy Handed
  • Chest: Resistances
  • Legs: Innervation, Absolution, Better Already
  • Class Item: Time Dilation, Distribution, Bomber

Gameplay Loop

Quickly fire off Arcane Needles to clear rooms using Mataiodoxia and deal sustained damage, using Mataiodoxia’s ability to fully regenerate your Melee energy as quickly as possible.

Your weapons can be dedicated to any kind of utility here, as there’s not much need for a specific weapon outside of the niches of specific encounters.

Surge of Light

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

Goal of the Build: Control the battlefield with Lightning Surge and other potent abilities within the Prismatic kit.

Mandatory Gear: Solipsism (Spirit of Inmost Light + Spirit of Synthoceps). We enjoy Graviton Spike for easy Transcendence generation, but it’s by no means required.

Name: Solipsism

Class: Warlock Slot: Class Item

Source: Master Rahool Requires: The Final Shape

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

Graviton Spike

Hand Cannon

Primary

Arc

Exotic Quest

The Edge of Fate

• Aspects: Feed the Void and Lightning Surge.
• Fragments: Facet of Protection, Facet of Courage, Facet of Dawn, Facet of Sacrifice, Facet of Balance.
• Abilities: Song of Flame, Phoenix Dive, Arcane Needle.
• Stats: Melee → Weapon → Super.
• Mods:
  • Helmet: Relevant ammo finders and siphons.
  • Arms: Melee Fonts (if needed), then Focusing Strike, Momentum Transfer, and/or Heavy Handed.
  • Chest: Charged Up, relevant resist/ammo generation mods.
  • Legs: Stacks on Stacks, Invigoration.
  • Class Item: Time Dilation, Outreach.

Gameplay Loop

This build focuses solely on Lightning Surge, both in terms of its uptime and potency. With Arcane Needle, the former is satisfied rather well, granting three charges at once.

Moreover, in Transcendence, you can slide plenty of times with Lightning Surge, meaning a ton of damage can be applied with zero ammunition issues to some bosses.

However, the only real thing about this build is that Getaway Artist provides far more survivability while also scaling with the Grenade stat, and Warlock DPS is not a problem. With that being said, though, Lightning Surge is still a very solid build.

Fusion Warlord

Excels In: Solo Content

Goal of the Build: Rely on infinite fusion grenades for both ad clear and absurd single-target damage.

Mandatory Gear: Starfire Protocol.

Name: Starfire Protocol

Class: Warlock Slot: Chest

Source: Exotic Engrams Requires: Free-to-Play

Exotic Perk: Fusion Grenades have an additional charge and recharge from empowered weapon damage, with empowered weapon final blows granting more energy. Defeating targets with Fusion Grenades grant Rift energy.

• Aspects: Touch of Flame and Icarus Dash.
• Fragments: Ember of Resolve, Ember of Singeing, Ember of Ashes, Ember of Torches.
• Abilities: Song of Flame, Fusion Grenade, Empowering Rift.
• Stats: Grenade 🡒 Weapons 🡒 Super.
• Mods:
  • Helmet: Relevant siphon and ammo finder mods.
  • Arms: Bolstering Detonation, Momentum Transfer, Firepower.
  • Chest: Relevant ammo generation and resist mods.
  • Legs: Innervation, scavenger mods.
  • Class Item: Powerful Attraction.

Gameplay Loop

While in your Empowering Rift, weapon damage and kills recharge your Fusion Grenades. Said grenades explode twice due to Touch of Flame, offering significant ad clear, and single-target damage.

If your grenades end up killing enemies, they’ll directly recharge your rift through Starfire Protocol. In this sense, the build is almost completely contained within the exotic armor, allowing you to swap most of the mods and fragments we listed above.

Speaker’s Support

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

Goal of the Build: Constantly heal allies through Speaker’s Sight while also granting yourself worthwhile buffs.

Mandatory Gear: Speaker’s Sight and a Solar weapon of your choice.

Name: Speaker's Sight

Class: Warlock Slot: Helm

Source: Master Rahool Requires: The Final Shape

Exotic Perk: Healing grenades spawn a Restorative Turret. Healing allies occasionally spawns an Orb of Power.

