Datto might be the only creator that I don't actively skip through ads. There's too many gems like "meta this, meta that, when was the last time you met a girl?"
One of the better applications of Heartshadow is Crota; if nobody brought Tractor Cannon (or if you just wanna use this to extend someone else's Tractor Cannon) you can do a Heartshadow heavy attack into an aggressive shotgun shot and then back to Heartshadow for another heavy to perma-weaken Crota and do reasonable-ish damage at the same time. Shoutouts to Aegis for pioneering that one.
I hope we as a community use this time to Get Silly With It. Feels like we used to get silly with it more often but then the content mill took over. This is a great start.
Totally not me fanboying over getting into a Datto video with the Heartshadow build. (Build is from Selfu back in season of the seraph, adapted for the new armor mods and Greaves buff this season)
I did use weavewalk with the dawn chorus build before it was nerfed(they nerfed threadlings/NTTE turret dmg when you are in weavewalk), you tag the enemy with sky-burner then enter the weave, the scorch ticks deploy perched threadling, the scorch ticks also regenerate melee energy. You will always have full melee as long as you dont over use it+ have invis/dmg reduction on command.
For Gambit, I have the invader build that I use all the time. Ruinous Effigy, Wanderer Tangle, Eager Edge sword. The idea is to prep up whatever ball you want or need before invading. Then you use either Ruinous to dunk on people you see close to the bank, using your grapple to catch them off guard. Or you use a tangle to fly across the map and hunt them down
6:58 Isn't Circadian_Wolf the guy that helps Myelin Games with his lore videos? The dude is one of the best lore masters I've ever come across. The guy knows things.
buried bloodline for devour, hoil for regen, stasis titan with cryoclasm and either lance or shard on shatter. get devour up, then start chucking nades, slide to break, then barricade / lance / melee something to get the nade regen flowing while you kill things with your gun, then do it all over again. alternatively, bloodline + armamentarium + shards + leg mod that grants armor charge on subclass pickup + nade kickstart. very kill heavy to keep going but throwing glacier nades and sliding into them like a human bowling ball is tons of fun
I have a funni Strand Hunter build with Stompies for PvE, the exotic weapon of choice isn't really off meta, but I'd say the build and playstyle kinda is, especially for it being PvE and not PvP
@@jackr.t.4459 if you havent tried it, you should try manticore with stompees in pve, that airborne dr should work with the floaty mechanic it has, and the catalyst also gives dr on kill
I've been using a stasis titan setup with Cadmus Ridge Lancecap and Wicked Implement (with diamond lance, rally barricade, and the Wicked catalyst, ofc). Against other builds idk how it would compare but the build carried me through pretty much any GM after the nerf to Strand suspend.
i present to you one of the builds of all time: "oops! all overshields!" as the name suggests the goal is to be able to get an overshield from every weapon and ability equipped. if it wasn't already obvious this is a void titan build. this is not what i would call an endgame build. or a pvp build. or a particularly useful build. aspects: bastion + offensive bulwark fragments: can't remember the fragment names off the top of my head (will maybe update after i wake up (its 1am in my time zone)) melee: throwing shield grenade: vortex grenade (applies weaken with the proper fragment) class ability: whichever barricade you prefer exotic armor: no backup plans (armor mods aren't super important across the board so run whatever you feel like) kinetic slot: a (legendary) shotgun of your choice (1-2 punch recommended for punching reasons) energy slot: vexcalibur (catalyst optional, but i personally use grave robber) power slot: any (legendary) weapon with repulsor brace (for example, the regnant heavy grenade launcher (regnant can also have destabilizing rounds, so probably run that in the other column)) with this, you can get an overshield from 1) your barricade, 2) your (charged) melee, 3) your kinetic slot, 4) your energy slot, and 5) your power slot (provided whatever is blown up is weakened/volatile first (being able to apply weaken with a grenade helps)). ironically, you don't get an overshield with bubble (the super i usually use with this build) unless you wear the helm of saint-14 (i think). "but," i hear you ask, "why?" the answer is twofold: having an overshield speeds up your grenade recharge rate, allowing you to weaken chunky enemies more frequently. more importantly, though, having an overshield gives you a ~25% damage boost (i think) to both your shotgun and vexcalibur melee. Getting kills with either also refills your overshield and refreshes the timer (up to 15 seconds with the fragment). this was definitely better when double special was a thing, but probably still works fine overall (i haven't played the game in months). if it doesn't, switch out the kinetic slot with a weapon of your choice and the exotic armor to whatever you prefer, as, at least for me, vexcalibur is used more in the build, since being able to guard with the glaive provides a quick and easy way to get a bit of overshield, which is all you need to gain the benefits listed above (though i am biased as a glaive enjoyer). as an added bonus you become purple. barricades and guarding with vexcalibur also make your allies purple. this is good because purple is the best color.
I’m an average player who always struggled with lost sectors. Tried the heartshadow build and I’m in love. Never completed lost sectors more efficiently. Had a ton of fun with it. Thanks whoever suggested it in this video.
Arc-lock, The Stag, arc weapons (Delicate Tomb or Grand Overture, depending on if you want ad clear or DPS), spec for maximum traces. Nothing crazy, just constant rifts with souls and 25% damage reduction. A fantastic utility option people aren't using. Another Warlock option, again not too convoluted - Strand-lock, Karnsteins, Vexcalibur - strand suspend, solar cure and resto, void overshields off the glaive; glaive melee kills cause 3x cure and procs resto; use the obvious melee etc mods and the obvious Strand artifact mods this season.
I personally like to combine the two types of turrets we have in D2 (Bleak Watcher and Edge of Intent) along with Osmiomancy Gloves, Iceflare Bolts, and just the fastest grenade regen and as many special ammo finders to fill up the battlefield with healing and freezing turrets I call it "Winter's Remedy"
I got you a build that I really love! It’s called Fast As F*** with Friends and it’s a Lumina and Speedloaders on a solar subclass. After dodging near a teammate for a bit of extra stats, get a kill with lumina and shoot your friend. Rinse and repeat for up to an additional 50 AE, 55 handling and reload speed, 0.89 reload modifier and 35% more damage basically all the time for you and your friends. It does feel like a bit of work to pull off but with a healing grenade and the dodge that gives you radiant on a solar special weapon kill (I use a judgement of kelgorath with incandescent and demo for the upped healing grenade charge but it’s just preference), you can just keep up 55% increased damage and a ton of handling and reload speed (which really offsets the whole, “having a heavy clunky glaive” thing) basically for free. The only issue with this build is that it doesn’t really work solo, good luck proccing lumina on yourself, but yeah have fun with this, it’s one of my favorite builds ☺️
6:26 Try swapping in the Weavewalk aspect, since it uses Melee Energy. Also the scorch ticks triggers the threadligns you generate while in weavewalk :)
When I want to mix things up a bit I play with the exotic SMG 'The Manticore' combined with the Titan Leg Armor 'Lion Rampant' and damn near spend more time in the air than on the ground. Obviously I'd never waltz into a Raid/Dungeon or GM nightfall with this set up but its fun to use when patrolling or doing low level strikes from the Vanguard list.
Verglas + envious assassin on waveframe. Shoot crystals, swap to waveframe, shoot and swap back to bow. Kills reload with envious and charge the crystals back
8:15 : "I also wasn't getting back as much class ability energy as I feel like I should have been getting, it felt like I needed too many kills" *PROCEEDS TO GET HIS WALL BACK IN 5 KILLS*
Assassin's Cowl on Threadrunner PVE. That's it, that's the build. You get all the Strand hunter goodies like Woven Mail and Grapple and Whirling Maelstrom while also getting like 70% of the safety benefits a Nightstalker would have via grapple melee or regular powered melee kills or finishers. The artifact was mega conducive to it last season because Whirling Maelstrom printed ammo combined with Elemental Armaments (even after that interaction was nerfed), but it may still scratch an itch this season. Great for encounters where getting from point A to B is a big part of the challenge like Abyss or Exhibition. Just don't catch the rope dart unless you're okay breaking invis. Used to also be great for GMs due to the aforementioned artifact perk last season, but I'm not sure it's as worth it now that it's gone. Whirling Maelstrom is kinda like Witherhoard in that you just set it down in a pack of enemies and it'll kill them all even if you have to take cover, and between grapple and invis you're reasonably decent at rescuing dead teammates. Might also be a fun PVP setup, but there are a million ways to do Threadrunner PVP right now and some are pretty dominant, so idk about that one.
