Destiny 2: Is It Time to Care About Elemental Well Mods?
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- Опубликовано: 28 июл 2024
- There have been almost 2 dozen elemental well mods added to the game since their initial debut. So uh... are they good NOW? Or are we still waiting on some more buffs before we get into a better spot?
This video is an overview of all of the mods. I'm sure there are some mods here that work within very specific builds, but there's no way I'm gonna be able to account for all the different subclass branches and exotics across every single character.
Mod overview - 0:00
Arc mods - 5:36
Solar mods - 9:45
Void mods - 12:15
Stasis mods - 14:04
Overall Thoughts - 17:25
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Weird how arc gets the mod that makes wells track, since they’re generated by melee and finishers you’re already right next to the enemy. Unless you’re using throwing knives or something
I think the idea was to have tracking wells along with some of the other well mods are designed with different elements to push mixing up armor. Similar to how Protective light is void but if you're spamming supers powerful friends and radiant light are both arc. I think they just expect people to use different elements and different armor.
I think it's because they're like the ionic traces on mid tree stormcaller which is arc.
Trust me, having the tracking wells helps out quite a bit with melee builds, you can punch something at point blank and half the time youll move on having just missed the wells and you wont pick it up,
@@r3ktl3ss20 same with grenade mods. they tend to pop up from the enemies and go over your head
CWL mods weren't divided up among the 3 elements very well (was 3 at the time).
Instead of splitting them up by their function, it almost seems like it's the "add-ons" that determined what elemental slot they were put in.
Arc CWL mods gave a secondary bonus if you had additional Arc mods slotted, Void CWL mods had lowered armor cost in exchange for a stat penalty, and Solar CWL mods stacked their effect with multiple copies.
Not only were they assigned based on the "add-on effect", in some cases I think you could make a good case that some of the mods should have been given a different add-on effect in the first place.
Yes. Elemental Armaments + Font of Might (and that mod that causes stasis shards to count as wells if you run stasis) means, matching the element let's same element weapons hit EXTREMELY hard, I run those two with lucky pants as, say, stasis with a outlaw mkc vulpecula and it SLAPS. So much stuff proccing.
Do you one better. Run Gunslinger with Lucky Pants and Sunshot. Same Well build with Font of Might. It hits like a truck!
@@Gr4veM1nd Do you two better. Run Eriana's Vow instead
Does vulpecula count as a kinetic hand cannon? I was thinking whisper of rending could be nasty with that combo if it does
@@thiccortreat4457 counts as stasis, same as scepter
@@thiccortreat4457 Stasis, not kinetic
I’m actually really liking elemental builds, they let you not worry about ability stats and focus on defense mobility and recovery! Plus the extra damage on certain builds w/ font of might can be amazing
Yeah I really like how with font of wisdom you can literally ditch intellect on your armor completely as it sets it to 100 and is so easy to have near 100% uptime
@@Goober2289 When I figured that out I instantly swapped to elemental wells + FoW. When I told my buddy about it he did the same.
I slap that font of wisdom on nearly every single build I use, and it does open up more armor stat choices not having to worry about intellect. Also the amount of time you can get your super back if you're using other super regen mods is insane
Stasis explosions also proc explosive wellmaker, I run Ager's Scepter as a primary on my Shadebinder and use explosive wellmaker/well of life/elemental shards/elemental charge/Protective light to make me near invincible even in solo endgame content.
Telesto also procs explosive wellmaker
I legit just made that comment. Stasis shatter multikills count as explosive kills. Also explosive payload and timed payload. Insert pretty much any explosive eay of dealing damge. Top tree solar hunter knife, nades etc.
All explosions of any element count for Explosive Wellmaker. It just needs any form of AoE damage: Grenades, Grenade Launchers, Rocket Launchers, Telesto, Stasis shatters, even blowing up your sparrow next to enemies can spawn a well with Explosive Wellmaker. There's plenty more explosions I can't be bothered to mention but those are some examples
1:34 the "extra energy on pickup" mods actually boost the recharge rate of said ability in addition to gaining more on pickup; if you go into an activity that has a modifier that boosts ability regeneration you can clearly see the difference it makes.
Yeah I was running my well build in the strike play list with that increased melee damage and recharge modifier, it made my melee ability charge in
how noticeable is it?
@@-thesignpainter9486 SIGNIFICANT! :D
Until I can actually change elements on my armor without paying an obscene cost every time, I'm not messing with any new mods
After grinding, and masterworking, each element for each piece of gear with the stats for each of my builds I might actually cry if they did that....but they should. The cost is ridiculous.