• Aspects: Touch of Flame and Icarus Dash.
• Fragments: Ember of Empyrean, Ember of Solace, Ember of Benevolence, Ember of Torches.
• Abilities: Well of Radiance, Healing Grenade, and Phoenix Dive.
• Stats: Grenade (max 100) → Super → Weapons.
• Mods:
  • Helmet: Harmonic Siphon.
  • Arms: Impact Induction, Focusing Strike.
  • Chest: Relevant ammo generation/resist mods.
  • Legs: Innervation, relevant ammo scavenger/surge mods.
  • Class Item: x2 Bomber.

Gameplay Loop

Utilizing this build is as simple as throwing your grenade, which will be a healing turret through Speaker’s Sight. This turret generates Orbs of Power, recharges your abilities (Ember of Benevolence), and grants you x2 Restoration (Touch of Flame).

Beyond this constant healing for you and allies, Ember of Torches offers Radiant upon using your melee ability. Both this and Restoration can be extended through Ember of Empyrean, granting you seemingly infinite buff uptime while also benefiting allies. The only trouble you may encounter is if your grenade doesn’t recharge in time, in which case you can always equip a Demolitionist weapon.

Stasis Engineer

Excels In: Casual 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.

Name:Rime-Coat Raiment

Class:Warlock Slot:Chest

Source:Master Rahool Requires:The Final Shape

Exotic Perk:Your Bleak Watcher turrets are enhanced with extended range and are surrounded by Stasis crystals and a storm. While standing in the storm, you are granted icicles over time. Icicles activate when you fire your weapons, applying Slow to targets they hit.

Ager's Scepter

Trace Rifle

Special

Stasis

Exotic Kiosk

Season 15

• Aspects: Bleak Watcher and Devour.
• Fragments: Facet of Ruin, Facet of Balance, Facet of Purpose, and Facet of Protection.
• Abilities: Nova Bomb: Cataclysm, Healing Grenade, and Arcane Needle.
• Stats: Grenade → Weapons → Super.
• Mods:
  • Helmet: Stasis Siphon, Special Ammo Finder.
  • Arms: x2 Impact Induction.
  • Chest: Relevant ammo generation/resist mods.
  • Legs: Relevant ammo scavenger/surge mods.
  • 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.

Mindspun Suspender

Excels In: Casual Content

Goal of the Build: Dominate the battleground with both Suspend and Threadlings, immobilizing and damaging combatants with little effort.

Mandatory Gear: Necrotic Grip. The Call with Demolitionist is highly recommended (another Strand weapon with Demolitionist can be a decent replacement).

Name: Necrotic Grip

Class: Warlock Slot: Arms

Source: Lost Sectors Requires: Beyond Light

Exotic Perk: Damaging combatants envenoms them with poison that deals increasing damage over time. Defeating a poisoned combatant spreads the condition to nearby targets.

	Refusal of the Call	Glaive	Special	Strand	Heresy Activities	Episode 3
	The Call	Sidearm	Special	Strand	The Pale Heart	The Final Shape

• Aspects: Mindspun Invocation and The Wanderer.
• Fragments: Thread of Mind, Thread of Generation, Thread of Continuity, and Thread of Warding.
• Abilities: Needlestorm, Shackle Grenade, Arcane Needle, and Healing Rift
• Stats: Grenade 🡒 Weapons.
• Mods:
  • Helmet: Harmonic Siphon, Special Ammo Finder.
  • Arms: x2 Impact Induction.
  • Chest: Relevant ammo generation/resist mods.
  • Legs: Elemental Charge, Strand Weapon Surge.
  • Class Item: Bomber, Outreach.

Gameplay Loop

Consuming your Shackle Grenade with Mindspun Invocation grants you 25 seconds of Weaver’s Trace, making all final blows create an explosion of Suspend. Killing these Suspended targets will create a Tangle and grant class ability energy.

Throwing that Tangle at another group of enemies will Suspend them, starting the process over again. All of these Suspend instances also last longer due to Thread of Continuity. To top it all off, collecting Orbs of Power from your Siphon mod will give you Woven Mail, allowing you to tank shots from enemies who aren’t affected by Suspend.