I have a pvp build that I consider off meta since I'm probably the only hunter who plays strand in pvp without threadlings or threaded spectre. Also, I've never ran into anyone using it against me. Spoiler: It's literally just my strand PvE build but in PvP. Grapple grenade Whirling Maelstrom + Widow's Silk Fragments: Ascent, Generation, Binding, Transmutation Exotic: Cyrtarachne's Facade Primary: Any strand primary you like. Quicksilver is accessible enough but the iron banner strand auto is nice too. Personally I use Rufus' Fury. Secondary: Your favorite shotgun/glaive Gameplay: Aggressive. You exist to do 2 things: make tangles and grapple melee anything that moves. Every time you grapple you get woven mail, even if you just quickly tap and cancel it to leave a grapple point. Any kill with woven mail active spawns a tangle. Grab the tangle, throw it into a crowd while grappling onto it to fly through the map and melee whoever is in your way. Survivors of the melee are to be executed via shotgun/glaive or they will die to the maelstrom if they don't move quick enough. The tangles, Whirling Maelstrom and the grapple points all serve to keep up your grapple usage as you can grapple to them with no cost. This will ensure you have woven mail, tangles, maelstroms and melee kills all game. Your -whirling maelstroms- green beyblades of death are not to be underestimated either. If you can't make it to a tangle to pick it up, shoot it to have it roam around after any neaby enemies. Note that while you can't pick up enemy tangles, you can shoot shoot them to spawn your own green beyblade.
Here's my off-meta GM Arc Warlock using Rat King, Vesper of Radius, and a Glaive. Subclass: Chaos Reach, Arc Soul/Lightning Surge, Electrostatic Mind, Blinding Grenade Aspects: Beacons, Resistance, Brilliance, Amplitude (Shock and/or Focus work too). Weapons: Rat King, Albedo Wing (Replenishing Aegis + Lead from Gold) (or approx.), Hot Head/Arc DPS Heavy Mods: literally anything for high Resilience/Recovery, Insulation on boots, plus maybe a Utility Finisher + Charged Up + Damage mods Exotic: Vesper of Radius Gameplan is throwing down Blinding Wells at enemy spawn points, slaying with Rat King to become Amplified (slaying arc debuffed (blinded) targets), cause Health Regen, and become Invisible. From here you can use Glaive to explode Thrall level enemies, Blinding their larger allies, and gaining even more rift energy from Insulation + VoR's innate perk. Find the next add spawn, throw down a rift, clean with Rat King, and probably get your new rift back before your last one left from the double orb pickup of Kinetic Siphon + Spark of Amplitude going into Insulation. You have Invisibility, Glaive Shield, and Blinding to get you out of trouble, to Rez allies, and all chain into each other meaning you can blind entire floors of adds from thrall up to Unstoppable Ogres!
At first I was like “man there are only so many set ups in destiny there is going to be crossover, worrying about stealing builds isn’t a huge deal” Then I saw the dawn chorus strand setup, which I wish I remembered the guy who originally posted it but he put a ton of effort into the testing for that one. Again probably wasn’t “stolen” but I kinda see why Datto said what he said at the start now
I have a solar titan build with Precious Scars that’s dummy fun. Basically use the melee radiant fragment, and then all the fragments that boost scorch and ignitions, and let the uggo hat do all the healing. Use a good incandescent weapon (Zaoli’s works well), and just blow stuff up while giving everyone heals. I dunno that it’s GM ready, but it’s so low effort and fun, it’s worth a try. I use it in Coils and dungeons/raids - the res over shield is nice, too.
I love using stasis Titan! I feel like to be effective you need to make shards and have all the fragments that give you an overshield or damage resistance. I feel like you need the shatter slide as well, but that's more personal preference. I honestly just enjoy shattering crystals
I actually use a similar build to the first one! Instead of Hoarfrost I use Armamentarium, since it gives more control over where I place my crystals and has less risk involved. I used cryoclasm instead of diamond lance because it was significantly more fun to slide into crystals and remove half the map. It can actually hang in higher level content, since the overwhelming burst dps will nuke champs almost instantly. Very fun build! I use Appetence and Indebted Kindness with it for some extra kick
Oh hey I love the Ruinous builds! Space Jam with Blink/Devour (or stasis lock to help Ruinous because it’s the worst base trace rifle, and it gets a sizable damage bonus on frozen targets) was my fav party loadout before I quit playing the game in season of the deep. Glad more folks get to appreciate it now!
Astrocyte Jam is uniconically really fun in pve, if you blink straight up from in the middle of a crowd you can apply volatile and then slam dunk to absolutely DISINTEGRATE everything in a 2.5 kilometer radius. It feels like an ultrakill combo the way it synergizes to create a massive explosion.
Can we see more of these? I *love* strange theory-crafted build concepts - Sure, they're not "meta" but they really emphasis what Destiny 2 should really be about: build crafting; it's one of THE best parts of the game imo and sadly a lot of creators get so hung up on "the best option available", when plenty of stuff exists that's GOOD, just not broken.
that dawn chorus one is fun with weavewalk, as the burn ticks both increase weavewalk's duration and cause hatchlings to start attacking enemies immediately
Loved the invis Titan/Heartshadow build. Not sure if it's "off-meta" but I love using Titan stasis w/ Veriglass and icefall Mantle. Usually with wave frame and Bump in the night (or Dragon's breath). Spec aspects and fragments so being near crystals reduces damage and crystals cause more damage. I've used it in some Master LS and GMs pretty well.
Hi Datto, one build that i have been having fun with that was talked about in chat (original poster was a twitch user named Xtra) was the Stylish Excecutioner Monte Carlo setup. The goal of the build seems to be to emulate suppressing glaive from the witch queen launch season. To start the chain get a melee kill that procs stylish excecutioner. Then activate the beyonet on Monte and your next stab after the too stylish debuff wears off will weaken and turn you back invis. While invis activate the beyonet again and repeat. The original user that posted the build used khepris sting on hunter for this as they said the damage increase would help get a smokebomb kill. In my testing the 50% increase to the shit damage of smokebomb is still shit damage and found either omnioculus or graviton forfiet to be better for this. The build is extremely fun and if you'd like i can post my dim link.
I have tinkered with a Sanguine Alchemy + Tommy's Matchbook + healing rift build on warlock. Stand in the rift and just fire away, normally the damage you take from the gun cancels out with the rift. You can also add in cure effects from grenade kills, and just endlessly spray bullets like a 1920s mobster.
As a warlock main, I cooked up a very fun PvP strand titan build. It contains arbor warden, the aspect that makes your barricades suspend, the fragment which increases how long suspend lasts, grapple, Necrochasm, and a sniper. Edit: And sometimes if you're lucky, you can throw the barri-nade right on someone and they will take dmg from the barricade and the suspend.
Not quite sure if this has been covered already or how off meta this is, but something I’ve been running quite a bit lately is heirarchy of needs+prometheum spur+mindspun invocation with shackle grenade+weaver’s call. The main fragments that you need are thread of generation and thread of mind. The idea is that you camp in your rift with weaver’s trance and guidance ring and pick off enemies from afar.
With the scorch strand setup, I run something similar, but with Tommy's matchbook, and weavewalk. Because DOTs can pull threadlings whilst you're generating them in the weave.
Blink got buffed to be by default almost as good as it used to be with Astrocyte, now it feels kinda redundant to use that exotic if you aren't using it to get value out of volatile, so from experience I think Transversive is a better exotic, as you can get to the orbs faster and also find and rush into enemies more effectively.
