Best Destiny 2 Hunter Prismatic Builds Today

Eager to use the new Prismatic Subclass and take your Hunter to the next level? This is the best Hunter Prismatic build in Destiny 2. And by the way, as any great Hunter build, this will guide you every step of the way, including essential Exotics, Mods, and more.

Updated as of Episode 3: Heresy.

Prismatic Hunter builds

--	Name	Class	Area	Subclass	Excels in	Element	Status
	Shrouded Liar	Hunter	PvE	Prismatic	Endgame	Prismatic	Top 3
	Gunpowder Guru	Hunter	PvE	Prismatic	Endgame	Prismatic
	The Transcendent Tank	Hunter	PvE	Prismatic	Grandmasters	Prismatic	Top 3

Best Hunter Prismatic build for PvE

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.

Gunpowder Guru

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

Goal of the build: Use a weapon that matches your Grenade to stack Spirit of Verity to unleash a massive Gunpowder Gamble when ready.

Mandatory Gear: Relativism with Spirit of Verity for more damage and a weapon that matches your chosen Grenade.

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: Gunpowder Gamble and Threaded Specter.
• Fragments: Facet of Ruin, Facet of Purpose, Facet of Protection, Facet of Balance, Facet of Courage, and Facet of Mending.
• Abilities: Silence and Squall, Gambler’s Dodge, Threaded Spike, and Swarm Grenade.
• Stats: Resilience 🡒 Discipline 🡒 Mobility.
• Mods:
  • Helmet: Hands-On, Dynamo, and Heavy Ammo Finder.
  • Arms: 2x Firepower and Momentum Transfer.
  • Chest: Resist Mods matching your enemies.
  • Legs: 2x Elemental Surge matching your Primary weapon and Invigoration.
  • Class Item: Time Dilation, Powerful Attraction, and Distribution.

Gameplay Loop

This loop centres around the Death Throes timer and how often you can get Gunpowder Gamble. With our setup, we are able to use any elemental weapon to obtain stacks, as long as it matches the element of our grenade (for example, an Arc Weapon can only be used alongside Arcbolt Grenade). Getting kills with the weapon will grant stacks of Death Throes up to x5, doubling our Grenade damage (and our Gunpowder Gamble damage).

Once this is stacked to x5, you have to get Gunpowder Gamble ready. This is made easier if you decide to use a Solar weapon, but ability kills grant up to four stacks of Gunpowder Gamble, so use your Grenade, melee, and Threaded Specter to get kills if you need to top off your total. In addition, elemental debuff kills grant stacks, so perks like Voltshot, Destabilising Rounds, Hatchling, or Headstone can work if you want to use a different element to Solar, just make sure you get the kill with the elemental attack itself.

Once you have fully stacked Gunpowder Gamble and your Death Throes stacks are at x5, chuck your Gunpowder Gamble at the nearest clump of enemies or miniboss and watch them ignite in a massive explosion. This build holds up in higher-level content thanks to the massive damage potential, survivability due to Facet of Mending and Purpose, and anti-Unstoppable Champion properties of Gunpowder Gamble’s ignition, making this build an absolute blast everywhere in the game.

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