A lot of the good elemental mods don't require a certain armor element. You just need to match your energy weapon to your subclass or you can use the arc finisher on 1 armor piece that is arc. Font of might and font of wisdom are very good options
@@evo3481 Yeah I just use 3x elemental ordnance, bountiful well and well of potency on my bottom tree void warlock
Armor elements should just never have been a thing.
Get a set of armor for each element type.
Use the armor focusing for Season of Splicer armor at the Recaster. If you equip a ghost mod for one ability and focus a different one, you can target your two preferred abilities. Just be aware that there are two groups of abilities (Mob-Res-Rec and Dis-Int-Str) and you can only choose one per group, trying to go for two from one group will not work. Should always be over 60 total with some extremely spiky distributions.
Corrupted Expunge Tartarus is very short and doing 5-6 runs each week will get you all the Decrypted Data you need for your three tier 3 focuses each week. Split that between two characters and you can get some Season of the Splicer weapons with an each perk along the way and maybe get something sweet.
Soooo, if you get yourself four sets of armor with similar stats for each element type all you then have to worry about is paying glimmer to equip different mods.
I feel like when the light subclass reworks come out these well mods are going to have some unforeseen interactions and end up completely overpowered, I cant wait
Fr, I’m already so close to an infinite handheld supernover build
Big thing with Font of Might: It stacks with all other damage buffs. It does not overwrite nor is it overwritten by any other damage buff in the game.
so does High energy fire and might stack? thats kinda cool
@@bobbyvanderlind7537 yep!
pretty sure they fixed this back when they ninja fixed tether + PD mod. High energy fire gets overwritten by Might as its only a 20% damage buff vs the 25% for Might
@@123TheCloop they did, it no longer stacks
Prob with font of might , you need to use specific element weapon. I don't use it simply becouze of that
15:55
Datto: “That’s nuts!”
Me, eating almonds: “technically no, but yeah!”
Finally, I can now form my opinion on elemental wells. Which happens to be very similar to Datto's, by pure coincidence.
I use a cwl/well hybrid build (firepower, nade well mod, cwl well mod) for infinite grenades on top tree nova. So good in GM level content, just peek, throw juiced nade, repeat. Easily one of the best builds for soloing difficult content as well due to protective light and the regen well mod.
Edit: includes contraverse hold
Font of Might makes it so that you don't need to run a damage perk on your weapons. It actually makes Osmosis way better because it's usually in the some slot as damage perks.
Doesn’t this make osmosis/firefly on a fatebringer insane?
@@nickparry1720 Absolutely
Yessir and that’s my roll. I’ve been digging it quite a bit
yeah, elemental well mods gives me something iv been wanting for the longest time, fully fleshed out melee builds, love it
I love using pure Elemental Well builds just for the ability regeneration. I use a LOT of abilities in PVE as a Warlock so I love it.
What wells you run on lock? I'm curious as I'm looking to use wells on my lock to try out
Charged With Light is top tier
I used to run charged with light in season of arrivals but it really hurt my stats
It only hurts your stars is you use the two "PvP mods....maybe.
I have many charged builds and they're stronger than wells would ever be.
Ashen wake + middle tree or bottom tree, bountiful well mod, 3x explosive well maker and a melee well maker can be a really fun ability spam build for lower level content.
Been using 2 melee, bountiful, explosive, and healing well.
i like to combine the wells with charged with light mods, font of might with argent ordnance+ the ritual rocket launcher deletes most yellow bars. Haven't tested it in difficult content yet though.
I watched your old video today looking for a new one, this one. PERFECT timing my dude
thanks for all the info! as a returning player i wasn't sure if i was missing out by staying with my charged with light builds or should be using wells. had my builds already set up with my armor and didn't feel like changing everything around. sounds like i don't need to. Also i don't have tons of time to play to try out different stuff and grind for new high stat armor. If i get some great but if not what i have will work for now. Thanks again Datto!
Preaching to the choir but wish D2 had a quick loadout switch feature. Once I have a solid build I rarely change it that season because its kind of a pain in the butt.
Font of Wisdom, elemental charge, protective light, seeking wells and melee wellmaker/ elemental armaments is a really good universal build.
Completely Agree on the cost perspective. I want to have fun, but I don't want to grind in order just to switch my sets around. Ascendant Shards should NOT be the requirement, Id be ok with 5 prisms.
That's why I farmed the GM last week, easy as hell to get so many ascendant shards
I really like Ehroar’s idea of being able to MW armor 4 different times, one for each element, and then just being able to swap between the 4 masterworks for free. It makes using different builds a LOT easier and user friendly, but not cheap
On statis lock I've been using font of wisdom, elemental shards & elemental charge with protective light in GM'S. Throw in fire & ice, utitly kickstart, grenade kickstart & power preservation. That set will always keep your teammates stacked on supers, give you hella gernade, rift, super & survival. You can throw in absolution aswell if you have extra energy space. Keep in mind the correct statis aspects & fragments further compliment the build, correct armor stats aswell.