Best Warlock PvP builds

PvP Essentials

Because of its competitive nature, stats are significantly more critical in the Crucible than in PVE. While the previous iteration of Destiny 2’s stat system had Guardians focusing on specific items, the general goal now is to simply get high stats across the board. If we were to rank them, however, we’d say Weapons gets built into more frequently here, while Health is often forgotten.

Generally speaking, the most potent PvP mods come in the form of stat, unflinching, targeting, and dexterity mods. These all provide passive buffs that are strong enough to notice in moment-to-moment gameplay.

Warlock Subclasses: Ranked

While there is usually a meta subclass or general setup to run for the Crucible, every element has unique strengths and weaknesses.

Dawnblade

Beginning with Solar, Dawnblade primarily focuses on giving you and your allies various buffs. Radiant, a 10% damage bonus, can be easily activated using something like Ember of Torches. Restoration is the second primary Solar buff, giving you constant regeneration—even while taking damage. There are various ways to activate this, including Healing Grenade and  the combination of Phoenix Dive and Heat Rises.

These buffs can be enhanced using fragments such as Ember of Solace and Ember of Empyrean. You can also use Ember of Benevolence to boost ability regeneration when benefitting your allies.

Pros: 

• Great healing/support potential
• Various movement options
• Numerous choices for all abilities

Cons:

• Generally weaker abilities compared to Voidwalker/Shadebinder
• Weaker debuffs
• Less desirable fragment options

Prismatic

Prismatic Warlock, by nature, offers little that other subclasses do not. However, as is the case in PvE, Prismatic’s strength and novelty come from unique interactions created by pairing abilities and aspects together.

From Lightning Surge and Arcane Needle to Bleak Watcher and Getaway Artist, many of the synergies dominating the PvE scene also make their way into The Crucible. While some of the more popular abilities and aspects like Icarus Dash are still locked behind other subclasses, Prismatic Warlock has found no issue cementing a solid place in the meta early on.

Pros:

• A multitude of Super ability options
• Access to the majority of elemental buffs/debuffs
• Access to Transcendence

Cons:

• Lack of various meta-defining aspects and abilities
• Little intrinsic power and instead relies on the creation of specific builds/synergies
• Takes on many of the nerfs/changes to individual abilities and aspects from other subclasses, even if they aren’t warranted on Prismatic

Voidwalker

Moving onto the next element, Voidwalker is functionally the opposite of Dawnblade, focusing on debuffing opposing Guardians. Echo of Undermining is the most direct way of doing so, weakening your enemies when hit with your grenade. You can also use Echo of Instability if you have a void weapon, granting you Volatile Rounds on grenade kill.

Voidwalker also provides some survivability with the Devour buff, most easily triggered on Warlock via the Feed the Void aspect. This makes Void widely considered the most well-rounded Warlock subclass as of the writing of this article, but that’s bound to change.

Pros:

• Powerful abilities at base
• Powerful buffs and debuffs
• Numerous super options and a unique jump ability (Blink)

Cons:

• Lacks movement compared to Dawnblade
• Weaker super abilities
• Able to do everything other subclasses can do, but significantly less well (jack of all trades, master of none)

Stormcaller

Inarguably the weakest of the three light subclasses before the Light 3.0 updates, Stormcaller now has a surprising amount going for it. Being all about speed and mobility, this subclass can grant you movement and weapon handling speed without the need to equip popular neutral exotic armor pieces such as Transversive Steps or Ophidian Aspect.

All three aspects are powerful here, but Lightning Surge is the stand-out, allowing you to close the gap between you and your opponents while also unleashing a substantial amount of damage. Arc Soul (and by extension, Getaway Artist) is also a popular pick, granting a good amount of chip damage to make kills more consistent. Lastly, while the Arc fragments available don’t have too much build potential, some (such as Spark of Resistance, Recharge, or Magnitude) provide very potent neutral buffs that can work anywhere.