I personally use a Monte Carlo for a weighted knife centric build. Forget what the aspects and fragments are, but it's built around keeping Radiant uptime for as long as possible, trying to get precision kills with the knife because it'll refund the knife, your dodge (which should be Acrobat for more Radiant), and give you Radiant. Pairs nicely with Sixth Coyote, Sealed Ahamkara, and Ophidia Spathe.
Stasis titan with armamentarium and elemental charge... and Quicksilver storm. You can run this set up with wicked implement or Vurglas but I choose to fuse the Darkness subclasses. Dispite the nurfs to grenade kickstart you can still use elemental charge and stacks on stacks to significantly buff your grenade regen by constantly getting 4 armor charges per grenade throw. On top of this you can take advantage of quicksilver storm and to create tangles and your grenades to create lances. Using both of these will help you clear rooms very quickly and control the flow of the battlefield. On top of this having two grenades and a towering Barricade let you make a fort... which is fun and on occasion useful when your teammates inevitably die in a silly place during a GM nightfall.
Devour voidlock, Monte Carlo, Stag, 100+ RES/REC/DIS, and all the ability energy aspects and mods you can find? That's the Ability Uptime build that's been glued to my Warlock since the season started. Retrofit with Target Lock/4th Times, and the Arc Rocket Sidearm with Voltshot make the build stupid fun. You always have an ability to use, devour heals entirely on a kill and extends the timer so it's hard to die if you're cognizant of your surroundings...just stupid, stupid fun. and this season, the only champs i have problems with are Unstops.
It's probably meta, but it's also just fun. I posted a build on your 10 builds for the season video for Solar Warlocks. I used it all last season, and I'll likely be using it all this season. Mantle of Battle Harmony + 100% radiant uptime + potentially 100% restoration uptime.
One of my favorite builds right now is Verity’s Brow & Wavesplitter with a focus of orb generation to continuously feed wavesplitter’s power which feeds back into verity’s.
For me: swap salvation’s grip with finality and use an incandescent elemental. Heavy doesn’t matter but incandescent fixed odds is neat. Goal: same thing. Make crustals, shatter them, profit. Now with explosions. It works in tandem with finality’s whole deal.
My current favorite build is a void hunter support build focused on making the enemies take more damage and to do less damage. I was lucky enough to get a lethal abundance with slice and onslaught so when i dodge i go invisible and after shooting someone they get severed. On top of that with the artifact perks and void subclass fragments picking up an orb of power gives both unraveling rounds and devour. With this i use divinity as my special weapon and i use the single shot tether with the orpheus rig exotic to fire tethers all the time and make orbs for everyone.
Really disappointed to not see Mothkeeper's Wraps here. I've been running them on Strand with the clone and beyblade (Widow's Silk gives you a third grenade, but your uptime is 100% anyway) with Fury, Warding, Generation, and a flexible fourth fragment (Ascent for reloads and stats every time I toss a moth, Evolution for bonus damage from the threadlings from both the artifact and the clone, Propogation for easy Unraveling rounds outside this season's artifact or Continuity for longer unravel/sever from the beyblades/melee. The moths are... surprisingly adept at crowd control as long as you throw them a little pre-emptively? The blind is fantastic and pairs great with Buried Bloodline by outright nuking redbars and softening up orange bars for the instant Devour proc. You can also combine the sever from your melee, the Woven Mail from Warding and the overshield the moths can provide you to just... sit in front of any enemy in the game and not die. And when you get bored of that, just fart out a clone and watch the GM Unstoppable Ogre completely forget about you and try and stomp the scourge of the Crucible. Super fun build- Mothkeeer's feels fantastic when you aren't trying to forcibly pair it with Ex Diris, and Strand Hunter is the perfect catalyst for this flavor of spice.
Salvations grip has quickly become one of my favorite exotics as of late, especially when paired with any wave frame with lead from gold, it cooks in ad dense activities.
as someone who’s been getting incredibly bored with meta builds, i’ve been having a lot of fun making more off meta stuff work well in things like GMs, probably some of my favorite things to do
Not sure if it counts as "off-meta" but I haven't seen anyone else doing it: on my Strand Warlock, I was pairing Monte Carlo, Swarmers, The Wanderer, and Weavewalk. Monte Carlo keeps my melee charges topped off for normal use as well as Weavewalk, Swarmers and The Wanderer combine for suspending Tangle detonations that also release Threadlings, and make Threadlings unravel to create more Tangles. Threadling grenade and Weavewalk just add to the Threadling horde. Threads of Generation and Evolution are both great, and I topped it off with Continuity and Finality (could probably swap Finality out for something else but hey, free Threadlings). As long as you can manage your Tangle cooldown to keep getting more, you just keep chucking suspending Threadling bombs at stuff, then use your grenade and Weavewalk to add even more Threadlings (plus good survivability from Weavewalk) while Monte Carlo keeps your melee topped off for however you choose to use it. I've not only had a lot of fun with it but it's probably the strongest build I have on Warlock.
I run something very similar to the first build! I replace hoarfrost with Precious Scars or CRL and use a Demo+Headstone Horror Story and Indebted Kindness. I feel that Scars does a pretty adequate job of giving you just enough survivability to stay in the fight even when the content gets a lot harder. Indebted does an amazing job at taking out beefier enemies while being ammo efficient, and Horror Story makes an absolute joke of your grenade cooldown. I went from being a Void main to Stasis Main over the course of this year and I'm so excited for the rework which I hope we get before Final Shape.
The second build, you were supposed to use "weavewalk" instead one of the other aspects and and the "thread of evolution" fragment. How it works: -Tag the enemies with scorch, weavewalk, scorch again for melee energy with Dawn chorus. Repeat You spam threadlings. Take 90%dr in pve. And scorch from gun; tagging enemies for threadlings to jump out and attack them.
With the changes made to heartshadow, Gyrfalcon's is a super viable build with it, since it does enough damage to trigger barrier shields, but immediately makes you invis and gives the sword volatile to pop it immediately.
Okay hear me out: a support warlock build not on solar or void or strand or stasis, but on arc without Coldheart. This build is based on fallen sun Star and nezarecs whisper. Nezarec’s whisper is to both up keep amplified and a shield and healing. Fallen sun Star is to feed both you and your allys abilities and they don’t need to be on arc. You can use anything the other two slots. You should use arc soul ofc bc it’s good ofc and good in endgame. Very basic build but the potential of ability spam from both you and your allys and to become a walking tank at a moments notice with the Glaive in addition to giving yourself amplified to dip out of dangerous situations allows you to play very aggressively while also supporting your team and in gms allows you to get some of the most ridiculous rezes especially with the correct fragments. Cannot recommend this build enough. So fucking fun, and I say this as someone who isn’t a big warlock fan.
so i do have a build, play titan use aeon safe with sect of vigor, strand with banner of war, into the fray. Have thread of transmutation, thread of wisdom, thread of warding and thread of generation, have shackle grenades and rally barricade. The only required weapon is vexcalibur, its a very heavy support role build but instead of using banner of war for myself i use it for teammates since when they get kills within the banner the duration get increased. Aeons give a 2x resist when they are low heath and swap to vexcalibur to give them and myself overshield and tangles giving woven mail (btw they stack). but i do suggest having lucent blade and void reverses/holster/surge, and proximity ward and dont be too aggressive let teammates do the heavy lifting
finally built my first custom loadout for myself only about a month ago and been playing Destiny for 8+ years now. PvE build for fun (good for first 2 rounds of coil) that works around the least used hunter mechanic in the game - stasis shuriken Ager's Scepter / Sixth Coyote / coldsnap gernades / grim harvest / touch of winter / fissures, bonds, rime, shards, conduction everything else is pretty much up to player preference the whole idea behind the build is freeze everything / have fun / throw SO MANY shuriken Also yes noted this post will get lost but its my first ever personal build so wanted to share - also worth noting this build is not perfected so weapons and fragments are still being toyed with for more shuriken fun yall have a lovely day - see ya star side
I run the Hoarfrost build but without Salvation’s Grip and with Howl of the Storm. You don’t need Stasis crystals coming out the wazoo when your abilities already generate a ton of them, so your add clear is just your abilities and your primary weapon. Your special and heavy weapons should be dedicated to boss damage.
