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Are there any teams out there that use 3 Aeons with each with a different setting? Something tells me that Bungie has made this a sleeper combo for teams in harder content. Hmmm, somebody needs to test this. @Aztecross ??
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This is my fav to run in pvp, with the ember of benevolence and touch of flame healing nades with no hesitation, providing ultimate healing and damage buffs to my teammates, mostly because I'm a support main but also because if I'm having an off day where I just suck at pvp I can at least boost my teammates which is still helping contribute to your team's victory if you can take however well they're already doing and make them even better for free
This is interesting however if a well is placed on rifts the interaction is kinda of bugged I have noticed. It's kinda one of those things where it'll be like a "no well" situation. .
@@blacktemplar707 i wrote it off originally when it did very little damage, but i havent even considered it since the pulse buff, so ill be giving bad juju a try again, thank you!
Very nice bonus with Lumina is despite not boasting a solar keyword like restoration or cure, it CAN activate ember of benevolence for that bonus ability regen on any solar subclass.
That's a special interaction they kept due to the synergy with the original benevolent dawn trait from Forsaken era well. It would have been really unfortunate should they have eroded one of the first weapon-subclass synergies in the game.
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I have over 20k kills on lumina. Loved it since it came out. Throwing fruit snacks at my titan main friends to keep them running a wee longer. The Mom of the team is too funny lmao. "HEAL ME HEAL ME HEAL ME" followed by "Guardian Down" because them thangs fly slow and the super smart titans fly away from it
Not to mention that the noble rounds will prioritise distance over health missing, I’ll fire 3 rounds toward my critical health friend only for all three to pull a 180 and heal the full health hunter two steps to the left of me
@@theshadowwalker8244 our resident hunter is a chronic strafer and rocket blocker so I feel that immensely. She always goes "why are you healing me" like bro come on
idk if i would say underrated but Ager's Scepter is easily my favorite and most used exotic in the game. Anytime I'm in a group, someone always asks in a surprised manner "are you using Ager's?" After that Sunshot is a go-to. It was my first exotic in D2 and it's never left my inventory since. Now that I've got Buried Bloodline, I can say that it too is up there in best exotics.
I love Ager's, but I have ammo anxiety, so I stick with primary ammo weapons for my main. No matter how many new weapons I try, I always go back to Sunshot. It's so satisfying how hard that hits.
@@RedShirtPaulIn groups, I like running it with Cenotaph mask for that exact reason. Also ends up being a decent damage option if you’re fine with eating your super. Which you could be if you’re running stasis
Came here wondering if I should say Ager's because I always do at basically every opportunity, but very glad to see someone already repping it. Add clear? Easily. Big lads? Certainly. I've even used the catalyst mode against raid bosses in some instances, and it's not unrespectable. Absolute GOAT in PVE.
I hope you don’t only use the catalyst for Bosses… eating your super into Ager’s allows it to kill any champion in the game by itself, even on GM, no champion mods needed.
Wish Ender. This bow is like the best primary for damage and guarantee 1-2 shooting enemies in the higher difficulty tiers...not to mention the cheese it's had in certain encounters.
I personally love Vesper of Radius, specially on arc. The blinding pulse gives tons of survivability, and the class ability regen bonus is great. Plus, spamming a class ability constantly near enemies can get you your súper really quickly.
I like it with the arc glaive. Just sit in it, throw grenades, and kill anything that gets close to you while your teammates run around doing more important things(OR follow them to protect, of course)
Vesper is a lot of fun. It's a hard choice between the arc explosion vesper and the freeze rift vesper, but I now also have the option to use prismatic vesper and an interesting option of weavewalk + weavers call vesper. Using weavewalk to place a threading loaded vesper rift with zero risk is so much fun.
Malfeasance is the best pvp handcannon in terms of versatility as it is viable for close, mid, but excels at long (scout and sniper) range. This means you could run whatever you'd like as a secondary without worry of having to make sure all your ranges are covered since Malf already does that (would recommend lightweight sidearm but it's really up to personal preference).
My fav that I think is slept on? Traveler’s Chosen. It synergizes with a ton of other exotics thanks to Osmosis on its catalyst, more ability energy is never a bad thing, it handles like an absolute dream thanks to Gathering Light and Surplus working in tandem, and on top of all of that is just a solid gun all around.
The problem is the gun wants you to keep max stacks for it to be at its full efenctiveness but the perk means you also want to consume gathering light.
i really love the moth keepers wraps on hunter. use in prismatic to get extra spicy moths use on strand with the high uptime on granades man they're fun
@@COREcasual wish the ergo sum version functioned differently. Maybe swap the heavy/light interaction. Itd be sick for caster frams, but after trying it last night i think Perfect Fifth rolls are the way for a non wolfpak solar ergo.(caster heavy is 5 hits, instant Perfection)
I have a really out there exotic for you the edge of intent. Especially after the final shape because you can pair it with the speakers sight giving it restoration x2. And a weapon that gives constant free rest x2 to you and your team is really under appreciated. I mean the fact that speakers sight became such a good support exotic is because of the healing turret and the edge of intent let's you spam them.
really underrated exotic IMO that people just dont think of is Collective Obligation. Spread the void poison...I mean love. Being able to suppress, weaken and make enemies Volatile while simultaneously getting a 15% damage boost? Literally god tier. Not to mention once you get UP and rolling, you have almost 0 downtime on that. Oop one enemy left? "Hey team, don't kill this last add for a sec, I need to do something. I'll kill it when I'm ready and we can continue." Apply all the debuffs as the timer ticks over, and then kill to get them all back on the gun for the next fight. not to mention the amount of times that the suppress on it has saved my teammates from shriekers/turrets/big damage adds they didnt expect. I've had people hear me say Collective Obligation and go "Don't you mean conditional finality? I dont think theres a gun called collective obligation..."
Personally i am in LOVE with point contact cannon brace arc build not only because it easily transfers over to prismatic (literally one fer one like it was perfect) but because i love to solo dungeons all the time with it. Point contact is my BABY.
SPEEDLOADER SLACKS because i love to aggressively support people, and with free handling (way more than ophidians), a reload (WITH scalar) AND a chunk of AE - YOURE DEFINITELY GONNA FEEL MY GENEROSITY
Ruinous effigy for me. Running it on gyrfalcon hunter is a really good time lol. Obviously you can dunk the ball for volatile explosions and suppression, but the drain on block is the real winner here. It heals, provides dr, and triggers volatile. Also, draining doesnt break invis, so you can get right up in their face.
Try using Lumina with Chromatic Fire on an Arc Warlock. You get all the benefits of Lumina, team healing with a great damage buff, and a big ass blinding explosion on precision kills. It also generates ionic traces. I use it in GM's with flashbang grenades and the fragment that makes your arc grenades jolt. I'm constantly blinding targets, buffing allies, getting my abilities back from traces, and putting out decent dps. My only gripe about Lumina is the tracking on the orbs you shoot out is kind of janky. I can have my crosshairs on someone, but if my other ally is even remotely in the direction I'm aiming and closer, it will take a 90 degree turn and hit them instead. But it is still my favorite exotic hand cannon.
@@Vishalx01 For my secondary I usually run a pulse, unless my squad is missing a way to deal with certain champs. I was using a crafted Scalar Potential, but now I'm running a crafted Corrasion with Enlightened Action and Volt Shot. Just feels so good. As for my Heavy, that depends on the content and my squad. I usually rotate between 3 different weapons. The Hullabaloo (volt shot and vorpal), a Crux Termination (Reconstruct and Tracking), and Thunderlord (for when I want to chew through a boss or an Overload champ quickly.)