Bro I love your videos so much, I gave up on Destiny 2 so long ago but I love watching your content on it anyways, my friends still ask me to help them with builds so I consult your videos for build help and rolls for my mates.
the stasis builds are a ton of fun, as is the (while it lasts) Necrotic Grip + Thorn Dawnblade build
A build I've been enjoying is melee wellmaker with middle tree sunbreaker. Pair it with Severance Enclosure, font of wisdom, and then elemental charge. I usually change my last mod depending on what I'm doing (protective light, HEF, etc.). It's been a lot of fun and a nice changeup!
I like the ideas, in practice it's too expensive to have multiple elements on any armor besides class item (if you care about stats at all) so I just run stasis. Elemental shards is stupidly effective at keeping well buffs active.
These mods have the perfect synergy for my builds, though most can be a little lackluster imo. Love their implementation so far especially the charged with light options.
Hope the next set of mods will be great too. Charged with light should be a mainstay if cells and wells get sunset eventually
I've been using Verity's Brow with Osmosis, and before Bountiful Wells, I had a split of Elemental Ordnance, Armaments, Font of Might and Wisdom. It actually worked quite well. I think Armaments/Might can be a solid build. I don't like the specialised elemental well mods for specific subclasses, because it's just too jank to redo your mod set-up every time you switch class.
"Reaping wellmaker pales in comparison to overcharge"
Not for Nightstalker Hunters it doesn't. On demand wells every
Explosive well maker for me it´s really really good, it works with almost everything that has an area effect damage. It works with things like Witherhoard or shatterdive for some reason
Athrys's Embrace with Well of Ions is extremely strong, can pretty much kill champions with a single kinfe.
Now I’m absolutely going to try this.
I have a battle Mage type build with Mantle of Battle Harmony on middle tree Dawnblade with Elemental Armaments, 3 Font of Might and Elemental Time Dilation. The Well generation is a bit slow but usually you get another well before FoM runs out. You're literally a walking damage buff machine, it's fun.
Stacking charged with light and well mods seems to give the most bang for your buck. Its possible to get melee back almost instantly with heavy anded, melee wellmaker, and elemental charge. Another example is top tree voidwalker amd contraverse holds, using grenade wells, elemental charge, and a few fire power mods. Kickstart mods contribute greatly to everything as well.
Personally my favorite is the well of life. That regeneration comes in clutch so often, and you can have it up so consistently, it's just always good to have.
I’ve been having a LOT of fun running devour warlock, veritys brow and demolitionist bottom dollar alongside double grenade kickstart, elemental ordnance, elemental charge and 2x firepower. Could sneak a 3x in but I haven’t masterworked my stasis arms yet. Ashes to assets has obviously also been paying dividends in that build
I’m able to get my warlocks stasis super in like 30 seconds using some of them along with Agers Scepter so I’d say they’re good
ok
Can you break down what ones you're using? Could be useful in Gambit where speed is everything for reaping Ads!
@@DeontologicalMalaise Probably the well mod that boosts super recharge(Font of Wisdom), the stasis aspect that gives super on stasis kills(cant remember the name), Elemental shards(probably). Not sure about the rest
@@stewie3k_ could be font of potency? (seasonal, gives super energy on well pickup matching class)
@@DeontologicalMalaise
Mantle of battle harmony.
Whisper of bonds.
Font of wisdom.
Font of potency.
Probably elemental shards.
I've had a lot of fun mostly using Elemental Wells for ability spam on hunter. Reaping Wellmaker, Seeking Wells, Font of Might, Elemental Armaments, and Elemental Ordinance to just constantly generate wells and use abilities. Mostly used with bottom tree nightstalker hunter and Omni-Oculus. T-10 Mobility and Discipline for the shortest possible ability cooldowns
Psst... using some artifact mods, elemental well mods, agers scepter, and star eater scales. You can have a 15 second Hunter Stasis super build. And it works in gambit...
Solar well mods work really well with my middle tree hammers/severance enclosure build
I think that the real combo is a heavy weapon in each element to pair Font of Might with, and then some way to generate wells for each subclass. All subclasses can use elemental armaments, arc has melees and finishers, stasis has shards, void has grenades or class abilities I guess, and then solar has more grenades. This is all in service of getting fond of might for your heavy weapon that matches your subclass element.
Here's my build.
Class: Stasis/middle tree solar hunter. Stasis aspects are Grim Harvest and touch of winter and fragments I use in order of subjective importance are Conduction, Rime, Fissures, Chains. Gambler's dodge of course.