I have an arc titan that uses fists and DARCI to stun practically every thing. darci usually helps put down overloads when ur out of special on a voltshot weapon or at range. not designed for incredible dps, but it is somewhat ok for multipurpose use
I remember a much older version of the heartshadow peregrine, where it used bulwark's damage bonus, and elemental wells (arc from finisher to give bonus damage) to get enough for finisher range, which is a much tighter loop. I should try it again with the buff, looks promising with not needing to worry about melee energy as much
if you liked ruinous effigy, id recommend trying it out with strand as well. you can grapple while holding the ball and dunk from the air, and its so much fun once you get the hang of it lol. liked the video datto!
It warms my heart that people still believe in Salvation's Grip. It's one of my top three personal favourite exotics to keep. That, and the Verglas Curve build now has given me hope.
I feel so conflicted, I always appreciate that datto makes great videos, he’s not looking to put in a bunch of filler and makes the best tightest scripted destiny content. But with the coming drought I definitely feel like I’d take a dip in quality just so datto can make more videos. Not saying to take it this far but I feel like most content creators would have turned this into like 3-4 videos. The quality is great but I’d be down to turn something like this into 2 videos. Either way please continue this series it’s great to watch
One of my favorite builds for ✨visual stimulation✨ is stasis titan with armamentarium and salvations grip. I use salvager’s salvo (and non-wave special GL should work too) because if you line it up right, you can shatter all of salvation’s charged shot crystals with one special GL shot. Lots of fun explosions
Hey Strand Warlock with Dawn Chorus might've been spitting now that Prismatic is coming. Also as a Titan main who loves stasis, instead of Hoarfrost, I run Precious Scars. Grants teammates Restoration and heals you too. Really fun
Voidlock, veritys brow, vortex nades, travelers chosen, feed the void and chaos accelerant. Throw nade to proc osmosis and devour and volatile rounds, kill 5 enemies and boom you have a baby nova bomb, rinse and repeat. Graviton lance also works but TC gives you a little fall back if for some reason your loop for getting nades back with veritys and devour dont work.
I run a solar hunter boom knife build. Get a knife kill I get the knife back. Aspects = knock em down and on your mark Embers = torches, mercy, combustion, wonder, resolve Monte carlo for if I miss the knife. Assasins cowl to be invisible the whole time. Armor mods I'm too lazy to type out.
I dont see anyone running it, but its so fun. wirling maelstrom +assasins cowl = the unseen beyblade master. Fragments/mods for melee regen, and a grapple for an extra sourse of melee kills, and youre invis all the time. you can perfectly place your beblades in high-end content without worrying about being immediately sniped. The only downside is that blueberries steal your Beyblades like they are the playground monitor in 5th grade.
So my warlocks primary base form has always been rat king and karnstein. Absolutely fantastic. But the one that actually surprised me was the final one because that is essentially my warlocks void build but I use it for pve. I used to combine that with warmind cells and essentially any enemy in the game I could blind and still can. The movement is crazy and the orbs generated give me health, blind enemies and the dunk is pretty powerful. Blinking out of a group of enemies making them all volatile and coming right back to dunk....oh. the explosions. 🥰
Verglas and Stasis Hunter is my absolute fave. I usually use Frostee5 with it to just get more crystals via my grenade, but mayhaps I'll try Bakris for a little while
Pyrogale not with dragons breath, but tommys matchbook. Get that resto, and use throwing hammer to get your stacks of roaring flames for the dmg. Pretty well balanced in terms of survivability to damage, with ease of use. Tommys shreds with the x2 from its burn mode, radiant and surge mods it never runs out of damage boosting sources.
For the stasis Titan build I have some notes on ways to optimize and differentiate the build, I call my build Icebreaker. The key main differences to my build is instead of running a shotgun I run Kelgorath’s Glaive and the Fire & Forget linear fusion. Why run a Glaive and why specifically Kelgorath? Well for one I like to use the Glaive as an alternate form to melee, incase I don’t want to go flying or save it for a group a crystals further away, also normal glaives suck for breaking crystals, taking 2 hits instead of the one uncharged melee except for Kelgorath that has the Hakke origin trait. With said origin trait, crystals can be broken in 1 smack vs the sluggish 2 smacks. Add on close to melee and demolitionist, and you’re cooking. In terms of fire and forget, I tend to use it as my single target damage weapon, I have a meme roll that uses Chillclip headstone, but you could always put better perks. However the reason I put chill clip headstone is that it works with the build and also helps slow further away enemies and champions. Yes I’m not able to generate the same suite that salvations grip provides.
Honestly, I’ve been using the kehpri’s void titan build for a while now, but with tommy’s matchbook, and i think it works fairly well. They balance each other out.
Anyone wanting to do the Skyburner's build, it is significantly better with prismatic now. Just look up any prismatic dawn chorus build, and replace the energy weapon with skyburners. Pretty strong too.
Question Datto, On your astrocyte Warlock build for PvP, what was your stat distribution? I wanna give that build a try. I know to shoot for 100 recovery. But what’s the second stat you built for? Did you shoot for 100 mobility since that exotic boosts blink and blink keeps you very mobile. Or 100 discipline since that’s always a safe option? Or maybe 100 resilience since that helps you take more damages to get close enough to detonate the orb?
Just seen this - had been running a devour warlock build with Nazerecs Sin, Oesteo Striga, extended void effects - 15 sec devour and constant ability recharging. Build good enough for solo dungeons.
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Glad (for once) that I didn’t skip that ad read. Well done on keeping me as a RUclips Premium subscriber listening and entertained through it. 👏 👏 👏
Datto might be the only creator that I don't actively skip through ads. There's too many gems like "meta this, meta that, when was the last time you met a girl?"
Thanks for trying my dunk build❤️
Always happy to see some fresh ads from Ady Datto !! 🥳🎉
god i hate sponsors
"Meta this, meta that... when was the last time you MET A girl" bro😭😭😭
shit had me rolling
This man cooked an entire community. This should be movie of the week.
Couldn't help but read this line in Rhulks voice. The ad read was cool too I guess, once I got to it.
I’m a girl and still called out 😭
All 12 of us Heartshadow fans have finally been given some recognition.
Ong I been using this build for a minute
I'd like to try it if only the dungeon dropped it
I’m going to try this one out!
One of the better applications of Heartshadow is Crota; if nobody brought Tractor Cannon (or if you just wanna use this to extend someone else's Tractor Cannon) you can do a Heartshadow heavy attack into an aggressive shotgun shot and then back to Heartshadow for another heavy to perma-weaken Crota and do reasonable-ish damage at the same time. Shoutouts to Aegis for pioneering that one.
@@diegocj02bruh fr fr the rng in this game is cursed
I love Salvation's Grip now. With a Wave frame it's just bowling with Ice.
I initially read this as blowing with ice and it made me think of her...😢
Its pretty cool gun! What do you run it with?
You run dimensional hyper whatever it is? The heavy stasis wave frame?
@@zachstinnett5475how would that work if they have the HEAVY exotic on?
in my experience wave frames shatter one crystal and then the wave proceeds to cease to exist lmao
That meta transition is probably my favorite ad sponsorship I've ever seen
I hope we as a community use this time to Get Silly With It. Feels like we used to get silly with it more often but then the content mill took over. This is a great start.
Totally not me fanboying over getting into a Datto video with the Heartshadow build.
(Build is from Selfu back in season of the seraph, adapted for the new armor mods and Greaves buff this season)
Definitely was one of the more surprising and unique builds selfies made
Congrats and you have good taste
Waiting for Selfu to come back. Man went away again after showing up for Craftening.
