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Destiny 2’s Lightfall expansion has shaken up the buildcrafting scene significantly. New Artifact passives, a new modding system, and an entirely new subclass element has given Titans more tools than ever before to create the perfect build, both for PvE and PvP.
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After extensive experimentation, we’ve created ten powerful builds that are sure to impress. We’ve got PvE and PvP builds for all subclass elements, utilizing everything from subclass keywords to Armor Charge effects. Each build is quite lengthy, so use the table of contents above to find any build that interests you.
Foreword
Before we dive into the world of buildcrafting, it’s important you understand the essentials of making a build. We use quite a few terms for mods, subclass keywords, and other effects in this guide. If you aren’t entirely sure how any of these effects work, the guides below break down how core buildcrafting systems work in Destiny 2:
Updated February 17, 2024, by Charles Burgar: Season of the Wish has made some massive changes to the sandbox, both for PvE and PvP. Mod scalar changes have greatly changed buildcrafting, and various survivability nerfs have hurt a few notable Titan builds. The good news is that most of these changes can be mitigated with certain Fragments, Armor Charge mechanics, or Exotics.
Beyond updating our builds to address these balance changes, we’ve overhauled the presentation of every build in this guide. All ten builds now use a table that showcases every Aspect, Fragment, ability, and armor mod you’ll need to replicate the build. Explanations for each build have also been streamlined, focusing more on gameplay loops over ability descriptions. Finally, all DIM links have also been updated for Season 23.
PvP: Shaxx’s Disciple
DIM Link
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Subclass
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Striker
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Exotic
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Any Movement Exotic
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Playstyle
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Jack Of All Trades
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Great Movement Tools
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Excellent In 6v6 And 3v3
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Must Be Tailored To Your Playstyle
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Why Play This Build?
Learn the ropes of PvP buildcrafting with this simple Striker template. We’ll be enabling an aggressive playstyle through the Striker subclass and any movement Exotic of your choice. You’ll have great loadout flexibility, an excellent neutral game, and access to multiple movement tools to disorient your foes.
Striker Titan has access to some excellent neutral game buffs.
Touch of Thunder
greatly buffs your grenade of choice. We recommend
Lightning Grenades
since they’ll gain a second charge and inflict Jolt, a keyword that makes targets release chain lightning as you damage them. We then use
Knockout
to gain HP regeneration from melee kills, enhancing your melee lunge range for a few seconds.
The real power of Striker Titan lies in its movement options.
Thruster
is a class ability exclusive to this subclass, allowing you to dash in any direction. It works similarly to a Hunter dodge and
has an incredibly short cooldown
. You can pair this with
Seismic Strike
to lunge in a specific direction while sprinting.
Landing multiple Arc kills or a melee kill will make you
Amplified
, greatly improving your sprint speed, weapon handling, and slide distance.
Everything else about this build is down to preference
, so feel free to tweak this build as you see fit.
Our Fragments focus on stat buffs over functionality.
Volts grants Recovery, Feedback gives Resilience, and Recharge greatly lowers your cooldowns while critically injured. Spark of Instinct is a great fourth option since it procs Jolt for free, leading to easy melee kills in 1v2 and 1v3 scenarios.
For your Exotic, we recommend
Dunemarchers
if you’re new. Your Seismic Strike will unleash chain lightning (this is
not
Jolt lightning) when you strike a target. You can pair this with Knockout and the Jolt keyword to turn the enemy into a walking tesla coil. Some other good options include Peacekeepers, Lion Rampart, and Antaeus Wards. You can also run Armanentarium if you want to use a different grenade.
The Artifact has no beneficial perks for Arc builds this season.
Select perks that benefit other builds instead.
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PvP: Descending Eruption
DIM Link
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Subclass
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Sunbreaker
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Exotics
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Peregrine Greaves, Monte Carlo
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Playstyle
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Constant One-Tap Melees
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Excellent At Close Range
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Best In 6v6 Modes
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Requires An Aggressive Playstyle
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Why Play This Build?
Embrace the explosive nature of Sunbreaker with this melee-oriented PvP build. This build uses Peregrine Greaves to buff Hammer Strike, a shoulder charge melee that can one-tap enemies while you’re airborne. This kill will trigger an Ignition and spawn three different buffs: Sunspots, Firesprites, and Orbs of Power.
All three buffs work together to make your Titan practically unkillable. Melee a target to gain bonus damage, Restoration, and tons of ability energy to repeat the process. And for those moments where your abilities are on cooldown, you’ll have a slug shotgun that will one-tap any Guardian that stands in your way. If you want a fun 6v6 build, look no further.