Armor: 2 solar, 1 void, 1 stasis and the last piece can be any element (star eater exotic boots as stasis)
Combat mods: charged up and supercharged (2 solar), energy converter (1 void), elemental shards/melee well maker (swap stasis armor combat mod to melee well maker when using blade barrage), elemental charge goes on the last piece. Other complementary mods can be used as energy allows on your armor. I use bomber (grenade cooldown on dodge) and absolution (ability energy when picking up orbs)
Seasonal mods: Thermoclastic blooming, thermoclastic strike and hands on. Well of potency might also be worth considering but I'm not resetting my artifact to test.
The idea: With the above mods, every melee kill will spawn an orb of power and a shard/well. With high mobility and gambler's dodge, you'll be tossing out melees constantly. Every well or shard that counts as a well gives you +2 charged with light. The cooldown on the elemental shards is negligible as the idea is to just get to 5 stacks by the time you use your super. With all the wells and orbs being generated, you will get your super extremely quickly. Star eater also buffs your super for every orb you pick up after it's full (up to 8 stacks). As soon as you use your super, throw a grenade. Energy converter will convert your 5 stacks of CwL into 50% of your super energy on grenade throw. Important to note that it will only charge you up to 50% from 0%. It will not generate any of your super energy after the 50% mark. It's best used as soon as you throw out a super to fill it from 0%. Keep picking up orbs and wells and you'll have your super back again within seconds to repeat the process. Just make sure you have a grenade and 5 stacks ready for when you toss out your next super. As a bonus, you can use a rocket with explosive light. Every orb you pick up not only gives you energy to your abilities and super, but also every orb after a filled super gives you stacks of feast of light for your boots (which also lets you keep picking up orbs even though your super is filled). With an explosive light rocket, every orb will also give you a stack of explosive light. Your rocket will constantly have explosive light procced which is a constant 25% buff compared to 15% on a vorpal rocket. You'll run out of rocket ammo before you run out of explosive light charges since all it takes is a melee to spawn an orb.
Finally, been struggling to make a build with these.
Literally just read the perk description
Font of Might is crazy good with Stasis using Reed's Regret/Peacebond (as well as the obvious Ager's Scepter), and also with Solar using Vex (unless the upcoming Vex nerf kills it). Outside of that Well mod though, ehhhh...
There's a middle tree arc titan melee build going around that gives you your full melee back on use, can get your super in around 30 seconds, and can also combo up to around 900k damage on a punch, pretty gooooooood.
I enjoy using the code of the devastator/middle tree sunbreaker with Elemental Charge, well of life, protective light, and melee Wellmaker. Getting a melee kill will activate/refresh roaring flames, then drop a Solar Well for me to get charged with light x2 for protective light. It will also grant me a continuous healing buff alongside my hammer healing me when it’s picked up. Using this with Synthos, one two punch shotty, and tractor cannon makes a nice overall tanky melee build
Expanding on the agers build, shatter kills count as explosions for solar wells. You can then get more grenade energy from the wells for bleakwatchers. On my stasis aeon hunter, I run shards as wells, charged with light from wells, reactive pulse, font of wisdom, and protective light. You always have protective light, font of wisdom adds 50 int for a 20 seconds iirc that gets refreshed when you get stasis shards, and it's hard not to produce shards as a hunter when you bounce melee and fling giant snow gloves
Loving the Ashen Wake gaunlets with these mods. 3 x explosive wellmaker, 1 x bountiful wells and 1 x well of ordnance. Middle tree sunbreaker rips through adds once roaring flames is up in low-mid tier content, and also viable in master lost sections and dungeons with bottom tree using those healing sunspots. Apart from bubble or thundercrash for boss damage, I really haven't taken this build off in the last month.
I've been loving Elemental Wells since their introduction, mainly because I'm a ability heavy player [Nezarec's chaos nova will do that to you]. I've not experienced with the more niche applications of wells like you've explained in this video Datto, but my build at the moment is honestly the most fun I've had in D2;
Top tree Nova with Nezarec's Sin and Deafening Whisper/Null Composure -OR- Top tree Arc with Crown and Salvager's Salvo -OR- Any Solar tree with Mantle and Vex
Helm - Any, but Solar for Ashes to Assets works wonders - Elemental Armaments [gun kills that match subclass make wells]
Arms - Stasis - Grenade Kickstart [When you use a grenade, you gain grenade energy]
Chest - Any - Font of Wisdom [getting a matching well boosts super regen]
Legs - Any - Font of Might [getting a matching well boosts elemental damage of that type]
Class - If I'm not using Particle Deconstruction then Elemental Ordanance [grenades make wells]
This is such a fun, ability spammy build, and I use it in all content, patrol, strikes, gambit [where the arc version SHREDS], even GM's if I'm a second warlock.