I, personally, love the Ursa Furiosa. Using Sentinel shield already feels really fun to use as it, but getting that extra bit of protection and usability from blocking is handy. Also, while not so much lower-level activities or from New-lights, seeing people gather behind in dungeons/Nightfall to protect from oncoming fire while also getting a damage increase, on top of getting about 40% of my super back just feels rewarding to do!
@Lord_Muggs I've tried it, but personally not a big fan in general. Though if you like it you can get alot of Ult charge from one big attack. I often forget I have it and hold Q to throw nade, only to consume it for .5 seconds of the shield.
Lumina is the only exotic handcannon I don't trash or put back into collections. Took it for my first Salvation's Edge raid and got people into 10mil damage (to compensate for my lack of dps weapons). One good handcannon any doctor would bring to the field... that and my baggy McFly Assembler boots. Such a worth-while loadout. Also, still don't care how many people make fun of me, I'll always keep my Salvation's Grip on my Warlock. Funnest shit to just blitz through in dungeons.
Sanguine Alchemy Infinite guard lock swords with Energy Transfers. Shit out infinite rifts as long as you keep killing for Blood Magic or guarding for class ability for another rift. This strats also lit on titan, with or without strongholds. You can shit out so many barricades. I recall testing in the Glassway and standing in the radiolaria in the boss room, had at least 10 barricades spawned at one point On hunter, i havent tried this, dont play the class much, but this guard-for-ability strat with bombardiers seems tons of fun on paper. (you'll want an Enduring Guard roll) Also Witherhoards the best exotic in the game, unless telestos feelin naughty.
@@saquial add an infinite/enduring guard sword, become a wall that heals everything while gaining rift energy via guarding with Energy Transfer perk. Love this style
10:57 as long as everyone’s grouped up, they’ll all get the buff! The Noble Rounds explode upon impact and provide their bonuses to any ally within a very small radius!
I feel like Navigator fits the bill perfectly. One of my all-time favorites. It's such a versatile weapon, it can be used for support by giving your team woven mail, it's great even as a solo weapon since you can give yourself woven mail and create tangles as well. It also benefits from the exotic weapon damage boost vs. minors as that applies to traces. Of course, you also have the grapple point but it's a mistake to look at the weapon just for that, it even has synergy with Cenotaph.
I've never once seen someone running No Time To Explain, but that thing shreds after proccing Time-Slip. Really good for mid-tier mobs or keeping weak enemies off you while you run.
I love that Exotic but there are so many great pulses I always forget about it. Its hard to pick anything over a fully crafted/upgraded Outbreak Perfected nowadays. That thing is now Outbreak Minted!
Ain't no way homeboy talked shit about Lumina's appearance and didn't even mentioned the fact that Lumina has an ornament called Lucid Melody, which is the very best looking ornament in the game (yeah, that's right, I said it, I will die on this hill, fight me bro).
Fun Lumina Fact! Nobel Rounds also count for Ember of Benevolence, activating that fragment as well. I use it for my Warlock to drop healing and dip into it to refill my class and grenade energies. It's an amazing hand cannon!
Precious Scars is my go-to for Grandmaster Nightfalls that I'm not confident in clearing. Health on every kill matching my subclass means that nearly every weapon except Kinetic is immediate regeneration. Get a kill, hide away for a moment to regen, and press the advantage if you have a few moments more of the restoration. It's safe, consistent enough to rely on, and the original effect of the extended overshield in GM content is underappreciated but still incredibly useful. also, fyi for the titans on prismatic: the class item gets the restoration part of scars, it's a really solid pick for the builds not running knockout
no lie, i have been running sect of force on my prismatic titan and deterministic chaos all episode, super slept on and being support in a game where that role really isn't defined is great.
I'm not seeing it much but Vesper of Radius is FANTASTIC with Prismatic. With Hellion, Weaver's Call, and Stormtrance to make the Arc shockwaves Blinding you're getting three bonus effects per rift, and around any enemies at all your class ability recharge is absolutely insane. Plus it has an ornament that's badass and highly distinctive, which can be quite handy in the Verity encounter of Salvation's Edge.
Dawn Chorus with any incandescent weapon and solar melee. Is especially good on solar warlock because there is the fragment that give you incresed class ability regen on scorching targets so you can have hellion up literally 100% of the time. The fact that it also gives melee regen on top of 200% increased scorch damage is cracked. You can also completely ignore dawnblade for damage since song of flame exists. Also the scorch damage includes incandescent scorch as well. So ANY weapon with scorch on it, dragons breath and skyburners oath for example get really nice damage increases. Also solar lock has on demand radiant with melee so with that melee regen from scorching targets you basically have radiant up 24/7 as well. Definitely goated exotic.
Dawn chorus has been glued to my head since solar 3.0 came out. Scorch damage evaporates ads, especially with an incandescent weapon, gives tons of melee energy, and it gives me an excuse to run daybreak in pve, because a dragon's breath shot and 10 flaming sword beam combo is nothing to scoff at.
Sealed ahakara’s grasps are pretty underrated, reload on any melee with any subclass is just such an incredibly fun thing, especially with the loops such as torches/knock ‘em down knife trick and combination blow/gamblers dodge
Legitimately, Lumina is one of my favorite exotics. It satisfies the space cowboy aesthetic for me, while still being insane for support AND damage. And honestly, it's getting a chance to shine this season with the artifact perks. The kinetic weapon and overload handcannon make it an easy go-to for ANY content grind.
I shall give you three exotic weapons that I use regularly, and one armor piece for each class. Tommy's match book. On the rare occasion I play titan it's a ton of fun. You just have to ignore the lack of shield when using it. On other classes it's still fun. Polaris lance. Because I need more explosions in my life, and this puts explosions way over there. And ruinous effigy. I started to love this back in witch queen when I decided to dunk the orb in savathun's basket ball net of a crown. As for armor, Bombardiers for hunter, because melee enemies. The stag for warlock, because I can't be bothered by something like taking damage. And hallowfire heart for titan because there can always be more fire.
I had no idea about Lumina until I spent a Cypher to unlock it from the Monument & started using it. It was the only one with up to date light level wise & i needed a kinetic HC. I was shocked at how insanely great it was! Mind you, I've been a D2 player since vanilla days. I'm glad to see this weapon get a nice spotlight
Deathbringer and Wicked Implement, my beloveds. Deathbringer gets a lot of strange looks because they don’t know where to get it or “wow it’s so difficult to use” when it’s honestly not is staggering. It’s really fun to use in crucible across open maps and seeing the kills pop up like five seconds later lol. Wicked Implement is just fun for me, plus I love the aesthetic.
I definitely use a combo of Tommy's Matchbook and Sanguine Alchemy the most. High uptime double damage PLUS good scorch just from shooting AND good healing. The new artifacts are going to be JUICY
If we could get some kind of self healing on Lumina (special reload 3 Noble rounds = Cure x2, all 6 = Restoration x1) I would never take it off. Some kind of way to use Noble Rounds as a solo player would be really awesome. As far as underrated exotics, Mothkeepers Wraps on Prismatic Hunter. Got me through solo legend campaign, I can handle 2 out of 3 champion types, and I can keep a high uptime on things like Gunpowder Gamble & Stylish Executioner. Overshields are great for team & solo play giving you that health bump that you need to get back to cover as well.