Datto doing the sponsored bit like jez now is amazing
I did use weavewalk with the dawn chorus build before it was nerfed(they nerfed threadlings/NTTE turret dmg when you are in weavewalk), you tag the enemy with sky-burner then enter the weave, the scorch ticks deploy perched threadling, the scorch ticks also regenerate melee energy.
You will always have full melee as long as you dont over use it+ have invis/dmg reduction on command.
For Gambit, I have the invader build that I use all the time.
Ruinous Effigy, Wanderer Tangle, Eager Edge sword. The idea is to prep up whatever ball you want or need before invading. Then you use either Ruinous to dunk on people you see close to the bank, using your grapple to catch them off guard. Or you use a tangle to fly across the map and hunt them down
Dude! I wanted this video to be twice as long! These are such fun videos that the community have been posting and I want more.
6:58 Isn't Circadian_Wolf the guy that helps Myelin Games with his lore videos? The dude is one of the best lore masters I've ever come across. The guy knows things.
I knew I recognized that tag! Good eye
buried bloodline for devour, hoil for regen, stasis titan with cryoclasm and either lance or shard on shatter.
get devour up, then start chucking nades, slide to break, then barricade / lance / melee something to get the nade regen flowing while you kill things with your gun, then do it all over again.
alternatively, bloodline + armamentarium + shards + leg mod that grants armor charge on subclass pickup + nade kickstart.
very kill heavy to keep going but throwing glacier nades and sliding into them like a human bowling ball is tons of fun
Just wait until people find out about my strand hunter build with graviton forfeit and rat king
I have a funni Strand Hunter build with Stompies for PvE, the exotic weapon of choice isn't really off meta, but I'd say the build and playstyle kinda is, especially for it being PvE and not PvP
Rats
@@jackr.t.4459 if you havent tried it, you should try manticore with stompees in pve, that airborne dr should work with the floaty mechanic it has, and the catalyst also gives dr on kill
Invis and beyblades?
You WHAT!?
I've been using a stasis titan setup with Cadmus Ridge Lancecap and Wicked Implement (with diamond lance, rally barricade, and the Wicked catalyst, ofc). Against other builds idk how it would compare but the build carried me through pretty much any GM after the nerf to Strand suspend.
That's gonna be way better after the TFS buffs too.
i present to you one of the builds of all time: "oops! all overshields!"
as the name suggests the goal is to be able to get an overshield from every weapon and ability equipped. if it wasn't already obvious this is a void titan build. this is not what i would call an endgame build. or a pvp build. or a particularly useful build.
aspects: bastion + offensive bulwark
fragments: can't remember the fragment names off the top of my head (will maybe update after i wake up (its 1am in my time zone))
melee: throwing shield
grenade: vortex grenade (applies weaken with the proper fragment)
class ability: whichever barricade you prefer
exotic armor: no backup plans (armor mods aren't super important across the board so run whatever you feel like)
kinetic slot: a (legendary) shotgun of your choice (1-2 punch recommended for punching reasons)
energy slot: vexcalibur (catalyst optional, but i personally use grave robber)
power slot: any (legendary) weapon with repulsor brace (for example, the regnant heavy grenade launcher (regnant can also have destabilizing rounds, so probably run that in the other column))
with this, you can get an overshield from 1) your barricade, 2) your (charged) melee, 3) your kinetic slot, 4) your energy slot, and 5) your power slot (provided whatever is blown up is weakened/volatile first (being able to apply weaken with a grenade helps)). ironically, you don't get an overshield with bubble (the super i usually use with this build) unless you wear the helm of saint-14 (i think).
"but," i hear you ask, "why?" the answer is twofold: having an overshield speeds up your grenade recharge rate, allowing you to weaken chunky enemies more frequently. more importantly, though, having an overshield gives you a ~25% damage boost (i think) to both your shotgun and vexcalibur melee. Getting kills with either also refills your overshield and refreshes the timer (up to 15 seconds with the fragment). this was definitely better when double special was a thing, but probably still works fine overall (i haven't played the game in months). if it doesn't, switch out the kinetic slot with a weapon of your choice and the exotic armor to whatever you prefer, as, at least for me, vexcalibur is used more in the build, since being able to guard with the glaive provides a quick and easy way to get a bit of overshield, which is all you need to gain the benefits listed above (though i am biased as a glaive enjoyer).
as an added bonus you become purple. barricades and guarding with vexcalibur also make your allies purple. this is good because purple is the best color.
I’m an average player who always struggled with lost sectors.
Tried the heartshadow build and I’m in love. Never completed lost sectors more efficiently. Had a ton of fun with it.
Thanks whoever suggested it in this video.
Arc-lock, The Stag, arc weapons (Delicate Tomb or Grand Overture, depending on if you want ad clear or DPS), spec for maximum traces. Nothing crazy, just constant rifts with souls and 25% damage reduction. A fantastic utility option people aren't using. Another Warlock option, again not too convoluted - Strand-lock, Karnsteins, Vexcalibur - strand suspend, solar cure and resto, void overshields off the glaive; glaive melee kills cause 3x cure and procs resto; use the obvious melee etc mods and the obvious Strand artifact mods this season.
I personally like to combine the two types of turrets we have in D2 (Bleak Watcher and Edge of Intent) along with Osmiomancy Gloves, Iceflare Bolts, and just the fastest grenade regen and as many special ammo finders to fill up the battlefield with healing and freezing turrets
I call it "Winter's Remedy"
I got you a build that I really love! It’s called Fast As F*** with Friends and it’s a Lumina and Speedloaders on a solar subclass. After dodging near a teammate for a bit of extra stats, get a kill with lumina and shoot your friend. Rinse and repeat for up to an additional 50 AE, 55 handling and reload speed, 0.89 reload modifier and 35% more damage basically all the time for you and your friends. It does feel like a bit of work to pull off but with a healing grenade and the dodge that gives you radiant on a solar special weapon kill (I use a judgement of kelgorath with incandescent and demo for the upped healing grenade charge but it’s just preference), you can just keep up 55% increased damage and a ton of handling and reload speed (which really offsets the whole, “having a heavy clunky glaive” thing) basically for free. The only issue with this build is that it doesn’t really work solo, good luck proccing lumina on yourself, but yeah have fun with this, it’s one of my favorite builds ☺️
6:26 Try swapping in the Weavewalk aspect, since it uses Melee Energy. Also the scorch ticks triggers the threadligns you generate while in weavewalk :)
When I want to mix things up a bit I play with the exotic SMG 'The Manticore' combined with the Titan Leg Armor 'Lion Rampant' and damn near spend more time in the air than on the ground. Obviously I'd never waltz into a Raid/Dungeon or GM nightfall with this set up but its fun to use when patrolling or doing low level strikes from the Vanguard list.
Verglas + envious assassin on waveframe. Shoot crystals, swap to waveframe, shoot and swap back to bow. Kills reload with envious and charge the crystals back
8:15 : "I also wasn't getting back as much class ability energy as I feel like I should have been getting, it felt like I needed too many kills"
*PROCEEDS TO GET HIS WALL BACK IN 5 KILLS*
Assassin's Cowl on Threadrunner PVE. That's it, that's the build. You get all the Strand hunter goodies like Woven Mail and Grapple and Whirling Maelstrom while also getting like 70% of the safety benefits a Nightstalker would have via grapple melee or regular powered melee kills or finishers. The artifact was mega conducive to it last season because Whirling Maelstrom printed ammo combined with Elemental Armaments (even after that interaction was nerfed), but it may still scratch an itch this season. Great for encounters where getting from point A to B is a big part of the challenge like Abyss or Exhibition. Just don't catch the rope dart unless you're okay breaking invis.
Used to also be great for GMs due to the aforementioned artifact perk last season, but I'm not sure it's as worth it now that it's gone. Whirling Maelstrom is kinda like Witherhoard in that you just set it down in a pack of enemies and it'll kill them all even if you have to take cover, and between grapple and invis you're reasonably decent at rescuing dead teammates.