Peregrine Greaves
grants a significant boost to your shoulder charge damage while airborne. This allows
Hammer Strike
to one-tap Guardians in PvP, restoring a chunk of your melee energy and triggering Hammer Strike’s on-kill
Ignite explosion
. With how powerful this melee can be, we focus the build on buffing Hammer Strike’s uptime and Ignite effectiveness.
Ember of Searing
will restore 20% melee energy whenever you defeat a Scorched target. Hammer Strike already Scorches, but you can extend this to targets tagged with an Ignite explosion through
Ember of Char.
Ignition explosions can also have their blast radius increased with
Ember of Ignition
. Hammer Strike will also grant Radiant through
Ember of Torches
, buffing your weapon damage for a few seconds.
Since this build gets melee ability kills,
Sol Invictus
is an obvious pick. Hammer Strike will leave behind a Sunspot that will grant x1 Restoration and faster ability recharge speed. You don’t need Roaring Flames for this build, so we suggest using
Consecration
instead.
Finally, we recommend using
Monte Carlo
as your Exotic. Hits and kills will restore most of your melee energy and give you more opportunities to use your Hammer Strike.
Consecration’s uppercut attack and an Incendiary Grenade will trigger an Ignite, allowing you to Ignite targets from a distance when you can’t bring a hammer to a gunfight.
Arguably the best PvP perk this season is
Flint Striker
, allowing you to gain Radiant by landing precision hits with Solar weapons. This build typically runs Monte Carlo, but if you play this in Checkmate or dislike Special weapons in general, this is a great way to gain Radiant without having to use Hammer Strike.
Beyond that, most Solar perks this season don’t work in PvP, so we spec for more generic buffs.
Origin Perk Specializations, Siphon hybrid mods, and Wished Into Being
are great picks for just about every PvP build this season.
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PvP: Imminent Dawn
DIM Link
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Subclass
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Sentinel
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Exotic
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Peacekeepers
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Playstyle
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Aggressive
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Highly Defensive
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Best In 3v3 Modes
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Long Cooldowns
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Why Play This Build?
Use the power of Sentinel Titan to gain the upper hand in every gunfight. This build focuses on buffing this subclass’ neutral game as much as possible, opting to use the Peacekeepers Exotic and popular SMGs to outperform the competition. You’ll have access to Void Oveshields, a powerful grenade, movement tools, and the best zoning Super in the game. It’s not flashy, but it’s highly effective and a popular pick for 3v3 modes like Trials of Osiris.
Sentinel Titan has access to a powerful neutral game through
Bastion
, an Aspect that grants a Void Overshield whenever you cast your class ability. You’ll also gain a shield through
Echo of Vigilance
if you kill a target while critically wounded. Both effects greatly increase your survivability with virtually no requirements. To get around the map faster, we use
Shield Bash
for an occasional shoulder charge. And if a game runs for long enough, use
Ward of Dawn
to lock down a portion of the map.
Void subclasses have access to some powerful grenades, and Sentinels can take this even further with
Controlled Demolition.
This allows your grenades to inflict Volatile. We pair this with
Scatter Grenades
to lockdown chokepoints for a brief period. Anyone that even touches the explosive submunitions will be tagged with Volatile, violently exploding on death. This can cause a chain reaction of explosions with
Echo of Expulsion
while simultaneously healing your team.
If you typically play solo or dislike Scatter Grenades, swap Controlled Demolition for Offensive Bulwark, and change your grenade to Suppressor. This will buff your grenade cooldowns and allow you to counter enemy abilities, including Supers.
The rest of the build focuses on neutral game buffs.
Peacekeepers
is the best movement Exotic for Titans currently due to the strength of SMGs, granting bonus sprint speed, slide distance, mobility, handling, and reload speed while holding an SMG. If it wasn’t obvious,
use an SMG
to proc Peacekeeper’s effects. Some good picks include Unending Tempest, The Immortal, Shayura’s Wrath, and Tarrabah. Mod your armor to support your SMG of choice.
This Artifact has no Void perks this season
, so choose perks that buff your weapon performance or other builds instead. The above image showcases an Artifact tuned for general PvP use.
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PvP: Furious Lash
DIM Link
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Subclass
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Berserker
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Exotics
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ACD/0 Feedback Fence
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Playstyle
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Melee-Oriented
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Aggressive
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Best In 6v6
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Works Best With Glaives
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Why Play This Build?