On weeks where arc and stasis are the weekly burns I will use a Vesper of Radius/Stasis Warlock build. Duskfield Nades Frostpulse (as this will freeze everything and then Vesper will kill it instantly and for the enemies left behind your class ability will fill super fast) Iceflare Bolts (most enemies will freeze twice from Frostpulse and then subsequent spawn seekers) Whisper of Refraction (it makes getting your class ability back even faster) Whisper of Fractures Whisper of Rending Whisper of Torment This build works insanely well with a glaive/sword as the more enemies you can get surrounded by the faster you can cast your class ability. I tend to use a primary weapon with Kinetic Tremors since frozen targets take more damage. Mods : Helmet - Dynamo and Siphon Gauntlets - Bolstering Det × 2 and Loader (if running glaive) Chest - Resistance Mods Leg - Arc Surge and Insulation × 2 Bond - Reaper, Bomber, and Powerful Attraction This build is so much fun to play. I hope somebody gives it a try.
Lumina was my reason to play the game. I earned 10k PVP Kills on it. It can instantly heal someone to full, even bouncing it around corners to get them from cover. The damage buff stacks with kill clip so you can melt people with a side arm if they get close. Plus solid 140 hand cannon. I may have retired from the game but if someone ever wants to be a god tier healer, this gun is the best for it. Boots of the assembler required but it's been my favorite build of all time. I remember back in the day Orewings Maul + Proxmity Grenades used to one shot with the blessing of the sky buff.
I enjoy Verglas Curve, the crystals it generates when they get shatter kills count as verglas curve kills. So, they proc stuff like envious assassin, even if you shatter those crystals with the envious assassin weapon reloading ammo and giving verglas its charges back, very swappy
Wings of sacred dawn are surprisingly good for ad clear if you have the right guns. Every kill while ads in air gives a full reload, and on weapons like the aggressive scouts, it’s so nice.
the thing you said about any exotic we love but think is underappreciated. Touch of Malice, I have 28k pve kills and 3600 pvp love the gun and it is an add clear monster as well as an orb making machine it can blind enemies which also means unstop stun built in even without artifact radiant makes it anti barrier and its damage overall is amazing. now yeah it does hurt you but slap on a warlock with devour, titan with loreley or resto nades armamentarium, and a hunter with healing nades or something along those lines and you have amazing add clear great damage stun potential and a fun time. my fave exotic and havent stopped loving it since i finally got it to drop after 52 fresh clears (before they added it to the weekly rotational raid thing lol)
Ive always been a huge support healer type of guy, so when they added rifts into warlocks kits in d2 i was so happy, then Attunement of Benevolence happened, then lumina and assembler boots happened. However this new auto rifle keeps people alive much better and extremely consistent. I know lumina give an insane damage buff but thats never been my priority. I wish the boots were better, they got extremely powercrept by the helmet, of course its nice to have a healing rift uptime thats longer. I just realized i can theoretically run lumina and No Hesi together. I didnt even watch the video yet but thanks for making me think on this a bit more lol.
Honestly Eternal Warrior. With the new seasonal mods, running an arc class and getting escalating damage on an arc weapon like riskrunner and then just seeing everything explode constantly is crazy
Completely underrated salvations grip. I would use it in VOG to carry people through challenges by freezing wyverns and holding them in place if someone dropped the ball.
Lumina and boots of the assembler let me lfg the lightblade gm. Its an insane build and technically the damage boost is better than you just running a damage focused build (35% >33%)
You forgot to mention the best part: you can grapple on to Lumina rounds with strand. What makes this better than a rocket is that they *bounce off walls*
My answer would be Final Warning. That little water gun does so much damage and has so much utility that I like to think that it is a watergun filled with highly corrosive acid instead of water. Great for general play and once you get better in the game a powerhouse in endgame. Even DPS it's really up there (in terms of primaries but still). Also most fun to learn as it takes a while to get that right feel of the gun, the moment when it just clicks Also sect of force is one of my favs in gms, to nuke champs quickly But Lumina is definetly one up there. In raids I am THE Lumina guy, I love running it
I kinda want to see a video series about underrated exotic armors for each class. Or maybe a video about less popular exotic weapons. My new favorite exotic though not underrated is hazardous propulsion. It brings a level of pure enjoyment that I have not felt since sweet business and actium war rig combo
Not going to lie Ive been given so much shit in the past for using lumina and boots of the assembler over meta dps builds... funny thing is those super dps builds go away and Lumina remains the same, always a solid option no matter what.
Final Warning, literally one of if not the highest dmg Primary in the game. I love that thing. Deterministic Chaos on Void Titan with Controlled Demolition during Witness DPS,. You can out heal the lasers and only have to worry about the jump.
Deathbringer is my favorite underrated exotic. It clears all the adds for you in seconds very effortlessly and efficiently in a single rocket, then you can use the rest of your ammo to nuke champions by hitting them with every projectile. It's so versatile. People don't give it a chance because it's just mildly less convenient to use than Gjally, but I think the payoff for learning to use it is totally worth it.
I personally think Eyes of Tomorrow is slept on with how much ad density and random flying things there are these days. Combines very well with gunpowder gamble and spirit of inmost light (HOIL) or any solar subclass.
Alpha lupi is actually my underrated choice. I use it on my main solar titan build. Hear me out: with Searing on solar 3.0 and hip firing skyburners oath on anything, you can chain drop barricades for rapid healing to anyone. And because your activating your class ability, you can chain activate mods like bomber/reaper/dynamo to get all of their effects. Now, what would happen if Alpha lupi got buffed so that the healing pulse was cure instead? It would then work with Benevolence to speed up the recharge of all your abilities, including the barricade. Meaning even faster ability chaining. I use this as a really effective support build that still packs a pretty solid punch (Consecration). And this is with AL as it currently is. I'm basically waiting for the exotic to get this buff and then I'll have one hell of an aggressive healer build at my disposal.
I've gotten crucified for this opinion before, but ever since the removal of primary ammo Devil's Ruin is fantastic. The charged shot can do a lot more damage than people realize. The fact that it stuns Unstoppable Champs is a nice touch too.
Lumina my Beloved. It was actually the first exotic I grabbed out of the Monument in D2. Still don't regret that choice. Also weird but not entirely off-meta support exotic: Starfire Protocol. Infinite rift energy can give you a lot of team healing, and can lead to dropping rifts on everyone on the team while Ember of benevolence keeps up Fusion Grenade recharge time. Is it worse than Verity's brow? Probably. Is infinite Pheonix Dives for free team healing and hellions fun as hell? Yes.