Might also be a fun PVP setup, but there are a million ways to do Threadrunner PVP right now and some are pretty dominant, so idk about that one.
I have a pvp build that I consider off meta since I'm probably the only hunter who plays strand in pvp without threadlings or threaded spectre. Also, I've never ran into anyone using it against me.
Spoiler: It's literally just my strand PvE build but in PvP.
Grapple grenade
Whirling Maelstrom + Widow's Silk
Fragments: Ascent, Generation, Binding, Transmutation
Exotic: Cyrtarachne's Facade
Primary: Any strand primary you like. Quicksilver is accessible enough but the iron banner strand auto is nice too. Personally I use Rufus' Fury.
Secondary: Your favorite shotgun/glaive
Gameplay: Aggressive. You exist to do 2 things: make tangles and grapple melee anything that moves.
Every time you grapple you get woven mail, even if you just quickly tap and cancel it to leave a grapple point. Any kill with woven mail active spawns a tangle. Grab the tangle, throw it into a crowd while grappling onto it to fly through the map and melee whoever is in your way. Survivors of the melee are to be executed via shotgun/glaive or they will die to the maelstrom if they don't move quick enough. The tangles, Whirling Maelstrom and the grapple points all serve to keep up your grapple usage as you can grapple to them with no cost. This will ensure you have woven mail, tangles, maelstroms and melee kills all game.
Your -whirling maelstroms- green beyblades of death are not to be underestimated either. If you can't make it to a tangle to pick it up, shoot it to have it roam around after any neaby enemies. Note that while you can't pick up enemy tangles, you can shoot shoot them to spawn your own green beyblade.
Here's my off-meta GM Arc Warlock using Rat King, Vesper of Radius, and a Glaive.
Subclass: Chaos Reach, Arc Soul/Lightning Surge, Electrostatic Mind, Blinding Grenade
Aspects: Beacons, Resistance, Brilliance, Amplitude (Shock and/or Focus work too).
Weapons: Rat King, Albedo Wing (Replenishing Aegis + Lead from Gold) (or approx.), Hot Head/Arc DPS Heavy
Mods: literally anything for high Resilience/Recovery, Insulation on boots, plus maybe a Utility Finisher + Charged Up + Damage mods
Exotic: Vesper of Radius
Gameplan is throwing down Blinding Wells at enemy spawn points, slaying with Rat King to become Amplified (slaying arc debuffed (blinded) targets), cause Health Regen, and become Invisible. From here you can use Glaive to explode Thrall level enemies, Blinding their larger allies, and gaining even more rift energy from Insulation + VoR's innate perk. Find the next add spawn, throw down a rift, clean with Rat King, and probably get your new rift back before your last one left from the double orb pickup of Kinetic Siphon + Spark of Amplitude going into Insulation.
You have Invisibility, Glaive Shield, and Blinding to get you out of trouble, to Rez allies, and all chain into each other meaning you can blind entire floors of adds from thrall up to Unstoppable Ogres!
At first I was like “man there are only so many set ups in destiny there is going to be crossover, worrying about stealing builds isn’t a huge deal”
Then I saw the dawn chorus strand setup, which I wish I remembered the guy who originally posted it but he put a ton of effort into the testing for that one. Again probably wasn’t “stolen” but I kinda see why Datto said what he said at the start now
I have a solar titan build with Precious Scars that’s dummy fun. Basically use the melee radiant fragment, and then all the fragments that boost scorch and ignitions, and let the uggo hat do all the healing. Use a good incandescent weapon (Zaoli’s works well), and just blow stuff up while giving everyone heals.
I dunno that it’s GM ready, but it’s so low effort and fun, it’s worth a try. I use it in Coils and dungeons/raids - the res over shield is nice, too.
I love using stasis Titan! I feel like to be effective you need to make shards and have all the fragments that give you an overshield or damage resistance. I feel like you need the shatter slide as well, but that's more personal preference. I honestly just enjoy shattering crystals
Cool to see some love for Ruinous Effigy. There's something so satisfying about dunking orbs with it for fun
Stasis Hunter, Radiant Dance Machines, Gambler's Dodge, you fill in the blanks.
Dodge, shuriken spam, freeze everything. There's your build.
I actually use a similar build to the first one! Instead of Hoarfrost I use Armamentarium, since it gives more control over where I place my crystals and has less risk involved. I used cryoclasm instead of diamond lance because it was significantly more fun to slide into crystals and remove half the map. It can actually hang in higher level content, since the overwhelming burst dps will nuke champs almost instantly. Very fun build! I use Appetence and Indebted Kindness with it for some extra kick
oh im definitely trying this one out
Oh hey I love the Ruinous builds! Space Jam with Blink/Devour (or stasis lock to help Ruinous because it’s the worst base trace rifle, and it gets a sizable damage bonus on frozen targets) was my fav party loadout before I quit playing the game in season of the deep. Glad more folks get to appreciate it now!
Astrocyte Jam is uniconically really fun in pve, if you blink straight up from in the middle of a crowd you can apply volatile and then slam dunk to absolutely DISINTEGRATE everything in a 2.5 kilometer radius. It feels like an ultrakill combo the way it synergizes to create a massive explosion.
Can we see more of these? I *love* strange theory-crafted build concepts - Sure, they're not "meta" but they really emphasis what Destiny 2 should really be about: build crafting; it's one of THE best parts of the game imo and sadly a lot of creators get so hung up on "the best option available", when plenty of stuff exists that's GOOD, just not broken.
that dawn chorus one is fun with weavewalk, as the burn ticks both increase weavewalk's duration and cause hatchlings to start attacking enemies immediately
Bungie nerfed that exploit a while back, it doesn’t work anymore.
Loved the invis Titan/Heartshadow build. Not sure if it's "off-meta" but I love using Titan stasis w/ Veriglass and icefall Mantle. Usually with wave frame and Bump in the night (or Dragon's breath). Spec aspects and fragments so being near crystals reduces damage and crystals cause more damage. I've used it in some Master LS and GMs pretty well.
Hi Datto, one build that i have been having fun with that was talked about in chat (original poster was a twitch user named Xtra) was the Stylish Excecutioner Monte Carlo setup. The goal of the build seems to be to emulate suppressing glaive from the witch queen launch season.
To start the chain get a melee kill that procs stylish excecutioner. Then activate the beyonet on Monte and your next stab after the too stylish debuff wears off will weaken and turn you back invis. While invis activate the beyonet again and repeat.
The original user that posted the build used khepris sting on hunter for this as they said the damage increase would help get a smokebomb kill. In my testing the 50% increase to the shit damage of smokebomb is still shit damage and found either omnioculus or graviton forfiet to be better for this.
The build is extremely fun and if you'd like i can post my dim link.
I have tinkered with a Sanguine Alchemy + Tommy's Matchbook + healing rift build on warlock. Stand in the rift and just fire away, normally the damage you take from the gun cancels out with the rift. You can also add in cure effects from grenade kills, and just endlessly spray bullets like a 1920s mobster.
@TDT the ole "glock and balls" for the ruinus effigy
As a warlock main, I cooked up a very fun PvP strand titan build. It contains arbor warden, the aspect that makes your barricades suspend, the fragment which increases how long suspend lasts, grapple, Necrochasm, and a sniper.
Edit: And sometimes if you're lucky, you can throw the barri-nade right on someone and they will take dmg from the barricade and the suspend.
Not quite sure if this has been covered already or how off meta this is, but something I’ve been running quite a bit lately is heirarchy of needs+prometheum spur+mindspun invocation with shackle grenade+weaver’s call. The main fragments that you need are thread of generation and thread of mind. The idea is that you camp in your rift with weaver’s trance and guidance ring and pick off enemies from afar.
With the scorch strand setup, I run something similar, but with Tommy's matchbook, and weavewalk. Because DOTs can pull threadlings whilst you're generating them in the weave.