Most Destiny 2 PvP duels occur at close range, biasing SMGs and Sidearms for their fast TTK values. This build flips those engagements in your favor through the power of ACD/0 Feedback Fence. With the use of Strand’s excellent movement options and your trusty Glaive, you force enemies into melee duels that you will always win.
Force enemies into uncomfortable fights through the use of your Grapple melee, Frenzied Blade, and Glaive melee. Each hit will grant stacks of Armor Charge, which will be consumed the next time you receive melee damage to release a devastating explosion, Jolting nearby targets. This is enough to kill an entire team if they’re close enough, and you’ll charge Banner of War and gain Woven Mail in the process.
The core of this Strand build is
ACD/0 Feedback Fence.
This Exotic grants a
stack of Armor Charge
every time you deal melee damage. This can be from an ability (including Grapple melee attacks), uncharged melee punches, or even a Glaive. As with most Armor Charge generators, you can adjust this with mods.
Stacks on Stacks
will grant x2 Armor Charge per hit,
Charged Up
will allow you to reach x4 Armor Charge, and
Powerful Friends
will share these charges with nearby allies.
All of these charges are then expended when you receive melee damage, releasing a wave of electrifying energy. This deals
200 damage in a wide AoE if you have x4 Armor Charge, and it inflicts Jolt.
If there are any enemies grouped together when your Feedback Fence detonates, they’ll die from the Jolt lightning.
Melee an opponent to build Armor Charge, then get an enemy to punch you.
The easiest way to do this is by fighting at melee range.
Glaives
are perfect for this, as they can project a shield that grants 30% DR against Primaries—increased to 50% against all other damage sources. This stacks multiplicatively with Woven Mail, a DR buff we get from
Thread of Warding
and
Into the Fray.
Pick up an Orb of Power or destroy a Tangle to proc Woven Mail.
You can spawn Tangles by defeating Guardians with Strand abilities.
Another easy way to close the distance is with your abilities.
Frenzied Blade
will perform a lunge attack that deals high damage, capable of spawning Tangles if the target dies. You can also use
Grapple
to swing around corners and catch your opponents off-guard. Follow up with a Grapple melee, land a Glaive hit, and you’re ready to proc Feedback Fence.
Banner of War
will then activate after a few kills, passively healing you and nearby allies for a lengthy duration.
The only notable Strand perk for PvP this season is
Horde Shuttle
, causing Unraveled targets you damage to spawn Threadlings. It’s not mandatory for this build, but it does offer some free damage for using your Grapple melee. You can also use
Unraveling Orbs
to buff your Strand weapons with Unraveling Rounds. This gives you another way to spawn Tangles without having to use your abilities.
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PvP: Howl Of Vengeance
DIM Link
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Subclass
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Behemoth
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Exotics
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Cryosthesia 77K, One-Eyed Mask
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Playstyle
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Aggressive
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Constant One-Hit Kills
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Great In All Modes
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Requires A Kill To Start Working
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Why Play This Build?
Chain back-to-back freeze effects on your opponents with the power of Cryothesia 77K. This Sidearm has immense synergy with the Behemoth subclass, allowing you to spawn Diamond Lance projectiles with ease. Use your weapon, grenade, and lance projectiles to instantly freeze your enemies. Throw One-Eyed Mask and Armor Charge mods into the mix, and you have what’s arguably the strongest solo build a Titan can use inside the Crucible.
This build is all about chaining back-to-back freeze effects to quickly kill your foes. The easiest way to get the ball rolling is with
Cryosthesia 77K and Coldsnap Grenades.
Throw a Coldsnap to freeze your opponent, then use Cryosthesia 77K to kill them.
Whisper of Rending
will grant a 50% damage buff against frozen targets, so landing a killing blow shouldn’t be difficult.
Once they’re dead, hold the reload input to overcharge Cryosthesia with a freezing round. So long as you aim near the next foe, they’ll be instantly frozen. You can use a
Cryoclasm
slide to instantly kill them. Shattering an enemy this way will spawn a
Diamond Lance
on the target’s corpse. Grab it and throw it at another target to immediately freeze them. Use Cryosthesia to kill them, load an ice shot, and repeat.
You can also use Shiver Strike to one-hit enemy players. Hit a target with Shiver Strike, then immediately follow up with an uncharged melee to land an easy kill.
The only problem you’ll run into is survivability, but we can fix this with two things:
One-Eyed Mask and Orbs of Power.
