Best Destiny 2 Titan Arc 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 Arc 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.

Updated as of Episode 3: Heresy.

Best Titan Arc PvE Builds

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.

Super-Titan Prime

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

Goal of the Build: Take advantage of Cuirass’s buff to fly headfirst into your problems over and over and over again.

Mandatory Gear: Cuirass of the Falling Star. A weapon with Demolitionist is recommended.

Name: Cuirass of the Falling Star

Class: Titan Slot: Chest

Source: Lost Sectors Requires: Beyond Light

Exotic Perk: Greatly increases your Thundercrash impact damage. Gain an overshield that lasts longer the farther you travel before striking a target.

• Aspects: Knockout and Consecration
• Fragments: Facet of Awakening, Facet of Courage, Facet of Dawn, Facet of Protection, Facet of Purpose
• Abilities: Any Grenade, Frenzied Blade, Thruster, Thundercrash.
• Stats: Resilience 🡒 Discipline → Intellect.
• Mods:
  • Helmet: Ashes to Assets, Matching Siphon.
  • Arms: Firepower, Grenade Kickstart, Bolstering Detonation.
  • Chest: Resistance Mods based on your enemies.
  • Legs: Innervation, Insulation, Elemental Charge.
  • Class Item: Powerful Attraction (as many as possible).

Gameplay Loop

Although the days of Thundercrash being the best damage super for Titans have long passed, there is no denying the fun and power behind this Super. Cuirass of the Falling Star buffs its damage by 55% (this is because the Super itself got buffed!) and gives 50% damage resistance after it ends, and thanks to a buff in Episode: Revenant, it now also gives Super energy on melee kills while Amplified.

Gameplay loop is rather simple: Become Amplified by getting any melee kill, and then use Consecration on large groups to generate Orbs via Heavy Handed, and Super energy via Cuirass’s perk and Hands-On.

Once your Super is charged, find whatever high-tier enemy needs removal, and fire it off. Use the damage resistance to reposition to safety, and start from the top. 

God of Thunder

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

Goal of the Build: This build aims to turn you into the ultimate ad clearing machine harnessing the power of Arc 3.0 and the Heart of Inmost Light exotic.

Mandatory gear: Heart of Inmost Light. An Ad-clear weapon with Demolitionist is 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.

• Aspects: Touch of Thunder and Knockout.
• Fragments: Spark of Magnitude, Spark of Shock, and Spark of Ions.
• Abilities: Storm Grenades, Thruster, Shoulder Charge.
• Stats: Resilience 🡒 Discipline.
• Mods: Heart of Inmost Light doesn’t require any mods to excel, but mods that help reduce ability cooldowns help strengthen this build.

Gameplay Loop

This is one of the strongest builds in Destiny with a very simple and easy playstyle. It excels in both solo and team content.

The playstyle of this build revolves around the Heart of Inmost Light and maintaining high ability uptime. Heart of Inmost Light’s exotic perk ‘Overflowing Light’ empowers your abilities when you use one. This increases both the damage and the regeneration of your abilities. This can stack up to 2x for each ability, and the goal is to maintain a 2x stack by using your abilities whenever they are off cooldown.

When Heart of Inmost Light is combined with storm grenades and the required aspects/fragments, you can achieve a 100% uptime on your grenade. These nades are extremely good for both ad clear and damaging bosses. With this aspect, they roam around following enemies, which makes them even more deadly. Any enemies that survive the constant barrage of thunder from the roaming grenades can be easily dealt with using your empowered melee. This results in one of, if not the best ad clearing builds in the game currently.

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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.

Arc 3.0: Striker

The latest class to get the 3.0 treatment, Arc titan, is incredibly strong in this current meta. Strong Aspects such as Knockout and Touch of Thunder, make titan a force to be reckoned with in close-range engagements. The new thruster class ability adds a new level of movement to the class which has previously lacked behind the other classes. This allows titans to rapidly close the distance and get it to key positions/melee range.

Fragments such as Spark of Magnitude and Spark of Feedback enhance Arc titan’s ability to be a menace in close range. Spark of Magnitude combined with Touch of Thunder grants Titan arguably the best grenades in PVP.

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	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	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	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.