Blink got buffed to be by default almost as good as it used to be with Astrocyte, now it feels kinda redundant to use that exotic if you aren't using it to get value out of volatile, so from experience I think Transversive is a better exotic, as you can get to the orbs faster and also find and rush into enemies more effectively.
You still want Astrocyte for the handling depending on your guns.
And Astrocyte still makes your Blink go further, that didn't go away.
😂
I personally use a Monte Carlo for a weighted knife centric build. Forget what the aspects and fragments are, but it's built around keeping Radiant uptime for as long as possible, trying to get precision kills with the knife because it'll refund the knife, your dodge (which should be Acrobat for more Radiant), and give you Radiant. Pairs nicely with Sixth Coyote, Sealed Ahamkara, and Ophidia Spathe.
The Void Titan with heart shadow looks realy fun, might give a try and the stasis hunter as well.
I've been waiting so long for any kind of modern Ruinous Effigy build or review
So, I really liked the hunter stasis bow build. It`s so much fun in master raids. I believe in master dungeons it will be so nice too
Stasis titan with armamentarium and elemental charge... and Quicksilver storm. You can run this set up with wicked implement or Vurglas but I choose to fuse the Darkness subclasses.
Dispite the nurfs to grenade kickstart you can still use elemental charge and stacks on stacks to significantly buff your grenade regen by constantly getting 4 armor charges per grenade throw.
On top of this you can take advantage of quicksilver storm and to create tangles and your grenades to create lances. Using both of these will help you clear rooms very quickly and control the flow of the battlefield. On top of this having two grenades and a towering Barricade let you make a fort... which is fun and on occasion useful when your teammates inevitably die in a silly place during a GM nightfall.
PLEASE make more of these videos, these builds are so fun. The heartshadow especially.
Devour voidlock, Monte Carlo, Stag, 100+ RES/REC/DIS, and all the ability energy aspects and mods you can find? That's the Ability Uptime build that's been glued to my Warlock since the season started. Retrofit with Target Lock/4th Times, and the Arc Rocket Sidearm with Voltshot make the build stupid fun. You always have an ability to use, devour heals entirely on a kill and extends the timer so it's hard to die if you're cognizant of your surroundings...just stupid, stupid fun. and this season, the only champs i have problems with are Unstops.
It's probably meta, but it's also just fun. I posted a build on your 10 builds for the season video for Solar Warlocks. I used it all last season, and I'll likely be using it all this season. Mantle of Battle Harmony + 100% radiant uptime + potentially 100% restoration uptime.
One of my favorite builds right now is Verity’s Brow & Wavesplitter with a focus of orb generation to continuously feed wavesplitter’s power which feeds back into verity’s.
these are my new favourite kinds of content creator videos because each chat is uniquely insane
For me: swap salvation’s grip with finality and use an incandescent elemental. Heavy doesn’t matter but incandescent fixed odds is neat. Goal: same thing. Make crustals, shatter them, profit. Now with explosions. It works in tandem with finality’s whole deal.
My word hearing datto say "I used to use stasis a couple of years ago" REALLY puts it into perspective on how long ago stasis came out
My current favorite build is a void hunter support build focused on making the enemies take more damage and to do less damage. I was lucky enough to get a lethal abundance with slice and onslaught so when i dodge i go invisible and after shooting someone they get severed. On top of that with the artifact perks and void subclass fragments picking up an orb of power gives both unraveling rounds and devour. With this i use divinity as my special weapon and i use the single shot tether with the orpheus rig exotic to fire tethers all the time and make orbs for everyone.
Really disappointed to not see Mothkeeper's Wraps here. I've been running them on Strand with the clone and beyblade (Widow's Silk gives you a third grenade, but your uptime is 100% anyway) with Fury, Warding, Generation, and a flexible fourth fragment (Ascent for reloads and stats every time I toss a moth, Evolution for bonus damage from the threadlings from both the artifact and the clone, Propogation for easy Unraveling rounds outside this season's artifact or Continuity for longer unravel/sever from the beyblades/melee.
The moths are... surprisingly adept at crowd control as long as you throw them a little pre-emptively? The blind is fantastic and pairs great with Buried Bloodline by outright nuking redbars and softening up orange bars for the instant Devour proc. You can also combine the sever from your melee, the Woven Mail from Warding and the overshield the moths can provide you to just... sit in front of any enemy in the game and not die. And when you get bored of that, just fart out a clone and watch the GM Unstoppable Ogre completely forget about you and try and stomp the scourge of the Crucible.
Super fun build- Mothkeeer's feels fantastic when you aren't trying to forcibly pair it with Ex Diris, and Strand Hunter is the perfect catalyst for this flavor of spice.
Great build man!
Salvations grip has quickly become one of my favorite exotics as of late, especially when paired with any wave frame with lead from gold, it cooks in ad dense activities.
as someone who’s been getting incredibly bored with meta builds, i’ve been having a lot of fun making more off meta stuff work well in things like GMs, probably some of my favorite things to do
Not sure if it counts as "off-meta" but I haven't seen anyone else doing it: on my Strand Warlock, I was pairing Monte Carlo, Swarmers, The Wanderer, and Weavewalk. Monte Carlo keeps my melee charges topped off for normal use as well as Weavewalk, Swarmers and The Wanderer combine for suspending Tangle detonations that also release Threadlings, and make Threadlings unravel to create more Tangles. Threadling grenade and Weavewalk just add to the Threadling horde. Threads of Generation and Evolution are both great, and I topped it off with Continuity and Finality (could probably swap Finality out for something else but hey, free Threadlings). As long as you can manage your Tangle cooldown to keep getting more, you just keep chucking suspending Threadling bombs at stuff, then use your grenade and Weavewalk to add even more Threadlings (plus good survivability from Weavewalk) while Monte Carlo keeps your melee topped off for however you choose to use it. I've not only had a lot of fun with it but it's probably the strongest build I have on Warlock.
I run something very similar to the first build! I replace hoarfrost with Precious Scars or CRL and use a Demo+Headstone Horror Story and Indebted Kindness. I feel that Scars does a pretty adequate job of giving you just enough survivability to stay in the fight even when the content gets a lot harder. Indebted does an amazing job at taking out beefier enemies while being ammo efficient, and Horror Story makes an absolute joke of your grenade cooldown. I went from being a Void main to Stasis Main over the course of this year and I'm so excited for the rework which I hope we get before Final Shape.
The second build, you were supposed to use "weavewalk" instead one of the other aspects and and the "thread of evolution" fragment.
How it works:
-Tag the enemies with scorch, weavewalk, scorch again for melee energy with Dawn chorus. Repeat
You spam threadlings. Take 90%dr in pve. And scorch from gun; tagging enemies for threadlings to jump out and attack them.
I keep seeing people leaving comments like this despite the fact that Bungie nerfed that exploit a while back, it doesn’t work anymore.
Super glad for this video. Could use some new builds to start having fun again during this downtime
With the changes made to heartshadow, Gyrfalcon's is a super viable build with it, since it does enough damage to trigger barrier shields, but immediately makes you invis and gives the sword volatile to pop it immediately.
Okay hear me out: a support warlock build not on solar or void or strand or stasis, but on arc without Coldheart. This build is based on fallen sun Star and nezarecs whisper. Nezarec’s whisper is to both up keep amplified and a shield and healing. Fallen sun Star is to feed both you and your allys abilities and they don’t need to be on arc. You can use anything the other two slots. You should use arc soul ofc bc it’s good ofc and good in endgame. Very basic build but the potential of ability spam from both you and your allys and to become a walking tank at a moments notice with the Glaive in addition to giving yourself amplified to dip out of dangerous situations allows you to play very aggressively while also supporting your team and in gms allows you to get some of the most ridiculous rezes especially with the correct fragments. Cannot recommend this build enough. So fucking fun, and I say this as someone who isn’t a big warlock fan.
so i do have a build, play titan use aeon safe with sect of vigor, strand with banner of war, into the fray.