One-Eyed Mask will mark targets that damage you. Killing them will grant a temporary overshield. This has amazing synergy with
Whisper of Bonds
, as eliminating a frozen target will spawn an Orb of Power. You can then grab this orb to activate
Recuperation
and
Better Already
, fully restoring your HP.
And since you’re spawning Orbs of Power from weapon multikills and frozen targets, this build can take advantage of
Font mods
for free stat points.
Font of Wisdom
and
Vigor
provide +30 Intellect and Strength, respectively, while you have Armor Charge. This normally lasts for 10 seconds, but this can be extended to 30 seconds with
Stacks on Stacks
and
Time Dilation
, making these stat buffs near permanent.
This build can get even stronger through Season 23’s Artifact.
Hail the Storm
increases your shatter damage against enemy Guardians. More importantly, shattering an enemy player will spawn four Stasis projectiles that fire in a cross pattern, dealing 50 damage and inflicting x10 slow.
Pillar of Ice doesn’t work in PvP, so feel free to grab any other perks from the Artifact. The configuration above is a generic Artifact that works with every build.
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PvE: Volcanic Eruption
DIM Link
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Subclass
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Sunbreaker
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Exotic
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Pyrogale Gauntlets
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Playstyle
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Tons Of Explosions
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Close Range
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Excellent In All Modes
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Gear Reliant
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Why Play This Build?
Take advantage of the powerful Consecration Aspect to turn your enemies into walking explosives. This build focuses on maximizing the damage and uptime of Consecration to give you devastating Ignitions. Paired with constant Restoration and high damage resistance, you’ll be able to charge into the fray and obliterate anything that stands in your way.
Pyrogale Gauntlets
buff your Consecration slams with a flaming tornado that tracks targets, inflicting a low number of Scorch stacks with each hit.
Consecration
deals great damage on its own, but it can be tricky to maintain and use safely in harder content.
Sol Invictus
can help with this. Ability kills will generate Sunspots that you can stand in, granting x1 Restoration and faster ability recharge speed. This buff lingers for a few seconds, so don’t be afraid to move.
Since Consecration inflicts Scorch and a powerful Ignite explosion, you can run
Ember of Searing
to restore melee energy from slain Scorched targets. The tougher the foe, the more energy you’ll receive.
Ember of Char
will then make your Ignitions spread Scorch, causing
all
Consecration kills to trigger Ember of Searing. We also use
Ember of Blistering
to gain grenade energy in the process, but feel free to swap this Fragment for something else.
Even with this Fragment configuration, Consecration is still somewhat difficult to recharge in tougher activities.
Melee Kickstart
and
Invigoration
help with this, but you’ll need to rely on weapons to lower your melee cooldown to a spammable level.
Monte Carlo
is ideal if you’re a newer player, as it restores melee energy through hits and kills. For more experienced players,
Conditional Finality
and
Dragon’s Breath
can both trigger your Fragments through their Exotic perks.
Season of the Wish’s Artifact has some powerful Solar perks you can use.
Kindling Flame
is absurdly strong this season and allows
all
Solar weapons to inflict Scorch while you’re Radiant. This will proc Ember of Searing and make your melee cooldown a non-issue.
Revitalizing Blast
inflicts Weaken on boss enemies with your Solar abilities, increasing your damage by 15%.
You can also run
Flint Striker
to gain Radiant by landing precision hits with a Solar weapon.
Argent Ordnance
buffs your Rocket Launcher damage by 15%, stacking with other damage buffs.
Solo Operative
does the same but works on all weapons and abilities while you’re solo. If you typically play in a group, use
Rays of Precision
instead.
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PvE: Volatile Light
DIM Link
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Subclass
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Sentinel
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Exotic
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No Backup Plans
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Playstyle
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Ability Spam And Explosions
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Close Range
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Best In Casual/Legend Content
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Requires Certain Weapons
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Why Play This Build?
Become a walking whirlwind of explosions with this Sentinel build. Using the power of No Backup Plans and subclass Fragments, you can create a Titan that has short ability cooldowns, inflicts Volatile on every enemy in sight, has a permanent Void Overshield, all while buffing your Shotguns with a massive damage buff.
It isn’t a meta build for GM Nightfalls or Master raids, but if you’re looking for a fun Titan build to farm Lost Sectors or Terminal Override with, this is a great build to try.
No Backup Plans
gives you a way to generate Void Overshields through Shotgun kills, so you can drop Bastion for
Controlled Demolition
on this build. All of your abilities will tag enemies with Volatile,
a powerful debuff
that causes them to explode when they receive sustained damage. These explosions will heal you and nearby allies. Paired with No Backup Plans, you become incredibly hard to kill.