I like them quite a bit actually as there not complicated to use and you can activate them pretty easily such as font of might or font of wisdom
Path of the burning steps, Tarrabah, elemental armaments, elemental time dilation and font of might. All attributes stack and your doing rocket launcher level of damage per clip with your sub machine gun. Amazing build.
One setup I've enjoyed running as my base is Behemoth Titan running the Tectonic Harvest aspect + Whisper of Shards, Conduction, and Rime. Paired with Elemental Shards, double grenade kickstart, Well of Restoration, and Elemental Charge. Whisper of Conduction is just a matter of preference for me, you could easily switch it out for Chains and benefit from the DR buff as well.
With this setup when you throw down a glacier grenade and shatter it, you get a decent amount of overshield from Whisper of Rime, free Charged with Light x2, and due to double grenade Kickstart + Well of Restoration giving ~40% of your grenade back instantly and Whisper of Shards increasing your grenade regeneration speed, you get your grenade back for free too so you can do it all over again.
From there you can tack any CWL or Well mods on that you like. Protective Light is nice for high end content like Master VoG, working with Whisper of Rime (and Chains, if you run it) to improve your survivability greatly. High Energy Fire/Font of Might is good as well, I use them in GMs for nuking champs and Master VoG to melt Atheon. Lucent Blade is great to have on demand if you're running around with Crown Splitter. Those are the main three I run with, but there are other options as well.
Of course, this build does come with the fairly large downside of requiring you to use Behemoth Titan. That said, I don't personally mind having to deal with it in exchange for all these advantages.
Making a tanky Void Titan is also fun.
Void Detonator from Code of The Commander count towards the Solar mods explosive requirements. With the Well of Life and the health Regen you can take just a bit more punishment than you normally would.
Mobius Quiver works great with the Stasis Well mod that activates on super cast, as each arrow counts as a cast. This subclass works well with Reaping Well Maker as it is also void. Hunters have gained a HUGE boon from this system. It really does make them more viable.
Stasis shatter damage counts for explosive wellmaker. Ehroar has made some crazy builds this season with the new mods, and they’re very fun and effective.
Ashen Wake middle tree sunbreaker with explosive well maker and melee well maker. Add in salvager salvo and you get constant grenades.
Almost all ofy builds now revolve around Wells. And bonus: (Elemental Charge) the one that lets you get stacks of light is clutch when you can stack two similar effects together from CWL and EW stuff.
Been using them to great effect in GMs and Master content to the point where my friends who haven't caught on were like "Ok, you have to show me these things now because you're breezing through this"
Arc elemental wells with hunter liars handshake is one of the most fun n effective builds I've tried in a while, use top tree arcstrider, for mods basically use ur charged melee to get arc well use seeking well to get it, dodge to get ur melee back n u have a dmg boost on ur melee n repeat the process, ur subclass and liars handshake give u health regeneration and u can use the wells to get charged with light n protective light if u want.
This by it self kills everything but for bosses u can just switch between one two punch shotgun and tractor cannon for debuff and extra damage on melee.
It's cool to throw a few of these on for a raid, gambit, etc. High level content (GM Nightfalls) require so much shield matching and use of the correct champion mods that finding the perfect well set up is nearly impossible.
Elemental Shards and Ager's is really what got me to try Elemental Well mods and I was pleasantly surprised. Unfortunately Fusions exist this season so it's hard to justify the build I made over a Fusion and/or Linear Fusion and Particle Deconstruction. Maybe High Energy Fire in there somewhere for extra damage during DPS.
I noticed that Elemental Charge gives 2 stacks of charged with light on a matching subclass. Combine with Elemental Shards, Glacial Harvest (or anything aspect that creates shards), and High Energy Fire for easy damage buffs. Throw on Supercharged with Stack on Stacks if you want to go overkill.
ive been having a lot of fun with a full strength sunbracers build that includes solar wells on grenade kills and gives super energy on well pickup. basically infinite ability spam and supers every minute or so
bountiful wells, triple melee well maker, healing well maker + ophidia spathe and middle tree solar hunter. its really fun and makes it easier to just spam abilities and heal through some activities
A run Hallowfire Heart on my Titan for a general all-rounder ability build, and since well mods got attention this season, I use a lot of the Solar Well mods (Well of Ordnance and Explosive Wellmaker) to add onto my build so I have 24/7 Grenades and melee. It isn't the best build, I'm sure, but it works pretty good
I decided to try something different and make a build with these mods. I made this yesterday so improvements will come over time:
Titan - Mid-Tree Void
Elemental Ordnance x3
Overcharge Wellmaker
Bountiful Wells.