Pros:

• Extremely good neutral game
• Potent aspects
• Superior movement

Cons:

• Weak super abilities
• Lacks build potential
• Weaker-than-average fragments

Broodweaver

Broodweaver functions as a mix between Stormcaller, Dawnblade and Shadebinder, providing strong crowd control in combination with useful movement abilities.

Each grenade does something unique but powerful: Grapple can either close the gap or give you space, Shackle can stop opponents in their tracks, and Threadling can seek down low health enemies to kill.

Pros:

• Has a nice variety of abilities and uses
• Area control, shutdown, and movement abilities
• Powerful subclass verbs (Suspend, Woven Mail, etc.)

Cons:

• Few options for Super, Melee, and Aspects
• Little access to subclass verbs compared to other Strand classes
• Acts as a jack of all trades, master of none

Shadebinder

Shadebinder is primarily used to counter your enemies by slowing or freezing them.

All three grenades have some slowing or freezing capability, and the Iceflare Bolts and Frostpulse aspects can grant more opportunities. Fragments are simple here; most simply buff your abilities or give you stat boosts. Whisper of Hedrons and Whisper of Chains are some of the more popular picks, but you can easily build into unique ones like Whisper of Rime as well.

With the addition of the Light 3.0 subclasses, Stasis has slightly fallen out of the meta. However, it’s still potent and is sometimes unfairly disregarded by the community.

Pros:

• Excels in close quarters combat
• Various shutdown and area control abilities
• Amazing dueling super
• Exceptional fragments and debuffs (Freeze/Slow)

Cons:

• Extreme lack of movement
• Less Grenade, Melee, and Super ability choices
• Mediocre grenade options at base
• Little to no intrinsic buffs (compared to Devour, Restoration, etc.)

Best PvP Warlock Exotics

General Exotics

Armor	Class	Type	Requirements	Source	Released	Requires	Exotic Perk
Ophidian Aspect	Warlock	Arms	Free-to-Play	Exotic Engrams	Season 2	Free-to-Play	Weapons ready and reload very quickly. Provides a small benefit to the airborne effectiveness stat of all weapons.
Transversive Steps	Warlock	Legs	Free-to-Play	Exotic Engrams	Season 1	Free-to-Play	Sprint speed increased. After a short time sprinting, your currently equipped weapon is automatically reloaded.

Because of their ease of use and 24/7 activation, neutral exotics are the most common for general PVP. Ophidian Aspect has always been an S-Tier pick, passively boosting the snappiness of your weapons. Transversive Steps excels for a similar reason, providing quicker and more fluid movement (plus the ability to get a free reload).

Subclass-specific Exotics

Armor	Class	Type	Requirements	Source	Released	Requires	Exotic Perk
Boots of the Assembler	Warlock	Legs	Beyond Light	Lost Sectors	Season 14	Beyond Light	Standing in a healing rift creates Noble Seekers that seek out allies that are not in a rift and heal them. Noble Seekers from Empowering rift grant both you and your ally a damage bonus. Each time a Noble Seeker finds one of your allies, the duration of your rift is briefly extended.
Osmiomancy Gloves	Warlock	Arms	The Witch Queen	Lost Sectors	Season 16	The Witch Queen	Your Coldsnap grenades have an additional charge that recharges quicker on direct impact. The seeker spawned from Coldsnap grenades travels further.
Rain of Fire	Warlock	Legs	The Witch Queen	Lost Sectors	Season 17	The Witch Queen	Air dodge reloads all of your weapons and improves the airborne effectiveness of Fusion Rifles and Linear Fusion Rifles; final blows with these weapons make you radiant.

As for subclass-specific exotics that you can build into, Osmiomancy Gloves are one of the stand-outs. Coldsnap Grenades are already extremely strong, and the increased travel distance and extra charge make for an unparalleled shutdown option. Rain of Fire, the Season of the Haunted exotic, is highly beneficial when using a Solar subclass and a fusion rifle (especially Vex Mythoclast). Boots of the Assembler also isn’t a terrible option to run on Dawnblade, allowing you to embrace the support role.

You can find more complex and in-depth builds online with niche exotics such as Verity’s Brow.

Before you go…

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