Of course, this build won’t work if you don’t have a Shotgun.
Any Shotgun will work, although Conditional Finality is easily your strongest option if you own it.
It deals immense damage, can clear adds and majors in a single shot, is highly ammo efficient, and benefits from holster mods—hence the Solar Holster mod on our legs. You’ll also receive a
35% damage buff with Shotguns while Void Overshields are up
, so don’t be afraid to get up close and personal.
Offensive Bulwark
will quadruple your grenade regeneration and grant a 60% melee damage buff while you’re affected by a Void Overshield. We also run
Echo of Starvation
to gain access to Devour, restoring a chunk of grenade energy with every kill. Both of these effects effectively remove your grenade cooldown if you can kill enough targets, especially if your weapon has Demolitionist.
Not much else is needed for the build to work, so feel free to adjust your weapons and armor mods to suit your needs. The above mod configuration is tailored for a loadout using Conditional Finality and Void weapons.
No Void perks are present in this season’s Artifact.
Build your Artifact for different PvE builds or general Anti-Champion mods instead.
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PvE: Shattered Lance
DIM Link
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Subclass
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Behemoth
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Exotic
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Hoarfrost-Z
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Playstyle
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Ability Spam
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Great At All Ranges
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Excellent In Most Content
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Reliant On Juggling Abilities
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Why Play This Build?
Turn your enemies into dust by shattering dozens of Stasis crystals and frozen enemies. By using Glacier Grenades and the Hoarfrost-Z Exotic, you can spawn multiple Stasis crystals in an instant. Use them as cover, fight near them to gain DR, or slide into them to shatter your foes. It’s a highly aggressive build with excellent crowd control and add clear, although it will start to struggle in Master and GM content
As a Behemoth, creating and detonating crystals is core to dealing damage and staying alive.
Hoarfrost-Z
converts your Barricade into a glacial wall that blocks enemy fire. It can be used as a Rally Barricade by you and your allies, or it can be detonated to deal some AoE damage. Throw in a
Glacier Grenade
in the mix, and you can clear an entire room of adds in seconds.
Ability cooldowns are crucial for a build like this, so our Fragments and mods ensure that cooldowns won’t be an issue.
Whisper of Shards
greatly increases your grenade cooldown after you break a crystal. With how often this build breaks crystals, Shards is always up.
Whisper of Refraction
will restore class ability energy for each slowed or frozen target you kill. Spec for
100 Resilience and Discipline
to further lower your cooldowns.
Try to keep an active crystal on the battlefield. Standing near a frozen enemy or crystal will activate Whisper of Chains, increasing your damage resistance by 40%.
Scaling this build’s damage is fairly straightforward.
Whisper of Fissures
greatly buffs the AoE and overall damage of your Stasis shatters. It’s a mandatory pick if you want to kill red bars consistently.
Diamond Lance
also gives you a means of freezing and shattering targets. Whenever you kill a frozen enemy, you’ll spawn an ice spear you can pick up and throw, freezing targets on impact. Throw a grenade, shatter it, grab a lance, throw it, repeat.
With how many crystals you’ll be spawning, simply shooting them isn’t going to be fast enough. That’s why we use
Cryoclasm.
Sliding into crystals and frozen enemies will detonate them, even if you use an uncharged slide. To stay alive during all this, we use
Recuperation and Better Already
to heal after picking up an Orb of Power. We generate orbs through
Whisper of Bonds, Siphon mods, and Reaper
.
Pillar of Ice
will spawn a Stasis crystal when you defeat a frozen combatant. This will passively trigger as you play the build, making it easier to proc Whisper of Shards and Chains.
Hail the Storm
will then increase your shatter damage and make broken crystals release four ice shards, dealing moderate damage to nearby targets. This substantially increases the consistency of this build.
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PvE: Undying Frenzy
DIM Link
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Subclass
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Berserker
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Exotic
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Synthoceps
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Playstyle
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Virtually Unkillable
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Close Range
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Excellent For Endgame Content
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Relies On Melee Attacks
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Why Play This Build?
This build turns you into a true Berserker Titan, making you nigh-invincible while substantially buffing your melee damage. Fly into the thick of combat with a Grapple, delete Champions with a single punch, and continuously heal during the entire process.
It obliterates Legend content, excels in Master difficulty, and can even handle Grandmaster Nightfalls with some practice. This is easily the strongest Strand Titan build in the game, and it’s fairly easy to play.