as a titan who enjoys putting my knee/shoulder in someone's face i must reccomend peregrine greaves. with the recent buff it works wonders in anything with champions. if done right you can have 100% up time. and it also pulls its weight in pvp. it's a free orb and there are so many ways to make that a round win any time you can get one
When I first started raiding, before I got div, my go to load out was Lumina and boots of the assembler. My teams loved me lol. Now I rock speakers sight and feel so good. Absolutely carries in GMs
I think outbreak is one of the best exotics, a lot of my friends who started destiny on may struggled getting good builds and exotics since a lot of the mods were locked and they didnt have almost any exotic, once we ran through zero hour mission they got it and omg, they started to really love the game, yes some of them had graviton lance and sunshot, but they always struggled with bosses miniboses and just overall trying to do legend missions on the campaing was so scary for them, once they got outbreak it felt like they had finally stood up for the first time, they ran raids (vog, kf, vow) and they started to not fear legend onsaught anymore, the only enemy they would struggle with is tormentors and some champions but overall they gained confidence, one of those players didnt even have a build and couldnt make one since he kept getting the same exotic pieces from the engrams (foetracer, geminy gester, and stompees) and he didnt have all the mods, but outbreak allowed him to understand how damage stacking worked, he started trying to make outbreak more potent and got into orb generating mods, surges, he found time dialation and started grinding to unlock those mods, he did so many raids without proper builds and stats, with blue gear and outbreak, and still managed to get more kills when he was given adclear and not die on mechanics. Outbreak is truly a blessing, to this day they still always carry outbreak with them and they use it on gm nightfalls, raids and just overall since its just the best exotic to get value with, it might not be as flashy as other exotics or potent but when a team runs more than one outbreak, you can tell how it makes the encounter less daunting for any player who struggles playing the game. I am very proud of my friend group btw, they got into destiny and since then they have really really loved the game, they are also not the type of players to look at destiny content so they are relatively not influenced by doomer content, they have opened my eyes since on how amazing destiny really is and how ive been just not looking at simple things this game does that no other game does. a lot of them come from games like call of duty zombies, overwatch, apex, warframe. they are 8 players, 4 of them have the new dlc and the others were able to get the old dlcs with psplus, some time in the future they will get the new final shape since rn everyday they still play. they wanna grind, a lot of them have done gm nightfalls, and none have attempted master raids yet but we are getting there. some of them have builds now and they make their own builds, they have sparked that joy i get when i play destiny, they really did. (edit): I USED LUMINA!!! to help them in legend campaing with bosses and verity for healing nades (then they introduced the autorifle that heals so that helped) I do use lumina often since it does makes raids where dps is almost there just easy.
Been a massive fan of lumina for years. It's been slept on forever in both PvE and PvP. I know high end PvE players use it but outside of that it's a rare sight. But in PvP it has decent range, insanely high aim assist that you feel on MnK and it feels good. The hardest part about lumina is using the perk and understanding when you can or can't hipfire. The way I use it is once I get the noble rounds I spend 1 immediately and then head towards red on the radar and then shoot the second round towards an ally, even if there isn't one, when I'm in range of the opponent.
It's not really all that out-of-pocket, but Ager's Scepter is a trash mob murder machine that has extra subclass synergy and Champion deterrent built-in, especially with the catalyst. It's not fantastic for single-target DPS (though by no means terrible either, in my experience), but it beats almost any other individual weapon for crowd control and damage-chaining potential what with the Shatter damage chain reactions you can get going in target-rich environments. I don't really see it out in the wild all that much, but every time I pull it out for myself I'm reminded of how fun it is to use in a lot of PVE situations.
i feel like chromatic fire is very often underappreciated as an exotic that can both help feed into loops and weaken/sever entire crowds of enemies with a single precision kill i pair it with ace of spades and a void super very often, firefly + the weaken aoe = everything is either dead or it's easier for my teammates to finish off going for a strand super allows you to effectively give your teammates 40% damage resistance against a crowd of enemies for simply just killing one of them a solar super gives a moderate amount of scorch, 15 stacks i believe, but unless you really want the shiny orange/yellow kaboomies it won't make much a difference
Thanks, now I want to make a build rocking Lumina, that new rocket sidearm, and a solar heavy (I have so few q.q), with Verities on a Solar Lock with fusion grenades.
My personal favorite exotic is Wicked Implement. And the reason why is pretty simple - you can use it to deal with overload AND unstops AT THE SAME TIME, without any artefact mod! And if there is a anti-barrier scout - damn, this beast is a swiss knife against champs. Another cool part about it - self-feeding shards from nowhere, which might be used for extra synergy with Stasis, Prismatic, or just dunk Elemental Charge mod and you'll feed yourself for an extra armor charge from every 4th shard, which, btw, floating towards you from any distance. I love this gun.
Man i tried Lumina boots when the catalyst dropped a week or two ago but it was kinda hard to tell if it was working, this inspires me to give them another go
I used to main lumina with a solar support warlock, but Red Death Reformed synergies better. It definitely has more of a focus on keeping the whole fireteam alive rather than boosting our damage, but when we’re facing the final boss of a 50 round onslaught, making the whole fireteam near unkillable with healing turrets and catalyst boosted Red Death ends up counting for more than +35% damage. It would be different if I was raiding. Then lumina would probably be better.
I have a Lumina/Boots of the Assembler solar build. The healing was unmatched, until the introduction of the "Don't Die Gun" and the Speaker's helm exotic. Might give it another go, just to hand out 35% damage buffs lol.
Vexcaliber is my usual go-to for any dungeon crawls or lfg/Sherpa shenanigans. Good burst damage and whether I'm a devour-lock or radiant well with heals, it's all about survivability. I can bump up my allies but more importantly I can pull out clutches to revive them.
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Are there any teams out there that use 3 Aeons with each with a different setting? Something tells me that Bungie has made this a sleeper combo for teams in harder content. Hmmm, somebody needs to test this. @Aztecross ??
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Boots of the Assembler gives free Noble Rounds btw. I'm essentially a healing turret with constant uptime 😂
Plus infinite rift everytime you heal
shhh lol
This is my fav to run in pvp, with the ember of benevolence and touch of flame healing nades with no hesitation, providing ultimate healing and damage buffs to my teammates, mostly because I'm a support main but also because if I'm having an off day where I just suck at pvp I can at least boost my teammates which is still helping contribute to your team's victory if you can take however well they're already doing and make them even better for free
This is interesting however if a well is placed on rifts the interaction is kinda of bugged I have noticed. It's kinda one of those things where it'll be like a "no well" situation. .
Assembler boots are good for dps with Benevolence too, high fusion nade uptime without building into it with just Benevolence.
Speaker’s mask, Lumina, healing auto rifle and I’m now playing Cleric-spec!
I love running speakers helm, healing auto, hellion with dragons breath. It can do amazing healing and still pack a punch with all the explosions
@@pimpernel666 red death assembler boots, creates extra healing remnants with catalyst, save u nades for damage.
Phoenix protocol & a healing weapon is my healer build. With proper build crafting and good situations, you can get back to back wells.
@@Adam-tu1qx bad juju for basically instant Wells with a handfull of kills
@@blacktemplar707 i wrote it off originally when it did very little damage, but i havent even considered it since the pulse buff, so ill be giving bad juju a try again, thank you!
Very nice bonus with Lumina is despite not boasting a solar keyword like restoration or cure, it CAN activate ember of benevolence for that bonus ability regen on any solar subclass.
That's a special interaction they kept due to the synergy with the original benevolent dawn trait from Forsaken era well. It would have been really unfortunate should they have eroded one of the first weapon-subclass synergies in the game.
wow never knew that, ty
@@isostrike1667 i agree that would be sad as well as set a bad precedent
I hope your shoes make a quick recovery from the Cherry Coke Zero spill national disaster. Your kicks are in our prayer may the bungo lords present you a godroll classitem soon.
Now I'm curious, is a spirit of galanor and spirit of star eater a good combo?
I have over 20k kills on lumina. Loved it since it came out. Throwing fruit snacks at my titan main friends to keep them running a wee longer. The Mom of the team is too funny lmao. "HEAL ME HEAL ME HEAL ME" followed by "Guardian Down" because them thangs fly slow and the super smart titans fly away from it
Not to mention that the noble rounds will prioritise distance over health missing, I’ll fire 3 rounds toward my critical health friend only for all three to pull a 180 and heal the full health hunter two steps to the left of me
@@theshadowwalker8244 our resident hunter is a chronic strafer and rocket blocker so I feel that immensely. She always goes "why are you healing me" like bro come on
idk if i would say underrated but Ager's Scepter is easily my favorite and most used exotic in the game. Anytime I'm in a group, someone always asks in a surprised manner "are you using Ager's?"