How it works is that I get 4 void wells on a grenade kill, which charges most of my grenade and other abilities. Since this is mid-tree void I get ability energy back from the Void Detonators. If this doesn't fully replenish my grenade, I can then perform a finisher and get the last bit necessary.
One of my main builds for pve this season is revenant hunter with elemental shards, thermoclastic blooming, and melee wellmaker with assassin's cowl, as well as the aspect that makes shards give an overshield, so one shuriken makes at least one shard, a well, at least one orb, and makes me invisible, as well as the shards give me an overshield. Using that with heavy handed and melee kickstart so I can throw a comical number of shurikens that have that many effects. And throw in the mod that makes them overload when there's overload champions. Plus, all I'll lose from that core next season is the orbs.
I've come to really only use the shards + the mod that gives charges when you pick one up. Just easy stacking benefits for what you would already be doing. Nothing out of the way etc.
I’ve been wayyyy too exited for this video lol. Keep it up man!
Well of tenacity was 10 seconds before season 15 dropped. I used it consistently because it was awesome in content with a lot of enemies. When season 15 dropped, they added an on screen visual effect, changed the text from “damage resistance” to “resist” and halved the time. And it wasn’t mentioned anywhere from Bungie, but I noticed immediately.
But I think I remember Bungie mentioning it’s resistance getting upped from 10% to something higher in season 15
Bottom tree Arc warlock with grenade wellmaker, melee wellmaker + well of potency(artifact mod) with Crown Of Tempest makes for a very fast super. heavy handed can be useful too if you pair with elemental charge.
Young Ahamkara's Spine can actually lead to chained grenades. It's not gonna be for the highest end content, but I've found success in stuff like Legend Lost Sectors and VoG when using solar well mods.
There's also an artifact mod that gives you super energy for picking up elemental wells.
I highly suggest running a Firewalker elemental well build on your Titan. I got this idea from Rick Kackis and while I saw his video a while back so I'm not sure if my build is exactly the same as his, credit where credit is due. The mods I run are Elemental Armaments, Font of Might, Well of Life, Elemental Charge, and High Energy Fire. I use Path of the Burning Steps as my exotic, and then either Ticuu's or Mythoclast as my primary. With this setup either your Ticuu's or your Mythoclast will make you wells just by shredding everything in your path, and those wells regen your health as well as activating both your mod damage buffs and the Firewalker damage buff from your exotic. On top of that, by using bottom tree Sunbreaker, your ability kills also heal you and grant the Firewalker bonus, and you get your abilities back faster due to the well mods. I haven't tried it in GMs, but I've used it in most other activities including normal VoG and it's one of my top 3 most fun builds in the history of the game.
Ever since Warmind Cells got nerfed, I’ve learned to love Elemental Well mods. Now I’ve got a bunch of ability-based builds around exotic armors that I’ve ignored previously.
Young Ahamkara’s Spine, Bombardiers (one I already liked), Ashen Wake, Getaway Artist, etc.
With explosive wellmaker timed payload weapons can create solar wells. Abusing this with demo and TP Judgement. Slap in a few well of ordinance you always have grenades.
Worth noting that sometimes varying your well generation mods with Bountiful Wells get more well spawns per mod than just stacking a single type. For example, you could get that same 4 elemental wells from a single solar grenade using Elemental Ordnance + Explosive Wellmaker + Bountiful Wells rather than using 3x Explosive Wellmaker + Bountiful Wells. You save on a mod slot, and make your well generation more versatile.
Melee wellmaker
Well of life
Font of might
Elemental charge
High energy fire or protective light
Middle tree solar titan with throwing hammers with dunemarchers or severance enclosure or synthoceps.
Kinetic with osmosis (to get font of might benefits), Cartesian coordinate with swashbuckler, and 1k or sleeper simulant. Extremely strong and fun build.
That’s the best load out I’ve heard of in a long time! I’ve been using this for the past 3 hours and it is fucking OP.
I'm running Solar Titan Mid with Ashen Wake or Synthoceps this season.
Mods I run with :
Well of Ordnance
Explosive Wellmaker
Elemental Ordnance
Thermoclastic Strike for Overload Champion
Void detonators count as explosions for middle tree titan meaning with explosive well-maker and bountiful wells you can get a mix of void and solar wells when killing ads basically more consistent ad clear lots of fun too
I'm running Ager's on my hunter with a heavy focus on well generation from shurikens. My abilities are always off cooldown, and it takes me under a minute to generate my super. Toss in thermoclastic bloom from the artifact mod and I'm constantly dropping tons of stasis wells, shards and orbs in most acitivies. Don't sleep on well mods. I've played builds on each class this season that have been an absolute blast with well mods.
I've been running well generators with Ward of Dawn and Doom Fang Pauldron so I can have Melee up more often for increased Super energy generation.