Have thread of transmutation, thread of wisdom, thread of warding and thread of generation, have shackle grenades and rally barricade.
The only required weapon is vexcalibur, its a very heavy support role build but instead of using banner of war for myself i use it for teammates since when they get kills within the banner the duration get increased. Aeons give a 2x resist when they are low heath and swap to vexcalibur to give them and myself overshield and tangles giving woven mail (btw they stack). but i do suggest having lucent blade and void reverses/holster/surge, and proximity ward and dont be too aggressive let teammates do the heavy lifting
That Ruinous Effigy build is great. I tried it in a Rumble once a long time ago and fell in love.
finally built my first custom loadout for myself only about a month ago and been playing Destiny for 8+ years now.
PvE build for fun (good for first 2 rounds of coil) that works around the least used hunter mechanic in the game - stasis shuriken
Ager's Scepter / Sixth Coyote / coldsnap gernades / grim harvest / touch of winter / fissures, bonds, rime, shards, conduction
everything else is pretty much up to player preference
the whole idea behind the build is freeze everything / have fun / throw SO MANY shuriken
Also yes noted this post will get lost but its my first ever personal build so wanted to share - also worth noting this build is not perfected so weapons and fragments are still being toyed with for more shuriken fun
yall have a lovely day - see ya star side
Datto PLEASE do more of these build showcases. Love it.
I run the Hoarfrost build but without Salvation’s Grip and with Howl of the Storm. You don’t need Stasis crystals coming out the wazoo when your abilities already generate a ton of them, so your add clear is just your abilities and your primary weapon. Your special and heavy weapons should be dedicated to boss damage.
I have an arc titan that uses fists and DARCI to stun practically every thing. darci usually helps put down overloads when ur out of special on a voltshot weapon or at range. not designed for incredible dps, but it is somewhat ok for multipurpose use
the verglass/indebted kindness combo works on all classes. it just feels so good and you never really have to swap it out
I like these kinda off brand vids recently
I remember a much older version of the heartshadow peregrine, where it used bulwark's damage bonus, and elemental wells (arc from finisher to give bonus damage) to get enough for finisher range, which is a much tighter loop. I should try it again with the buff, looks promising with not needing to worry about melee energy as much
if you liked ruinous effigy, id recommend trying it out with strand as well. you can grapple while holding the ball and dunk from the air, and its so much fun once you get the hang of it lol. liked the video datto!
It warms my heart that people still believe in Salvation's Grip. It's one of my top three personal favourite exotics to keep.
That, and the Verglas Curve build now has given me hope.
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Every day, Datto drifts ever closer to maximum Dadage.
The Verglas build but swapping Bakris for Renewals and making sure to have the “crystal shatter gives grenade regen” is my build for the season
I feel so conflicted, I always appreciate that datto makes great videos, he’s not looking to put in a bunch of filler and makes the best tightest scripted destiny content. But with the coming drought I definitely feel like I’d take a dip in quality just so datto can make more videos. Not saying to take it this far but I feel like most content creators would have turned this into like 3-4 videos. The quality is great but I’d be down to turn something like this into 2 videos. Either way please continue this series it’s great to watch
One of my favorite builds for ✨visual stimulation✨ is stasis titan with armamentarium and salvations grip. I use salvager’s salvo (and non-wave special GL should work too) because if you line it up right, you can shatter all of salvation’s charged shot crystals with one special GL shot. Lots of fun explosions
Hey Strand Warlock with Dawn Chorus might've been spitting now that Prismatic is coming. Also as a Titan main who loves stasis, instead of Hoarfrost, I run Precious Scars. Grants teammates Restoration and heals you too. Really fun
Voidlock, veritys brow, vortex nades, travelers chosen, feed the void and chaos accelerant. Throw nade to proc osmosis and devour and volatile rounds, kill 5 enemies and boom you have a baby nova bomb, rinse and repeat. Graviton lance also works but TC gives you a little fall back if for some reason your loop for getting nades back with veritys and devour dont work.
I run a solar hunter boom knife build. Get a knife kill I get the knife back.
Aspects = knock em down and on your mark
Embers = torches, mercy, combustion, wonder, resolve
Monte carlo for if I miss the knife. Assasins cowl to be invisible the whole time. Armor mods I'm too lazy to type out.
I dont see anyone running it, but its so fun.
wirling maelstrom +assasins cowl = the unseen beyblade master.
Fragments/mods for melee regen, and a grapple for an extra sourse of melee kills, and youre invis all the time. you can perfectly place your beblades in high-end content without worrying about being immediately sniped.
The only downside is that blueberries steal your Beyblades like they are the playground monitor in 5th grade.
Honestly, probably the only content creators sponsor ads I watch! Haha great work!
So my warlocks primary base form has always been rat king and karnstein. Absolutely fantastic.
But the one that actually surprised me was the final one because that is essentially my warlocks void build but I use it for pve. I used to combine that with warmind cells and essentially any enemy in the game I could blind and still can. The movement is crazy and the orbs generated give me health, blind enemies and the dunk is pretty powerful.
Blinking out of a group of enemies making them all volatile and coming right back to dunk....oh. the explosions. 🥰
Verglas and Stasis Hunter is my absolute fave. I usually use Frostee5 with it to just get more crystals via my grenade, but mayhaps I'll try Bakris for a little while
This was kind of cool to see! Would definitely watch more off-meta builds videos
Been using a Monte Carlo-one two punch shotty-radiant dance machine arc hunter melee build for what seems like forever now and it’s still so much fun
Pyrogale not with dragons breath, but tommys matchbook. Get that resto, and use throwing hammer to get your stacks of roaring flames for the dmg. Pretty well balanced in terms of survivability to damage, with ease of use. Tommys shreds with the x2 from its burn mode, radiant and surge mods it never runs out of damage boosting sources.
For the stasis Titan build I have some notes on ways to optimize and differentiate the build, I call my build Icebreaker. The key main differences to my build is instead of running a shotgun I run Kelgorath’s Glaive and the Fire & Forget linear fusion. Why run a Glaive and why specifically Kelgorath?
Well for one I like to use the Glaive as an alternate form to melee, incase I don’t want to go flying or save it for a group a crystals further away, also normal glaives suck for breaking crystals, taking 2 hits instead of the one uncharged melee except for Kelgorath that has the Hakke origin trait. With said origin trait, crystals can be broken in 1 smack vs the sluggish 2 smacks. Add on close to melee and demolitionist, and you’re cooking.
In terms of fire and forget, I tend to use it as my single target damage weapon, I have a meme roll that uses Chillclip headstone, but you could always put better perks. However the reason I put chill clip headstone is that it works with the build and also helps slow further away enemies and champions. Yes I’m not able to generate the same suite that salvations grip provides.
5:59 should have used weavewalk, go even better with weavewalk cause the scorch regens melee while your in weavewalk
Honestly, I’ve been using the kehpri’s void titan build for a while now, but with tommy’s matchbook, and i think it works fairly well. They balance each other out.
Titan Build: masterworked Tommy's Matchbook + Solar machine gun + healing nade + actiums war rig. Basically scorch go brrrr
Anyone wanting to do the Skyburner's build, it is significantly better with prismatic now. Just look up any prismatic dawn chorus build, and replace the energy weapon with skyburners. Pretty strong too.
Did you know that flashcounter technically deals pseudo-weakness, which actually works with stylish executioner
Question Datto,
On your astrocyte Warlock build for PvP, what was your stat distribution? I wanna give that build a try. I know to shoot for 100 recovery. But what’s the second stat you built for?
Did you shoot for 100 mobility since that exotic boosts blink and blink keeps you very mobile. Or 100 discipline since that’s always a safe option? Or maybe 100 resilience since that helps you take more damages to get close enough to detonate the orb?
Just seen this - had been running a devour warlock build with Nazerecs Sin, Oesteo Striga, extended void effects - 15 sec devour and constant ability recharging. Build good enough for solo dungeons.