After that Sunshot is a go-to. It was my first exotic in D2 and it's never left my inventory since.
Now that I've got Buried Bloodline, I can say that it too is up there in best exotics.
probably my most used exotic at this point. Just melts through ads in lower level content, especially with extra frozen explosion radius
I love Ager's, but I have ammo anxiety, so I stick with primary ammo weapons for my main. No matter how many new weapons I try, I always go back to Sunshot. It's so satisfying how hard that hits.
@@RedShirtPaulIn groups, I like running it with Cenotaph mask for that exact reason. Also ends up being a decent damage option if you’re fine with eating your super. Which you could be if you’re running stasis
Came here wondering if I should say Ager's because I always do at basically every opportunity, but very glad to see someone already repping it. Add clear? Easily. Big lads? Certainly. I've even used the catalyst mode against raid bosses in some instances, and it's not unrespectable. Absolute GOAT in PVE.
I hope you don’t only use the catalyst for Bosses… eating your super into Ager’s allows it to kill any champion in the game by itself, even on GM, no champion mods needed.
Wish Ender. This bow is like the best primary for damage and guarantee 1-2 shooting enemies in the higher difficulty tiers...not to mention the cheese it's had in certain encounters.
Heir apparent, that shield literally trivializes most* solo endgame, always a staple for my legend campaign run
Actually, though, Heir really put in work taking gaze for Golgy in Pantheon.
fr. i especially love running Heir, heat rises, and Rain of Fire in lower level pve to do my best AC130 impression
I personally love Vesper of Radius, specially on arc. The blinding pulse gives tons of survivability, and the class ability regen bonus is great. Plus, spamming a class ability constantly near enemies can get you your súper really quickly.
I like it too, great for solo content
Try it on solar with pheonix dive and heat rises+hellion, you become dive bomb warlock with a 2.4 second dive cooldown
I like it with the arc glaive. Just sit in it, throw grenades, and kill anything that gets close to you while your teammates run around doing more important things(OR follow them to protect, of course)
Vesper is a lot of fun. It's a hard choice between the arc explosion vesper and the freeze rift vesper, but I now also have the option to use prismatic vesper and an interesting option of weavewalk + weavers call vesper. Using weavewalk to place a threading loaded vesper rift with zero risk is so much fun.
Try it on solar with phoenix dive + heat rises
I know it sounds stupid but it works
Malfeasance is the best pvp handcannon in terms of versatility as it is viable for close, mid, but excels at long (scout and sniper) range. This means you could run whatever you'd like as a secondary without worry of having to make sure all your ranges are covered since Malf already does that (would recommend lightweight sidearm but it's really up to personal preference).
My fav that I think is slept on? Traveler’s Chosen. It synergizes with a ton of other exotics thanks to Osmosis on its catalyst, more ability energy is never a bad thing, it handles like an absolute dream thanks to Gathering Light and Surplus working in tandem, and on top of all of that is just a solid gun all around.
The problem is the gun wants you to keep max stacks for it to be at its full efenctiveness but the perk means you also want to consume gathering light.
As someone maining Lumina since it came out, thanks for the shout out!
i really love the moth keepers wraps on hunter.
use in prismatic to get extra spicy moths
use on strand with the high uptime on granades
man they're fun
Ticuu's divination. If only it added scorch, but even without that, it's so fun to use and so powerful
@@COREcasual wish the ergo sum version functioned differently. Maybe swap the heavy/light interaction. Itd be sick for caster frams, but after trying it last night i think Perfect Fifth rolls are the way for a non wolfpak solar ergo.(caster heavy is 5 hits, instant Perfection)
This may be just my luck, it it seems like every Aeon drop I get has 65+ stats, often 70. It’s like Bungie begs me to play them
interesting, i noticed the same thing. But i still never use them
I think is able to get up to 71 having a high ceiling might lead to ot dropping higher stats more ofter I wonder since I've had a similar experience
SAMEEEE 😂
@@IWearShoes31can confirm, I have 71 base on my titan. 💪
aeons get a bonus +3 base stats since its from before shadowkeep i think
I have a really out there exotic for you the edge of intent. Especially after the final shape because you can pair it with the speakers sight giving it restoration x2. And a weapon that gives constant free rest x2 to you and your team is really under appreciated. I mean the fact that speakers sight became such a good support exotic is because of the healing turret and the edge of intent let's you spam them.
really underrated exotic IMO that people just dont think of is Collective Obligation. Spread the void poison...I mean love.
Being able to suppress, weaken and make enemies Volatile while simultaneously getting a 15% damage boost?
Literally god tier.
Not to mention once you get UP and rolling, you have almost 0 downtime on that.
Oop one enemy left? "Hey team, don't kill this last add for a sec, I need to do something. I'll kill it when I'm ready and we can continue."
Apply all the debuffs as the timer ticks over, and then kill to get them all back on the gun for the next fight.
not to mention the amount of times that the suppress on it has saved my teammates from shriekers/turrets/big damage adds they didnt expect.
I've had people hear me say Collective Obligation and go "Don't you mean conditional finality? I dont think theres a gun called collective obligation..."
I think the issue with Collective is that it takes all that to work. A paragraph and asking your team to NOT kill things.
I have no idea how to use it
Personally i am in LOVE with point contact cannon brace arc build not only because it easily transfers over to prismatic (literally one fer one like it was perfect) but because i love to solo dungeons all the time with it. Point contact is my BABY.
SPEEDLOADER SLACKS
because i love to aggressively support people, and with free handling (way more than ophidians), a reload (WITH scalar) AND a chunk of AE - YOURE DEFINITELY GONNA FEEL MY GENEROSITY
Thanks for letting me enjoy once again being able to fire my guns in the air!
Ruinous effigy for me. Running it on gyrfalcon hunter is a really good time lol. Obviously you can dunk the ball for volatile explosions and suppression, but the drain on block is the real winner here. It heals, provides dr, and triggers volatile. Also, draining doesnt break invis, so you can get right up in their face.
Try using Lumina with Chromatic Fire on an Arc Warlock. You get all the benefits of Lumina, team healing with a great damage buff, and a big ass blinding explosion on precision kills. It also generates ionic traces. I use it in GM's with flashbang grenades and the fragment that makes your arc grenades jolt. I'm constantly blinding targets, buffing allies, getting my abilities back from traces, and putting out decent dps.
My only gripe about Lumina is the tracking on the orbs you shoot out is kind of janky. I can have my crosshairs on someone, but if my other ally is even remotely in the direction I'm aiming and closer, it will take a 90 degree turn and hit them instead.
But it is still my favorite exotic hand cannon.
As a Lumina main, I’m going to try this build out 😂 what’s in your secondary and heavy slot ?
@@Vishalx01 For my secondary I usually run a pulse, unless my squad is missing a way to deal with certain champs. I was using a crafted Scalar Potential, but now I'm running a crafted Corrasion with Enlightened Action and Volt Shot. Just feels so good.
As for my Heavy, that depends on the content and my squad. I usually rotate between 3 different weapons. The Hullabaloo (volt shot and vorpal), a Crux Termination (Reconstruct and Tracking), and Thunderlord (for when I want to chew through a boss or an Overload champ quickly.)