In Gambit for example. I'll usually have a Super before the first invansion, just with Melee Well Maker.
Elemental ordnance, elemental armaments, font of might been rocking with those mods including grenade kickstart mods and bottom tree sunbreaker with sun shot and I’ve been drowning in grenade energy
Font of might is quite a big damage buff, and it stack with high energy fire. Considering how easy it is to make a large amount of solar wells, and how the best dps weapons in the game right now are solar fusions like cartesian/1k, thats something to consider. Granted you have to be on a solar subclass anyways, but if you're trying to get big damage you're already on well or golden gun.
Melee wellmaker, well of ions, synthoceps, bottom tree striker and a one-two punch shotgun (I use the deicide, you can target farm it) is both an add-clearing and damage machine in Gambit. I've done above 50% of the team damage to bosses with this build.
Im not sure if you know this, but Stasis shatter explosions, gl/rocket explosions and explosive payload also count for explosive wellmaker. This combined with elemental shards and well of ordinance, will make stasis nades basically free , especially on warlock. I ran these mods with protective light and elemental charge makes hard content easy. This with Eye of another world with 100 discipline give infinite turrets and protective light, with any weapons you want to use(no need for demo).
Edit: Stuff like Resevoir Burst, Firefly, Chain Reaction, etc. also works for explosive wellmaker
Also they buffed Elemental Ordinance to always spawn a well on a grenade kill for other grenade builds, its not rng anymore. Doesnt really work with Stasis turrets but good for other builds.
I've been using elemental well mods for a season and a half now as a voidstalker hunter! So happy with the survivability of Reaping Wellmaker combined with Elemental Charge, Font of Wisdom, Protective Light, and Orpheus Rig. Dodging every 10 seconds to go invisible and create a void well on the next kill means I always have Protective Light ready and pretty much always have a super at the ready. So glad to see elemental wells finally get some respect and recognition!!
Wells have been so god damn fun all season. Been in a few twitch chats with streamers saying its not worth making a build meanwhile im throwing one nade getting 6 wells a kill, refilling my super and getting a damage buff all while...creating more wells to do it all over again, fun as hell. Finally ppl will listen now that Datto said something. Great Vid Datto.
Other than battle harmony and Ager’s, I haven’t really found these to be enticing. After being spoilt by the ease of use that charged with light builds provide, the hassle isn’t worth it during gm’s or master VOG, or anything else that I’d actually like to make a build for. They’re fun to mess around with, but not effective or easy enough to proc that I would consider them in difficult content. Great video as always, and thank you for providing an opinion!
You should try Revenant Hunter with full crystal/well mods and thermal blooming and Assassins Cowl. You become an invisible, freezing, orb factory
Yeah same, I don’t like the “use weapons matching subclass” aspect of wells. Pick up orb->do big dps is just easier, the only draw to well mods is how FoM is a universal buff
@@PixelleHearts an alternative I’ve found that’s actually crazy fun and good is star eater scales.
I've been running bountiful, 2xexplosive wellmaker, and melee wellmaker (switched to ordinance now after the "bug" fix) on bottom tree dawnblade along with Dawn Chorus and we'll of potency. Pretty solid super generation and then fantastic super use with Dawn Chorus. Been a lot of fun 🙂
@@mohawkgarry is there a burning need to generate 3 wells with an explosion instead of 2? I've been finding that pairing more well generators with bountiful gives a better payback than going all in on one generation method.
Thus far, my best well generator build doesn't even generate wells. Ager's + elemental shards = nuetral & stasis well effect mods that are always triggered.
It's nice this system has been getting fleshed out more now that warmind cells are better balanced. There's also some cool interactions that some people are not even aware of with these like ballistic slam on missile titan can make use of explosive wellmaker on kills. You can get free health regen straight despite using the melee to divebomb enemies. Void wells are great too because you can keep refreshing the damage resistance from well of tenacity and combining this with elemental charge and stacks on stacks makes for some nasty combos.
Esoterickk's done some solo content with wells on titan that have worked out pretty great and something I'll be using for solo flawless pit. If anything, the new slew of mods allows me to actually have considerable flexibility in build crafting without being limited to a single mod system (warmind, CWL, elemental wells).
I use a variety of well mods, I one I love most is elemental shards. Stasis shards + headstone + elemental shards + elemental charge = lucent blade 99% of the time.
Sometimes i use a grenade spam build with bountiful wells and the rest being elemental ordinance mods and i use ashes to assets to build my super quickly. It's pretty fun for low level stuff.