Banner of War
is arguably the strongest Titan Aspect in the game. Rapid kills will grant stacks of Banner of War, releasing pulses of healing energy at steady intervals. You’ll also deal increased melee damage, up to 60% at x4 stacks.
This stacks with other melee bonuses like
One-Two Punch
on Shotguns,
Synthoceps’ 165% melee damage bonus
, and
Tractor Cannon’s 30% Weaken effect.
With every buff active, you can kill just about every non-boss enemy in the game with a single melee attack.
If you own the Navigator Exotic, you can use it in place of Tractor Cannon to gain infinite Grapple melees during a DPS phase. Fire an anchor point near the boss, then grapple onto it and perform a melee attack. You can repeat this process indefinitely.
Frenzied Blade is a great melee ability on its own, but it suffers from a fairly long cooldown. We can fix this with
Into the Fray
, an Aspect that grants faster melee regeneration while you have Woven Mail, a 45% damage resistance buff. You can get this buff by breaking Tangles or picking up Orbs of Power. We also use two
Heavy Handed
mods to spawn orbs through melee kills, and each orb will restore melee energy through
Absolution.
The healing pulses from Banner of War and various DR sources—Woven Mail, 100 Resilience, and chest resistance mods—make you virtually unkillable. If you need to kill something,
shoot your Tractor Cannon, swap to a One-Two Punch Shotgun, fire a shot, then use your melee.
You can also use a
Grapple melee
in place of a Frenzied Blade. This will two-shot most Champions in Master and GM content.
Flint Striker
gives you access to Radiant by landing precision hits with a Solar weapon. Equip a One-Two Punch Shotgun in your Kinetic slot, use a Solar Primary, and you can easily activate this perk. You can then benefit from
Torches
, increasing your weapon damage against Darkness-debuffed targets by 5%. You can activate Torches by using
Unraveling Orbs
and a Strand weapon.
Horde Shuttle
will spawn Threadlings when you damage Unraveled targets, slightly increasing this build’s DPS. Finally,
take
Solo Operative
to deal 15% more damage in solo content. This affects both your weapons and Strand abilities.
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PvE: Heart Of Thunder
DIM Link
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Subclass
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Striker
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Exotic
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Heart of Inmost Light
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Playstyle
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Ability Spam
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Close/Mid-Range
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Great In All Modes
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Limited Survivability
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Why Play This Build?
Few builds in Destiny 2 have this degree of ability spam. Striker Titan has access to some of Destiny 2’s strongest abilities, notably Touch of Thunder grenades. This build uses Heart of Inmost Light and Armor Charge mods to give your abilities absurdly short cooldowns. You’ll have constant grenades, melee charges, and the ability to dodge incoming projectiles with the fantastic Thruster class ability. If speed is what you’re after, this build is for you.
Using an ability will empower your other two abilities with
Heart of Inmost Light.
Grenade and melee abilities receive a 200% recharge bonus and extra damage, while your class ability only receives a 50% recharge bonus. This buff lasts for five seconds, so you’ll need to pace your ability usage to maximize your empower uptime. Fortunately, you can mitigate this issue with Ionic Traces and armor mods.
Touch of Thunder
will greatly buff your Pulse Grenades, causing them to spawn Ionic Traces and deal increased damage as they linger.
Spark of Magnitude
makes them last longer, and
Shock
will make each pulse inflict Jolt to assist with add clear. With
x3 Firepower
mods on your gloves, your grenade can spawn an Orb of Power every second.
Each Orb of Power will restore your health through
Recuperation
and provide ability energy with
Absolution.
This greatly helps with ability uptime, but it still isn’t quite enough for your Thruster class ability. That is where
Delicate Tomb
comes in. Kills with this weapon spawn Ionic Traces, restoring all ability energy. You can pair this with
Spark of Discharge
to spawn even more Ionic Traces. It’s strictly better than Spark of Ions since it doesn’t have a cooldown.
If you don’t own Delicate Tomb, you can use Coldheart instead. You can also replace Spark of Discharge with Recharge.
Overall, the gameplay loop is to
use your Thruster, use your melee, use your grenade, and kill enemies with Delicate Tomb.
If you space your abilities out properly and have good armor stats (100 Resilience and Discipline), you should be able to use an ability every five seconds. Should you run out of ammo,
perform a finisher to spawn Special ammo.
No Arc perks are in the seasonal Artifact.
Build your Artifact for other builds or passive bonuses instead.
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