I, personally, love the Ursa Furiosa. Using Sentinel shield already feels really fun to use as it, but getting that extra bit of protection and usability from blocking is handy. Also, while not so much lower-level activities or from New-lights, seeing people gather behind in dungeons/Nightfall to protect from oncoming fire while also getting a damage increase, on top of getting about 40% of my super back just feels rewarding to do!
I hear it also works well the new 'Unbreakable' aspect as well. Any luck with that?
@Lord_Muggs I've tried it, but personally not a big fan in general. Though if you like it you can get alot of Ult charge from one big attack. I often forget I have it and hold Q to throw nade, only to consume it for .5 seconds of the shield.
Lumina is the only exotic handcannon I don't trash or put back into collections.
Took it for my first Salvation's Edge raid and got people into 10mil damage (to compensate for my lack of dps weapons).
One good handcannon any doctor would bring to the field... that and my baggy McFly Assembler boots. Such a worth-while loadout.
Also, still don't care how many people make fun of me, I'll always keep my Salvation's Grip on my Warlock. Funnest shit to just blitz through in dungeons.
I love ager's scepter, deals with champs and ads super well. So much fun with double special
Sanguine Alchemy
Infinite guard lock swords with Energy Transfers.
Shit out infinite rifts as long as you keep killing for Blood Magic or guarding for class ability for another rift.
This strats also lit on titan, with or without strongholds. You can shit out so many barricades. I recall testing in the Glassway and standing in the radiolaria in the boss room, had at least 10 barricades spawned at one point
On hunter, i havent tried this, dont play the class much, but this guard-for-ability strat with bombardiers seems tons of fun on paper. (you'll want an Enduring Guard roll)
Also Witherhoards the best exotic in the game, unless telestos feelin naughty.
LOVE that you give Lunina the love it deserves. Still my favorite exotic
Lumina my beloved. Love using it with Boots of the Assembler.
@@saquial add an infinite/enduring guard sword, become a wall that heals everything while gaining rift energy via guarding with Energy Transfer perk. Love this style
10:57 as long as everyone’s grouped up, they’ll all get the buff! The Noble Rounds explode upon impact and provide their bonuses to any ally within a very small radius!
I feel like Navigator fits the bill perfectly. One of my all-time favorites. It's such a versatile weapon, it can be used for support by giving your team woven mail, it's great even as a solo weapon since you can give yourself woven mail and create tangles as well. It also benefits from the exotic weapon damage boost vs. minors as that applies to traces. Of course, you also have the grapple point but it's a mistake to look at the weapon just for that, it even has synergy with Cenotaph.
I've never once seen someone running No Time To Explain, but that thing shreds after proccing Time-Slip. Really good for mid-tier mobs or keeping weak enemies off you while you run.
Works well in pvp too. That little floaty thing hits hard
I love that Exotic but there are so many great pulses I always forget about it. Its hard to pick anything over a fully crafted/upgraded Outbreak Perfected nowadays. That thing is now Outbreak Minted!
That you for giving Lumina its props and the wood 🪵 grain skin fixes the smudges .
Lumina was always a great weapon it just took the community a long ass time to appreciate it.
Thorn its better then lumina
Ain't no way homeboy talked shit about Lumina's appearance and didn't even mentioned the fact that Lumina has an ornament called Lucid Melody, which is the very best looking ornament in the game (yeah, that's right, I said it, I will die on this hill, fight me bro).
I’m thinking about using it
It’s such a good ornament tbh. Night and day difference in looks
Agreed!!! 👍🏼
Really want a Lucid Melody model for my office, ngl
the ornament is better
it's not that life changing, your hill is made for ants!
Fun Lumina Fact!
Nobel Rounds also count for Ember of Benevolence, activating that fragment as well.
I use it for my Warlock to drop healing and dip into it to refill my class and grenade energies.
It's an amazing hand cannon!
Precious Scars is my go-to for Grandmaster Nightfalls that I'm not confident in clearing. Health on every kill matching my subclass means that nearly every weapon except Kinetic is immediate regeneration. Get a kill, hide away for a moment to regen, and press the advantage if you have a few moments more of the restoration. It's safe, consistent enough to rely on, and the original effect of the extended overshield in GM content is underappreciated but still incredibly useful.
also, fyi for the titans on prismatic: the class item gets the restoration part of scars, it's a really solid pick for the builds not running knockout
no lie, i have been running sect of force on my prismatic titan and deterministic chaos all episode, super slept on and being support in a game where that role really isn't defined is great.
as a warlock support main, thank you for this!
i never thought of that combo.
1:08 sect of vigor is also fun in pvp 6is, especially iron banner, it's my go to for thruster on titans or hunter in general
I'm not seeing it much but Vesper of Radius is FANTASTIC with Prismatic.
With Hellion, Weaver's Call, and Stormtrance to make the Arc shockwaves Blinding you're getting three bonus effects per rift, and around any enemies at all your class ability recharge is absolutely insane.
Plus it has an ornament that's badass and highly distinctive, which can be quite handy in the Verity encounter of Salvation's Edge.
0:23 Things like this is why you deserve the patreon money.
I just wish you streamed when I wasn’t at work a little more often.
The Lumina ornament is one of my favorite models in the entire game. Its gorgeous.
Dawn Chorus with any incandescent weapon and solar melee. Is especially good on solar warlock because there is the fragment that give you incresed class ability regen on scorching targets so you can have hellion up literally 100% of the time. The fact that it also gives melee regen on top of 200% increased scorch damage is cracked. You can also completely ignore dawnblade for damage since song of flame exists. Also the scorch damage includes incandescent scorch as well. So ANY weapon with scorch on it, dragons breath and skyburners oath for example get really nice damage increases. Also solar lock has on demand radiant with melee so with that melee regen from scorching targets you basically have radiant up 24/7 as well. Definitely goated exotic.
Dawn chorus has been glued to my head since solar 3.0 came out. Scorch damage evaporates ads, especially with an incandescent weapon, gives tons of melee energy, and it gives me an excuse to run daybreak in pve, because a dragon's breath shot and 10 flaming sword beam combo is nothing to scoff at.
"...boss has a bee's dick of health left." I had to go back and listen to that like 3 times. That was incredible.
Love this HC since its powerful in damage+support for teammates (which im addicted to )
Sealed ahakara’s grasps are pretty underrated, reload on any melee with any subclass is just such an incredibly fun thing, especially with the loops such as torches/knock ‘em down knife trick and combination blow/gamblers dodge
Legitimately, Lumina is one of my favorite exotics. It satisfies the space cowboy aesthetic for me, while still being insane for support AND damage. And honestly, it's getting a chance to shine this season with the artifact perks. The kinetic weapon and overload handcannon make it an easy go-to for ANY content grind.
Lumina in PvP on a solar subclass with healing nade to save the blueberries
I shall give you three exotic weapons that I use regularly, and one armor piece for each class.
Tommy's match book. On the rare occasion I play titan it's a ton of fun. You just have to ignore the lack of shield when using it. On other classes it's still fun.
Polaris lance. Because I need more explosions in my life, and this puts explosions way over there.
And ruinous effigy. I started to love this back in witch queen when I decided to dunk the orb in savathun's basket ball net of a crown.
As for armor, Bombardiers for hunter, because melee enemies. The stag for warlock, because I can't be bothered by something like taking damage. And hallowfire heart for titan because there can always be more fire.
I had no idea about Lumina until I spent a Cypher to unlock it from the Monument & started using it. It was the only one with up to date light level wise & i needed a kinetic HC. I was shocked at how insanely great it was! Mind you, I've been a D2 player since vanilla days.