I have a stasis build on my hunter for boss dps using focusing lens. Proc Light, Elemental Charge, Font of Might, Star-Eater Scales w/ Elemental Shards, and Elemental Time Dilation. Also using Reed's Regret to take advantage of Font of Might. Basically I throw a dinker to get a shard, throw my super at a boss for focusing lens for my team, and fire away with damage boosted reeds. It works fantastically and can also be used with Agers for non-boss environments
hate to break it to you, but reeds doesn't work with focusing...
@@blanked8243 I know, but I figured I could still get bonus damage from font of might to make it worth using
Elemental charge, stacks on stacks and elemental ordnance makes it so easy to max out on charged with light. Protective light stays up all day or high energy is always ready
The void damage reduction stacks with Protective light and Omnioculus invis damage resist. Combine that with the transmutation sphere block damage resist when using Ruinous effigy and congratulations, you're unkillable.
I think Stasis shards/well builds are nuts on Shadebinder. Use the Mantle of Battle Harmony as your exotic armor. Run Bleak Watcher and Glacial Harvest, with Whisper of Rime, Conduction, and most importantly Bonds (the last one you can choose between Chains and Fissures, both do fairly well, I opt for Fissures). The mods I run are Elemental Shards, Elemental Charge, High Energy Fire, Font of Might, Resonance Siphon, and of course Ager’s Scepter with the catalyst. I’ve used this build in all 3 GMs so far with great success.
This build turns Ager’s into the best Swiss Army Knife known to man. You freeze a target, they drop shards. You pick them up, giving you both Font of Might and Charged with Light, which means High Energy Fire is also active (and for those who don’t know, Font of Might and High Energy Fire do stack). Then you use Ager’s catalyst to burn your super for more damage, and melt. It’s an insanely easy damage loop to keep up. This isn’t even mentioning that you have a constant overshield thanks to Rime and Conduction collecting all the shards for you. Need more super for Ager’s catalyst. Just add clear like normal, you you’ll be generating bonus super energy because of Bonds, meaning you can get your super back in less than a minute if done properly. Couple that with Bleak Watchers freezing and providing you more shards, and Resonance Siphon giving you another grenade/turret every 3 champion stuns, and you literally can’t stop generating shards. I don’t even have elemental armaments, which could potentially make this build even better.
Anyone who wants a crazy stasis build, this is it. You’re the tank and the damage. Very fun, highly recommend.
I'm a warlock main but this season I've been hooked on ashen wakes on middle tree solar titan with all the good solar well mods
I’m using some of the arc mods with my assassins cowl top tree arcstaff build with a 1 2 punch shotgun and it’s really good. Match that with the elemental charge mod and protective light and it’s the safest and most affective melee build I have ever used
I’ve been running solar titan with precious scars and the following mods
Elemental Armaments (triggered by vex)
Font of might (for vex)
Elemental charge
Protective light
Shieldcrash well maker
Damage resistance ready at almost all times, with healing as I kill.
I think for run of the mill content like a dungeon or normal VOG, elemental builds are fun. 100% ability uptime, yes please. But in GMs, it’s charged with light mods or bust. Nice rundown!
I absolutely love Elemental Wells this season. They are my go-to now. Also Bountiful Wells is actually nuts. If you have 1 Melee Wellmaker, 1 Well of Ordinance, 2 Explosive Wellmakers, and 1 Bountiful Wells you generate 7 wells out of bottom tree Dawn grenades. That's enough well energy to fully regenerate your melee/grenade. You have essentially infinite abilities. Slap on Helm of Fellwinter or Necrotic Grips and go to town. I use this all the time in Strikes, Gambit, and GMs when I can afford to be bottom tree dawn. This build was amazing when I ran the Hallowed Lair GM. Try it out.
I personally think they are worth looking at now. I've been using Reaping Wellmaker and Font of Wisdom on a Graviton Forfeit build that has double utility kickstart, allowing me to have 100% invisibility uptime, and essentially play as if I have 100 in every stat but Resilience (Mobility and Discipline are 100, Graviton tops off my Recovery, Dodging gives my Melee back, and Font of Wisdom essentially caps my Intellect). I'm also enjoying Melee Wellmaker and Font of Wisdom on my Titan (edit: Specifically with Doomfangs). Lastly, I'm thinking of the potential for using a well build with Shadebinder, potentially switching off Iceflare Bolts to instead have the Stasis Shard making aspect, combining it with that stasis well mod that makes shards count as wells.
I like using a full bottom tree Dawnblade burnsplosion build using explosive wellmakers. It's also really interesting to see what actually counts as explosive damage like the blight from Witherhoard. sure it only drops one Well per multi kill but with a firefly/dragonfly weapon, rocket launcher/grenade launcher it's really nice have absolutely EVERYTHING in your arsenal be able to drop a well (or more with bountiful wells) and then I have those wells focus on gaining back grenade energy.