I'm glad to see this weapon get a nice spotlight
Deathbringer and Wicked Implement, my beloveds. Deathbringer gets a lot of strange looks because they don’t know where to get it or “wow it’s so difficult to use” when it’s honestly not is staggering. It’s really fun to use in crucible across open maps and seeing the kills pop up like five seconds later lol. Wicked Implement is just fun for me, plus I love the aesthetic.
I definitely use a combo of Tommy's Matchbook and Sanguine Alchemy the most. High uptime double damage PLUS good scorch just from shooting AND good healing.
The new artifacts are going to be JUICY
My Lumina stays glues to my warlock, goes well with the boots of the assembler
If we could get some kind of self healing on Lumina (special reload 3 Noble rounds = Cure x2, all 6 = Restoration x1) I would never take it off. Some kind of way to use Noble Rounds as a solo player would be really awesome.
As far as underrated exotics, Mothkeepers Wraps on Prismatic Hunter. Got me through solo legend campaign, I can handle 2 out of 3 champion types, and I can keep a high uptime on things like Gunpowder Gamble & Stylish Executioner. Overshields are great for team & solo play giving you that health bump that you need to get back to cover as well.
On weeks where arc and stasis are the weekly burns I will use a Vesper of Radius/Stasis Warlock build.
Duskfield Nades
Frostpulse (as this will freeze everything and then Vesper will kill it instantly and for the enemies left behind your class ability will fill super fast)
Iceflare Bolts (most enemies will freeze twice from Frostpulse and then subsequent spawn seekers)
Whisper of Refraction (it makes getting your class ability back even faster)
Whisper of Fractures
Whisper of Rending
Whisper of Torment
This build works insanely well with a glaive/sword as the more enemies you can get surrounded by the faster you can cast your class ability. I tend to use a primary weapon with Kinetic Tremors since frozen targets take more damage.
Mods :
Helmet - Dynamo and Siphon
Gauntlets - Bolstering Det × 2 and Loader (if running glaive)
Chest - Resistance Mods
Leg - Arc Surge and Insulation × 2
Bond - Reaper, Bomber, and Powerful Attraction
This build is so much fun to play. I hope somebody gives it a try.
Lumina was my reason to play the game. I earned 10k PVP Kills on it. It can instantly heal someone to full, even bouncing it around corners to get them from cover. The damage buff stacks with kill clip so you can melt people with a side arm if they get close. Plus solid 140 hand cannon. I may have retired from the game but if someone ever wants to be a god tier healer, this gun is the best for it. Boots of the assembler required but it's been my favorite build of all time. I remember back in the day Orewings Maul + Proxmity Grenades used to one shot with the blessing of the sky buff.
I enjoy Verglas Curve, the crystals it generates when they get shatter kills count as verglas curve kills. So, they proc stuff like envious assassin, even if you shatter those crystals with the envious assassin weapon reloading ammo and giving verglas its charges back, very swappy
Wings of sacred dawn are surprisingly good for ad clear if you have the right guns. Every kill while ads in air gives a full reload, and on weapons like the aggressive scouts, it’s so nice.
Wow I just realized Cenotaph helmet looks like a Trace rifle 🤯
Navigator is an orca
Sticky soda shoes are oh-so-rage inducing in any senario you happen to be placed in.
the boots of the assembler combo is still pretty good too, still contends with the healy turret helm as a strong support build
the thing you said about any exotic we love but think is underappreciated. Touch of Malice, I have 28k pve kills and 3600 pvp love the gun and it is an add clear monster as well as an orb making machine it can blind enemies which also means unstop stun built in even without artifact radiant makes it anti barrier and its damage overall is amazing. now yeah it does hurt you but slap on a warlock with devour, titan with loreley or resto nades armamentarium, and a hunter with healing nades or something along those lines and you have amazing add clear great damage stun potential and a fun time. my fave exotic and havent stopped loving it since i finally got it to drop after 52 fresh clears (before they added it to the weekly rotational raid thing lol)
Ive always been a huge support healer type of guy, so when they added rifts into warlocks kits in d2 i was so happy, then Attunement of Benevolence happened, then lumina and assembler boots happened. However this new auto rifle keeps people alive much better and extremely consistent. I know lumina give an insane damage buff but thats never been my priority. I wish the boots were better, they got extremely powercrept by the helmet, of course its nice to have a healing rift uptime thats longer. I just realized i can theoretically run lumina and No Hesi together. I didnt even watch the video yet but thanks for making me think on this a bit more lol.
Honestly Eternal Warrior. With the new seasonal mods, running an arc class and getting escalating damage on an arc weapon like riskrunner and then just seeing everything explode constantly is crazy
I love my Verity's Brow for my Stasis Turrets build. As long as i using a Stasis Kinetic weapon, i can keep summoning Stasis turrets over and over.
The "Setter", that's the person in volleyball who sets up the other players. He said set like 50 times and thought it was funny
Completely underrated salvations grip. I would use it in VOG to carry people through challenges by freezing wyverns and holding them in place if someone dropped the ball.
Lumina and boots of the assembler let me lfg the lightblade gm. Its an insane build and technically the damage boost is better than you just running a damage focused build (35% >33%)
You forgot to mention the best part: you can grapple on to Lumina rounds with strand. What makes this better than a rocket is that they *bounce off walls*
We gather here today to appreciate the Underrated Lumina.
I have a medic build and just a Lumina pvp build and I haven't changed it since
Bro I love the look of the cenotaph. It's absurdly awesome. My head looks like a gun
My answer would be Final Warning. That little water gun does so much damage and has so much utility that I like to think that it is a watergun filled with highly corrosive acid instead of water.
Great for general play and once you get better in the game a powerhouse in endgame.
Even DPS it's really up there (in terms of primaries but still).
Also most fun to learn as it takes a while to get that right feel of the gun, the moment when it just clicks
Also sect of force is one of my favs in gms, to nuke champs quickly
But Lumina is definetly one up there. In raids I am THE Lumina guy, I love running it
I kinda want to see a video series about underrated exotic armors for each class. Or maybe a video about less popular exotic weapons. My new favorite exotic though not underrated is hazardous propulsion. It brings a level of pure enjoyment that I have not felt since sweet business and actium war rig combo
Not going to lie Ive been given so much shit in the past for using lumina and boots of the assembler over meta dps builds... funny thing is those super dps builds go away and Lumina remains the same, always a solid option no matter what.
Final Warning, literally one of if not the highest dmg Primary in the game. I love that thing.
Deterministic Chaos on Void Titan with Controlled Demolition during Witness DPS,. You can out heal the lasers and only have to worry about the jump.
Deathbringer is my favorite underrated exotic. It clears all the adds for you in seconds very effortlessly and efficiently in a single rocket, then you can use the rest of your ammo to nuke champions by hitting them with every projectile. It's so versatile. People don't give it a chance because it's just mildly less convenient to use than Gjally, but I think the payoff for learning to use it is totally worth it.
I personally think Eyes of Tomorrow is slept on with how much ad density and random flying things there are these days. Combines very well with gunpowder gamble and spirit of inmost light (HOIL) or any solar subclass.
Alpha lupi is actually my underrated choice. I use it on my main solar titan build.
Hear me out: with Searing on solar 3.0 and hip firing skyburners oath on anything, you can chain drop barricades for rapid healing to anyone. And because your activating your class ability, you can chain activate mods like bomber/reaper/dynamo to get all of their effects.
Now, what would happen if Alpha lupi got buffed so that the healing pulse was cure instead? It would then work with Benevolence to speed up the recharge of all your abilities, including the barricade. Meaning even faster ability chaining.
I use this as a really effective support build that still packs a pretty solid punch (Consecration). And this is with AL as it currently is. I'm basically waiting for the exotic to get this buff and then I'll have one hell of an aggressive healer build at my disposal.
I've gotten crucified for this opinion before, but ever since the removal of primary ammo Devil's Ruin is fantastic. The charged shot can do a lot more damage than people realize. The fact that it stuns Unstoppable Champs is a nice touch too.
Lumina my Beloved. It was actually the first exotic I grabbed out of the Monument in D2. Still don't regret that choice.
Also weird but not entirely off-meta support exotic: Starfire Protocol. Infinite rift energy can give you a lot of team healing, and can lead to dropping rifts on everyone on the team while Ember of benevolence keeps up Fusion Grenade recharge time. Is it worse than Verity's brow? Probably. Is infinite Pheonix Dives for free team healing and hellions fun as hell? Yes.
as a titan who enjoys putting my knee/shoulder in someone's face i must reccomend peregrine greaves. with the recent buff it works wonders in anything with champions. if done right you can have 100% up time. and it also pulls its weight in pvp. it's a free orb and there are so many ways to make that a round win any time you can get one
When I first started raiding, before I got div, my go to load out was Lumina and boots of the assembler. My teams loved me lol.
Now I rock speakers sight and feel so good. Absolutely carries in GMs
I think outbreak is one of the best exotics, a lot of my friends who started destiny on may struggled getting good builds and exotics since a lot of the mods were locked and they didnt have almost any exotic, once we ran through zero hour mission they got it and omg, they started to really love the game, yes some of them had graviton lance and sunshot, but they always struggled with bosses miniboses and just overall trying to do legend missions on the campaing was so scary for them, once they got outbreak it felt like they had finally stood up for the first time, they ran raids (vog, kf, vow) and they started to not fear legend onsaught anymore, the only enemy they would struggle with is tormentors and some champions but overall they gained confidence, one of those players didnt even have a build and couldnt make one since he kept getting the same exotic pieces from the engrams (foetracer, geminy gester, and stompees) and he didnt have all the mods, but outbreak allowed him to understand how damage stacking worked, he started trying to make outbreak more potent and got into orb generating mods, surges, he found time dialation and started grinding to unlock those mods, he did so many raids without proper builds and stats, with blue gear and outbreak, and still managed to get more kills when he was given adclear and not die on mechanics. Outbreak is truly a blessing, to this day they still always carry outbreak with them and they use it on gm nightfalls, raids and just overall since its just the best exotic to get value with, it might not be as flashy as other exotics or potent but when a team runs more than one outbreak, you can tell how it makes the encounter less daunting for any player who struggles playing the game.
I am very proud of my friend group btw, they got into destiny and since then they have really really loved the game, they are also not the type of players to look at destiny content so they are relatively not influenced by doomer content, they have opened my eyes since on how amazing destiny really is and how ive been just not looking at simple things this game does that no other game does. a lot of them come from games like call of duty zombies, overwatch, apex, warframe. they are 8 players, 4 of them have the new dlc and the others were able to get the old dlcs with psplus, some time in the future they will get the new final shape since rn everyday they still play. they wanna grind, a lot of them have done gm nightfalls, and none have attempted master raids yet but we are getting there. some of them have builds now and they make their own builds, they have sparked that joy i get when i play destiny, they really did.
(edit): I USED LUMINA!!! to help them in legend campaing with bosses and verity for healing nades (then they introduced the autorifle that heals so that helped) I do use lumina often since it does makes raids where dps is almost there just easy.
With its rework and the advent of Punch Goblin Prismatic Hunter, Bastion is now even more goated than it already was.
Been a massive fan of lumina for years. It's been slept on forever in both PvE and PvP. I know high end PvE players use it but outside of that it's a rare sight. But in PvP it has decent range, insanely high aim assist that you feel on MnK and it feels good. The hardest part about lumina is using the perk and understanding when you can or can't hipfire. The way I use it is once I get the noble rounds I spend 1 immediately and then head towards red on the radar and then shoot the second round towards an ally, even if there isn't one, when I'm in range of the opponent.
The Stag doesn’t get any love anymore. Never forget the moments in pvp when I used Warlock Stasis + Frost Pulse + Stag = menace to society😂
Lumina kicks like a mule hopped up on red bull. I cannot hit the broadside of the moon with that gun on controller.
It's not really all that out-of-pocket, but Ager's Scepter is a trash mob murder machine that has extra subclass synergy and Champion deterrent built-in, especially with the catalyst. It's not fantastic for single-target DPS (though by no means terrible either, in my experience), but it beats almost any other individual weapon for crowd control and damage-chaining potential what with the Shatter damage chain reactions you can get going in target-rich environments. I don't really see it out in the wild all that much, but every time I pull it out for myself I'm reminded of how fun it is to use in a lot of PVE situations.
i feel like chromatic fire is very often underappreciated as an exotic that can both help feed into loops and weaken/sever entire crowds of enemies with a single precision kill
i pair it with ace of spades and a void super very often, firefly + the weaken aoe = everything is either dead or it's easier for my teammates to finish off
going for a strand super allows you to effectively give your teammates 40% damage resistance against a crowd of enemies for simply just killing one of them
a solar super gives a moderate amount of scorch, 15 stacks i believe, but unless you really want the shiny orange/yellow kaboomies it won't make much a difference
Thanks, now I want to make a build rocking Lumina, that new rocket sidearm, and a solar heavy (I have so few q.q), with Verities on a Solar Lock with fusion grenades.
My personal favorite exotic is Wicked Implement. And the reason why is pretty simple - you can use it to deal with overload AND unstops AT THE SAME TIME, without any artefact mod! And if there is a anti-barrier scout - damn, this beast is a swiss knife against champs.
Another cool part about it - self-feeding shards from nowhere, which might be used for extra synergy with Stasis, Prismatic, or just dunk Elemental Charge mod and you'll feed yourself for an extra armor charge from every 4th shard, which, btw, floating towards you from any distance.
I love this gun.
Still need to get that one. I'm so far behind...
Vexcalibur is my all time favorite exotic. All glaives are undervalued and have a huge fun factor.
In khepri's horn's defense, the technoscarab ornament is really good.
Man i tried Lumina boots when the catalyst dropped a week or two ago but it was kinda hard to tell if it was working, this inspires me to give them another go
Lumina: the gun that come from the redemption quest of another gun (Thorn)
Vexcalibur and Ominoculous is in my opinion, the most underrated support combo
I used to main lumina with a solar support warlock, but Red Death Reformed synergies better. It definitely has more of a focus on keeping the whole fireteam alive rather than boosting our damage, but when we’re facing the final boss of a 50 round onslaught, making the whole fireteam near unkillable with healing turrets and catalyst boosted Red Death ends up counting for more than +35% damage. It would be different if I was raiding. Then lumina would probably be better.
I have a Lumina/Boots of the Assembler solar build. The healing was unmatched, until the introduction of the "Don't Die Gun" and the Speaker's helm exotic. Might give it another go, just to hand out 35% damage buffs lol.
Vexcaliber is my usual go-to for any dungeon crawls or lfg/Sherpa shenanigans. Good burst damage and whether I'm a devour-lock or radiant well with heals, it's all about survivability. I can bump up my allies but more importantly I can pull out clutches to revive them.